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Syncline Chosen By OGC To Develop Software Specifications for Geographic Web Services”
November 1, 2001
Syncline, Inc
Boston, MA -- Syncline, Inc., today announced that it has been selected by Open GIS Consortium (OGC) Web Services Initiative sponsors to help develop and test software standards for Web-based applications ("Web services") that have a geographic component.The goal of the project is to create specifications that make it easier for companies to locate, display, share, integrate, and apply geographic information through online business exchanges.As a result, companies using OGC specifications will be able to dramatically reduce the cost of application development, increase their market reach, and accelerate product time-to-market, while offering users the ability to plug-and-play application components.
Finding and Using Web-Based Geographic Information and Services Syncline will work with ESRI, a leading developer of geographic information systems software, to create specifications for a geographic data and services registry system.The specifications - which use the latest XML encoding standards, including OGC's Geography Markup Language (GML) - will enable companies to publish geographic information and services, such as Web-based applications in Web-based directories, making it easy to rapidly locate, share, integrate and apply these resources to meet user needs.
Other participants in the project include BAE Systems, Compusult Ltd., CubeWerx, Dawn Corporation, DLR (German Aerospace Center), Galdos Systems, George Mason University, Intergraph, Ionic Software, Laser-Scan, PCI Geomatics, Polexis, SAIC, Social Change Online, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville.OWS-1 sponsors include the Federal Geographic Data Committee, GeoConnection / Natural Resources Canada, Lockheed Martin, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center, U.S.Environmental Protection Agency EMPACT Program, the U.S.Geological Survey, and the US National Imagery and Mapping Agency.
Expertise in Web-Based Applications
Syncline and ESRI were chosen for the project because of Syncline's expertise in Web-based geographic applications and ESRI's extensive knowledge and experience in delivering geospatial solutions to the market.According to Jeff Harrison, OGC's director of interoperability programs, "Syncline has been working with the issues of operating GIS services on the Web for some time, and ESRI is deeply experienced in its field.As members of the OGC Web Services team, both companies' experience and knowledge will be invaluable toward meeting the goals of this initiative."
About "Web Services"
Web services are a new breed of Web applications that are self-contained, self-describing and modular.They can be published, located, and invoked across the Web.Web services perform functions ranging from simple requests to complicated business processes.Once a Web service is deployed, other applications can discover and invoke the deployed service.
The OGC Web Services project is developing an evolutionary, standards-based framework that allows distributed geoprocessing systems to communicate with each other using technologies such as XML, WSDL, SOAP, and HTTP.OGC Web Services will provide a vendor-neutral interoperable framework for Web-based discovery, access, integration, analysis, and visualization of multiple online geographic data sources.The project is focused on developing a more coherent model of heterogeneous services and clients interoperating in a distributed setting.
About Syncline, Inc.
Syncline's software and services enable customers to visualize and analyze spatial data using maps they create, share, and manage via the Internet.The company's offerings are MapCiti(TM), a hosted, automated Web-based mapping service designed specifically for government and utilities; MapAnalyst(TM), a data management platform that unifies disparate data streams into "intelligent maps"; and an Enterprise Development group that designs, develops, and deploys customer spatial applications.Syncline's partners are ESRI, GDT, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems.Clients include Verizon, Telephia, USGS, the City of San Antonio, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.Syncline, which was founded in 1997, is located in Boston, Mass.
ABOUT CUBEWERX INC.
Founded in 1996, CubeWerx has been developing standard-based off the shelf software products (SCOTS) in response to Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) requirements for interoperable information infrastructures. CubeWerx is an innovative software company whose expertise includes development, marketing and selling of Web Services and Spatial Warehousing software products. These products and other location-based software product components support the most demanding requirements for the integration, access, and management of very large volumes of Spatial Data over the web. CubeWerx products such as CubeXPLOR, CubeSERV and CubeSTOR were developed using open and interoperable specifications from the Open GIS Consortium. These products allow organizations responsible for Geospatial data to respond to their most demanding client requirements and offer them on-line Web services in a multi-vendor products environment. More information on CubeWerx is available on the Internet at www.cubewerx.com.
For more information please contact:
Edric Keighan (CubeWerx)
Tel.: (819) 771-8303 x207
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