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developers. The purpose of the OGC Compliance Program is to increase system interoperability while reducing technology risks. Vendors gain confidence that they
are providing a product compliant with OGC standards, which will be easier to integrate and easier to market. Buyers gain confidence that a compliant product will
work with another compliant product based on the same OGC standard, regardless of which company developed the product.
1.3 Ordnance Survey
The Ordnance Survey is a government department founded in 1791 and is the national mapping agency of Great Britain. Ordnance Survey maintains the definitive geographic
framework of Great Britain and is responsible for the surveying, production, maintenance and marketing of a wide range of geographic information, relied on by government,
business and individuals.
A dynamic, self-financing £120-million-a-year civilian organization, Ordnance Survey is at the forefront of the digital economy, producing digital mapping products and paper
maps for business, leisure, administrative and educational use.
1.4 Association of Geographic Information AGI
The mission of the AGI is to maximise the use of geographic information GI for the benefit of the citizen, good governance and commerce.
The AGI exists to represent the interests of the UKs GI industry; a wide-ranging group of public and private sector organisations, suppliers of GI software, hardware, data and
services, consultants, academics and interested individuals. The AGI, by way of its unique membership forum, brings together this previously disparate GI community to
share ideas on best practice, experience and innovation, and offers access to unparalleled networking opportunities with significant business benefits. As such it acts on behalf of
the community as whole. Since its formal inception in 1989, it has built up a significant membership base and established itself as the respected voice in GI. It is THE
membership body for everyone in the UK with an interest or involvement with GI.
AGI is an INSPIRE Spatial Data Interest Community SDIC and provides logistical and expert support to the British Standards Committee for Geographic Information IST36,
amongst its many other activities. The AGI aim to bring you the latest industry and AGI news, information about AGIs many Special Interest Groups SIGs, Regional Groups,
events programme, Continuing Professional Development CPD, plus our highly acclaimed annual AGI GeoCommunity conference, which is the largest independent
geospatial event in the UK.
1.5 Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Dstl
