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In this webinar, we will show you how to leverage advance technologies and well-established open 3D terrain database standards to build real-time, photorealistic, immersive visualization...
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Overview This standard defines a conceptual Geospatial User Feedback (GUF) data model (OGC 15-097) and a practical XML encoding of the conceptual model (OGC 15-098)....
A recent OGC workshop led to the development of a new definition of data cube and underscored the need for a user-centric approach.
18 January 2016 - The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the following two candidate standards: OGC Geospatial User Feedback Conceptual Model (“GUF Model”) and the OGC Geospatial User Feedback XML encoding Standard.The first candidate standard specifies the structure of a conceptual Geospatial User Feedback data model.Geospatial User Feedback is metadata that is predominantly produced by consumers of geospatial data products as they gain experience with those products.Encoding standards can be derived from the GUF Conceptual Model Standard, and the GUF XML encoding Standard is such an encoding standard.The documents for the candidate OGC Geospatial User Feedback Conceptual Model Standard and XML encoding are available for review and comment at (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/144).
Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) have formed an OGC Geospatial User Feedback Standards Working Group (SWG).The OGC Geospatial User Feedback SWG charter can be downloaded from https://portal.ogc.org/files/59800.The GeoViQua User Feedback Model (http://www.geoviqua.org/UserFeedbackSystem.htm) offers a starting point for this discussion.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.
The new version provides a unique entry point for developers and technology-oriented managers - members or not - who seek to build interoperable geospatial systems and services.Registered users can collaborate and add and edit content so the website is fresher and more accessible for developers with less background in standards.OGC Network provides a persistent demonstration capability and highlights components, services, information models and compliance testing resources.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org
adena [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, May 9, 2003 - The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) announces OGC User Magazine, a free quarterly e-mail publication that highlights the use of OpenGIS® Specifications in building world class, interoperable solutions for spatial and related technologies.User organizations are extending their existing systems via OpenGIS specifications, and are embracing products in the marketplace that implement our specifications.Reichardt continues, There are still many questions about how OpenGIS specifications work, what products implement them and exactly what problems they solve.Those are exactly the types of questions OGC User will address by telling the stories of organizations that have chosen and implemented OpenGIS-based solutions.OpenGIS Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
OGC’s 128th Member Meeting, themed ‘GeoBIM for the Built Environment,’ was our biggest ever, with over 300 attendees from industry, government and academia.
The General Assembly 2024 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) is held at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria and online, from 14–19...
OGC Innovation Days Europe event seeks to connect technology with governance and policy.
Overview The mission of the Workflow DWG is to establish a forum for describing, discussing, and solving any issues related to geospatial workflows. Project Scope...
Overview The Portrayal DWG seeks to address the gap in the OGC standards baseline with regards to portrayal. Although this group will not be the...
Overview The OGC Mobile Location Services (MLS) DWG is a venue in the OGC Standards Program for location-aware mobile requirements and use cases. Project Scope...
New Standard will provide a basis for Publish-Subscribe implementation patterns within the OGC API ecosystem.
OGC is proud to support the International Conference on GeoInformation, Data, Processing, and Applications 2024 (GeoDPA’24) – the new, unique exchange forum that brings together...
The event provides a platform to discuss how the current technical efforts can be combined with the necessary governance and policy aspects.
Overview This OGC DWG provides a forum for the discussion of requirements and use cases for standards and the registration of implementations related to use...
Enterprise Products collaborated internationally to help develop the PipelineML Standard, supporting the wider industry while optimizing the management of their pipeline network.
Overview The GeoScience DWG is a joint working group of The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience...
Overview The Geo for Metaverse DWG provides a forum for discussion and documentation of interoperability requirements for Open and Interoperable Metaverse components and services. Project...
Overview The Earth Observation (EO) Exploitation Platform Domain Working Group (DWG) is concerned with technology and technology policy issues, focusing on geospatial data, information and...
Overview The mission of the Data Quality (DQ) DWG to establish a forum for describing an interoperable framework or model for OGC quality measures and...
Overview The primary goal of the Citizen Science DWG is to support the citizen science community, both within and external to OGC, by promoting and...
Overview The Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies Domain Working Group (DWG) will concern itself with technology issues related to blockchain and other DLT so that...
Overview The OGC Agriculture DWG provides a forum for discussion surrounding location information and its uses in landscape and farming. These activities involve sensing, analyzing,...
openEO aims to increase the interoperability of processing “big EO data” satellite imagery in the cloud.
The FOSS4GE conference, a European extension of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) annual event, connects professionals in the geoinformation software realm. OSGeo, as an...
Good, domain-driven Standards-definition is key to a FAIRer technology landscape and eases the integration of emerging technologies.
Three-week Sprint intends to test a draft specification for NSG Vector Tiles Interoperability Volume 2: Basemap Tile Packages
3 week Sprint intends to test, implement, and develop a draft specification for the NSG VTIS Volume 2: Basemap Tile Packages (BTP), which stores Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVTs) in a GeoPackage.
At OGC Innovation Days 2023, members of the climate, disaster, and emergency resilience and response communities gathered to explore what OGC-enabled geospatial technologies have made possible and to answer the question: what does OGC need to do next?
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.
Pilot will advance information and technologies supporting climate and disaster understanding & readiness while seeding collaboration between these two connected domains.
The OGC India Forum 2023 brought together geospatial experts to discuss and find opportunities to invest and collaborate on open geospatial standards.
The Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration Standard makes subsurface data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable.
The OSPD Pilot will grow the open science community and make scientific results available to the people who need them most, and in a format they can benefit from.
FOSS4G North America is the premier open geospatial technology and business conference with a vibrant and welcoming atmosphere for technologists, end-users and decision-makers.
OGC & IDSA will work together to contribute to the creation and development of Standards for data spaces that support a flourishing data economy.
CoverageJSON enables the development of interactive visualizations that display and manipulate spatio-temporal data within a web browser.
The SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) is an open specification designed to improve the discovery, accessibility, and interoperability of geospatial data.
Open to all OGC APIs and data encodings TELL ME MORE A Code Sprint is a three-day virtual or hybrid event, where dozens of developers...
To help gather requirements, gain insights, and effectively deliver the Open Science Persistent Demonstrator, a Request for Information is available alongside a survey for soliciting...
Stakeholder-centric Pilot will accelerate our readiness for climate change and related disasters by optimizing on-demand information to better understand, trace, mitigate, adapt, and respond.
The objective of the Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024 is to accelerate our collective readiness for climate change and their related disasters by enhancing the value chain that transforms raw data to climate and disaster information, for the benefit of decision makers.
OGC, EUnet4DBP, and other relevant organisations are organising the Digital Building Permit Conference 2024 to dive into the current status of research, development, and implementation,...
OGC's ongoing contributions to European research topics, driven by projects co-funded by the European Commission (EC), cover areas such as data spaces, climate, digital building permits, agriculture, digital twins for the oceans, knowledge generation, and beyond. These topics are high on the European research agenda while having global impact.
The OGC API – EDR Standard makes it easy to access just the required subset from a wide range of data through a uniform, well-defined, simple Web interface.
New encoding for CityGML version 3.0 can be used to store and exchange 3D city models in the GML format as data sets or via web services.
This major revision is the result of numerous OGC Interoperability Experiments, Sprints, discussions, and feedback from the user community.
Initiative will grow the open science community and make scientific results available to the people who need it most, in a format they can benefit from.
Geo Week, February 11-13, 2023, in Denver, is the learning and networking nexus of the geospatial and built worlds. Professionals from a wide variety of...
