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<h2>OGC Australia & New Zealand Forum Announced</h2>
<p>9 July 2012<br>
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The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that OGC
members in the Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) region,
with the assistance of the Australian and New Zealand Land
Information Council (ANZLIC), recently chartered an
Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) Forum to support regional
coordination and communication regarding geospatial
standardisation activities.<br>
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<div>The Forum's industry, government, academic and research
organisations will support the OGC's outreach and education
efforts regionally. Like the OGC's nine other national and
world region organisations, the ANZ Forum will also identify
regionally important interoperability requirements and
communicate these into the OGC's international standards
development and interoperability test bed process.</div>
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<div>ANZ Forum members are committed to the use of the open
standards defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
and the members will work with other relevant industry,
government and international standards bodies to achieve the
OGC's vision.</div>
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<div>The ANZ Forum's charter members are:</div>
<div>-- Australian Bureau of Meteorology</div>
<div>-- Australian Bureau of Statistics</div>
<div>-- Australian Department of Defence</div>
<div>-- Australian Ocean Data Centre Joint
Facility</div>
<div>-- CSIRO</div>
<div>-- Department of Natural Resources and Mines
(QLD)</div>
<div>-- Department of Primary Industries (VIC)</div>
<div>-- Department of Sustainability and Environment
(VIC)</div>
<div>-- Geoscience Australia</div>
<div>-- Gosford City Council (NSW)</div>
<div>-- La Trobe University</div>
<div>-- Land and Property Information Division,
Department of Finance and Services (NSW)</div>
<div>-- Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)</div>
<div>-- Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd</div>
<div>-- Landgate (WA)</div>
<div>-- Lisasoft Pty Ltd</div>
<div>-- Mercury Project Solutions</div>
<div>-- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric
Research (NZ)</div>
<div>-- Office of Spatial Policy (OSP), Department of
Resources, Energy & Tourism</div>
<div>-- PSMA Australia Ltd</div>
<div>-- Robert Starling</div>
<div>-- Sparx Systems</div>
<div>-- University of Melbourne</div>
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<div>The Forum will be open to all OGC member organisations
residing or conducting business in the ANZ region. Non-OGC
members are also welcome to participate as observers.</div>
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<div>The OGC is an international consortium of more than 450
companies, government agencies, research organisations, and
universities participating in a consensus process to develop
publicly available geospatial standards. OGC(R) Standards
support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable"
the web, wireless and location-based services, and
mainstream IT. OGC Standards empower technology developers
to make geospatial information and services accessible and
useful with any application that needs to be geospatially
enabled. Visit the OGC website at
<a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org">http://www.opengeospatial.org</a></div><div> </div><br>
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