Fwd: CIQ xAL used to represent international addresses by latest version of Google Earth

["Ram Kumar" <kumar.sydney@gmail.com>]

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From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
Date: Aug 18, 2006 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: CIQ xAL used to represent international addresses by
latest version of Google Earth
To: Ram Kumar <kumar.sydney@gmail.com>, mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org


Thanks Ram,

It might be a good idea to announce this to the membership at large.
I plan to be recommending this specification as part of a number of
identity management applications that comprise a combined, federated,
probabilistic matching identity management system that I think is the
logical extension of the various threads of identity authentication
and authorization schemes that have developed staying power over the
last few years. I plan to be making this recommendation in a number
of widespread contexts, including the  Medical Banking Project
Cyberwar Work Group on one hand, the federal interagency community
represented by the SOA Community of Practice (SOACoP) and the
Semantic Interoperability CoP (SICoP), and in the OASIS Emergency
Management Technical Committee. I will also suggest it as a logical
extension of the HumanMarkup TC work that is winding down.

Cheers,
Rex

>Hi,
>
>Just to let you know that latest  version of Google Earth
>2.0 uses OASIS CIQ xAL as its address representation standard, given
>its capability to handle any international address in structured format.
>
>Google Earth supports a number of display features for rich
>presentation of GIS data. All of the features supported by Google
>Earth are described in KML, its markup language.  Google Earth
>provides a set of APIs for applications to implement its features and xAL
>is part of the KML specification for representing and specifying addresses
>along with other geocoding information for locations.
>
>Regards,
>
>Ram Kumar
>Chair
>OASIS CIQ TC
>Manager, OASIS TC Standards Development


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