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Standards are a key element of the FAIR Principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability. As such, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has been supporting the FAIR Principles for geospatial information since its formation 30 years ago. This blog post offers an overview of select OGC Standards and components that support FAIRness in geospatial data.
This post outlines the SensorThings API Standard together with initial results from two Horizon Europe projects on Green Deal Data Spaces: All Data for Green Deal (AD4GD) and Urban Data Space for Green Deal (USAGE).
Back to OGC Naming Authority. This page is available publicly and to Member’s only. The OGC URN scheme is defined in the OGC Document: A more detailed OGC public...
Overview The primary focus of the Sensor Model Language (SensorML) is to provide a robust and semantically-tied means of defining processes and processing components associated...
Overview The Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Common Data Model Encoding Standard defines low level data models for exchanging sensor related data between nodes of the...
Overview This standard describes the use cases, requirements and conceptual model for the OWS Context encoding standard. The goal of this standard is to provide...
Overview The OGC Open GeoSMS Standard provides developers with an extended Short Message Service (SMS) encoding and interface to facilitate communication of location content between different LBS...
Overview The OpenGIS® Coordinate Transformation Service Standard (CT) provides a standard way for software to specify and access coordinate transformation services for use on specified...
Overview Catalogue services support the ability to publish and search collections of descriptive information (metadata) for data, services, and related information objects. Metadata in catalogues...
This workshop explored the role of location inexpanding GeoWeb to an Internet of Things. The workshop seeks presentations on functions enabled bygeographic location and to location relative to surrounding objects. Most of the objects will be indoor in a3D setting. The workshop also seeks presentations on relevant technologies such as location determination, geocoding, schemas for points of interest, ad-hoc network formation based on location, processing of information of the objects to detect phenomena of interest and location based services. Technology standards will be important for interoperability at this scale, e.g., OpenLS, CityGML, and Sensor Web Enablement standards from the OGC.
The goal of this project is to deliver the European Location Framework (ELF) required to provide up-to-date, authoritative, interoperable, cross-border, reference geo-information for use by the European public and private sectors.This versatile cloud-based and cascade-supporting architecture provides a platform of INSPIRE compliant geo-information, harmonised at a cross-border and pan-European level.
30 Participant organizations conducted technology integration experiments on 82 interoperable, running component implementations. Participants also delivered 51 documents, including engineering reports, user guides and summary-level artifacts, and 40 Change Requests, for a grand total of 173 technical deliverables. Activities addressed topics such as Clients, OGC Web Services, Architecture, Aviation, Arctic SDI, Big Data, Semantics, and Dynamic Sources.
The OGC Testbed is an annual research and development program that explores geospatial technology from various angles. It takes the OGC Baseline into account, though at the same time allows to explore selected aspects with a fresh pair of eyes. Testbed-15 explores new levels of interoperable geospatial data processing with a focus on data-centric security, federated clouds, service & application discovery, portrayal, machine learning, and delta updates.
The Federated Marine SDI Demonstration Pilot will show how Marine SDI can unlock valuable data and information for more than the traditional providers and consumers of hydrographic data. Specifically, the Pilot will include one or more land/sea interface scenarios in order to demonstrate how federated Marine SDI can provide simple, secure access across borders and domains, and improve the connections between terrestrial and marine foundational communities.
OGC Testbeds are OGC’s largest Innovation Program initiatives. Testbeds boost research and development to make location data and information more FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-Usable. Testbeds provide a unique opportunity for sponsors to tackle location data and processing challenges together with the world’s leading geospatial IT experts.
CityJSON is a web-friendly encoding of the CityGML data model, which is used in Digital Twins and other uses pertaining to built and natural environments. Public comment period ends 1, February 2023.
New Standard Working Group will improve data interoperability of GeoDataCube for Analysis Ready Data. The public comment period for the GeoDataCubes SWG will end 19 January, 2023.
Update improves core standard, documentation, and exemplification. Comments should be submitted via the method outlined on the GeoSPARQL v1.1 Standard's public comment request page. Comments due 13 February, 2023.
About OGC RAINBOW OGC RAINBOW is a Web accessible source of information about things (“Concepts”) the OGC defines or that communities ask the OGC to...
With the growing number of systems and platforms, the number of platform-specific formats and interfaces increases – and interoperability suffers.
OGC’s 123rd Member Meeting – our long awaited return to in-person(!) – was held in Madrid, Spain, from June 13-16, 2022. And even with the heatwave...
What is the OGC’s role in Energy and Utilities? Every energy and utility businesses’ asset and customer has a location, and their locations matter. Distance...
Overview The OGC is a standards organization, but it is also at the forefront of an area of research, geospatial interoperability, which is rapidly being driven...
Overview There are hundreds of millions of Internet-connected sensors on, in and around the Earth, and the number is growing rapidly. Standardization is the key...
Overview OGC standards are implemented in applications, often browser-based, that run on mobile devices such as smartphones, tablet computers or embedded computers (in cars, for...
Overview To promote the prosperity and security of citizens, governments at all levels in all countries provide infrastructure of various kinds. Managing physical infrastructure requires...
FMSDI-22 aims to better integrate geospatial data to measure, analyze, predict, and visualize the impacts of Climate Change in the Arctic.
This new revision adds coordinate epochs to the encoding of Coordinate Reference Systems in a GeoPackage, enabling full support of CRS WKT2 and dynamic CRS.
New OGC Standard separates and standardizes the Conceptual and Logical Models of GeoPackage to enable future use-cases and computing environments.
3D Tiles enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and metaverse applications.