On June 12-14, 2023, OGC held its 2023 Tiling Interfaces Code Sprint at OGC Strategic Member NGA’s Moonshot Labs in St. Louis, Missouri. The code sprint focused on a select set of Application Programming Interface (API), database, and encoding standards related to map tiles.
OGC to showcase many of its recent innovations, including advancements in Semantic Interoperability and the Location Innovation Academy, at upcoming European events.
Jeff’s support of open standards and OGC’s FAIR mission has improved access to Earth science information for countless users and decision-makers globally.
Event supported by Amazon Web Services As we move into the commercialization of space and consider federated constellations of satellites, along with integration of entity...
The Open Science Persistent Demonstrator (OSPD) is a long-term inter-agency initiative aiming to enable and communicate reproducible Earth Science across global communities of users and amplify inter-agency Earth Observation mission data, tools, and infrastructures.
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).
New SWG will develop datacube interoperability Standards that meet the needs of scientists, application developers, and API integrators.
New OGC Working Group will develop a multi-part Standard for geospatial Analysis Ready Data products that can be integrated & analyzed with minimal effort.
3D Tiles enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and metaverse applications.
GeoPose is a Standard for expressing and sharing geographically-anchored poses of objects in six degrees of freedom and referenced to a CRS.
This OGC work (including software, documents, or other related items) is being provided by the copyright holders under the following license. By obtaining, using and/or...
OGC Staff will present, and be on-hand to answer questions, about our work on Open Standards, Open Data, FAIR Principles, and numerous Projects funded by the European Commission.
Two new specifications will provide a standardized way to exchange information used to calculate the changing positions of objects due to the movement and deformation of the Earth’s crust.
Addressing Disasters Together OGC is excited to announce a three-day event on the future of innovation for disaster and climate change engagement: OGC Innovation Days....
With a theme of "Geospatial in Space" OGC's 125th Member Meeting saw 200+ experts converge on th ESA Centre for Earth Observation (ESRIN) in Frascati, Italy, to shape the future of geospatial.
OGC API - Features and OGC SensorThings API Standards are recognised as INSPIRE good practice for the provision of INSPIRE data.
New Location Innovation Academy empowers users to improve the accessibility, interoperability, and integration of their geospatial data and services, for free.
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TEAM Engine is the open source software used for validating compliance to OGC Standards. Version 5.5 of TEAM Engine brings some exciting improvements.
Pilot will investigate how marine navigational data can be used in new ways in the Caribbean, and how Digital Twins can be created for coastal management in Singapore and the Arctic.
The OGC Naming Authority (OGC-NA) ensures an orderly process for assigning URIs for OGC resources, such as OGC documents, standards, XML namespaces, ontologies so they...
1. Abstract This document outlines the Principles of Conduct that shall govern personal and public interactions in any OGC activity The Principles recognize the diversity...
Geospatial eXtensible Access Control Markup Language is a geospatial extension to the OASIS XACML standard for defining access rights based on geographic conditions.
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STAplus brings features to improve the usefulness of the SensorThings API to Citizen Science.
Overview The OpenGIS® Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Profile of the OpenGIS® Web Map Service (WMS) Encoding Standard [ http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms ] defines an encoding that extends the WMS...
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Domain Working Groups (DWG or WG) provide a forum for discussion of key interoperability requirements and issues, discussion and review of implementation specifications, and presentations...
Standards Working Groups (SWG) have specific charter of working on a candidate standard prior to approval as an OGC standard or on making revisions to...
Overview Google submitted KML (formerly Keyhole Markup Language) to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to be evolved within the OGC consensus process with the following...
Overview Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5®) is a data model, a programming interface, and a storage model for keeping and managing data. It supports...
Overview The GeoTIFF format was initially developed during the early 1990’s (N. Ritter & Ruth, 1997). The objective was to leverage a mature platform independent...
Overview The OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language Encoding Standard (GML) The Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML grammar for expressing geographical features. GML serves as...
Now in its 14th edition, Geospatial World Forum (GWF) has become a not-to-be-missed conference for the professionals engaged in geospatial and allied sectors. It is a collaborative...
FOSSGIS Konferenz is similar to the FOSS4G conference with about 500 participants. The conference is organized by FOSSGIS e.V., OSM Community and a local team....
The OGC API - EDR Standard makes it easier to efficiently access a wide range of geospatial or spatiotemporal data through a uniform, well-defined, simple Web interface.
Overview This OGC® Standard defines the Augmented Reality Markup Language 2.0 (ARML 2.0). ARML 2.0 allows users to describe virtual objects in an Augmented Reality...
New Pilot will bridge technology and stakeholder engagement to reduce disaster preparation time and accelerate our ability to transform data from observation into decision.
The OWS-7 addressed the following threads: Sensor Fusion Enablement (SFE), Feature and Decision Fusion (FDF), Aviation.
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 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) SAA Dissemination OGC Pilot demonstrated the feasibility of automating the dissemination and portrayal of Special Activity Airspace (SAA) information (including updates) to National Airspace System (NAS) stakeholders and other external users via OGC Web Services.
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.
OGC Testbed 10 addressed the following activity threads: Cross-Community Interoperability (CCI), Open Mobility, and Aviation.
The FAA’s Aircraft Access to System Wide Information Management (AAtS) initiative's goal is to provide aircraft connectivity to the FAA’s SWIM infrastructure to communicate/share aviation data and services. This connectivity will establish a common operating picture between the flight deck and air traffic control for collaborative strategic decision-making.
IMIS - Virtual USA becomes the de facto national standard for sharing emergency management information across levels of government and the private sector, allowing all users and organizations to use their own systems to share information securely with all others, anywhere in the United States and across international borders, controlling what information is shared, with whom, for how long.
The Interoperability Assessment carried out rigorous testing of USGS web services to identify and correct shortcomings of OGC standards implementations, and highlighted areas in which to improve the user experience with USGS web services. As a result of the project, users can include the improved USGS services more easily in their decisions making and operational activities.
Testbed-11 sponsors documented interoperability requirements and objectives for activities in the areas of Urban Climate Resilience, Cross-Community Interoperabiity, Aviation, and Geo4NIEM and Security. Thirty organizations participated in Testbed 11 and developed solutions based on the sponsors’ use cases, requirements and scenarios.
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 goal of the Arctic Spatial Data Pilot, sponsored by the US Geological Survey and Natural Resources Canada, is to demonstrate to Arctic stakeholders the diversity, richness and value of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) based on Web services and standardized exchange formats. Stakeholders include national and pan-Arctic science and monitoring organizations and decision makers engaged in Arctic research, social and economic policy, and environmental management. The end goal of the Arctic Spatial Data Pilot is to document and publicize a platform of standards and best practices that can support a rich network of Web-accessible data and service resources for the Arctic.
The primary ESPRESSO objectives can be summarized into four classes, (1) the Smart Cities information framework, (2) shared semantics and vocabularies, (3) a communication ecosystem, and (4) market enablement and dissemination.
DATABIO focused on the data intensive target sector Data-Driven Bioeconomy. More specifically, DATABIO explored the potential of Big Data integration and analytics in the domains agriculture, forestry, and fishery/aquaculture; taking into account interoperability and sustainability aspects in the heterogeneous European bioeconomy landscape.
The main general objectives for NextGEOSS are to 1) Deliver the next generation data hub and Earth Observation exploitation for innovation and business; 2) Engage communities, promoting innovative GEOSS powered applications from Europe; and 3) Advocate GEOSS as a sustainable European approach for Earth Observation data distribution and exploitation. NextGEOSS is a European contribution to GEOSS
The OGC Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Concept Development Study (MSDI-CDS) assessed the current state of data management and exchange technologies used in the marine domain.
