Re: [egov] GIS and realtime eGov service responses

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Carl,

 

Terrific.

 

We should definately setup something so we can leverage all

this and point from the eGov TC to the right places.

 

Thanks, DW

----- Original Message -----

From: Carl Reed

To: David RR Webber ; eGov OASIS

Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 6:46 PM

Subject: Re: [egov] GIS and realtime eGov service responses

David -

 

I would strongly encourage members of this TC to visit the OpenGIS Consortium web site (www.opengis.org) and see what the OGC members have been doing WRT defining and adopting freely available interface and encoding specifications specifically targeted to enabling interoperability of geospatial data, services, and applications. Many of our interface specifications are targeted for use in web based applications, such as spatially enabled E-Gov portals. One specification (based on XML and XML Schema), called the Geography Markup Language (GML), enables vendor/source format neutral interchange of geospatial data (vector and raster)

 

If you have any questions, please let me know.

 

Carl Reed

OGC Executive Director

Specification Program

 

PS: I am also the Chair of the OASIS EM TC GIS subcommittee

PPS: If this email bounces at the egov email reflector, could you pass it on? Thanks

----- Original Message -----

From: David RR Webber

To: eGov OASIS

Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 4:25 PM

Subject: [egov] GIS and realtime eGov service responses

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040201/D80EJPV01.html

 

This seems such as important development that I'm thinking

it deserves a sub-team to build-out use cases, lessons

learned, and go-forward planning.

 

The ability to exchange information between GIS and

databases has long been a critical ability to leverage.

 

I spent years out in Saudi writing programs that looked

at the CAD systems of the international airports facilities

and figured out maintenance and support details from

the mainframe logistics databases.

 

The next level seems to be using XML to exchange

important information between systems - and being

able to respond to requests and dynamic needs /

queries in realtime.

 

This technology definately has significant implications

on many levels.

 

DW.