The publicly available reports document the latest advances in Sensor Integration, Moving Features, Data-centric Security, Geospatial Cloud-Native Formats, and Interoperability Through APIs.
The Climate Resilience DWG will support the development of a reliable, interoperable foundation for science services to access, fuse, and analyze data for use in climate change actions.
The latest OGC Code Sprint will focus on a set of OGC APIs that each provide a web interface for a partitioning of space: OGC API - DGGS, - Tiles, - Coverages, and - EDR.
Latest OGC API Standard enables Web APIs to query any number of routing and/or data providers, present the resulting routes in a single place, and share them with others.
The OGC API - Tiles specification enables Web APIs to quickly and efficiently serve tiles of spatially referenced data or of maps with predefined content, extent, and resolution.
NGAC provides advice and recommendations to the US Federal Government on US national geospatial policy and management issues, the development of the US NSDI, and more.
Latest revision to the Standards Guide provides recommendations on standards and good practices that ensure that the growing wealth of geospatial data and technologies can be shared, maintained, integrated, and applied.
OGC Testbed-18 will pave the way towards new levels of interoperability in areas as diverse as New Space, Machine Learning, Open Science, and Building Energy.
The 2nd Open Source Software and Open Standards Code Sprint will advance multiple ASF and OSGeo projects, supported by OGC Standards, including OGC API Standards. Sponsorship is still available.
The document outlines the implementation, packaging, and deployment of cross-cloud EO Applications - A step forward for greater efficiency and bringing the ‘user to the data.’
The Geotech IE will ensure that geotechnical engineering data can seamlessly move between GIS and BIM environments in support of engineering and infrastructure projects.
Prashant Shukle brings to the role an understanding of OGC’s international operations & partnerships that will benefit the Consortium’s governance and strategy.
As the successor to the WPS standard, OGC API - Processes provides a means to build simple-to-understand Web APIs through which complex computational tasks can be executed.
Article Contributed by Chris Holmes, OGC Visiting Fellow – About six months ago I started as the first ‘Visiting Fellow’ of the Open Geospatial Consortium. It’s been...
A Scene Layer can be accessed in the form of a web service or Scene Layer Package (SLPK) – a file-based exchange format.The changes included in v1.2 of the OGC I3S Community Standard include:Enhanced performance and scalability.This version 1.2 of the OGC Community Standard mirrors version 1.7 of the Esri Scene Layers: Service and Package specification.As with any OGC standard, the open Indexed 3D Scene Layer and Scene Layer Package Format Specification (I3S) Community Standard is free to download and implement.Interested parties can view and download the standard here or from OGC’s Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) Community Standard Page.
Latest version of the I3S Community Standard, used for streaming large 3D datasets to desktop and mobile devices, improves performance and scalability with enhancements to 3D Object and Integrated Mesh layers.
OGC API - Common - Part 2: Geospatial Data provides a common connection between the API landing page (defined by Part 1) and resource-specific details.
By upgrading to Strategic Membership, UKHO will bring its expertise and leadership in accessing and utilising marine geospatial data in support of safe, secure and thriving oceans.
The OGC FMSDI Pilot will develop a federation of MPA datasets; assess current marine standards and data; and design a maturity model and roadmap for Marine SDI development.
The OGC Standard provides a stand-alone definition of a Tile Matrix Set so that other Standards may take advantage of Tiles Matrix Sets’ performance benefits.
OGC Routing Pilot Sprint will help finalize the candidate standards for OGC API - Routes - Part 1: Core and the OGC Route Exchange Model
The OGC UxS Command and Control IE will test the suitability of a C&C data model for heterogeneous UxSs in a real-world environment.
The next OGC Code Sprint will focus on developing and testing implementations of the joint OGC API - Features / ISO 19168-1:2020 Geospatial API for features Standards
As a Principal Member of OGC, Dstl will support the OGC’s innovation and standardisation activities to advance Geospatial interoperability and Open Standards for future defence and security needs.
Under the MoU, OGC will connect with T-REX Geospatial startups to conduct GEOINT-focused research, development, training, and Innovation activities.
OGC GeoPose provides an interoperable way to express, record, and share the position and orientation of objects across diverse applications, users, devices, services, and platforms.
OGC compliance provides confidence that a product will seamlessly integrate with other compliant solutions regardless of the vendor that created them.
OGC API - EDR makes it easy for users to access subsets of spatial ‘big data’ through a uniform, well-defined, simple web interface that hides the complexities of data storage.
OGC and NSGIC partner to collaborate on promoting the uptake of location-based technology trends.
To learn more about the previous OGC code sprints, visit ogc.org/projects/initiatives/ogcsprints
New OGC Pilot will accelerate our collective readiness for accessing, fusing, and analyzing climate and non-climate data to contribute to the global push for achieving climate resilience.
OGC Testbeds provide a unique opportunity for sponsors to tackle location data and processing challenges together with the world’s leading geospatial IT experts.
OGC, alongside eight other high-profile geospatial organizations, have signed on to support the Locus Charter by EthicalGEO and Benchmark Initiative.
Update to a fundamental OGC/ISO standard brings geometric calculations of distance and area, as well as support for web scripting languages with dynamic features.
The OGC Integrated Digital Built Environment Pilot seeks to understand the current level of interoperability between Geospatial and BIM and forge a path for better integrated solutions.
The extension defines how to encode and store tiled regular gridded data - such as a digital elevation model - in a GeoPackage, and now supports additional data types and multiple channels.