The Model for Underground Data Definition and Interchange (MUDDI) Workshop reviewed potential use case scenarios and provided feedback on how to refine and improve the MUDDI Data Model. It also reviewed a draft version of an underground data RoI model Cost Benefit Assessment of Subterranean Information Management.
The focus of this study was to understand how to best support the development of, or combination of SDI(s) for the use in disasters, to advance the understanding of stakeholder issues, and serve stakeholders’ needs. The study included stakeholder engagements, workshops and open Request for Information (RFI) that gathered external international positions and opinions on the optimal setup and design of an SDI for disasters.
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 Geospatial to the Edge Interoperability Plugfest, co-sponsored by Army Geospatial Center and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA/CIO&T) brings together technology implementers and data providers to advance the interoperability of geospatial products and services based on OGC profiles.
Implement prototypes based on the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-121 standard for maritime limits and boundaries data structure and exchange. Advance the implementation of the S-121 data model and architecture and implement operational prototypes to support the creation, management, integration, dissemination and onward use of official data for maritime baselines, limits, zones and boundaries.
The Hackathon builds on results from the recently concluded Testbed-13 initiative and paves the way for Tested-14 and subsequent initiatives in the context of deployment and execution of applications in cloud environments. The goal is to demonstrate that the Testbed-13 results, described in the Engineering Reports OGC Testbed-13: Exploitation Platform Application Package and OGC Testbed-13: Application Deployment and Execution Service are fit for purpose. Given that these Engineering Reports state several options, this Hackathon shall identify the best solution and identify any missing elements as basis for Testbed-14 and future initiatives.
The first phase of the interoperability experiment focuses on the use of SOS as a standard service to distribute data coming from citizen science observations. This idea is based in the COBWEB recommendation to use the classical OGC services in the Sensor Web Enablement. The second phase now focuses on SensorThingsAPI and OpenAPI in general.
The OGC Disasters Resilience Pilot 2019 focused on the demonstration of the usefulness of standards and SDI architecture within the Disaster community. This Pilot built on previous work that was executed as the Disasters Interoperability Concept Development Study (CDS) and was documented in the OGC Development of Disaster Spatial Data Infrastructures for Disaster Resilience.
The goal of this Concept Development Study (CDS) was to demonstrate to stakeholders the diversity, richness and value of new and emerging technologies for 3d processing, curation, and analytics in support of users in potentially disconnected computing environments. Specifically, consider from an interoperability perspective what data sources, technologies, analytics and associated IT services that were required for addressing the needs for the convergence of geospatial 3d modelling, simulation, and gaming integrated with machine learning for automated 3d workflows for such activities as enhanced decision support, mission rehearsal, and/or situational understanding. This included the role of AI along with AR and VR for enhanced visualization and decision support.
The Open Routing API Pilot developed 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.
The UGAS-2019 Pilot was undertaken in order to improve and enhance the present capabilities of ShapeChange in order to meet current and emerging technology requirements associated with the NSG Application Schema (NAS).
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-16 evaluates the maturity of the Earth Observation Cloud Architecture that has been developed over the last two years as part of various OGC Innovation Program initiatives in a real world environment.
The E-SHAPE proposal is driven by the need to develop operational EO services with and for the users and to create a conducive environment whereby the strengths of Europe are exploited towards addressing societal challenges, fostering entrepreneurship and supporting sustainable development. The project puts a lot of emphasis on co design, coordinated implementation encouraging adoption of standards and compliance testing, user Uptake and Capacity Building.
The overall objective of GeoE3 is to exploit existing national geospatial platforms and develop a cloud-based ecosystem of generic services that dynamically integrate various datasets and services with geospatial data.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the world that global crisis response and preparedness cannot be executed without (1) location-related information of people and resources, and (2) trusted information sharing across stakeholders from traditional sources (such as health, defense, public safety) to new sources of information (such as privately-collected mobility data). In addition, information critical to response efforts may come from unexpected sources and domains that previously had little reason to collaborate or involvement with emergency response efforts.
OGC Disaster Pilot: Online and Offline Data Availability for First Responders prototyped provision of earth observation, health, and other critical data to field personnel and first responders during an emergency, leveraging multiple sources of earth observation data through hybrid EO exploitation cloud platforms, provisioning field personnel with GeoPackage data containers and GeoPackage viewers in both online and offline modes, and keeping both relief personnel and the public informed through web search optimization of disaster-relevant information.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), supported by buildingSMART International (bSI), invites interested organizations to sponsor an OGC Innovation Program initiative that explores the current state-of-the-art in geospatial and BIM data integration based on meaningful real-world use cases. Both communities build on different data modeling approaches with respect to fundamental concepts, semantics, access, level-of-detail, and several other aspects.
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.
Data cubes, multidimensional arrays of data, are used frequently these days, but differences in design, interfaces, and handling of temporal characteristics are causing interoperability challenges for anyone interacting with more than one solution. To address these challenges, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) invited global data cube experts to discuss state-of-the-art and way forward at the “Towards Data Cube Interoperability” workshop.
This project aims to contribute to improving GIS - BIM continuity. Among other things, the project organizers aim to exploit the standardization resources already available from the OGC and other organizations as an input for OpenBIM resources. This work is illustrated by geotechnical data.
OGC Disaster Pilot: Apply spatial data sharing standards together with Web technologies and cloud computing so that the responsible stakeholders can work together wherever they are located, use relevant data wherever they are stored, and manage every phase of a disaster at any scale wherever it threatens. In a global, cloud-scale disaster information ecosystem, awareness of threats, vulnerabilities, and impacts can be fostered and shared through joint development of workflow recipes that integrate and transform analysis-ready observation and prediction data (ARD) into decision ready indicators (DRI). Indicator workflows, ready to run and adaptable to each situation, provide the guidance that the right people at the right time in the right place need to make decisions, take actions, and improve disaster outcomes.
Temperature measurements in the Alps, air quality measurements in Rome or soil investigations on the Polish coast: current data are measured and recorded almost everywhere....
'Change toolkit for digital building permit' (CHEK) will enable the development and uptake of digital methods and tools for building permits, based on standardised and integrated city and building digital data. A toolkit to support the shift from the traditional paper-based process to a digital one will be provided, considering the different issues related to digitalisation. Standard-based information requirements proposal and templates will be developed for Building Information Models (BIM) and (3D) geoinformation. A modular web APIs-based architecture for managing and processing software will be developed and tested. A roadmap for change within institutions will be developed and supported. Finally, a suitable training will be developed to foster the upskilling of involved operators to the use of the new interoperable digital solutions. The results will be developed and demonstrated in Italy, Portugal and Czech Republic as well as in further interested municipalities involved in the Advisory Board or CHEK community. Modularity and standardisation of solutions will enable replicability in any country and context.
The third phase of the Federated Marine SDI Demonstration Pilot focuses on land/sea use cases. It extends the use cases developed in the second phase to add the Arctic region as a new location to the demonstration scenarios. Its overreaching scenario will demonstrate the technology and data used with OGC, IHO, and other community standards in response to a grounding event and the evacuation of a cruise ship or research vessel in the Arctic.
The fourth phase of the Federated Marine SDI Demonstration Pilot focuses on Digital Twins and the land-sea interface. It will be divided into three parts for testing in three different areas, namely Singapore, Canada and the Caribbean.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the Executable Test Suite for version 1.0 of the OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval Standard has...
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.
New OGC Working Group will develop a multi-part Standard for geospatial Analysis Ready Data products, which can be integrated and analyzed with minimal user effort.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) SAA Dissemination OGC Pilot demonstrated the feasibility of automating the dissemination and portrayal of Special Activity Airspace (SAA) information (including...
