OGC Press Releases

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

November 10, 2008, Wayland, Massachusetts. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) completed a successful kick-off meeting October 14-17 for the OGC Web Services, Phase 6 (OWS-6) Interoperability Initiative, a testbed to advance OGC's open interoperability framework for geospatial capabilities.

The organizations sponsoring OWS-6 seek to develop and improve on the open standards for their interoperability requirements.  The content of the OWS-6 initiative is organized around the following threads:

1. Sensor Web Enablement (SWE)
2. Geo Processing Workflow (GPW)
3. Aeronautical Information Management (AIM)
4. Decision Support Services (DSS)
5. Compliance Testing (CITE)

The list of sponsors and details about the content of the threads are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/50. Teams of participants -- vendors, integrators and universities -- will work in each of these areas to develop candidate standards and best practices that will be featured in an interoperability demonstration in the summer of 2009. For more information, contact David Arctur at darctur@opengeospatial.org.

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

November 10, 2008, Wayland, Massachusetts. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that Dr. David Arctur has been appointed as a Director, Interoperability Programs for the Consortium.  In his new position, Dr. Arctur plans and manages OGC Interoperability Initiatives which include testbeds, pilots and experiments - all designed to develop, test and validate new standards that promote improved access to and application of geospatial information in decision making.  As part of the OGC's Interoperability Program team, Dr. Arctur is leading the sixth OGC Web Services (OWS-6) Interoperability Initiative, a major testbed activity.

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

Wayland, Mass., October 28, 2008 - Standards developed by the members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) play a key role in OneGeology (www.onegeology.org ), a global project to produce the first digital geological map of the world. OneGeology is supported by UNESCO and six other international umbrella bodies. It is the flagship project for the UN International Year of Planet Earth 2008.

OneGeology is made possible by standards. For example, GeoSciML (http://www.geosciml.org/ ), is a Web-based geoscience encoding standard developed by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) (www.iugs.org/ ) Interoperability Working Group. GeoSciML is an "application schema" of GML (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml ), the OGC's OpenGIS(R) Geography Markup Language Encoding Standard (GML - ISO DIS 19136) for representation of geospatial features and geometry, and GeoSciML also uses the OpenGIS Observations and Measurements (O&M) Encoding standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/om). In addition to GeoSciML, OneGeology uses the OpenGIS Web Map Service Interface Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms) and other OGC standards. Without such standards, geology data clients and servers around the world would not be able to interoperate across the Web as OneGeology nodes.

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

October 20, 2008, Wayland, Massachusetts. The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces a webinar on leveraging XML in geoint applications. The Geography Markup Language (GML) encoding standard is used as a key example.

This free webinar is scheduled from 1:30 - 2:30 pm EDT on Thursday, October 23, 2008.

Dr. Carl Reed, III, Chief Technology Officer of OGC, is one of the speakers. Joe Francica, Editor-in-Chief of Directions Media, and Chris Biow, Chief Technologist of Mark Logic Corporation, are also on the panel. The webinar will be moderated by Mike Agron, Executive Advisor of Directions Media. Directions Media is hosting the event, which is sponsored by Mark Logic Corporation.

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

Wayland, MA, USA, September 30, 2008.  At the September meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) in Norcross, Georgia, Terry Fisher received an OGC Lifetime Achievement Award.

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

Wayland, MA, USA, September 30, 2008.  At the September meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) in Norcross, Georgia, Dr. Mike Botts received the OGC's tenth annual Kenneth D. Gardels Award (http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/awards). The Gardels Award, a gold medallion, is awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to advance OGC's vision of geospatial information fully integrated into the world's information systems.

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

September 30, 2008, Wayland, Massachusetts. The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that OGC members Blue Marble and 1Spatial have released the results of the OGC Spatial Data Quality Survey. The results are now available at http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=30415.

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

Wayland, MA, September 10, 2008. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) joins GIS Development Pvt Ltd (India) in a Call for Sponsorship and Participation in the Delhi Transit Routing Interoperability Pilot (D-TRIP) http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/delhipilot This is an OGC Interoperability Initiative to advance OGC's open framework for geospatial data and systems interoperability and sharing in the context of transportation circulation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

Wayland, Mass., August 26, 2008 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) will participate in the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference (http://www.foss4g2008.org/) September 29 - October 3, 2008 at Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa. FOSS4G 2008 is organized by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) (http://www.osgeo.org) in cooperation with the Geo-Information Society of South Africa (GISSA) (http://www.gissa.org.za).

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

Wayland, Mass., August 20, 2008 - The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have adopted version 1.0.0 of the OpenGIS® CityGML Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml and www.citygmlwiki.org) as an official OGC Standard.

CityGML is an open data model framework and XML-based encoding standard for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D urban models. CityGML is an application schema of the OpenGIS Geography Markup Language 3 (GML3) Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml), an international standard for spatial data exchange and encoding approved by the OGC and ISO.