The OGC(R) Releases Basic Profile for Geography Markup Language (GML)

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Wayland, MA, June 5, 2006 – The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) has approved and released the OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GMLT) Simple Features Profile Specification. This standard defines a simple profile of GML version 3.1.1. The OGC's GML specification defines a large number of data encoding options that support a very wide variety of capabilities. Profiles of GML provide useful subsets of these options. The Simple Features profile specifies 2D geometry features such as Point, Curve (LineString), Surface (Polygon), MultiPoint, MultiCurve and MultiSurface. Profiles reduce the time and resources required for an organization to develop software and applications that use GML. Communities of interest that agree on how to implement the profile using a common model greatly enhance interoperability and their ability to share data.

Submitting organizations included Cadcorp Ltd. (U.K.), CubeWerx Inc. (Canada), ESRI (U.S.), Galdos Systems Inc. (Canada), interactive instruments GmbH (Germany) and PCI Geomatics (Canada).

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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.

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Edric Keighan (CubeWerx)
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