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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. It is an international industry consortium of 390 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface standards. OpenGIS® Standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. The standards empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications. The most important specifications that have come up from OGC are: - GML - Geographic Markup Language
- WFS - Web Feature Service
- WMS - Web Map Service
- WCS - Web Coverage Service
- CSW - Catalog Service Web
You can find more information about OGC at http://www.opengeospatial.org
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