mobile

The OGC joined with M For Mobile for the Location Business Summit USA 2012, held in October in San Jose, California. 

150+ senior-level attendees from companies such as Yahoo, Google, and AT&T were in attendance, as well as innovative location based services companies such as Sensewhere, Micello, and PointInside.  The agenda provided practical information about how location can be used to target users appropriately, tailoring location content to fit the context of what users want and need. "Location business" involves such things as:

 
OGC member representatives and staff attend many conferences, trade shows and events where location counts. For example, this month, OGC staff have presented at the India Geospatial Forum, the European Location Framework (ELF) Meeting, and the ESRI US Federal User Conference. If you are attending an event and speaking about the OGC, please ask us to add the event to our Events calendar or consider becoming part of the OGC Speakers’ Bureau.

This week, the OGC's Steven Ramage and I are at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We are meeting with organizations in three segments of the mobile industry:

As part of our campaign to inform companies in the mobile industry about the value of the OGC's standards and standards process, we have recently revised our "Mobile Internet and Location Services" page on the OGC website. We hope that you will take a moment to review it and provide us with your feedback. It has been written for you.

The OGC's process and standards play a critical role as business requirements for communication of location become a key issue for the mobile industry.