The View From Here

In this issue of OGC user we look at two international portals for data sharing, one large and one small. GeoNetwork is the Spatial Data and Information Portal of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, providing a wide variety of UN organizations and other groups with interactive maps, satellite imagery and related spatial databases from FAO units and other organizations. The King George Island GIS (KGIS) project of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) provides international teams with data to support research and environmental management on the island.

We publish OGC User to tell people about the use of OpenGIS Specifications around the world. We encourage you to share what's going on where you are.

In addition to her other professional roles, Adena Schutzberg is now editor of EOM (Earth Observation Magazine), so I have taken over as editor of the OGC User. I look forward to this new role, and I will try to be as user-friendly as Adena. That's a challenge.

Lance McKee
Editor