Podcast: OGC Gets into Real Estate, DigitalGlobe Readies Bird for Daily Revisits
By Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg
August 31, 2009
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Take advantage of a special year-end sale on SPOTMaps, the 2.5 meter, seamless, color mosaic made to fit your area of interest. Save 25% off all SPOTMaps through November 10th, when you mention this ad! Click here for detailsOur editors ask: Why is the Open Geospatial Consortium hooking up with the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate and what should potential users of DigitalGlobe's Worldview-2 satellite data be pondering before its launch planned for October?
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Show Notes
The new version of ArcGIS Explorer is now available for download. This release includes a new easy-to-use ribbon interface; dynamic presentation tools; the ability to use 2D or 3D maps; and access to maps, layers, and tools directly from ArcGIS Online. To download ArcGIS Explorer for free, visit www.esri.com/arcgisexplorer.
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| Enjoyed the podcast. If you are interested, the common work activity between the OGC, MISMO, and OSCRE is: The cooperative development of real estate commerce and transaction standards that enable real time interoperability in workflows and business processes in which geospatial information supports user requirements. The OGC also has a very active agreement with the building SMART alliance to collaborate on standards that deal with 3d aspects of the AEC workflow which can then be integrated with or used in conjunction with real property transaction workflows. These relationships do all tie together when viewed in terms of the total real property value chain. Regards |
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| As mentioned in the podcast, I too was not clear through the press release on what were the benefits for the GIS community from this MoU of OGC. However, Carl Reeds comments above give some of the hints. May be this is a wait and watch situation for people like me to see some standards coming out and some applications being developed taking the benefits of these standards. |
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| The real estate developers and property insurance industry might do well to remember that County Property Mapping and Tax Assessor's offices at the local government level need to have some partnership in these efforts, as they are the entities that develop. maintain and manage the authoritative data about property boundaries and ownership information on behalf of its owners - the citizens. Someone on the podcast mentioned that perhaps government could make grants to the private sector to help with funding of this massive technology integration exercise. What? I think it might be difficult to find any local governments that wouldn't have several choice 4-letter words to say about that idea :) These commercial organizations have several orders of magnitude more funding available to them than any Local Government Property Mapping and Assessor's Offices ever will. A more realistic scenario would be for industry to provide the financial assistance to the local governments to help them with the technology integration, rather than the other way around.... |
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| Hi Amy, Your note re: grants caught me off guard as I didn't recall either of us suggesting that. I just went back and listened again and didn't find it. Perhaps I missed it? Or maybe you heard it from other podcasters? Adena |
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