GIS's New Open Standards

1 August 2000 - 7:30am

New standards and easy-to-use tools expand the ability to use and share geospacial data.

Until now, GIS technology has been locked up in the form of non-interchangeable proprietary software, its information stored in separate databases incompatible with other types of data, and its comprehension confined to the priesthood of engineers and specialists. Now, an Open GIS consortium aims to change all that.

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Source: Government Technology, July 31, 2000
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