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The purpose of a Government Special Interest Group (SIG) is to define organizational and business approaches to address key government requirements for (and issues affecting) the development and implementation of a community-wide OpenGIS architecture.

Special Interest Groups (SIG) provide a forum for the discussion of business and technology interoperability requirements for given geographic region or information community.

Domain Working Groups (DWG or WG) provide a forum for discussion of key interoperability requirements and issues, discussion and review of OGC standards and candidate standards, and presentations on key technology areas relevant to solving geospatial interoperability issues.

Domain Working Groups (DWG or WG) provide a forum for discussion of key interoperability requirements and issues, discussion and review of implementation specifications, and presentations on key technology areas relevant to solving geospatial interoperability issues.

A Subcommittee is a standing group (organizationally, a subgroup of the Technical Committee or the Planning Committee) of individuals composed of members of the TC or PC and Invited Guests, with a mission to provide recommendations to the TC or PC in some general area. A Subcommittee does not generate a Standard nor do they work on a Standard.

The work of the OGC is facilitated and coordinated by three separate committees: The Technical, Planning, and Strategic Advisory Committees, and also the OGC Architecture Board.

The OGC Planning Committee (PC) is composed mainly of Principal and Strategic Member representatives. The Planning Committee provides guidelines and a management structure for OGC's Technical Committee and Interoperability Program. The Business Value Subcommittee is a subcommittee of the OGC Planning Committee.

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 ...

Mission

The mission of the University Working Group (UWG) will be to coordinate the common interests of OGC academic and research members in the following areas:

• Formation and organization of a neutral academic advisory group providing a range of technology, policy, standards and other recommendations to all programs of the Open G...

  Mission

  The mission of the University Working Group (UWG) will be to coordinate the common interests of OGC academic and research members in the following areas:

  Mission

  The mission of the University Domain Working Group (UDWG) will be to coordinate the common interests of OGC academic and research members in the following areas:

This the Revision Working Group for the completion of a new revision to the Web Map Context Implementation The version will be 1.2. Date of the formation of the new RWG was 4/25/07.

The Chair and Vice-Chair are to be elected. The official slate of members is:

• Martin Daly (CadCorp)
• Stan Tillman (Intergraph)
• Ian Tu...