Web Technologies: Lessons from Building the Spatial Web
OGC repeatedly shows how technology users can motivate competing vendors to reach agreement on a common interoperability approach. Those technology providers, of course, now enjoy new and expanded markets based on the open, global interoperability platform that supports unprecedented integration of spatial capabilities into information systems.
How might that process impact the evolution of platforms in the larger IT world? We’ll see. It works, however, and it solves problems that have always bedeviled IT users. Sophisticated players in the IT community are recognizing that sophistication includes awareness of the need for a shared vision of critical resources—such as the Internet, and also an open spatial infrastructure—that are held in common.
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