GeoFactor on Interoperability Day
Ron Exler writes in his blog The GeoFactor about the Open Geospatial Consortium Interoperability Day held last week in conjuntion with other meetings going on in Vienna Virginia. He uses the term...
View ArticleSharing Water Information in France via Standards
François-Xavier Prunayre GIS Engineer International Office For Water The French Data Reference Centre for Water (Sandre) has been in charge of implementing a common language for water data exchange...
View ArticleWikiLoc: GPS Tracking with WMS
OGC News reader Jordi Lopez Ramot wrote to share a WMS enabled GPS mapping application. He writes:The website WikiLoc is a completely free service built in my spare time that allows anyone in the world...
View ArticleNew Visual Catalog of WMS Sites
Slashgeo shared a note from Tim Schuab about his new wms-sites.com website. The site "aims to be a visual catalog of public Web Mapping Service (WMS) resources online." Visitors can search for WMS data...
View ArticleNational Weather Service Seeks Geospatial Content/Format Input
The National Weather Service, part of NOAA, is seeking input on what weather information users need and in what geospatial formats that information should be delivered. Specifically, we seek input on...
View ArticleNASA Earth Science Gateway: Powered by Standards
By Adena Schutzberg and members of the ESG TeamWith all the mapping portals available today on the Web, there's clearly no "one size fits" all that addresses the needs of everyone. Instead, focused...
View ArticleRaj Singh on IT Conversations
At Where 2.0 OGC's Raj Singh spoke about OGC, its developer program and how most of the audience didn't know much about the standards organization. The podcast of his presentation was posted earlier...
View ArticleMapConnect: Free Topographic Data of Australia
Developed by Geoscience Australia, the MapConnect application provides access to topographic data for the entire country of Australia. Currently, the only data set available is GEODATA TOPO 250K Series...
View ArticleTNTmap: A Free Web Map Service / Web Feature Service Browser and Viewer
MicroImages, Inc. contributed the following write-up about its free TNTmap, a browser and viewer for accessing WMS and WFS layers. If your organization uses OGC Standards and has a story to tell,...
View ArticleSLIP Technology Uses OGC® Standards to Create One Access Point for Land...
SLIP Technology Uses OGC® Standards to Create One Access Point for Land Information in Western AustraliaLandgate contributed the following write-up about SLIP, a network that provides access to 1200...
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