GeoSmart India and ISRS/ISG National Symposium and Annual Conventions is being jointly organized to facilitate open and solution-oriented multi-stakeholder dialogue; engage in discussions to address some of...
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...
Survey will help shape the OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (FMSDI) Pilot and potential future FMSDI activities to better serve the Marine Communitys needs.Impact on OGC Standards - Lessons learned, gaps, and the need for changes to the OGC Standards Baseline will be summarized in an Engineering Report that will inform the OGC Standards Program.To learn about the benefits of sponsoring an OGC Innovation Program Initiative such as this, visit the OGC Innovation Program webpage, or watch this short video on how OGC’s Innovation Program can benefit your organization.More information on the FMSDI Pilot is available on the OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot webpage.For more detailed information on the current phase, there is also a dedicated OGC FMSDI Pilot Phase 3 page.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) 3.0 Part 2: GML Encoding Standard.The CityGML 3.0 GML Encoding Standard presents the GML encoding of the concepts defined by the CityGML 3.0 Part 1: Conceptual Model (CM) Standard, which was approved as an OGC Standard in 2021.The GML encoding is compliant to GML versions 3.2 and 3.3, which is defined by ISO 19136.A collection of example data sets for the CityGML 3.0 GML Encoding is available from the OGC CityGML-3.0 Encodings Public GitHub Repository.The candidate OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) 3.0 Part 2: GML Encoding Standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has released a Call for Participation (CFP) to solicit proposals for the OGC Climate Resilience Pilot, a collaborative activity recognizing geospatial climate information use cases, services and visualization capabilities available, and important next steps.The OGC Climate Resilience Community has a vision to support climate actions and enable international partnerships (SDG 17), and move towards global interoperable open digital infrastructures providing climate resilience information on users demand.This pilot will contribute to establishing an OGC climate resilience concept store for the community where all appropriate climate information to build climate resilience information systems as open infrastructures can be found in one place.Together, the use cases will allow us to better understand and equip future Climate Resilience Information Systems (CRIS) and resilience frameworks.Further information about the multi-year Pilot, including the Call For Participation, is available on the OGC Climate Resilience Pilot webpage.
3D Tiles enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and metaverse applications.Previously referred to as “3D Tiles Next,” Version 1.1 of the 3D Tiles Community Standard is designed for streaming high-resolution, semantically-rich 3D geospatial data to the metaverse.3D Tiles 1.1 promotes several 3D Tiles 1.0 extensions to ‘core’ and introduces new glTF™ extensions for fine-grained metadata storage.The candidate OGC Community Standard is identical to the Cesium release of version 1.1 of the 3D Tiles specification.The candidate 3D Tiles v1.1 Community Standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.
Version 1.3 of the I3S Community Standard, used for streaming large 3D datasets to desktop and mobile devices, adds support for building models derived from BIM or other 3D building data.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on version 1.3 of the OGC Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) and Scene Layer Package Format Community Standard.Building Scene Layers are derived from Building Information Models (BIM) and/or other 3D building data.Version 1.3 of the OGC I3S Community Standard adds support for Building Scene Layers (BSL).The candidate OGC Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) and Scene Layer Package (*.slpk) Format v1.3 Community Standard, as well as relevant release notes, are available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.
New STAplus extension will be based on the OGC Best Practice for using Sensor Things API with Citizen Science.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft updated charter for the OGC SensorThings API Standards Working Group (SWG).The draft SensorThings API Standards Working Group re-charter is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by September 2, 2022, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the SensorThings API Standards Working Group re-charter public comment request page.OGC Members interested in staying up to date on the progress of the SensorThings API standard, or contributing to its development, are encouraged to join the SensorThings API SWG via the OGC Portal.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the candidate CoverageJSON Community Standard.Another simple use case is to put data values for each variable (parameter) in separate array objects in separate CoverageJSON documents which are linked from a parent CoverageJSON object.A sophisticated use case is to use tiling objects, where the data values are partitioned spatially and temporally, so that a single variable’s data values would be split among several documents.The candidate CoverageJSON Community Standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by September 10, 2022, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the CoverageJSON Community Standard’s public comment request page.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on an updated version (v1.1) of the CityJSON Community Standard.CityJSON v1.0 was accepted as an OGC Community standard in August 2021.CityJSON version 1.0 is a JSON-based encoding for a subset of the OGC CityGML data model version 2.0.0.The CityJSON v1.1 Community Standard Justification Document outlining the many changes is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by September 9, 2022, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the CityJSON v1.1 Community Standard’s public comment request page.
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...
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the Executable Test Suite (ETS) for version 1.0 of the OGC GeoRSS Encoding Standard has been approved by the OGC Membership.The OGC GeoRSS Encoding Standard is an OGC Community Standard that has been implemented across several Information Technology domains.Products that implement OGC GeoRSS 1.0 and pass the tests in the ETS can now be certified as OGC Compliant.The OGC Compliance Program is a certification process that ensures organizations solutions are compliant with OGC Standards.Implementers of the OGC GeoRSS 1.0 Encoding Standard - or other OGC Standards - can validate their products using the OGC validator tool.
The Sprint, part of OGC’s Disaster Pilot initiative, will showcase Quansight’s Nebari (formerly QHub) as a new approach to automating cloud deployment of analytical processing workflows.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Quansight, building upon the Disaster Pilot initiatives and a successful webinar in June, will run a virtual DevOps Sprint this July 7-8.In order to introduce the Nebari tool suite and its updated batch-processing capabilities, OGC, as part of its Disaster Pilot initiative, and Quansight, the developers of Nebari, presented a webinar on automated data science last June 6.Building upon that webinar, the Sprint will cover Nebari deployment and workflow implementation, focusing on use of AWS cloud resources.To learn about the benefits of sponsoring an OGC Innovation Program Initiative such as this, visit the OGC Innovation Program webpage, or watch this short video on how OGC’s Innovation Program can benefit your organization.
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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...
Overview Earth systems are coupled, and therefore discovering and sharing geospatial data and processing resources across disciplines is critical for those working in geosciences and...
Overview Emergency Response and Disaster Management are different domains of activity with different information sharing requirements. They do, however, overlap and and in both domains...
Overview Almost every Defense and Intelligence (D&I) information technology application – planning, intelligence, logistics, etc. – involves geospatial information. Almost every asset and every threat,...
Overview Geographic location is usually a critical factor in business research and calculations about customers, suppliers, distributors, natural resources, transportation hubs, energy and most other...
Overview Stakeholders at every stage in the life cycle of buildings and other capital projects depend on information systems. From initial design concept to final...
Overview To improve air travel safety and operational efficiency, the global aviation community is moving forward on the adoption of an international framework of standards...
OGC Chief Standards Officer, Scott Simmons, digs into the elements of the cloud ecosystem that OGC is addressing: interfaces, applications, encodings, and operations.
netCDF-LD provides the encoding standard for encoding linked data semantics into netCDF files and interpreting netCDF files as RDF graphs, enhancing data findability and re-use.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Encoding Linked Data Graphs in netCDF Files Standard (netCDF-LD).The candidate netCDF-LD Standard provides a standard for encoding linked data semantics into netCDF files and interpreting netCDF files as RDF graphs with minimal or little changes to existing netCDF files.The candidate Encoding Linked Data Graphs in netCDF Files Standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by June 24, 2022. and should be submitted via the method outlined on the Encoding Linked Data Graphs in netCDF Files Standard’s public comment request page.
netCDF-LD provides the encoding standard for encoding linked data semantics into netCDF files and interpreting netCDF files as RDF graphs, enhancing data findability and re-use.