OGC is seeking the provision of consulting services in support of the Compliance Program’s TEAM Engine validator tool and related Executable Test Suites.
New OGC DWG will identify requirements to revise or extend OGC standards for use with data concerning celestial bodies other than the Earth.
Implementers of OGC CDB v1.0 are invited to validate their products using the new test suite.
Zarr can represent very large array datasets in a simple, scalable way, and is compatible with cloud object storage - making it ideal for analysis-ready geospatial data.
CoverageJSON has been demonstrated to be an effective, efficient format, friendly to web and application developers.
Next OGC API Code Sprint will further advance OGC API - Processes, - Coverages, and - Records.
New version of the I3S Community Standard, used for streaming large 3D datasets to desktop and mobile devices, improves performance and scalability with enhancements to 3D Object and Integrated Mesh layersThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on version 1.2 of the OGC Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) and Scene Layer Package (*.slpk) Format Community Standard.The changes included in v1.2 of the OGC I3S Community Standard include:Enhanced performance and scalability.This version 1.2 of the OGC Community Standard mirrors version 1.7 of the original Esri Scene Layers: Service and Package Standard.The OGC Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) and Scene Layer Package (*.slpk) Format Candidate Community Standard Version 1.2 is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by July 16, 2020, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the OGC Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) and Scene Layer Package (*.slpk) Format Candidate Community Standard Version 1.2’s public comment request page.
New version of the I3S Community Standard, used for streaming large 3D datasets to desktop and mobile devices, improves performance and scalability with enhancements to 3D Object and Integrated Mesh layers
Implementers of GeoTIFF v1.1 are invited to validate their products using the new test suite.
Implementers of SensorML v2.0 are invited to validate their products using the new test suite.
The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management Private Sector Network provides a conduit for the private sector to work with UN Member States on global geospatial initiatives.
The new appointees’ diverse sets of experiences will inform the strategy of the Consortium and help instill innovation.
OGC API - Common - Part 1: Core serves as a solid foundation upon which all OGC APIs can be built.
OGC and CRN will work together to develop a unique geospatial real property identifier that has applications in housing finance and beyond.
OGC Disaster Pilot 2021 will prototype and demonstrate end-to-end capabilities that integrate OGC standards, data, services, and state-of-the-art technologies to support decision makers and responders in times of crisis
New OGC Working Group aims to remove a major bottleneck to advanced Earth Observation science applications by defining a standard to document, store, and share Machine Learning sample data
New SWG will develop OGC API - 3D GeoVolumes, which will integrate various current approaches to accessing 3D geospatial content over the web into a single solution.
The next OGC Sprint will focus on further refining the draft specifications for OGC API - Maps, - Tiles, and - Styles.
AGC’s new level of OGC membership supports advancing standards for cross-system interoperability and geospatial information sharing.
The sprint will support the ongoing refinement of standards from both OGC and the Khronos Group, including CDB and glTF.
The OGC Compliance Program is a certification process that ensures organizations' solutions are compliant with OGC Standards.
New Pilot will demonstrate a multi-country, federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure for land/sea interface use-cases.
V1.3 is a minor update to GeoPackage, the open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information.
IMDF enables anyone to create indoor map apps and services using the same highly accurate and detailed data on any app, website, or operating system.
OGC API - Features Part 3 handles enhanced filtering: a fundamental operation performed on a collection of features in order to obtain the subset of the data that’s relevant to your workflow.
New work items for the SWG include extensions to OGC API - Processes that will simplify the deployment and execution of “geospatial processing apps” and chained workflows.
CIS extension revision enables OGC imagery-related standards to more concisely represent remotely-sensed imagery
Code sprint will advance multiple ASF, OSGeo projects, and OGC standards - including OGC API standards, the building blocks for location.
GeoTIFF SWG is planning on minor and major revisions to the popular standard used for sharing geographic image data.
Recharter of Features API SWG adds new work items for the group to continue the evolution of this important building block for location.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the proposal for a revision to the OGC Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) Community Standard.A Scene Layer can be accessed in the form of a web service or Scene Layer Package (SLPK) – a file-based exchange format.OGC I3S v1.2 is backwards compatible with OGC I3S v1.1.The work item proposal for the Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) v1.2 Community Standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by February 15, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) v1.2 Community Standard’s public comment request page.
I3S is used to stream 3D geospatial content of any size to mobile, web and desktop clients.
The CDB SWG plans minor and major revisions to the CDB standard used for storage, access, and modification of synthetic environment databases by the modeling & simulation and gaming communities.
CityJSON offers an easy-to-use alternative to the GML encoding of CityGML 2.0 for the storage and exchange of 3D city models.
RFI for the OGC Health SDI Concept Development Study will support the development of a Health Emergencies Data Model and the design of a Health Spatial Data Infrastructure.
Article Contributed by Ignacio “Nacho” Correas, Chief Technology Innovation Officer at Skymantics – There are two trade-offs that need to be carefully balanced: accuracy vs....
New OGC Working Group will develop a JSON encoding for geospatial feature data to support additional concepts that are important for the wider geospatial community and the OGC API standards.
OGC Disaster Pilot 2021 will prototype and demonstrate end-to-end capabilities that integrate OGC standards, data, services, and state-of-the-art technologies to support decision makers and responders in times of crisis
O&M enables models for the exchange of information describing observation acts and their results. This new revision supports publication to the Web of Data.
CityGML 3.0 defines a common information model for the representation of 3D urban objects that can be shared over different applications, improving their reusability and increasing ROI
Gain access to funding to further advance Federated Cloud Analytics, new Web APIs, and other future location technologies
AWS joins OGC as a Principal Member to help accelerate innovation by supporting OGC’s open and consensus-based process of standards development.
