How OGC Location Service Standards

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How OGC Location Service Standards Enable
Integration with Enterprise IT Carl Reed,
PhD CTO, Open Geospatial Consortium May 2, 2005
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What is the OGC?

• The Open Geospatial Consortium, inc. (OGC) is a
  non-profit international voluntary consensus
  standards organization that is leading the
  development of standards for geospatial and
  location based services.
• The OGC facilitates a consensus process in which
  government, private industry, and academia
  collaborate to create open and extensible
  software application programming interfaces for
  geospatial and other mainstream information
  technologies

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The OGC vision enables a global geospatial and IT
community
Composed of many collaborating organizations...
authoring and publishing open standards for
geospatial interoperability
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Some OGC Members providing solutions in LBS space

• Autodesk
• Oracle
• MapInfo
• Intergraph
• ESRI
• Navteq
• TeleAtlas
• Ionic Enterprises
• CPdQ
• Webraska
• TelContar
• Northrup Grumman
• Boeing

• Ordnance Survey
• DeLorem
• Mobile GIS
• FEMA
• NGA
• Others

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What is Spatial Interoperability?

• Interoperability is the ability to
• Link business processes across organisational
  lines and cost-effectively share information
  resources,
• Find data, information and processing tools no
  matter where they are physically located, and
• Seamlessly operate no matter what type of
  computer system or display device is being used,
  whether local or remote
• Also known as on demand access
• Real time
• As and when needed
• Vendor and content model independent
• Accessing the source of operational data

My stuff operates with your stuff, and I dont
care where it is, how it works and what the
format is
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Invisible Success of the enabling framework
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OGC Standards and the Location Services Market
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The OGC OpenLS Interface Suite

• OGC - Open Location Services Core Interfaces
  defined as XML for Location Services (XLS)
  Supports both HTTP and SOAP.
• OpenLS ADTs
• OpenLS Directory Service
• OpenLS Geocoder
• OpenLS Reverse Geocoder
• OpenLS Presentation Service
• OpenLS Route Service
• OpenLS Gateway Service (Interface to OMA MLP)
• And of course GML (Geography Markup Language) for
  encoding payloads of geospatial content.

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Role of OpenLS in LS Server Architecture
Provide Subscribers with Location-Based
Application Services / Content
Portal Service Platforms
CORE NETWORK
Mobile Switch
GeoMobility Server

• Maps
• Routes
• Directories
• Points of Interest
• Addresses

• Navigation
• Discovery
• Presentation

At work or home
On the go
GMLC/MPC
Position Determination Methods LDT/PDE
cell/ID/sector, A-GPS, E-OTD, AOA, TDOA, TOA
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Example LBS Technology Providers Using OpenLS
Interfaces

• Hutchison 3G Location Enabled Application
• Autodesk LocationLogic
• ESRI Arc Location Services
• TelContar Drill Down Server version 3.2
• Oracle - Oracle 9iAS Wireless Version 9.0.3 and
  Oracle Application Server 10g  Wireless
  Edition(Version 9.0.4)
• Ionic Enterprise RedSpider Lobos (LOcation
  Based OGC Solution)
• MapInfo Envinsa 3.0 (SOAP and HTTP)

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Implementations of OpenLS

• Intergraph Will be part of next release of
  LocationServer and GeoMedia WebMap
• Webraska - SmartZone Geospatial Platform (Java
  and SOAP)
• LBS research Team, Telematics Research Division,
  ETRI, South Korea
• SAM (Mobile Services and Applications) is a CPqD
  Project that aims to develop Location Based
  Services to public administration (Presentation,
  Gateway, and Geocoding)
• Sprint Mobility Framework
• Verizon
• Others . . .

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Example Application that Uses Standard Interfaces
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Benefits of moving to a standards based LBS
architecture
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Benefits and Value of using standard interfaces
and protocols for LBS

• Integrate (fuse) many information resources on
  demand for better customer experience and
  decision support.
• Protect investment in legacy systems
• More easily respond to changes in the LBS
  infrastructure
• Change technology providers as well as better
  protect and enhance relationships with existing
  partners.
• Access and utilize content from many partners
  without requiring a common format or model.
• Can quickly wrap local or remote routing and
  geocoding engines of any vendor (comment from a
  user)
• More effectively plug into larger information
  infrastructures
• Reduce coding development and maintenance costs

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Cost reduction

• Initially the task of adding security to a Web
  service took 20,379 lines of code adding
  reliable messaging took 5,988 lines of code and
  adding transactions took 25,507 lines of code,
  Rudder said. With an additional 4,442 for
  infrastructure plumbing, the total came to more
  than 56,000. Now security, reliable messaging,
  and transactions each require one line of code,
  he said.
• Referring to the value of using the WS-Security
  and WS-Discovery standards

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OGC Collaboration with other Standards Orgs

• OMA MLP 3.1 uses OGC standards and models for
  geometry and coordinate reference system
  expression.
• A new MOU defines how OGC and IEEE 1451 (sensors)
  collaborate and work towards harmonizing our
  standards work.
• Work with OASIS in several areas.
• Work with ISO TC 211 in numerous joint work
  items.
• The new Liberty Alliance geo-location Web service
  interface references MLP 3.1 and therefore OGC
  standards.
• Collaborating with IETF Geopriv WG. The proposed
  enhancements to PIDF for location uses OGC GML
  encoding.

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Open interface
Integration with Sensor Nets
Environmental Monitor
Stored Vector Data
Airborne Imaging Device
Stored Sensor Data
Internet and Intranet
Stored Imagery Data
Health Monitor
Webcam
Satellite-borne Imaging device
Business Intelligence Analyst
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Support Emergency Notification Incident
Reporting

• Situation Notification Service
• Common means for sharing location-based emergency
  notification messages
• Collaboration with OASIS
• Incident Reports
• Location-based incident reports for
  cross-jurisdictional use
• Collaborate with DOJ
• Projects with ORNL

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Summary the value of good standards

• Enable innovation
• Protect legacy and future investments
• Enable integration and interoperability
• Future proof current applications
• Leverage value of legacy applications and
  infrastructure
• Flexibility of choice and implementation
• Enable co-opetition
• Increase partner loyalty
• Increase win-win in partner relationships
• Enables technology convergence

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Thank you for your attention

• Carl Reed, PhD
• Open Geospatial Consortium
• creed_at_opengeospatial.org
• www.opengeospatial.org