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Pitney Bowes Business Insight and OGC INFO SHEET “PITNEY BOWES BUSINESS INSIGHT IS FULLY DEDICATED TO PROVIDING SOFTWARE THAT ENABLES USERS TO EASILY CREATE, PROVIDE, AND SHARE GEOGRAPHIC DATA WITH OTHER USERS.” Tom Myers, Global Product Manager SUMMARY Overview Pitney Bowes Business Insight has always believed that data exchange should be simple, transparent, and open. To help achieve these goals, Pitney Bowes Business Insight has been an active member of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) since 1995. OGC brings a cross-section of the spatial world together. By working with customers, universities, product integrators and other vendors on interface definitions, Pitney Bowes Business Insight increases the ability of our offerings to interoperate with our customer's legacy products. Commitment in Action Pitney Bowes Business Insight has followed both IT and Industry standards for some time. The latest example of our commitment is our compliance with the Open Geospatial Consortium's (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS) specification. WMS provides customers with a way to share maps across networks using a standard syntax, or language, regardless of the mapping software being employed. WMS is supported in clients such as MapInfo Professional in addition to compliant server products in MapXtreme. These servers and clients cannot only communicate with each other, they can also communicate with client and server products sold by the leading vendors in our industry. Implemented and Compliant Specifications Many of the current OGC specifications were defined with input from Pitney Bowes Business Insight, starting with the first 'Simple Feature Access' specifications. Pitney Bowes Business Insight will continue to provide ongoing support for OGC initiatives in order to promote the use of OpenGIS ® specifications across the world. OPEN GEOSPATIAL CONSORTIUM
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Pitney Bowes Business Insight and OGC
I N F O S H E E T
“PITNEY BOWES BUSINESS INSIGHT IS FULLY DEDICATED TO
PROVIDING SOFTWARE THAT ENABLES USERS TO EASILY CREATE,
PROVIDE, AND SHARE GEOGRAPHIC DATA WITH OTHER USERS.”
Tom Myers, Global Product Manager
SUMMARY
Overview
Pitney Bowes Business Insight has always
believed that data exchange should be simple,
transparent, and open. To help achieve these
goals, Pitney Bowes Business Insight has been
an active member of the Open Geospatial
Consortium (OGC) since 1995.
OGC brings a cross-section of the spatial
world together. By working with customers,
universities, product integrators and other
vendors on interface definitions, Pitney Bowes
Business Insight increases the ability of our
offerings to interoperate with our customer's
legacy products.
Commitment in Action
Pitney Bowes Business Insight has followed
both IT and Industry standards for some time.
The latest example of our commitment is our
compliance with the Open Geospatial
Consortium's (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS)
specification. WMS provides customers with
a way to share maps across networks using
a standard syntax, or language, regardless
of the mapping software being employed.
WMS is supported in clients such as MapInfo
Professional in addition to compliant server
products in MapXtreme. These servers and
clients cannot only communicate with each
other, they can also communicate with client
and server products sold by the leading
vendors in our industry.
Implemented and CompliantSpecifications
Many of the current OGC specifications
were defined with input from Pitney Bowes
Business Insight, starting with the first
'Simple Feature Access' specifications.
Pitney Bowes Business Insight will continue
to provide ongoing support for OGC
initiatives in order to promote the use of
OpenGIS® specifications across the world.
OPEN GEOSPATIAL CONSORTIUM
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Pitney Bowes Business Insight and OGC
PITNEY BOWES BUSINESS INSIGHT PRODUCT OCG SUPPORT TYPE
MapInfo Professional 8.5 and higher WMS: 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.3 ClientWFS: 1.0SFS TF: 1.1GML: 2.1
SpatialWare 4.9.X and higher SFS TF 1.1 Server
MapXtreme 2005/2008 and higher WMS : 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.1 (compliant) Client and ServerWFS: 1.0ML: 2.1.1, 3.0
MapXtreme Java 4.8 and higher WMS: 1.1.1 ( compliant) Client and ServerGML: 2.1
MapMarker Plus 14.0 and higher DD CRS: 1.1.0 ServerGML: 2.1
Routing J Server 3.2 and higher DD CRS 1.1.0 ServerGML: 2.1
Envinsa 4.X and higher GML: 3.0 ServerOLS: 1.1WMS: 1.1.1 (compliant)WFS: 1.0
WMS: Web Map Service
WFS: Web Feature Service
GML: Geographic Markup Language
CT: Coordinate Transformation
DD CRS: CT Definition Data for Coordinate
SFS TF: Simple Features SQL Types and Functions
Further specification descriptions can be found on the Open Geospatial website.
LEGEND
Commitment to FutureInteroperability
Current and future Pitney Bowes Business
Insight products are intimately tied to an
interoperable technology foundation. Pitney
Bowes Business Insight recognizes the value
of standards and will continue to develop
products that support OGC directions.
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in the wireless internet industry.
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eWeek illustrates how standards will be key
to accelerating location-based services
(LBS) growth.
Bringing GIS to the enterprise: standardsand interoperability—Whitepaper
Interoperable systems will let people in
different areas work together more efficiently,
making better decisions and avoiding
duplication of effort. This whitepaper is a
look at how standards impact e-government.
