The OGC Blog

On Friday, January 18, 2013, about 40 folks attended the OGC EarthCube Summit, co-located with the OGC Technical Committee meeting earlier that week.

(We are re-posting here Norman's recent post to the Cloudant Blog.)

Cloudant is pleased to announce that we have joined the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The OGC serves as forum to promote collaboration and development of geospatial standards for geospatial interoperability.

Why

Our program of annual testbeds is headed into its tenth year! Time flies when you're having fun! 

First of all, you're invited to attend on January 15 the OWS-9 Testbed Demonstration and Exhibition. This exciting event will take place next month during our OGC Technical Committee Meeting, which will be held at the Esri Campus in Redlands, California. Our OWS-9 Participants will show off the candidate interface and encoding specifications they've developed to meet the interoperability requirements of the ten OWS-9 Sponsors.

The OGC joined with M For Mobile for the Location Business Summit USA 2012, held in October in San Jose, California. 

150+ senior-level attendees from companies such as Yahoo, Google, and AT&T were in attendance, as well as innovative location based services companies such as Sensewhere, Micello, and PointInside.  The agenda provided practical information about how location can be used to target users appropriately, tailoring location content to fit the context of what users want and need. "Location business" involves such things as:

The GeoConnections Program invites you to learn more about the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) by watching two videos available on the GeoConnections Website:

"CGDI in Action" describes, in plain language, the infrastructure developed by GeoConnections, a program led by Natural Resources Canada.

"CGDI Interoperability Pilot Project" highlights the collaboration, the concepts, the technology and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) services behind the OGC Web Feature / Web Map Service partnership network, through the demonstration of a variety of scenarios involving closest-to source update, access and use of Canadian public geospatial data.

May 24-25, 2012: An old cloister in the historical heart of Ghent (Belgium) formed the décor of the first workshop on the development of an international standard for 4D archaeological data. The workshop was organized by the Department of Geography of Ghent University in collaboration with the CReSTIC of the University of Reims. The goal of the workshop was to reflect on and discuss the possibility of developing a comprehensive international standard which would facilitate the exchange and modeling of archaeological data and enable full-fledged 3D spatio-temporal analyses in archaeology.

(We at OGC are reposting here a message posted to the Wikitude blog on Nov 15th 2012.)

This is a special message from Wikitude CTO Martin Lechner concerning the recent advancements in the standardization of augmented reality specifications.

Having been on board with Wikitude almost since day one, I've seen a number of changes within the augmented reality field. With the ever increasing advancements in mobile and web technologies, augmented reality has grown leaps and bounds in just a few short years. And as with any technology that advances at such a rapid rate, without an industry-wide set of standards, things can become, well, let's just say "complex" at best.

In recent weeks I have been travelling a lot and today I want to share with you some of the experiences I had during my visit to the Croatian National SDI Conference in Zagreb and the final symposium of the EU funded OBSERVE project – both with a focus on Eastern Europe and the Balkan countries.

Zagreb, Croatia

OGC, EuroSDR and Geonovum have organised a workshop on CityGML for national mapping, which will be held 21/22 January 2013 at IGN in Paris. The aim of the workshop is to present implementations of the OGC CityGML Encoding Standard, an open data model and XML-based format for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D city models. Workshop participants will also explore what is needed to make the standard further fit for 3D implementation covering large areas and various application domains.

Recently, the OGC convened its 82nd Technical Committee and Planning Committee meetings in Seoul, South Korea.  These meetings were hosted by an OGC member, the Ministry of Land Transport and Maritime Affairs, and were held in conjunction with the annual Smart Geospatial Expo at the magnificent COEX center.  This merger of events afforded OGC members from over 71 organizations worldwide opportunities to participate in OGC committee and working group meetings, as well as to interact with hundreds of attendees of the Smart Geospatial Expo. This was also an opportunity for OGC members to visit the Expo to see firsthand the array of geospatial information products, services and implementations being advanced by the Korean private and public sectors.