With momentum and interest once again building around the ‘metaverse’, OGC hosted a ‘Metaverse Ad-Hoc Session’ at its virtual 121st Member Meeting in December 2021....
The OGC provides a consensus process that communities of interest use to solve problems related to the creation, communication and use of spatial information. A...
Cloud-native geospatial offers many benefits to location data users ranging from decreasing the burden on data providers, to drastically lowering the costs of managing that data. Once the data is in the right cloud-native geospatial formats then it’s easy to tap into a rich ecosystem of platforms and tools without having to download large data files. This also increases the applicability of cloud-scale tools, and magnifies the impact of geospatial insights to a solution.
There are many interpretations of what the metaverse may be, but the widest agreement sees the metaverse as the internet in real-time 3D. The metaverse will comprise of many different interconnected 3D ‘spaces’ (like 3D websites) operated by different entities that together form the much larger metaverse concept.
3D Tiles enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and metaverse applications.3D Tiles 1.1 promotes several 3D Tiles 1.0 extensions to ‘core’ and introduces new glTF™ extensions for fine-grained metadata storage.3D Tiles was first announced at SIGGRAPH in 2015, and was published as an OGC community standard in 2019.A Community Standard is an official standard of OGC that is developed and maintained external to the OGC.The 3D Tiles v1.1 Community Standard Justification document, which details the changes in v1.1, is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.
3D Tiles enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and metaverse applications.
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March 2022 marked my 3-year anniversary at OGC! As I look back at those 3 years – 2 of which occurred during the tumultuous COVID-19...
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC API - Routes - Part 1: Core Standard and related candidate OGC Route Exchange Model Standard.The candidate OGC API - Routes Standard specifies the fundamental API building blocks for interacting with on-road route resources, and uses the Route Exchange Model to represent routes.OGC API Standards are developed in a modular way, meaning that their functionality can be added to existing web APIs as desired.Work on the OGC API - Routes Standard began in the OGC Open Routing Pilot.The candidate OGC API - Routes - Part 1: Core Standard and candidate OGC Route Exchange Model Standard are available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.
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.
New AI capabilities have reoriented and transformed GIS and Remote Sensing, providing new solutions and greatly increasing efficiency.
A version of this article originally appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of GeoConnexion Magazine under the title ‘Lowering The Barrier To Entry.’ For the last few...
The new OGC Best Practice is a guide for developers that wish to package and deploy Earth Observation (EO) Applications for a selected Exploitation Platform.“OGC has released the Best Practice for Earth Observation Application Package as a guide for application developers to ensure portability of their EO Application Packages across different cloud infrastructures,” said Günther Landgraf, Head of Digital Platforms at the European Space Agency (ESA) and co-author of the document.The Best Practice document was borne from work in OGC Testbeds 13 through 16, as well as the OGC Earth Observation Applications Pilot, which were conducted under OGCs Innovation Program.To keep up-to-date with, or contribute to, OGC’s standardization efforts surrounding EO Exploitation Platforms, join the OGC Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Domain Working Group (DWG).The OGC Best Practice for Earth Observation Application Package document is available for free from the OGC Best Practice page on ogc.org.
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.’
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.
Congratulations to Chris Little, awarded the 2021 Gardels Award for leading impactful efforts in the meteorology and geospatial science communities, including his exemplary chairing of OGC Working Groups.Left to Right: OGC Chief Standards Officer, Scott Simmons, Gardels Recipient Chris Little, and OGC CEO Nadine Alameh.At the 121st Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Member Meeting, held virtually, Chris Little was presented the OGC’s prestigious Kenneth D. Gardels Award.Chris’ skill in bridging communities exemplifies the values associated with the Gardels Award.Award nominations are made by members – the prior Gardels Award winners – and approved by the Board of Directors.
Hexagon’s long-time support of OGC and our Standards, including our family of OGC APIs, has enabled the Company to learn from, collaborate with, and support the broader geospatial community, while also improving their product offering and being one of the first to market with support for the latest generation of geospatial standards.
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 Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce that the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has strengthened its long-standing relationship with OGC by enhancing its membership level from Technical to Strategic to provide greater leadership, boost innovation, and advance geospatial data for the marine industry.As a Strategic Member, UKHO will augment its expertise and leadership offering to OGC, while providing greater access to and usage of its marine geospatial data.This includes participating in final approval decisions for all OGC standards and nominations to the Board of Directors.About the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO)The UK Hydrographic Office is a leading centre for hydrography, providing marine geospatial data to inform maritime decisions.
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.
Within the broader context of the European Strategy for Data, the Joint Research Centre (the European Commission’s science and knowledge service) is collaborating with the EU Member States...
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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 StandardsThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO/TC 211 invite software developers to the November 2021 Geospatial API Virtual Code Sprint, to be held from November 15-17, 2021, with a pre-event orientation webinar on November 9.ISO 19168-1:2020 Geospatial API for Features is the ISO version of Part 1 of OGC API - Features, which focuses on delivery of feature content.Registration for the November 2021 Geospatial API Virtual Code Sprint and its associated Pre-event Webinar is available here.For the latest information about the November 2021 Geospatial API Virtual Code Sprint, including the schedule, background information, mentorship options for newcomers, and more, please visit the November 2021 Geospatial API Code Sprint GitHub repository.Information about previous and upcoming OGC code sprints can be found on the OGC Sprint webpage on ogc.org.
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
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.
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The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the OGC Membership has approved the OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) specification for adoption as an official OGC Standard.OGC API - EDR is the latest Standard to join the growing family of OGC API Standards.OGC API - EDR is not just for accessing ‘environmental’ data but can also support more general spatio-temporal data.Implementations of the OGC API - EDR standard could be used to retrieve those values by station name rather than geographical coordinates.As with any OGC standard, the OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval standard is free to download and implement.
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.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the OGC Membership has approved the CityGML v3.0 Conceptual Model for adoption as an official OGC Standard.The CityGML 3.0 Conceptual Model Standard describes a common semantic information model for the representation of 3D urban objects.An improved information model for buildings with increased interoperability with the EU INSPIRE building information model and the OpenBIM IFC standard.However, for those looking to take advantage of the new features, existing CityGML data can be upgraded to CityGML 3.0.As with any OGC standard, the open CityGML 3.0 standard is free to download and implement.
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One of Canada's oldest government institutions, MSC, is also one to keep up with the times by using the latest technologies in its quest to help Canadians make informed decisions about their health and safety and economic prosperity.
APIs have proven to be a popular and very effective enabler of rapid software development. This is more so in web mapping, where a combination...
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The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on an update to the Simple Features Standard.In technical terms, Simple Features can model geometries which display geographic features of 1-dimension (curves) and 2-dimension (areas) defined by one-dimension boundary curves.Update of the Simple Features Standard will ultimately result in a multi-part Standard that references the OGC Features and Geometries Abstract Specification (Topic 1) and supports both static and dynamic data models.The candidate Simple Features 2021 standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by August 26, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the Simple Features 2021 Standard’s public comment request page.
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.
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New OGC DWG will identify requirements to revise or extend OGC standards for use with data concerning celestial bodies other than the Earth.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft charter for a new Planetary Domain Working Group (DWG).The objective of the Planetary DWG is to identify requirements to revise or extend OGC standards for celestial bodies other than the Earth.The OGC interoperability standards for Earth Observation data can be transposed for use with planetary data.The draft Planetary Domain Working Group charter is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.
