Open
GIS Consortium (OGC)
GIS = Geographic Information System
GIS = Geographic Information System
•OGC
Members:
–220+
institutions worldwide
–software
vendors, government, universities
•Consensus development of
open standards for interoperability
•Current focus on
geospatial web services
–Building
on HTTP, XML, etc
–Experimenting
with WSDL, SOAP, UDDI
WSDL = Web
Services Description Language
SOAP = Simple Object Access Protocol
UDDI = Universal Description & Discovery Interface
SOAP = Simple Object Access Protocol
UDDI = Universal Description & Discovery Interface
www.opengis.org