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<div>OGC PRESS RELEASE</div>
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<div>Contact: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div><b>OGC invites government information system managers to a
GeoPackage Webinar</b></div>
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<div>25 February 2014 – T<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)</a> and <a
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Media</a> invite government information system managers to
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GeoPackage Encoding Standard</a>, an open standard for
accessing spatial data on mobile devices. The webinar, fifth in
a series of OGC GovFuture Webinars, will be held on <span
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5 March 2014 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST</u></span>
(GMT-5:00 hours).</div>
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<div>You will learn:</div>
<div><span>·<span> </span></span>How GeoPackage APIs
increase cross-platform interoperability of location apps and
spatial Web services in a mobile environment</div>
<div><span>·<span> </span></span>About lightweight mobile
apps that tap into a mix of powerful cloud-based location
services and data</div>
<div><span>·<span> </span></span>How GeoPackage works in
situations where Internet access is intermittent or disconnected</div>
<div><span>·<span> </span></span>How GeoPackage is useful
for applications in mobile workforce data capture, providing
information during municipal operations, for example, or an
emergency event</div>
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<div>The recently approved OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard<span>
enables easier exchange and sharing of geospatial (or
location) information across different devices, applications
and web services throughout the mobile world. A modern,
service-oriented alternative to conventional spatial data
formats, GeoPackage's SQLite-based format efficiently stores
and transfers geographic vector features and image tiles.
GeoPackage was developed for mobile application developers
whose applications need to provide users with geospatial
application services and associated data in disconnected or
limited network connectivity environments, or whose
applications depend on geospatial data and processing services
from diverse sources.</span></div>
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<div><b>Register for the free GeoPackage webinar </b><a
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<div><b>Speakers</b></div>
<div>Jeff Harrison, President, CEO and Founder, <a
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Carbon Project</a>, rank Suykens, CTO, <a
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<div>The speakers will be introduced by Raj Singh, Director of
Interoperability Programs, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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