New OGC DWG will identify requirements to revise or extend OGC standards for use with data concerning celestial bodies other than the Earth.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft Zarr Storage Specification 2.0 Community Standard.An approved OGC Community Standard is an official standard of OGC that is considered to be a widely used, mature specification, but was developed outside of OGC’s standards development and approval process.The originator of the standard brings to OGC a “snapshot” of their work that is then endorsed by OGC membership so that it can become part of the OGC Standards Baseline.The candidate Zarr Storage Specification 2.0 Community Standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by July 29, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the Zarr Storage Specification 2.0 Community Standard’s public comment request page.
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.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is considering CoverageJSON for adoption as an official OGC Community Standard.A new Work Item Justification to begin the Community Standard endorsement process is available for public comment.The CoverageJSON format supports the efficient download of useful quantities of data from datastores to lightweight clients, such as browsers and mobile applications.The candidate CoverageJSON Community Standard Work Item Justification is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by July 25, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the CoverageJSON Community Standard Work Item Justification’s public comment request page.
CoverageJSON has been demonstrated to be an effective, efficient format, friendly to web and application developers.
Using OGC standards, the Intel Geospatial platform is providing simple access to a wide range of high-quality 2D and 3D geospatial data and analytic applications for asset owners and service provider businesses that collect geospatial imagery using drones, planes, vehicles, and more.
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
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OGC and CRN will work together to develop a unique geospatial real property identifier that has applications in housing finance and beyond.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the non-profit Collateral Risk Network (CRN).Under the MoU, OGC and CRN will work together to develop a unique geospatial real property identifier (PUID) that has applications in housing finance and beyond.OGC Chief Standards Officer, Scott Simmons, commented: “OGC is encouraged by the vision CRN has for real property identifiers that take advantage of modern IT practices for better integration with users at all levels: from housing finance participants to consumers.A vibrant housing finance system is at its best when it works for all stakeholders.
OGC and CRN will work together to develop a unique geospatial real property identifier that has applications in housing finance and beyond.
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 Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft charter of the new 3D GeoVolumes Standards Working Group (SWG), which will develop and maintain an OGC API - 3D GeoVolumes core Standard and extensions.In recent years several solutions and standards have emerged to access and transfer 3D geospatial content over the internet (e.g., 3D Tiles, I3S, OGC 3D Portrayal Service, glTF, CDB, CityGML).The draft 3D GeoVolumes SWG Charter is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by May 5, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the 3D GeoVolumes SWG Draft Charter’s public comment request page.
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 last three years have been unprecedented when it comes to disasters. In 2019 alone there was billions of dollars’ worth of damage, and thousands...
Urban digital twins are not a “solved problem.” Along with increased investment in research and development, the vision demands agreed-upon methodologies and standards, new commitments to data-sharing, -privacy & -ethics, forward-looking regulations, and the development of a robust global community that is as devoted to tradecraft as it is to technology.
OGC Visiting Fellow(s) will bring diversity to OGC's technical and market thought-leadership, keeping the Consortium responsive and proactive to our community's - and wider society's - needs.
V1.3 is a minor update to GeoPackage, the open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved and published the latest version of the GeoPackage Standard, v1.3.0.GeoPackage version 1.3.0 is a minor revision to the current version 1.2.1.As with any OGC standard, the open GeoPackage standard is free to download and implement.Interested parties can view the standard on the OGC GeoPackage Standard Page.
V1.3 is a minor update to GeoPackage, the open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has added Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) 1.0.0 to the OGC Standards Baseline as a Community Standard.Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) makes it possible for anyone to create indoor map apps and services using the same highly accurate and detailed data on any app, website, or operating system.Now an OGC Community Standard, Indoor Mapping Data Format provides a mobile-friendly, compact, human-readable, temporally aware, highly extensible data model for any indoor space, providing a basis for orientation, navigation, and discovery.An OGC Community Standard is an official standard of OGC that was already available as a widely used, mature specification, but was developed outside of OGC’s standards development and approval process.As with any OGC standard, the Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) OGC Community Standard is free to download and implement.
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.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on a revision to the OGC API - Processes Standards Working Group (SWG) Charter, which introduces new work items for the SWG.The OGC API - Processes SWG is the group within the OGC membership responsible for the development and maintenance of the OGC API - Processes core standard and its extensions, as well as for maintaining the WPS standard.Part 3: Workflows and ChainingThis extension will provide the ability to:chain nested processes,refer to external processes and collections accessible via OGC API standards, andtrigger execution of processes through OGC API data delivery specifications (such as OGC API - Features, Tiles, Maps and Coverages).The draft OGC API - Processes Standards Working Group Charter is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by March 8, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the OGC API - Processes SWG Charter public comment request page.
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.
Over three years ago, a small group of OGC members working on the next version of the venerable Web Feature Service (WFS) standard started the...
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 Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft updated charter for the CDB Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose of the CDB SWG is to maintain and improve the OGC CDB Standard and Best Practices documents.The modeling & simulation end-user community increasingly requires “plug and play” synthetic environment database re-use and a common synthetic environment local representation to enhance realism and “fair fight” concepts in military simulation.Continued development of CDB X, a major revision to the OGC CDB Standard.Comments are due by the 2nd of February, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the CDB SWG re-charter public comment request page.
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.
A key goal for the development of the CityGML Conceptual Model is to provide a common definition of the basic entities, attributes, and relations of a semantically rich 3D city model.CityGML 3.0 keeps key concepts of the previous version and makes the implementation of CityGML more versatile.The CityGML 3.0 Conceptual Model is a Platform Independent Model (PIM).The candidate CityGML 3.0 Conceptual Model is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by the 28th of January, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the CityGML 3.0 Conceptual Model’s public comment request page.
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
The OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) candidate standard enables end-users to easily identify and retrieve a subset of data from ‘big data’ storesThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites developers to its next virtual Code Sprint, which will focus on refining the OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval candidate standard.The OGC API - EDR Sprint 2 virtual event will be held on November 9-10, 2020, from 9:00am 5:30pm US Eastern.Registration for the OGC API - EDR Sprint #2 and a pre-event Webinar is here.A major objective of this second OGC API - EDR Sprint is to enable full interoperability of all existing, and new, client and server implementations that support the OGC API – EDR candidate standard.Registration for the OGC API - EDR Sprint and its associated Pre-event Webinar is here.
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
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 Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the draft Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) before seeking adoption as a Community Standard.An OGC Community Standard is an official standard of OGC that was already available as a widely used, mature specification, but was developed outside of OGC’s standards development and approval process.The candidate Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) Community Standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by November 18, 2020, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) Community Standard’s public comment request page.
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.
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.
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.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the international consortium driving the creation and adoption of open geospatial standards, and Open Design Alliance (ODA), the leading provider of CAD and BIM interoperability solutions, announced today a strategic partnership to promote and strengthen the use of open standards for the location and geospatial industries.OGC’s leadership in creating open standards forms a natural synergy with ODA’s expertise in standards implementation.The partnership between OGC and ODA is intended to develop and strengthen this synergy to the benefit of both organizations and the broader community.“OGC and ODA have complementary efforts to achieve data interoperability,” said Nadine Alameh, OGC CEO.
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.
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The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval Standard.The OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval (OGC API - EDR) standard uses current web technologies and best practices to enable end-users – or anyone with web development experience – to easily identify and retrieve a subset of data from ‘big data’ stores.For some extra background information on the OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval standard, read this blog post created after the EDR API Sprint held in March, 2020: ‘The OGC Environmental Data Retrieval API: simple access to big data.’ For more information on the OGC API family of standards, visit ogcapi.ogc.org.The candidate OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by September 28, 2020, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval Standard’s public comment request page.
