On April 14, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) — an international, consensus organization that develops standards for geospatial and location-based services — adopted Google’s KML language schema as a standard. According to Michael Weiss-Malik, Google’s KML Product Manager, this was the first time that the OGC “swallowed whole” a large piece of code developed entirely outside of its processes and widely adopted in the mass market. From now on, the OGC will take responsibility for maintaining and extending KML, which will now be vendor-neutral and publicly controlled.
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Adoption of KML as a standard sets a precedent
Posted in General, tagged Galdos, Google, Google Earth, KML, mapping, OGC, Open Geospatial Consortium, Weiss-Malik on June 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
