OSGeo, OpenGIS, Open Geospatial

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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' ...

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
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 ...

Spatial Source
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
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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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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PIXIA Becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium
MarketWatch (press release)
WAYLAND, Mass., Jan 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) 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, ...
The OGC Forms IndoorGML Indoor Location Standards Working GroupSpatial News (press release)

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Geospatial Data Content Licensing and Marketing in the Era of Data as a ...
DirectionsMag.com
While the establishment of the Open Geospatial Consortium's (OGC) standards delivered a theoretical framework for rapid advances toward a decentralized/hosted/outsourced infrastructure, the prosaic reality within the GIS/CAD community was, ...

Quantum (QGIS)
GISuser.com (press release)
QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities. Esri Dev Summit - The Esri Developer Summit ...

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The OGC Forms IndoorGML Indoor Location Standards Working Group
DirectionsMag.com (press release)
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of a new OGC Technical Committee Standards Working Group(SWG) to advance the candidate OGC IndoorGML Standard. The OGC members invite the public to comment on the SWG charter ...

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The OGC Seeks Comment on WaterML 2.0 Hydrologic Time Series Encoding Standard
Spatial News (press release)
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC WaterML 2.0: part 1 – Time Series Encoding Standard. WaterML 2.0 is a candidate Open Geospatial Consortium standard for the representation of hydrological observations, ...

Safe Software Unveils FME 2012
DirectionsMag.com (press release)
... 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, and many more.

The OGC seeks comment on WaterML 2.0 Hydrologic Time Series Encoding Standard
DirectionsMag.com (press release)
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC WaterML 2.0: part 1 – Time Series Encoding Standard. WaterML 2.0 is a candidate Open Geospatial Consortium standard for the representation of hydrological observations, ...

New Geo APIs
DirectionsMag.com (blog)
Compliant with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, the platform uses ArcGIS and other resources to promote sharing of data, effective communication, and activity coordination among state agencies and other government units.