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2012 ASPRS Fellow Award Winners Announced
Amerisurv
Prior to her appointment as NGTOC Director, Craun served as the Chief of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Partnership office for the USGS Central Region, supervising USGS geospatial liaisons to 15 states in the Central United States.

DHS looking for vendors to perform 'remote sensing' airborne photography
Government Security News
The chosen firms will have demonstrated their ability to distribute “processed orthophotography” via high performance data transfer techniques that use Web services or secure Cloud services, which comply with the Open Geospatial Consortium, ...

2012 ASPRS Fellow Award Winners
Spatial News (press release)
Prior to her appointment as NGTOC Director, Craun served as the Chief of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Partnership office for the USGS Central Region, supervising USGS geospatial liaisons to 15 states in the Central United States.

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2012 ASPRS Fellow Award Winners
GISuser.com (press release)
Prior to her appointment as NGTOC Director, Craun served as the Chief of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Partnership office for the USGS Central Region, supervising USGS geospatial liaisons to 15 states in the Central United States.

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Does a Google-World Bank Deal On Crowdsourcing Ask Too Much of the Crowd?
techPresident
The bank, he added, is hoping to release an open geospatial data catalog that would free up even more of its data to the world. This post has been corrected. It's Open Aid Partnership, not Open Aid Project.

Plug-and-work Protocol Adopted
Hydro International
Open Geospatial Consortium has adopted the PUCK standard, which facilitates plug-and-play connections of electronic equipment. The standard is relatively simple, and several manufacturers have already implemented the protocol in their instruments' ...

Feasibility Reports for a National Spatial Data Infrastructure in Uganda ...
DirectionsMag.com (press release)
TORONTO – January 31, 2012 – Esri Canada today announced the successful completion of feasibility studies for building a national Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in Uganda and the Kingdom of Jordan. The results and recommendations from each study ...

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MineRP
Business Excellence Magazine
In fact MineRP's openness goes further, through active participation in industry groups such as the Mining, Metals and Mineral Forum of the Open Group, and technological alignment with the Open Geospatial Consortium, which is setting global standards ...

OGC PUCK standard enables `plug and work` sensor networks
DirectionsMag.com (press release)
-The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has voted to adopt the candidate OGC PUCK Protocol Standard ( http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/puck. Most sensor networks require careful manual installation and configuration by technicians to ...
OGC Membership Approves Open GeoSMS Standard for Encoding Location in Short ...GISuser.com (press release)

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OGC Membership Approves Open GeoSMS Standard for Encoding Location in Short ...
GISuser.com (press release)
26 January 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has voted to adopt the candidate OGC Open GeoSMS Standard as an official OGC standard [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards] . The OGC Open GeoSMS Standard provides developers with ...

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OGC Membership Approves Open GeoSMS Standard for Encoding Location in Short ...
Spatial News (press release)
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has voted to adopt the candidate OGC Open GeoSMS Standard as an official OGC standard http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards . The OGC Open GeoSMS Standard provides developers with an extended Short ...

Free education programme at ATC Global features over 40 significant seminars ...
ATC Network
The programme comprises nine workshops hosted in collaboration with leading organisations including ICAO, SESAR JU, EUROCAE, EUROCONTROL, FABEC, EASA , Searidge Technologies, Nav Canada and the Open Geospatial Consortium, complemented by more than ...

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OpenGeo Announces Gold Level Sponsorship for 2012 FOSS4G-NA
GISuser.com (press release)
The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial - North America (FOSS4G-NA) conference will be hosted by OSGeo North America from April 10th to 12th, 2012 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC Confirmed keynote speakers ...

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OpenGeo Announces Gold Level Sponsorship for 2012 FOSS4G-NA
DirectionsMag.com (press release)
The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial - North America (FOSS4G-NA) conference will be hosted by OSGeo North America from April 10th to 12th, 2012 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC Confirmed keynote speakers ...

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OGC Membership Approves Open GeoSMS Standard for Encoding Location in Short ...
DirectionsMag.com (press release)
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has voted to adopt the candidate OGC Open GeoSMS Standard as an official OGC standard [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards] . The OGC Open GeoSMS Standard provides developers with an extended Short ...

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FME 2012 released
Spatial Source
New support for 16 new formats including: compressed point cloud LAZ format and Oracle Spatial Point Cloud; AIXM 5.1, INSPIRE, OpenGIS CityGML 1.1, and Top50NL XML formats; Microsoft DirectX, and PREGASIS OpenFlight 3D formats; Google Fusion Tables, ...

OSGeo North America Announces FOSS4G North America Conference
GISuser.com (press release)
(January 23, 2012) OSGeo North America is pleased to announce the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial - North America (FOSS4G-NA) conference to be held from April 10 to 12, 2012 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC ...

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OSGeo North America Announces FOSS4G North America Conference
DirectionsMag.com (press release)
(January 23, 2012) OSGeo North America is pleased to announce the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial - North America (FOSS4G-NA) conference to be held from April 10 to 12, 2012 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC ...

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From Latin America: The Government wants to nimbly resume large infrastructure ...
DirectionsMag.com (press release)
On the second day, it will be the seminars turn: Quality of Geospatial Data, GNSS & Automation Topography and Spatial Data Infrastructure course, while on the 31, it will be the E-Government Forum and the seminars Satellite Images and GIS & GeoWeb ...

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PIXIA Becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium
Business Wire (press release)
(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that PIXIA Corporation has raised their OGC membership level to Principal Member. PIXIA has been an active member in the OGC since 2006, contributing to progress in several ...
The OGC Forms IndoorGML Indoor Location Standards Working GroupSpatial News (press release)

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