1Spatial to lead OGC Data Quality Working Group

Cambridge UK, 5th January 2007 - 1Spatial (formerly known as Laser-Scan) is delighted to announce that their Product Director, Graham Stickler, has been chosen to Chair a new Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Working Group on Data Quality.

A motion has been unanimously passed at the OGC Technical Committee Meeting in San Diego, California, to create a Working Group (WG) with specific focus on spatial data quality. Graham Stickler of 1Spatial was elected Chair of this WG, with Patrick Cunningham, President of Blue Marble Geographics as the Vice-Chair.

The Charter of this WG is to attempt to establish how data quality can be both defined and communicated, using standards to help in the reuse of spatial data and in the creation and management of spatial data infrastructures. Full details of the OGC, and of this working group are available on the OGC website at www.opengeospatial.org

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