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Indoor Frontier

Submitted by George Percivall on Wed, 2013-05-22 05:39

We spend most of our lives indoors, yet the GPS services that serve us so well outdoors are blind when they can’t see the sky. Fortunately, the indoor/outdoor location gap is closing. Leaps in indoor positioning accuracy provided by a large number of competing technologies, along with the already booming availability of indoor maps, point to a new frontier of indoor location based services. Given the promise of market value, we can anticipate a convergence to a smaller set of indoor location technologies.

Condor and Milongas: OGC in Latin America

Submitted by Luis Bermudez on Mon, 2013-05-20 12:08

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Mobile Development

Submitted by George Percivall on Mon, 2013-05-13 13:57

"Mobile First!" Why? Because mobile is exploding; because mobile forces you to focus; and because mobile extends your capabilities. Take two minutes to watch the introduction of this Luke Wroblewski video. Over the next few years, tablets will have a compound annual growth rate of 35%; Smart phones will grow by 18% (Canalys). Yrjö Neuvo, former Nokia CTO, predicts that by 2020, mobile users will be downloading one Gigabyte of content per day. But Wroblewski's message is about more than the growth of mobile technology.

From reactive to preventative Health Care - a role for Open Map Standards

Guest Post by Eddie Oldfield on Fri, May 10, 2013

Over the past decade, health authorities have used geospatial technologies to help respond to influenza outbreaks, plan responses to public health risks of extreme weather conditions, implement breast cancer programs, track West Nile virus, and much more. Wider use of OGC standards by the health mapping community would make more data and processing resources discoverable, assessable and accessible. On May 31 the OGC will hold a free public webinar to review the charter for an OGC Health Domain Working Group.

Internet of Things

Submitted by George Percivall on Tue, 2013-04-23 10:45

"The Computer for 21st Century" does not have a keyboard or a monitor. Ubiquitous computing is arriving as the Internet of Things (IoT), transparently embedded in everyday devices in your home and in your city. M. Weiser from Xerox-PARC in 1991 envisioned "tabs" that we would always carry, now people live and sleep with their phones. Data for connected devices will transform society at a scale even beyond the WWW. All devices and the data they produce will come with a location using GPS/GNSS and soon with ubiquitous indoor positioning.

Recent Compliant Products

Product: GeoMedia WebMap Advantage 2013
Organization: Intergraph
Standards: WMS 1.1.1, WMS 1.3.0, WFS 1.1.0
Product: GeoMedia WebMap Essentials 2013
Organization: Intergraph
Standards: WMS 1.1.1, WMS 1.3.0

Recent Press Releases

The OGC calls for comments on the Open Modelling Interface (OpenMI) standard

May 2, 2013
OGC Announces Student Map App Challenge, sponsored by Google

April 10, 2013
The OGC Elects Directors

April 8, 2013
The OGC requests comment on Coordinate Reference System Extension to Web Coverage Service Interface Standard

April 4, 2013
OGC announces creation of Middle East and North Africa Forum

March 25, 2013
OGC announces Climate-Hydrologic Information Sharing Pilot Demo webinar

March 22, 2013
OGC requests implementations for compliance testing, offers free licenses

March 20, 2013
The OGC announces Best Practices Document for Earth Observation Product, Service and Sensor Discovery

March 20, 2013
OGC and buildingSMART International host Civil & Land Development Summit 2013

March 11, 2013
The OGC invites comment on GeoSciML 4.0 Standards Working Group charter

March 4, 2013

Upcoming Events

Ninth AR Standards Community Meeting - New York, New York
Start: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 (All day) - End: Thursday, May 30, 2013 (All day)
Webinar: OGC Health Domain Working Group Ad Hoc Meeting
Start: Friday, May 31, 2013 (All day) - End: Friday, May 31, 2013 - 14:00
Big Data From Space - ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
Start: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 (All day) - End: Friday, June 7, 2013 (All day)
SDI Middle East 2013
Start: Monday, June 17, 2013 (All day) - End: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 (All day)
June '13 Virtual OGC Technical Committee Meeting Plenary
Start: Monday, June 17, 2013 - 10:00 - End: Monday, June 17, 2013 - 13:00
MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica 2013
Start: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 (All day) - End: Thursday, June 20, 2013 (All day)
SIG 3D – OGC International Workshop on Requirements for CityGML 3.0
Start: Thursday, June 20, 2013 (All day) - End: Friday, June 21, 2013 (All day)
The Second International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics (Agro-geoinformatics 2013)
Start: Monday, August 12, 2013 (All day) - End: Friday, August 16, 2013 (All day)
September '13 TC/PC Meetings - Frascati, Italy
Start: Monday, September 23, 2013 (All day) - End: Friday, September 27, 2013 (All day)
December '13 - TC/PC Meeting - IIT Bombay, India
Start: Monday, December 2, 2013 (All day) - End: Friday, December 6, 2013 (All day)

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