The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on promoting the power of geospatial and location-based technologies to government, markets, and industries worldwide.
Location has been a powerful tool that has improved decision-making across the public and private sectors, but has not yet been fully leveraged. WGIC has created an industry platform to provide a unified industry voice on evolving policy, and to encourage the power of geospatial technologies and associated information to be more broadly leveraged across the world.
Since 1994, the OGC has led a global geospatial industry forum to advance open standards that enable a wealth of different geospatial technologies, information sources, and analytics to be seamlessly shared and integrated. The collaboration between OGC and the newly-formed WGIC is an extension of its respective missions, to expand the benefit that location brings to improved government and industry insight and decision-making.
As part of the MOU, OGC and WGIC will establish an appropriate joint working group/committee to facilitate discussion on addressing key geospatial technical and policy opportunities and challenges of mutual interest to WGIC and OGC stakeholder environments. This group will initially focus on facilitating discussion regarding the interoperability challenges that exist between the geospatial and Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) markets.
Contact OGC, info@opengeospatial.org
