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World’s Most Powerful Geospatial Security Framework Added to SDI ...
DirectionsMag.com (press release), IL - 2 hours ago
... geospatial security framework to its Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) 1.0 extension for ArcGIS 9.2 desktop. ...

The Carbon Project Selected for US, Canada Cross-Border SDI Initiative
Spatial News (press release), FL - 21 hours ago
Burlington, MA - August 18, 2008 - The Carbon Project announces it has been selected by the 2008 National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Cooperative ...

The Carbon Project Selected for US, Canada Cross-Border Initiative
DirectionsMag.com (press release), IL - 21 hours ago
The project team will deploy online mapping services based on Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) Web Feature Service (WFS), Filter and GML standards and ...

The Future Internet Symposium 2008 Vienna, Austria 28-30 September ...
PR Web (press release), WA - 23 hours ago
Real-life use-cases are drawn from scientific projects and standardization efforts in the Open GeoSpatial Consortium (www.opengeospatial.org). ...

Software aids in business mapping and location analysis.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room, NY - Aug 14, 2008
... MapInfo Professional 9.5 provides organizations with access to Open Geospatial Consortium's Web Feature Service - with support for Transactions (WFS-T), ...

DirectionsMag.com (press release)
ThinkGeo Releases Map Suite Web Edition 3.0 Beta 1
DirectionsMag.com (press release), IL - 17 hours ago
... a wide variety of new spatial data formats like Oracle Spatial, PostgreSQL PostGIS, Microsoft SQL 2008, or any OpenGIS® compliant custom data source. ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 available
Heise Online, Germany - 22 minutes ago
... two separate data types; for geographical data, geometry and geography are available. They are based on Open Geospatial Consortium definitions. (jk/c't)

Web3D Consortium Builds Momentum with X3D-Earth at SIGGRAPH 2008
PR Web (press release), WA - 1 hour ago
... open standards from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). ...

GeoWeb Conference: A High-Level Overview
DirectionsMag.com, IL - 6 hours ago
Integrating standards and properly mapping the processes and policies are key success factors in implementing a spatial data infrastructure (SDI). ...

The Carbon Project to Release Gaia 3.2 with Extensions API
DirectionsMag.com (press release), IL - 18 hours ago
Developed as part of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Cooperative Agreement Program (CAP) Gaia 3.2 is a free Windows application for ...

Ayna to launch online map service for the Middle East
AME Info (press release), United Arab Emirates - 1 hour ago
Ayna search engine is the only service that provides a geo-referenced (GeoRSS) news feed in the Middle East and North Africa. This allows users to view what ...

CS-Map Enters Public Domain
Cadalyst Magazine, CA - 4 hours ago
On the other hand, both Autodesk and ESRI are involved in Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), a nonprofit leading the development of standards for geospatial ...

LizardTech Rolls Out GeoExpress Remote Edition at the 2008 ESRI ...
Business Wire (press release), CA - 18 hours ago
... a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format, and sits on the Technical Committee of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for the ...

FortiusOne and Mapufacture Join Forces to Drive the Future of the ...
PR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria - Aug 5, 2008
Mapufacture has developed an industry leading open geospatial aggregation and collaborative mapping platform that promotes lightweight, usable web standards ...

OpenLayers and Mapstraction: JS Libraries for Using Maps
O'Reilly Radar, CA - 8 hours ago
The new release adds the ability to consume GeoRSS and ATOM, the ability to view a single image as a map (like Maplib - Radar post), and MapServer CGI ...

GeoCommons + Mapufacture: Consolidation in the Where 2.0 Space
O'Reilly Radar, CA - 8 hours ago
Mikel is also known as the creator and champion of GeoRSS. Andrew Turner will be joining the company as CTO. Mikel will become an advisor. ...

FortiusOne and Mapufacture Join Forces to Drive the Future of the ...
Emediawire (press release), WA - 20 hours ago
Mapufacture has developed an industry leading open geospatial aggregation and collaborative mapping platform that promotes lightweight, usable web standards ...

Autodesk Contributes Coordinate System Software to the Open Source ...
Earthtimes (press release), UK - 20 hours ago
"This contribution advances OSGeo's mission of supporting and building the highest quality open source geospatial software," said Frank Warmerdam ...

ERDAS APOLLO: Connecting Earth to Business
Amerisurv (press release), MD - 16 hours ago
With publishing and consuming capabilities, ERDAS APOLLO implements a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for your organization, user community, or nation. ...

Building a Better World in GeoWeb 2008, Part 2
Cadalyst Magazine, CA - 4 hours ago
For the same reason, he relies on the Open Geospatial Consortium's (OGC) CityGML." Mapping BIM objects to CityGML classes is grunt work, but not impossible, ...