OGC Groups

A new WMS RWG was re-constituted at the Edinburg Technical Committee Meetings in June 2006 with the following slate of members:

• Satish Sankaran (ESRI), Chair
• Arliss Whiteside (BAE)
• Sean Forde (LizardTech)
• Michael Schwieger (Mapsolute)
• Joan Masó Pau (CREAF)
• Reinhard Erstling (Interactive Instruments)...

The Location Services SIG addresses interoperability issues of particular concern to members working in the area of Location-based Mobile Services.

The Web Terrain Service Revision Working Group (WTS RWG) is responsible for editing the approved WTS 0.0 Specification for public release as WTS 1.0.

The Information Communities and Semantics WG addresses issues related to services that might be developed to help users manage semantic differences in spatial data content and metadata.

The following is the official slate of members for the OWS Common 1.2**
RWG.

• Arliss Whiteside (BAE). Chair of the RWG
• Rüdiger Gartmann (con terra). Vice Chair of the RWG
• Peter Vretanos (CubeWerx)
• Peter Schut (NR Canada/Geoconnections)
• Stan Tillman (Intergraph)
• Andreas Matheus (University of the ...

The CITE Subcommittee will provide guidance to and advise the OGC staff on the operation of the Compliance and Interoperability Testing and Evaluation Program (CITE) of the Consortium. The Sub committee will provide a forum for an open, consensus discussion regarding approaches and issues related to conformance and interoperability testing becoming an inte...

The Natural Resources and Environment WG engages in outreach and dialog with the Natural Resources and Environment information community to demonstrate the value of OGC processes and standards, and to provide a point of input for new requirements. The NRE WWG is in the process of being merged with the Earth Observation (EO) WG.

Current ...

The initial goal will be on how to best synchronize the project-oriented work in ORCHESTRA with the on-going activities in the OGC TC.

The Metadata WG addresses issues related to how metadata must be specified in OpenGIS Specifications to fully enable certain services in the OpenGIS Service Architecture. Maintains close correspondence between ISO TC/211 metadata standard and OpenGIS Specification's handling of metadata.

Chair: Ron Lake, Galdos.  Vice Chair: Clemens Portele, Interactive Instruments