You can find in the current issue of GeoConnexion / Geo: International (February 2012 – Volume 11, issue 2) an OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) article signed by Michael Sanderson (Director of Strategy, 1Spatial) and Thierry Badard (CTO, Spatialytics) Co-Chairs of the OGC’s GeoBI Working Group : Business Intelligence needs location standards (.pdf in the OGC World Section) Extract : « Geospatial data stovepipes and walled gardens imposed by proprietary or community-specific interfaces and encodings limit the publishing, discovery, assessment, access and use of data that may be critical in important decisions. Open standards are the key to deriving maximum business benefit and return on investment from BI systems and from today’s burgeoning location data and location apps » The article also presents the newly created OGC Technical Committee Geospatial Business Intelligence Domain Working Group (GeoBI DWG). About Spatialytics and the GeoBI DWG Spatialytics is an active member of the OGC
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