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
The popular Zarr storage specification provides an ideal format for analysis-ready geospatial data in the cloudThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is considering the Zarr v2 Storage Specification for adoption as an official OGC Community Standard.A new Work Item justification to begin the Community Standard endorsement process is available for public comment.An approved OGC Community Standard is an official standard of OGC that is considered to be a widely used, mature specification, but was developed outside of OGC’s standards development and approval process.The proposed Zarr community standard work item justification is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by 11th September, 2020, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the Zarr community standard work item justification’s public comment request page.
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.
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.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites Earth Observation (EO) application developers and EO data platform operators to a free Earth Observation Applications-to-the-Data architecture presentation webinar on September 8, 2020.This webinar aims to present to EO application developers and EO platform operators the work that has been undertaken by OGC, ESA, and Natural Resources Canada.Implementers will share experiences and lessons learned on how to best exploit Big EO data stores and how to enable externally developed applications as additional services on EO platforms.Registration for the Earth Observation Applications-to-the-Data architecture presentation webinar is FREE and available here.
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.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft updated charter for the OGC GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group (SWG).Since the release of GeoSPARQL in 2012, there has been growth of both the Semantic Web and spatial information represented in Semantic Web form, with GeoSPARQL being widely used for spatial Semantic Web data.The draft charter for the OGC GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by August 6, 2020, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the OGC GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group Draft Charter public comment request page.Participation in the GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group is one of the many benefits of becoming an OGC Member.
OGC Standards Working Group will provide a major update to a key standard for representing and querying spatial data on the Semantic Web.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core as an official OGC Standard.Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) is a data model, a programming interface, and a storage model for keeping and managing data.By working with the HDF Group to define the OGC HDF5 Core standard, OGC has created a rigorous, unambiguous, definition of what HDF5 is.HDF5 is already in use by the OGC community: OGC’s NetCDF Enhanced Data Model (OGC 11-038r2) can be fully described by the HDF5 data model because its storage format is also HDF5.As with any OGC standard, the open Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core standard is free to download and implement.
HDF5 provides a flexible, extensible, and efficient data model, programming interface, and storage model for keeping and managing spatial data.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft charter for the new OGC Routing Standards Working Group (SWG).The Routing SWG will develop and maintain an OGC API - Routes core standard and extensions, plus a related route exchange model for sharing routes.Draft specifications for a routing API and route exchange model were successfully demonstrated in the OGC Open Routing API Pilot, the OGC Smart City Interoperability Reference Architecture (SCIRA) Pilot, and other efforts.The draft charter for the OGC Routing Standards Working Group is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by the 2nd of July, 2020, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the OGC Routing Standards Working Group Draft Charter public comment request page.
New OGC Working Group will develop an API to request, retrieve, and share routes, regardless of the underlying data, routing engine software, and algorithms.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on Version 1.1 of the OGC SensorThings API, Part 1 - Sensing.The OGC SensorThings API provides an open, geospatially enabled, unified way to interconnect Internet of Things (IoT) devices, data, and applications over the web.At a high level, the OGC SensorThings API provides two main functionalities, with each function handled by a specific part of the standard: Sensing and Tasking.The candidate ‘SensorThings API Part 1 - Sensing’ v1.1 standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.For anyone interested in learning more about the SensorThings API, the SensorThings API Domain Working Group chair, Steve Liang, recently presented an overview of SensorThings, including how it’s being used during COVID-19.
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.
FAA upgrades to OGC’s highest level of membership to help drive standards and shape development priorities relevant to aviationThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce that the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has raised its membership level from Technical to Strategic – OGC’s highest level of membership.FAA will also participate in final approval decisions for all OGC standards and nominations to the Board of Directors.Further, FAA will work with other Strategic Members as part of an OGC Strategic Member Advisory Committee to help identify and advance high priority areas of interoperability concern.OGC CEO Nadine Alameh commented “Its great to see the FAA joining other OGC Strategic Members to lead the way in making location information Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR).OGC members together form a global forum of experts and communities that use location to connect people with technology and improve decision-making at all levels.
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.Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the latest version of the GeoPackage Standard, v1.3.0.GeoPackage is an open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information.GeoPackage version 1.3.0 is a minor revision to the current version 1.2.1.The candidate GeoPackage version 1.3 standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal or GeoPackage GitHub page.
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.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) invite interested stakeholders to participate in a W3C/OGC Joint Workshop Series on Maps for the Web, in September & October, 2020.Contributors are needed to help build new web standards for maps in the browser.These 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.Participants in this workshop series, as in all W3C activities, are expected to follow the W3C code of ethics and professional conduct.
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.
The purpose of the Standards Working Group is to develop and maintain an OGC API - Styles core standard as well as extensions to that standard.For providers of styles, OGC API - Styles will provide a uniform means to publish and offer those styles as resources for use by other systems.OGC members who can share their expertise regarding OGC API - Styles are invited to participate in the Working Group.Visit the ‘OGC API - Styles’ Standards Working Group homepage for more information on the group, including how to participate.Visit OGC’s Domain Working Group and Standards Working Group pages to learn about other standards activities happening in OGC.
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 Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), an OGC Strategic Member, are requesting information to support the Modernizing SDI: Enabling Data Interoperability for Regional Assessments and Cumulative Effects Concept Development Study (Modernizing SDI CDS).Responses to the Request For Information (RFI) are due May 29, 2020.The Modernizing SDI CDS seeks to provide solutions to the challenge of inter-jurisdictional data interoperability within a rapidly evolving digital environment.Such technologies could include, but are not limited to:OpenAPIsMachine-learning/reasoningData fabrics, data lakesCloud environments and servicesBlockchainsA key input into this research is this Request For Information (RFI), a survey/questionnaire asking data providers, data users, and geospatial data solution providers for information about the current state of spatial data infrastructure(s) around the world.Responses to the Request for Information (RFI) are requested by May 29, 2020.
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.
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 Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is in the process of ratifying Apple’s Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) as a Community Standard.IMDF enables many use cases such as multi-level indoor mapping, indoor way-finding, indoor routing, hyper-local search, and indoor positioning.About OGC Community StandardsAn OGC Community Standard is an official standard of OGC that was already available as a widely used, mature specification, but was developed outside of OGC’s standards development and approval process.The Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) Community Standard Work Item Justification is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.
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.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites developers to participate in the Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) API Sprint, held from 18-20 March, 2020, at the NOAA/NWS facilities in Silver Spring, MD, USA.The EDR API Sprint is a follow-up to the successful MetOcean Weather and Oceans APIs Hack, and will focus on emerging standards for a data-centric Environmental Data Retrieval API.The EDR API SWG and MetOcean DWG have been developing a set of stable data APIs, defined with OpenAPI, to retrieve common data patterns from a relatively persistent data store.For more information on the Sprint, including details concerning registration and attendance, visit the Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) API Sprint page on the OGC website.
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.
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 v1.1 of the OGC I3S Community Standard include:Addition of the Point Cloud Scene Layer (PCSL) type.Version 1.0 of I3S was approved by the OGC Membership as an OGC Community Standard in 2017.As with any OGC standard, the open I3S Community Standard is free to download and implement.Interested parties can view and download the standard from OGC’s I3S Community Standard Page.
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.
New Working Group will create stable, standardized, service APIs based on simple data retrieval patterns, which will improve access to environmental data and information.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) today announced the formation of the Environmental Data Retrieval API Standards Working Group (SWG).The Environmental Data Retrieval API SWG will standardize several APIs, defined using OpenAPI Version 3, to retrieve various common data patterns from a data store.A goal of the SWG is that these standardized APIs will be consistent with the strategic direction established by OGC members for OGC API standards, such as OGC API - Features and the emerging OGC API - Common.Visit OGC’s Domain Working Group and Standards Working Group pages to learn about other standards activities happening in OGC.
