Korea's OGC Interoperability Day Highlights Ambitious Geospatial Infrastructure Programs

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Korea Forum and the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KHRIS) co-hosted an OGC Interoperability Day event on 18 November at the KHRIS facility in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. The day-long program included talks by business, government and academic leaders on topics related to geospatial standardization and interoperability in the context of ubiquitous information services. A key talk was by Dr. Hyong-Bok Kim of the Korea Land & Housing Corporation. He spoke about the National U-City testbed development program, which takes full advantage of OGC Standards. A U-City, or "ubiquitous city", is one in which virtually all information systems -- residential, medical, business, and governmental -- share data, and computers and sensors are fully integrated into the built environment. Read More