OGC Announces First Interoperability Experiment Tackling LandXML and GML Interoperability.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WAYLAND, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2004 The Open GIS Consortium Inc. (OGC OGC Office of Government Commerce (UK government) OGC Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. OGC Office of the General Counsel OGC Open GIS Consortium, Inc. ) announced that its first Interoperability Experiment (IE) will test a GML GML Geography Markup Language (XML components for encoding geospatial data) GML Greek Mythology Link (website) GML Generalized Markup Language 3.0 application schema for encoding LandXML 1.0 documents (LandGML) and will provide a tool to transform LandXML 1.0 documents into LandGML documents. In a second phase, a tool will be developed to transform LandGML documents to LandXML 1.0 documents. LandXML is an industry-driven, open XML See Office Open XML. data exchange standard that provides interoperability in more than 40 software applications serving the civil engineering, survey and transportation industries. The LandXML.org Industry Consortium, initiated by Autodesk and now comprised of 190 companies, government agencies and universities, developed the standard. The OpenGIS(R) Geography Markup Language The Geography Markup Language (GML) is the XML grammar defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to express geographical features. GML serves as a modeling language for geographic systems as well as an open interchange format for geographic transactions on the Internet. (GML) is an XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. encoding for geospatial data developed by OGC members. It's currently an approved specification at release 3.1. This effort is the first of a new type of activity within OGC. An Interoperability Experiment is primarily led and executed by OGC members, and is intended to achieve a technical objective that furthers OGC goals for standards and interoperability. Interoperability Experiments are focused efforts, allowing interested members to address a small part of a larger goal. The LandGML IE was initiated by US Army Corps of Engineers ERDC ERDC Engineer Research and Development Center ERDC Economic Research and Development Center ERDC Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club (Orange County, California) ERDC Exploratory Research and Development Center ERDC Extended Response Data Call , Autodesk and Galdos Systems. The project is expected to kick off in June. Organizations interested in participating in this experiment should refer to details at http://www.opengis.org/initiatives/?iid=133. OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 250 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. OpenGIS Specifications support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services See mobile positioning. , and mainstream IT. The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengis.org. |
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