Land, Lease, Tenure

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Land, Lease, Tenure

• A joint project with OpenGIS
• Proposal was discussed at the OGC meeting last
  week.

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Overview

• Test Bed scenario
• A group of people get together and work out the
  software.
• Example is the OGC Web Test Bed www.opengis.org
• Emphasis is in the GIS area.
• The goal is working software - over the internet.

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Open GIS Consortium

• OGC has over 200 members
• Many GIS software developers
• GIS applied to all industries.
• Land, Lease, Tenure SIG
• Newly formed.
• We can control its direction.

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The Project Scenario

• A person accessing data over the internet.
• Free, for fee, and proprietary
• Catalogued for access
• Common data format (GML industry specific)
• Can collect and overlay the data.
• Follow process of earlier test bed.

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Technical Environment

• Most techniques exist Catalog service,
  coordinate transformation service, coordinate
  system standards, GML (geographic markup
  language), web plotting (SVD), Security access,
  etc.
• The challenge is to make all of these work
  together.

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Who is Involved?

• Government Bodies
• Database Vendors
• Data Brokers and Vendors
• Software Companies
• User Companies (OG)

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Government Bodies

• Have cadastral location and similar data.
• Develop the format for sharing the data.
• Application of the data would much broader than
  OG alone.

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Database Vendors

• Develop the methods for moving XML data into and
  out of databases, either by physically moving the
  data or by accessing it via an XML view.
• Develop practical ways of accessing location data.

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Data Brokers and Vendors

• Develop methods to advertise their data (through
  the catalog service) and develop methods to
  collect fees for use.
• Have a new method for advertising data
  availability.

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Software Companies

• Develop working applications in conjunction with
  other software companies.
• Develop experience working with the web catalog
  services and the coordinate transformation
  service.
• Develop experience with plotting and mapping
  across the internet.

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EP Companies

• Generate applications that can build a composite
  map from dispersed sources.
• Let various groups know how to present their
  data.
• Minimize reformatting and data duplication.

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Interest?

• Contact bobbitt_at_posc.org
• Web site http//www.opengis.org