Open GIS Consortium

Description

Law enforcement, civil security and public safety applications include the data, networks, web services that tie together levels of command, departments, organizations, dispatch users and field mobile users with current and accurate role-based location information. Benchmarks from some urban law enforcement organizations indicate that geospatially enabled policing yields valuable improvements. For example, geospatial analysis has helped law enforcement implement ‘hot spot’ policing for over 20 years.

Develop and support regional and sector programs - The OGC Communications and Outreach program manages regional offices that address the special program needs of world regions. To date, two not-for-profit regional offices have been established - Open Geospatial Consortium Europe, Limited (OGC-E); and OGC Australia. OGC members have established independent OGC Forums in Europe, UK &Ireland, France, Korea and India.

Established companies with IR&D funds dedicated to helping government customers can reduce the risk associated with customers’ anticipated resistance to proprietary solutions. This can also be an issue for start-up companies, but they also face different challenges, both near-term and later as their businesses mature.

The CityGML Data Quality Interoperability Experiment (CityGML QIE) aims to provide implementation recommendations for CityGML data based on data specification and a conception of the validation workflow. Another goal of the Interoperability Experiment is to provide a suite of essential quality-checking tools to carry out quality assurance on CityGML data. This will be accomplished by evaluating the quality of existing CityGML data as well as the quality of CityGML sample data sets that have been specifically developed for this experiment with available quality checking tools.

Interoperability and cost are not the only considerations in making decisions about information systems for Emergency Response and Disaster Management. The work in many other OGC domain working groups (DWGs) is relevant to these domains, because information system managers in many domains seek to provide interoperability without compromising security, dependability, bandwidth and quality of service. Work is ongoing to provide standards that address these concerns as they apply to geospatial information.

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