OGC API - Features provides the fundamental API building blocks to create, modify, and query ‘features’ on the Web. Part 2 adds the ability to use different coordinate reference systems.
Fruitful collaboration between OGC Pilot Sponsors (NRCan and ESA) and Participants has supported the "application-to-the-data" principle by simplifying the development of apps for deployment on any cloud platform.
3 year EU-funded project will improve access, interoperability, and harmonization of data, and build a data ecosystem based on national platforms
New purpose of SWG is to revise the GeoPackage Encoding Standard and revise existing, or produce new, extensions to improve and increase functionality
The OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) candidate standard enables end-users to easily identify and retrieve a subset of data from ‘big data’ stores
Workshop will focus on Geospatial Data Interoperability for Cumulative Effects and examine novel, standards-based solutions that address the challenges of integrating disparate data.
IMDF targets indoor mapping and provides a mobile-friendly, compact, and human-readable data model for any indoor space, providing a basis for orientation, navigation, and discovery.
The “SymCore” standard will increase consistency between different maps by defining agreed upon symbology rules.
Implementers are invited to validate their products using the new test suites, which are available on the OGC validator tool.Testing involves submitting a SensorML or SWE Common file produced by the product being assessed.The SWE Common standard is part of the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) suite of OGC Standards.The SWE Common standard defines low-level data models for exchanging sensor related data between nodes of a sensor web framework.Implementers of the SWE Common and SensorML standards - or other OGC standards - can validate their products using the OGC validator tool.
Products that implement these sensor-web standards and pass the test suites can now be certified as OGC Compliant.
OGC API - Processes simplifies the task of making simple or complex computational geospatial processing services accessible via web services.
Partnership between OGC and the Open Design Alliance will promote cooperation on open geospatial standards and allow users to do more with BIM, CAD, and Geospatial data.
OGC recognizes and celebrates Prashant’s lifetime of service and his steadfast support of open geospatial standards and the OGC mission.
Health SDI will integrate diverse sources and types of data to serve as a platform for Epidemic & Pandemic Early Warning, Response and Recovery
New OGC API will enable anyone with web development experience to easily identify and retrieve a subset of data from ‘big data’ stores.
The popular Zarr storage specification provides an ideal format for analysis-ready geospatial data in the cloud
As a Principal Member of OGC, Microsoft will help advance OGC APIs - the new generation of location standards for integrating location-aware information in any application.
Workshop participants will be informed of a specification critical to the future of service discovery in a global SWIM environment.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) invite participants to the SWIM Discovery Service (SDS) Technical Review Workshop, to be held virtually on September 9, 2020.FAA SWIM program intends to use the workshop to solicit feedback from the OGC technical community on the latest draft of the FAA SWIM Discovery Service (SDS) Implementation Specification.The SDS specification, developed by FAA, describes the enabling technologies and practices that support service discovery among independently developed and autonomously managed discovery mechanisms.More information on the SWIM Discovery Service (SDS) Technical Review Workshop, including a draft agenda and registration details, can be found on the OGC website.
Workshop participants will be informed of a specification critical to the future of service discovery in a global SWIM environment.
The update, developed jointly with ISO TC211, enables 4D DGGS, aligns itself with other ISO standards, and more.
Updates to the documents bring clarity, better support implementation, and address comments and change requests from OGC Testbeds and partners.
Webinar will present experiences and lessons learned on how to best exploit Big EO data stores and how to enable externally developed applications as additional services.
OGC Standards Working Group will provide a major update to a key standard for representing and querying spatial data on the Semantic Web.
A series of Sprints will build and test prototype implementations of four draft OGC API specifications to ensure that they are as developer-friendly, usable, and mature as possible
This OGC Sprint will test a draft API that provides a simple method to retrieve 3D tiled resources in a manner independent of the underlying data store.
Join with geospatial experts to solve your organization’s technology challenges and shape the future of location technologies
Products that implement the GMLJP2 standard can now be tested and certified as OGC Compliant.
HDF5 provides a flexible, extensible, and efficient data model, programming interface, and storage model for keeping and managing spatial data.
New OGC Working Group will develop an API to request, retrieve, and share routes, regardless of the underlying data, routing engine software, and algorithms.
Version 1.1 is a minor update to OGC’s IoT standard, which is used across the globe in logistics, public safety, energy utilities, environmental monitoring, and more.
New Moving Features Extension provides a JSON encoding as an alternative to XML or CSV
FAA upgrades to OGC’s highest level of membership to help drive standards and shape development priorities relevant to aviation
V1.3 is a minor update to GeoPackage, the open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information.
Workshops will bring together experts in browser development, Web standards, and Web mapping client tools & applications to explore the potential of standardized maps for the Web.
New version improves compatibility with other libraries and allows diverse file formats to be used in the CDB data store.
Products that implement the Standard and pass the tests can now be certified as OGC Compliant.
New MUDDI (Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration) SWG seeks to create models, standards, and mappings to fully represent underground infrastructure in context with the environment that contains them.
New discussion paper aims to coordinate the development of data standards produced by the two leading standards organizations in the fields of Geospatial and Building Information Modeling
Working Group aims to develop a new OGC API that will allow creators to publish and share styles to be used by different users, systems, and datasets - allowing a visual and semantic consistency across maps from disparate providers
The latest advances in Geospatial Data Processing, Analysis, and Visualization have been documented in Testbed-15’s Sixteen Engineering Reports
RFI will feed into a study to help modernize spatial data infrastructures by integrating new tools, standards, and techniques (such as machine learning) to advance inter-jurisdictional data interoperability - RESPONSE DATE EXTENDED to June 19.
