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December 8th, 2011
The OGC seeks comment on Gazetteer Best Practices


This document is an OGC Best Practice on a particular technology or
approach related to the use of OGC standards.

The following organizations submitted this Best Practice to the OGC:

–  CubeWerx Inc.
–  Intergraph Government Solutions
–  The Carbon Project
–  US Army Corps of Engineers Army Geospatial Center (AGC)
–  US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
–  US Geological Survey (USGS)
–  US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)


The candidate OGC Gazetteer Best Practices Document is available for
public review and comment at
http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/83.  Submit
comments on the candidate Best Practices document to
[email protected]” style=”color: rgb(28, 81, 168); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; “>[email protected].org. The comment period ends
January 6, 2012.