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>Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:23:19 -0500 (EST)
>From: Lance McKee <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: OGC announcement - Telco RFI
 
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Lance McKee
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Open GIS Consortium, Inc.
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PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
For information about this release, contact:
 
The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC)
Lance McKee Vice President, Corporate Communications
35 Main Street, Suite 5 Wayland, MA 01778 USA
tel: +1-508-655-5858
fax: +1-508-655-2237
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OGC REQUESTS TECHNOLOGY FOR WEB MAPPING
 
October 27, 1998, Wayland, MA. The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) issued a
request for technology (RFT) for an OGC Interoperability Initiative called
the Web Mapping Technology Testbed. Sponsored by the Federal Geographic
Data Committee (FGDC), the US Army Topographic Engineering  Center (TEC)
and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), the  testbed is
intended to advance Web mapping technology, support development of a
multi-vendor portable demonstration, and feed requirements into OGC's
OpenGIS Specification process. Participating vendors will gain ideas for
product and integration strategies as well as contact with potential
partners and customers. Funding will be available to support the project
after RFT submissions have been evaluated and specific testbed objectives
have been defined.
 
The rapidly evolving World Wide Web provides unprecedented on-line access
to information and services. Web-based Mapping Technology describes
technology and architectures to provide users with on-line, distributed
access to geospatial information, geographic analysis, and terrain
visualization applications using a web-based mapping client and
internet/intranet access and protocols. Testbed sponsors seek
interoperable, web-based access to distributed geographic information, the
ability to rapidly construct  sophisticated end-user applications on
demand, and tools to transmit geographic information directly to the user
desktop.
 
The RFT can be downloaded from http://www.opengis.org/wwwmap/index.htm
 
Submissions are due December  2, 1998.
 
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