Online code sprint will further develop and test a new OpenAPI-based OGC API for the delivery of tiled resources, such as raster or vector tiles.
extends the core capabilities of Part 1 with the ability to use coordinate reference systems other than WGS 84.
documents common elements to be used in the OGC API suite of standards.
New Concept Development Study aims to characterize the state of energy mapping and analytics, and propose practices and standards to improve efficiency and consistency.
IMDF targets indoor mapping and provides a mobile-friendly, compact, and human-readable data model for any indoor space, providing a basis for orientation, navigation, and discovery.
New OGC Sprint event will focus on emerging standards for a data-centric Environmental Data Retrieval API that will promote quick and easy access to environmental data.
TimeseriesML allows for the precise representation of a sequence of data values that are ordered in time - and now supports changing periodicity.
CityJSON provides a simplified alternative to the GML encoding of CityGML that is also lightweight and suitable for use on the web and mobile.
New OGC Engineering Reports document outcomes of the Open Routing API Pilot, including new capabilities to easily share routes and prototype APIs able to use routing data from any source - based on the next generation of OGC APIs.
Latest version of the I3S Community Standard, used for streaming large 3D datasets to desktop and mobile devices, adds Point Cloud Scene Layer type, improved performance, and more.
Candidate Abstract Specification Topic defines a conceptual model for tiling space of any number of dimensions, as well as a logical model for tiling 2D space.
SWG will work towards the next generation of OGC’s Catalogue service, which will align with the current architecture of the Web and the Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices
New Working Group will create stable, standardized, service APIs based on simple data retrieval patterns, which will improve access to environmental data and information.
Testbed-16 provides a unique, funded opportunity to join the collaborative research at OGC. Boost your R&D, make contact with major geospatial players, and develop future business opportunities.
Members of the new GeoPose SWG will work towards a standard to provide an interoperable way to express, record, and share the location, position, and orientation of objects across diverse applications, users, devices, services, and platforms.
The winning spot was awarded for creating the CityGML 3 visualization tool with the most comprehensive data integration environment, 3D analysis tools, and integration of other standards.
Agile development sprint will advance APIs for analytics on coverages, arrays, and gridded data.
OGC and FrontierSI continue to work together to reach out, innovate, and educate at national, regional, and international levels.
The OGC UML-to-GML Application Schema Pilot 2020 (UGAS-2020) will improve and enhance the present capabilities of the open source tool ShapeChange in order to meet current and emerging technology requirements.
OGC APIs usher in a new age for location information on the web, enabling a much simpler way to share and access location information that is consistent with the architecture of the Web. This API, the first of many, specifies the fundamental API building blocks for interacting with geospatial features.
The Tile Matrix Set concept, initially developed in WMTS 1.0, is now provided as an independent standard that can be referenced by other standards
The Earth Observations Applications Pilot will evaluate the maturity of specifications developed to achieve a paradigm shift in Earth Observation - from “bringing the data to the user” to “bringing the user to the data”
IndoorGML v1.1 introduces a new feature for level (i.e. storey or floor) information to meet requirements from many indoor spatial applications
OpenFlight is a 3D scene description file format widely used in the aviation simulation industry
3D Data Container and Tiles API Pilot seeks to assess a data container model and API that will support smooth transitions between 3D and 2D data environments; allow applications working with 2D tiles to get 3D tiles; and more.
OGC’s November 2019 AR Summit will bring together experts to discuss how to standardize access to AR related data and services, and encourage AR’s proliferation
New Moving Features Extension provides a JSON encoding as an alternative to XML or Simple CSV
Left to right: Nadine Alameh, OGC CEO; Norman Speicher, Program Manager / Computer Scientist at DHS S&T; and Mayor Lyda Krewson, Mayor of the City of St. Louis, at the Launch of the PIlot.
Left to right: Nadine Alameh, OGC CEO; Norman Speicher, Program Manager / Computer Scientist at DHS S&T; and Mayor Lyda Krewson, Mayor of the City of St. Louis, at the Launch of the PIlot.
Left to right: Nadine Alameh, OGC CEO; Norman Speicher, Program Manager / Computer Scientist at DHS S&T; and Mayor Lyda Krewson, Mayor of the City of St. Louis, at the Launch of the PIlot.
Left to right: Nadine Alameh, OGC CEO; Norman Speicher, Program Manager / Computer Scientist at DHS S&T; and Mayor Lyda Krewson, Mayor of the City of St. Louis, at the Launch of the PIlot.
Mr Simon Callaghan, Dr Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse, Dr Nadine Alameh and Mr Mark Reichardt (left to right)
Mr Simon Callaghan, Dr Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse, Dr Nadine Alameh and Mr Mark Reichardt (left to right)
Mr Simon Callaghan, Dr Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse, Dr Nadine Alameh and Mr Mark Reichardt (left to right)
Mr Simon Callaghan, Dr Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse, Dr Nadine Alameh and Mr Mark Reichardt (left to right)
Getting the Right Information to the Right Person at the Right TimeThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites anyone who provides and/or uses geospatial data or products for disaster planning and response to the Disasters Resilience Pilot Demonstration Event, to be held Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA.During times of disaster preparation, geospatial data is used to identify at-risk areas.It will show accessing and integrating geospatial information from different sources providing the right information to the right person at the right time.To register for the September 18, 2019 demonstration event, please visit the Disasters Resilience Pilot Demonstration Event page.This Pilot builds on previous work executed as the Disasters Interoperability Concept Development Study (CDS) and documented in the OGC Development of Disaster Spatial Data Infrastructures for Disaster Resilience report.
