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Groups (WGs) and the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) deal with specific fields of
work and individual specifications.
The business plan developed by the Management Committee must be approved by
the OGC Board of Directors (BOD). This group is comprised of respected leaders in
the Information Technology community but they need not be affiliated with OGC
member organizations. The Strategie Members make recommendations to the Board
of Directors conceming strategie opportunities for the consortium.
The Working Group members draft the Requests for Information and/or Proposals
(RFIs and RFPs) and evaluate the proposed technologies in response to the RFPs.
The Working Group members also evaluate technologies proposed by OGC Members as Requests for Comments (RFCs) or they work on the refinement of the Abstract Specification.
Voting in WGs is by simple majority ofOGC Members present at the WG meeting, with the caveat that no OGC member organization may cast more than one vote.
The duties of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are comparable with those of
Working Groups, with astronger focus on Abstract Specifications and editing work
for the Technical Committee (TC). The SIG has the same voting structure as that of
a W orking Group.
Presently the OGC has the following Working Groups (WGs) and Special Interest
Groups (SIGs). The chairpersons are mostly representatives of the Strategie and
Principle OGC Members.
Table 5.2. Working Groups (WGs) and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) ofthe OGC
Title
Architecture SIG
Catalog Revision WG
Coordinate Transformation WG
Coordinate Transformation Revision WG
Coverages WG
Grid Coverages Revision WG
Decision Support SIG
Defense and Intelligence SIG
Disaster Management SIG
Earth Observation SIG
Feature SIG
Geography Markup Language (GML) SIG
Image Exploitation Services SIG
Location Services SIG
Metadata SIG
Natural Resources and Environmental SIG
Open Spatial Publishing and Discovery
Infrastructure (OSPDI) WG
Information Communities and Semantics SIG
Simple Features for CORBA Revision WG
Telecommunications SIG
WWW Mapping SIG
Chair
Federal Geographie Data Committee
Federal Geographie Data Committee
Shell
CADCorp.
Orac1e
PCI Geomatics
U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers
OGC
USGS, Orac1e
PCI Geomatics, International Interfaces
Orac1e
Galdos Systems, NASAlCSC
BAE Systems
Oracle
ESRI
Ecosystem Associates
SRI
Image Matters, Lockheed Martin
SICAD Geomatics
OGC
International Interfaces
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Groups (WGs) and the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) deal with specific fields of
work and individual specifications.
The business plan developed by the Management Committee must be approved by
the OGC Board of Directors (BOD). This group is comprised of respected leaders in
the Information Technology community but they need not be affiliated with OGC
member organizations. The Strategie Members make recommendations to the Board
of Directors conceming strategie opportunities for the consortium.
The Working Group members draft the Requests for Information and/or Proposals
(RFIs and RFPs) and evaluate the proposed technologies in response to the RFPs.
The Working Group members also evaluate technologies proposed by OGC Members as Requests for Comments (RFCs) or they work on the refinement of the Abstract Specification.
Voting in WGs is by simple majority ofOGC Members present at the WG meeting, with the caveat that no OGC member organization may cast more than one vote.
The duties of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are comparable with those of
Working Groups, with astronger focus on Abstract Specifications and editing work
for the Technical Committee (TC). The SIG has the same voting structure as that of
a W orking Group.
Presently the OGC has the following Working Groups (WGs) and Special Interest
Groups (SIGs). The chairpersons are mostly representatives of the Strategie and
Principle OGC Members.
Table 5.2. Working Groups (WGs) and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) ofthe OGC
Title
Architecture SIG
Catalog Revision WG
Coordinate Transformation WG
Coordinate Transformation Revision WG
Coverages WG
Grid Coverages Revision WG
Decision Support SIG
Defense and Intelligence SIG
Disaster Management SIG
Earth Observation SIG
Feature SIG
Geography Markup Language (GML) SIG
Image Exploitation Services SIG
Location Services SIG
Metadata SIG
Natural Resources and Environmental SIG
Open Spatial Publishing and Discovery
Infrastructure (OSPDI) WG
Information Communities and Semantics SIG
Simple Features for CORBA Revision WG
Telecommunications SIG
WWW Mapping SIG
Chair
Federal Geographie Data Committee
Federal Geographie Data Committee
Shell
CADCorp.
Orac1e
PCI Geomatics
U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers
OGC
USGS, Orac1e
PCI Geomatics, International Interfaces
Orac1e
Galdos Systems, NASAlCSC
BAE Systems
Oracle
ESRI
Ecosystem Associates
SRI
Image Matters, Lockheed Martin
SICAD Geomatics
OGC
International Interfaces