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INTERGEO is the world’s largest event and communication platform for geodesy, geoinformation and land management. The trade fair and conference cover all the key trends that crop up along the entire value-added chain – from geo-based information surveys and data processing to integrated applications.

Event summary:

INTERGEO is the world’s largest event and communication platform for geodesy, geoinformation and land management. The trade fair and conference cover all the key trends that crop up along the entire value-added chain – from geo-based information surveys and data processing to integrated applications.

Event summary:

INTERGEO is the world’s largest event and communication platform for geodesy, geoinformation and land management. The trade fair and conference cover all the key trends that crop up along the entire value-added chain – from geo-based information surveys and data processing to integrated applications.

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OGC Interoperability Day to Feature Role of OGC in EU funded Projects

Bonn, Germany, 31 August, 2009: On Wednesday 30 September 2009 The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC)® will host “EU funded Projects and the OGC: Standards, Benefits and Implementations“, an OGC Interoperability Day to be held at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), Fraunhoferstrasse 5, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany.

To efficiently deal with societal, environmental and economic challenges in our increasingly complex world, current and accurate information is the single most important aspect. The key that enables such information access in the first place is standardisation. It is the definition of common interfaces and terminology between heterogeneous systems that enables interoperability. A decision maker who needs to to retrieve information shouldn’t need to know about the underlying nuts and bolts of distributed and often proprietary IT solutions.

Geospatial information is playing an increasingly integrated role in mainstream IT. On regional, national and pan-European levels, Spatial Data Infrastructure projects have been implemented to guarantee an efficient and effective use of geographical information to face these challenges. The OGC’s international standards enable interoperabilty between geospatial systems and facilitates the seamless integration of these systems into mainstream IT solutions.

The European Commission long ago anticipated the relevance of geospatial information as a core buidling block for a well informed information society and funded a great number of related projects in the framework programmes. Through direct as well as indirect involvement in several of these projects, many European agencies and companies have introduced geospatial interoperability into the standardisation process. Likewise, many project partners have learned about the benefits of actively engaging in the standardisation process and becoming Consortium members.