Since the OGC's "value of standards" survey began on 1st November, 208 technology users and technology providers, including both OGC members and non-members, have responded. The OGC Business Value Committee will use a summary of the results to help the OGC better understand the value of the OGC’s open standards and improve its programs. We need all OGC members and as many non-OGC members as possible to respond to help us understand the standards landscape.

The survey period ends on 18 December 2011.  We encourage everyone involved with geospatial or location data, software and services to complete the brief survey. An executive summary will be provided to survey respondents. Prizes will be awarded at random to three survey respondents. The first person whose name is drawn after the survey has closed will receive an iPad 2 (16GB, WiFi), the second will receive an iPod Touch (8GB, 4th Generation) and the third will receive a set of Bose AE2 headphones.

To take the survey, if you are a technology user, visit http://uncc.surveyshare.com/s/AQAIJDC. If you are a technology provider (a vendor or a system integrator) or a consultant, visit http://uncc.surveyshare.com/s/AQAIZBC. If you are not sure which version to use, contact us. Please also forward this message to others who might be interested in completing the survey.

Thanks for your support!

The members of the OGC Business Value Committee http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/businessvalue

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of more than 430 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC 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 useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/contact.