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Sam A. Bacharach Mr. Bacharach joined the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., in April 2000. He was a user of mapping data for many years as an Army officer, and then supervised terrain analysis and mapping production as a Topographic Officer before retiring in 1994. He spent 5 ½ years working for Intergraph Corporation and became convinced that open standards, specifically those from the OGC’s open consensus process, were a requirement for geospatial knowledge to ever make its way out of the basement (where the offices were usually located) to full integration with information and communication technology. He has has presented on geospatial services and OGC in the U.S. and Canada, Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe. He sees the creation of standards very much like surfing in that the effort has to match the wave pattern to be useful. A standard set before there is commercial viability will be out of date by the time business is realized and a standard that awaits business to be established is too late to gain wide acceptance. He represents OGC to the International Standards Organization (ISO) Technical Committee 204, the Digital Geospatial Information Working Group, and the Committee for European Normalization (CEN) Technical Committee 287. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science, Geography, from the University of Idaho.
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