User:Creed

I am the CTO at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). I also facilitate the OGC standards program. In my role as CTO, I work and collaborate with multiple standards organizations, such as ISO, IETF, OASIS, OMA, Web3D, NENA, and the W3C. The goal of this collaboration is to harmonize how geospatial content (and services) is modeled and encoded at all levels in the IP/Web stack. I have been working geospatial standards since 1994.

I have been in the geospatial technology industry for 40+ years. I programmed my first computer mapping application back in 1969 and never looked back. My degrees are all in Geography and my PhD work was on systems architectures for integrating geospatial content and services into police information systems.

My first experience with an augmented reality application was back in 1981 when I worked on a project to enable the display of ancillary map data into the optical train of an analytical stereo plotter. This graphics feedback (AR) allowed the image analyst to digitize stereo imagery and see 1.) what they had digitized as well as other layers of data that assisted in their interpretation of the imagery. Since then, I have been a strong advocate of the power of augmentation and content fusion in support of decision making, situational awareness, and so forth.

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