In June, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) members of Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), with the assistance of ANZLIC, chartered an OGC ANZ Forum.
This group joins the 9 other OGC Forums that support regional coordination and communication regarding geospatial standardisation activities. The Forum will also identify regionally important interoperability requirements and communicate these into the OGC's international standards development and interoperability test bed process.
OGC ANZ Forum members are committed to the use of the open interoperable standards defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and will work with other relevant industry, government and international standards bodies to achieve the OGC's vision.
Recently, a group of members convened in Christchurch NZ for a 'plugfest' exploring solutions to interoperability issues in the use of the WFS standard (pictured). A blog post on the event can be found here.
For more information on the OGC ANZ Forum, its upcoming activities, or how to get involved, please contact Denise McKenzie at denise.mckenzie@dse.vic.gov.au or visit http://www.opengeospatial.org/node/1648.
