OGC approves latest WMS and WFS specifications

The 38th OGC technical and planning committee was hosted in Vancouver, Canada by Galdos Systems and Natural Resources Canada. Around 100 participants from member organizations attended. Notes and slides from the meeting are available on the OGC members' site here

SCO's Rob Atkinson, contributor to both specifications, attended the Vancouver meeting, and reports back to the Australian spatial community

The OGC Australian Special Interest Group (AuSIG) enabled SCO attending the meeting through a contribution to the travel cost, for which we would like to express our gratitude.

The most significant outcome of the TC meeting was the approval of the WFS 1.0.0 and WMS 1.1.1 specifications. Especially the Web Feature Service (WFS) specification has been long awaited, and will enable vendors and data providers to create standards based access to vector data.

OGC members can view the specifications online here

You can read Rob's full mission report by following on of the links below.

If you have any further questions on OGC and SDI related issues, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Download: Vancouver TC report (rtf) (rtf file)

View HTML file: Vancouver TC report (html)

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