Today’s technologies do not live in a vacuum. Government, business, academia and the public demand that information technologies work together effectively, to enable information sharing. Members of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) will demonstrate how that can happen using OpenGIS Interface Specifications at the Geospatial Information Technology Association (GITA) Annual Conference 27 in Seattle, Washington scheduled on April 25-28, 2004.
OGC members will demonstrate how their products take advantage of OGC interfaces to optimize discovery, access, integration and application of geospatial information and applications on servers accessible via the Internet. Vendors will illustrate a range of OpenGIS Specifications, including Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Coordinate Transformation, Grid Coverages, Simple Features, Catalog and Geography Markup Language (GML) Specifications. ESRI, Hitachi Software Global Technology, Ltd., Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions, Ionic Software and Safe Software Inc. will illustrate the ability of users to share data and applications across distributed networks, varying processing platforms and vendor brands.
There will be a half-day seminar titled “Open GIS-Improving Interoperability” and sessions on OGC topics including “Open GIS Interoperability: A Requirement for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security” and “Geospatial Interoperability by Design.”