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The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate Sensor Model Language (SensorML) v2.1 standard.Sensor model images are useful because they contain geospatial information that is lost upon processing into rectified ‘map’ images.Such physical and replacement sensor model descriptions are being compiled into a sensor model repository by the OGC Naming Authority.The candidate SensorML v2.1 standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal [.zip].Comments are due by 14 June 2019 and should be submitted via the method outlined on the candidate SensorML v2.1 Standard’s request page.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the OGC OWS Context GeoJSON Encoding candidate standard.The OGC Web Services Context Document standard (OWS Context) (OGC 12-080r2) was created to allow a set of configured information resources to be passed between applications primarily as a collection of services (e.g., OGC Web Services, but also potentially in-line content).The OWS Context specification, already defined by a conceptual model and ATOM document encoding, is now complemented with a GeoJSON document encoding.The OGC OWS Context GeoJSON Encoding Standard specifies how to use GeoJSON to encode a context document, making it possible to transform context documents between the different encodings without loss of information.Download the candidate OGC OWS Context GeoJSON Encoding standard here: https://portal.ogc.org/files/63324.
The OGC is now planning OGC Testbed 11.The next Sponsors Planning meeting for OGC Testbed 11 is planned for 1100 EDT US on 16 July 2014.Discussion among prospective Testbed 11 sponsors has been underway for several months to collect ideas and firm up requirements.OGC testbed sponsors benefit in many ways.The value of OGC testbed sponsors and participants investment in standards development is further leveraged by the OGCs close coordination with other standards organizations.
24 February 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the OGC Sensor Model Language (SensorML) 2.0 Encoding Standard.SensorML 2.0 provides a standard encoding for describing sensors (things that measure), actuators (things that act), and processors (things that calculate).SensorML 2.0 includes a number of changes to the previous version 1.0.1, which was approved in 2007.Efforts are also underway to take advantage of the complementary role that SensorML 2.0 can play with the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard and the candidate OGC standard IndoorGML.The OGC SensorML 2.0 Encoding Standard can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sensorml.
18 November 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted the OGC OWS Context Conceptual Model and the associated OGC OWS Context ATOM Encoding as OGC adopted standards, along with schemas and examples.The OGC answer to address this paradigm is the OWS Context specification.The OGC OWS (OGC Web Services) Context Conceptual Model describes the use cases, requirements and conceptual data model of an OWS Context Document.An OWS context document defines a fully configured set of OGC services that can be consistently shared, interpreted and invoked by clients.The OGC OWS Context Conceptual Model Standard can be downloaded from https://portal.ogc.org/files/51860 and the associated ATOM Encoding standard can be downloaded from https://portal.ogc.org/files/51861.
23 July 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard Processing Extension.The OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard defines an open standard interface to access multi-dimensional spatio-temporal coverages, such as sensor data, satellite imagery, image time series, point clouds, and meshes.The candidate WCS Processing Extension standard specifies the standard service interface to a Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) query language that may optionally be implemented by WCS servers.To this end, the WCS extension defines an additional request type, ProcessCoverages, beyond the core WCS request types GetCapabilities, DescribeCoverage, and GetCoverage.Download the candidate OGC WCS Processing Extension Standard.
9 July 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate OGC OWS Context Encoding Standard.This standard is comprised of three documents:The OGC Web Services Context Document (OWS Context) standard was created to allow a set of configured information resources (service set) to be passed between applications primarily as a collection of services.This initial call for comment is for two (2) OWS Context documents: A Conceptual Model and the ATOM encoding for the conceptual model.The Conceptual model document describes the use cases, requirements, conceptual data model of the OWS Context encoding standard.The OGC OWS Context Standards Working Group will consider all comments when preparing a final draft of the candidate standard.
29 May 2013 - The OGC CityGML SWG, the SIG 3D, and Technische Universität München will host a joint international workshop to gather requirements to guide the development of the next major version of CityGML (3.0).Short OGC CityGML 3.0 Standards Working Group meeting : 15:00-17:00Friday 21 JuneLocation:Workshop : Technische Universität München, Vorhoelzer Forum,Arcisstr.21, 80333 Munich, Germany Evening Event : Will be announced on the Workshop Wiki: Will be announced on the Workshop Wiki OGC CityGML Standards Working Group (SWG) Meeting: To be announcedSee more details at http://www.opengeospatial.org/node/1812 and in the Workshop Wiki at http://en.wiki.modeling.sig3d.de/index.php/Workshop_Munich_2013Register for the SIG 3D – OGC – TUM International Workshop on Requirements for CityGML 3.0 at https://portal.ogc.org/public_ogc/register/130620citygml.php.SIG 3D members developed the first version of CityGML (http://www.citygml.org) and in 2005 submitted CityGML as a candidate standard into the OGC standards process.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
18 January 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the OGC OWS Context Conceptual Model and the associated ATOM Extension document candidate standards.The OGC OWS Context Conceptual Model describes the use cases, requirements and conceptual data model of an OGC Web Services Context Document.A context document (OWS Context) defines a fully configured set of OGC services to be consistently shared, interpreted and invoked by clients.An OGC Web Services Context Document (OWS Context) enables a set of configured information resources (service set) to be passed between applications as a collection of services.The OGC OWS Context Conceptual Model and the associated ATOM Extension document candidate standards are available for public review and comment at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/96.
