by Arik Katz
12. May 2009 02:09
In our last few SkylineGlobe product releases, we invested a great deal of time and effort developing the interfaces between our products and other OGC open standards, products and data. We began by enabling our 3D client application (TerraExplorer) to add feature layers from OGC Web Feature Services (WFS) and raster and elevation layers from OGC Web Map Services. Next step was adding support for OGC KML and KMZ files. In the latest TerraGate 4.5 release, our OGC Compliant WMS and WFS enable you to share all your map image and feature data with any application that reads the standard OGC WMS and WFS protocols. Our latest TerraExplorer release features a significantly improved KML loader.
Naturally, development of these new features entailed significant resources and time on our side – invariably at the expense of other, seemingly more exciting features. So why, you may ask, are OGC open standards so critical?
It is true that for applications that manage all their data internally, open standards don’t provide any meaningful advantage but many applications today need to communicate with other data sources. Compliance with OGC standards insures interoperability.
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