8 January 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comments on the current draft of the candidate OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Standard.The GPKG Standards Working Group will consider all comments when preparing a final draft of the candidate standard.The candidate OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Standard provides an open, non-proprietary, platform-independent container for distribution and direct use of all kinds of geospatial data.Future enhancements to the GeoPackage standard, a future GeoPackage Web Service standard, and modifications to existing OGC Web Service (OWS) standards to use GeoPackages as exchange formats will allow OWS to support provisioning of GeoPackages throughout an enterprise or information community.The current draft of the candidate OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Standard can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/95.
OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.Directions Media was founded in 1998 as Directions Magazine, which continues to be the flagship publication.Directions Magazine was the first regularly published online magazine covering geospatial technology.Today Directions Media maintains several online publications including Directions Magazine and the All Points Blog and offers conferences including Location Intelligence and GEO Huntsville.
This is the fourth GovFuture (http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1568) webinar presented by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Directions Media.In this webinar, we look at how improved sharing of geospatial information plays an important role in improving public health.Eddie Oldfields current work involves creating a national portal to bring together climate and health resources for decision-makers in public health, municipal emergency management, and local climate adaptation.The portal will aid in expanding public health heat alert and response, community resilience / disaster risk reduction, and modeling of historical and forecast impacts from climate on public health.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
The title of the webinar is, How the OGC’s CityGML Standard Supports 3D Innovation for Business and Government: Developments achieved in the Netherlands including use cases from the City of Rotterdam.Attendees will learn about the 3D Pilot NL (http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/1503), an award-winning collaborative pilot project to establish a national standard for 3D geo-information in the Netherlands.The Netherlands 3D standard is an implementation of the OGC CityGML Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml) (see also http://www.citygml.org/index.php?id=1531), which is based on the OGC GML (Geography Markup Language) Standard.By joining CityGML with the existing national 2D standards framework, 3D Pilot NL laid the groundwork for one of the worlds most comprehensive national 3D geo-information infrastructures.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
1 August 2011 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has completed a Water Information Concept Development Study of the application of OGC Web Services standards in the domain of water information, specifically to investigate architectures and practices for cataloguing, discovering, and accessing selected water resources data from very large numbers of distributed datasets.Water resources, weather, and natural disasters are not constrained by local, regional or national boundaries.This OGC Water Information Concept Development Study was requested and sponsored by CUAHSI.The OGC Water Information Services Concept Development Study Engineering Report provides guidelines and recommendations for open information system architectures that support publishing, cataloguing discovering and accessing water observations data using open standards.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests reference implementations of the OGC Sensor Planning Service (SPS) 2.0 for use in compliance testing.The OGC Compliance Program (CITE) tests whether implementations of OGC standards comply with mandatory elements in the standards.SPS is part of the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) suite of standards.OGC Members with SPS server implementations (and test data if available) are invited to become SPS CITE Initiative sponsors by making these resources available for free for “black box” testing in SPS executable test suite development.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
7 June 2011 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced that it will hold the next OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee meetings (http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1106tc) from 12-17 June 2011 in Taichung, Taiwan.The week’s events will run concurrently with the Third International AR (Augmented Reality) Standards Meeting, which the OGC is hosting with the support of the OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee meeting sponsors.Taiwanese developers introduced the candidate Open GeoSMS standard into the OGC standards process.“We have been involved in the OGC since 2006 and have been advancing OGC standards in government and enterprise applications.GovFuture membership focuses on helping local and sub-national governments implement and use OGC standards to achieve government mission objectives.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests reference implementations of the OGC Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) Interface Standard for use in compliance testing.The OGC Compliance Testing program (CITE) tests whether implementations of OGC standards comply with mandatory elements in the standards.A WMTS enabled server application can serve map tiles of spatially referenced data using tile images with predefined content, extent, and resolution.WMTS is related to the OGCs Web Map Server (WMS) but is designed to enable better server performance in applications that involve many simultaneous requests.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced new membership options for organizations based in emerging economies.GovFuture membership focuses on helping local and sub-national governments implement and use OGC standards to achieve government mission objectives.Visit the OGC Value page to learn more about the value of OGC membership for both technology providers and technology users.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
On behalf of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association, the OGC invites organizations to participate in the GSDI Association Small Grants Program.The application deadline for the Small Grants Program for the year 2009-10 is 1 October 2009.The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association is dedicated to international cooperation and collaboration in support of local, national, and international spatial data infrastructure developments that would allow nations to better address social, economic, and environmental issues of pressing importance.OpenGIS(R) Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
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.He explained the significance of the project: Geological maps are essential tools in finding natural resources such as water, hydrocarbons and minerals, and when planning to mitigate geohazards such as earthquakes, volcanoes and radon.The OGC Interoperability Institute (OGCii), a not-for-profit subsidiary of the OGC, plays an advisory role in OneGeology.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
The great variety of Sensor Web research, implementation and usage in various application domains was reflected in 25 presentations given by workshop participants (http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/383).The next GEOSS Sensor Web workshop will take place in early 2009 in Japan.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 365 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OpenGIS® Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
All too often what is perceived to be the most cost effective application of geographic information and processing systems doesnt take into account open spatial standards and the reduction of technology life cycle costs.It will describe how to achieve interoperability across technologies, how to future-proof your investments and how to employ best-practice for optimal results.The specifications empower technology developers to maoe complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org The Association for Geographic Information (AGI) is a multidisciplinary organisation dedicated to the advancement of the use of geographically related information.It covers all interest groups including UK local and central government, utilities, academia, system and service vendors, consultancy and industry.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced today that Dr. Raj Singh has been appointed Director, Interoperability Programs for OGC.Dr. Singh will report to George Percivall, Executive Director, Interoperability Architecture and lead for OGCs Interoperability Program.Dr. Singh will begin by playing a key role in the third OGC Web Services (OWS-3) Interoperability Initiative, a major testbed activity to extend the OGC baseline to enable an interoperable, multi-source decision support environment based on geospatial Web services ( http://www.opengeospatial.org/initiatives/?iid=162 ).Dr. Singh has made significant business and research contributions to the geospatial industry.Dr. Singh holds Doctorate and Masters degrees in City Planning from MIT and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Brown University.
techdesk [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, October 18, 2004 - The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) announced a Request For Quotations (RFQ) from technology developers interested in an Interoperability Initiative to develop and deploy a reference implementation of OGC-based services at the state level in the U.S.The OGC Kentucky Landscape Census (KLC) Pilot Project advances OGC Web Services (OWS), the set of OpenGIS® Specifications that comprise the interoperability framework for the emerging Spatial Web.The implementation will become the basis for the Commonwealths land cover theme contribution to the U.S. Geological Surveys National Map.- Web Services: Deploy a reference implementation composed of OGC(TM) specification components for Web Map Services, Web Feature Services, Web Coverage Services, and Catalog Services.The reference implementation will consist of a statewide network that provides one node at the state level and enables four counties with existing Web services to add open, industry standard access interfaces to them.
Wayland, MA, April 14, 2004 - The Open GIS Consortium Inc. (OGC) announced the successful completion of the Emergency Mapping Symbology (EMS) Testbed.The project, begun in January 2004, enhanced and tested OpenGIS® Specifications that enable the use of multiple symbol sets with one set of geospatial feature data.The EMS Initiative matured the OGCs specification framework for interoperable geographic symbolization while simultaneously testing emerging standard map symbol sets for emergency response developed by national-level agencies.The effort employed the Emergency Response Map Symbology (ERMS) set being defined by the Federal Geographic Data Committees (FGDC) Homeland Security Work Group.About GeoConnections GeoConnections, a national partnership initiative led by Natural Resources Canada, is working to build the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI), which is making Canadas geospatial databases, tools and services readily accessible on-line.
rfresne [at] opengeospatial.orgjharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, April 30, 2003 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) invites responses to a Request for Technology (RFT) in support of an OGC Interoperability Initiative called the OGC Web Services Initiative Phase 2.Responses to this RFT should consider the work performed in the OGC Web Services Initiative Phase 1 and the specifications developed during the course of that initiative.This OGC Web Services Initiative RFT elaborates on eight themes.OGC Web Services will allow distributed geoprocessing systems to communicate with each other using technologies such as XML and HTTP.This means that systems capable of working with XML and HTTP will be able to both advertise and use OGC Web Services.
kbuehler [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, October 4, 2002 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that a Request for Quotations (RFQ)/Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC Geospatial One-Stop Transportation Pilot (GOS-TP) Initiative and Demonstration.This initiative is part of a larger Geospatial One-Stop project currently underway by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC).More information about Geospatial One-Stop is available at http://www.fgdc.gov/geo-one-stop/ .A second facet of the GOS-TP initiative will focus on the generation of GML application schemas needed for the Geospatial One-Stop Data Content models.Part of the Geospatial One-Stop process is to develop standards and models for the geospatial framework data content.
tidol [at] opengeospatial.orgjharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, August 19, 2002 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) invites responses to a Call for Participation/Request for Quotation (RFP/RFQ) for OGC Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative Phase 1 (CIPI-1).CIPI takes a new approach to help organizations publish, discover, access, exchange, and maintain vital geo-spatial information and online geoprocessing services required to support critical infrastructure protection.As critical infrastructure protection becomes further integrated into government functions, decision makers need the management edge that interoperable geoprocessing provides.CIPI-1 is the first of several pilot programs addressing the challenge of critical infrastructure protection.CIPI-1 has several objectives including the creation of a Critical Infrastructure Collaborative Environment (CICE).
OGC and the Earth Institute will work together to develop a Columbia-OGC Interoperability Laboratory, which will become a node on the OGC Network and provide a neutral, controlled framework for collaborative interoperability testing, training, demonstrations and development for the benefit of scientists and OGC members.To kick off the new relationship the Earth Institute hosted OGCs Technical and Planning Committee Meetings earlier this year at Columbia.David Schell, OGC President believes that Columbia Universitys work complements that of OGC.The Earth Institute is a major center for linking new understandings of Earth, derived from the physical sciences, to research on natural ecological and human systems and the policy process.Since its inception in 1996, the Earth Institute at Columbia University has been a leader in understanding Earth processes to enhance sustainability through the teaching, research and application of Earth systems science to benefit society.
On behalf of AGILEs Council, President Mauro Salvemini notes We have the highest appreciation for the agreement in the framework of offering more opportunities to AGILE members, which are mainly university laboratories and therefore offer the participation of young researchers and students.Moreover the MOU reinforces the opportunity for closer interaction of AGILE members with the IT industry.David Schell, OGC president, commented, Education is absolutely key in developing and growing interoperability across the globe.European universities have contributed to interoperability and OGC in variety of ways with a perspective unavailable elsewhere.We are most pleased that AGILE sees the synergy of the two organizations and encourage other educationally focused GIS groups and universities to join us.
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