New Working Group will create stable, standardized, service APIs based on simple data retrieval patterns, which will improve access to environmental data and information.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces the formation of the GeoPose Standards Working Group (SWG).Participants in this new OGC SWG will focus on developing a standard for geographically-anchored poses (aka GeoPoses) with six degrees of freedom referenced to one or more standardized Coordinate Reference Systems.OGC members who can share their expertise regarding GeoPoses are invited to participate in the GeoPose Standards Working Group.Visit the OGC GeoPose SWG home page or contact info [at] ogc.org for more information on the group, including how to participate.Visit OGC’s Domain Working Group and Standards Working Group pages to learn about other standards activities happening in OGC.
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 OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set standard defines the rules and requirements for a two dimensional tile matrix set as a way to index space using a set of regular grids defining a domain (tile matrix) for a limited list of scales in a Coordinate Reference System (CRS), as defined in OGC Abstract Specification Topic 2: Spatial Referencing by Coordinates.The OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set standard frees the concept of a tile matrix set from the WMTS standard so that other standards can reference the concept directly.The standard includes the concepts of a tile matrix set and tile matrix set limits as well as their implementation in 2D space and describes an XML and JSON encoding.Used in combination with tile matrix set limits, this reduces the need for user defined tile matrix sets.As with any OGC standard, the open Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set standard is free to download and implement.
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 objective of this workshop is to understand the exact requirements of application developers in terms of data discovery, data loading, data processing, and result delivery.Phase 2 invites EO platform operators to implement the OGC Earth Observation Applications Pilot architecture as it has been defined in previous IP initiatives.The Earth Observation Applications Pilot is being conducted under OGC’s Innovation Program, the research and development (R&D) laboratory of OGC.More information on the Pilot, including the official Call for Participation, is available on the Earth Observation Applications Pilot Webpage.OGC members together form a global forum of experts and communities that use location to connect people with technology and improve decision-making at all levels.
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”
What partnerships or collaborative projects can OGC members establish or expand to inform and advance interoperable AR?How will OGC members benefit from their collaborative or parallel activities within OGC and with/in other organizations to reduce barriers to widespread interoperable AR experiences?If you’re Interested in speaking at this event, please propose a topic via the OGC Augmented Reality Summit Speaker Proposal Form.For more information on the OGC November 2019 AR Summit, including how to register, visit the OGC November 2019 AR Summit event page on the OGC website.OGC members together form a global forum of experts and communities that use location to connect people with technology and improve decision-making at all levels.
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
The GeoTIFF 1.1 standard formalizes the existing GeoTIFF specification version 1.0 by integrating it into OGC’s standardization process.Approval of this GeoTIFF 1.1 standard begins the process of integration of the GeoTIFF standard into other parts of OGC’s standardization process.The Libgeotiff development version (future version 1.6.0) and the GDAL development version (future version 3.1.0) both support this GeoTIFF 1.1 version.As with any OGC standard, the open GeoTiff 1.1 standard is free to download and implement.Interested parties can view and download the standard on the OGC’s GeoTIFF Standard Page.
Vector Tiles Pilot, Phase 2 will advance interoperability for vector tiles using established OGC standards and the latest OGC APIs - and help geospatial enterprises create custom maps for seamless online/offline use.After a successful Vector Tiles Pilot in 2018, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites developers to its Vector Tiles Pilot, Phase 2 (VTP-2).Under OGC’s Innovation Program, sponsors and OGC members come together to address geospatial IT challenges in an agile and cooperative manner.More information on the Pilot, including the Call for Participation, is available on the OGC Vector Tiles Pilot Phase 2 Initiative Webpage.OGC members together form a global forum of experts and communities that use location to connect people with technology and improve decision-making at all levels.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft charter for the new Environmental Data Retrieval API Standards Working Group (SWG).The Environmental Data Retrieval API SWG will standardize some APIs, defined with OpenAPI Version 3, to retrieve various common data patterns from a data store.Much environmental data is truly Big Data, in that it cannot be readily copied and distributed in sensible timescales for many uses.A goal of the SWG is that these standardized APIs will be consistent with the strategic direction established by OGC members for OGC API standards, such as OGC API - Features and the future OGC API - Common.Comments are due by the 19th September 2019 and should be submitted via the method outlined on the Environmental Data Retrieval API Standards Working Group draft charter request page.
The Geopose SWG will work towards a standard that will provide an interoperable way to express, record, and share the location, position, and orientation of objectsThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft charter for the new Geopose Standards Working Group (SWG).An object with a geopose may be any real physical object.The Geopose Standards Working Group draft charter is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by 5th September 2019 and should be submitted via the method outlined on the Geopose Standards Working Group draft charter request page.OGC’s member-driven consensus process creates royalty free, publicly available geospatial standards.
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.
Minor revision to GeoTIFF enables the use of newer coordinate reference systems and aligns it with OGC’s standardization process.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on v1.1 of the GeoTIFF standard.The GeoTIFF v1.1 standard formalizes the existing GeoTIFF specification version 1.0 by integrating it into OGC’s standardization process.The candidate GeoTiff standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.OGC standards empower technology developers to make location information and services accessible and useful within any application that needs to be location-aware.
Vector Tiles are an efficient way to package geographic data into roughly-square shaped tiles with many benefits, including fast loading and flexible styling.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the Engineering Reports and demonstration videos documenting the outcomes and achievements of its Vector Tiles Pilot have been published and are freely available.The Vector Tiles Pilot ran from July 2018 to February 2019 and aimed to advance an OGC approach to encode and publish Vector Tiles based on industry best practices, as well as propose extensions for existing OGC standards and emerging OGC APIs.In all, there are 6 Engineering Reports documenting the various outcomes of the Vector Tiles Pilot:The Engineering Reports are available for free from OGC’s Public Engineering Report Repository.Further information on the outcomes of the Vector Tiles Pilot, including videos and direct links to the engineering reports, is available on the OGC Vector Tiles Pilot web page.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested members & non-members to solicit proposals and participate in the combined OGC Disaster Resilience Pilot (DRP-2019) & GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-10) Initiative.The work from the study will soon be published as the OGC Development of Disaster Spatial Data Infrastructures for Disaster Resilience report.The goal of GEOSS is to increase understanding of Earth processes and enhance prediction of the behavior of Earth’s natural systems.The GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP) develops and deploys new process and infrastructure components for the broader GEOSS architecture or community.The OGC Disaster Resilience Pilot (DRP-2019) & GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-10) Initiative Call For Participation contains more information on the Initiative, including how to participate.
Visionary experts from Defense, Utilities, First Responders, and more will lead panels concerning the automation of workflows that bring 3D/4D geospatial content to users at ‘the edge’The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites you to its ‘Mixed Reality to the Edge’ Workshop at SOFWERX in Tampa, FL, on April 30, 2019.The OGC Website has further information on the Mixed Reality to the Edge Concept Development Study.For the latest information on the workshop, visit the Mixed Reality To The Edge Workshop event page.Registration for the workshop is free but mandatory, as places are limited, so register for the Mixed Reality To The Edge Workshop today.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
Pilot will advance an implementation model, architecture, and prototypes for sharing Maritime Limits and Boundaries information.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested members & non-members to participate in OGC’s Maritime Limits and Boundaries Pilot.States that adhere to UNCLOS are required to communicate officially the representation of their maritime limits and boundaries.To support the dissemination of this information, the International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO) developed the S-121 Maritime Limits and Boundaries standard.To access The Maritime Limits and Boundaries Pilot Call For Participation or learn more about this Initiative, please visit the the Maritime Limits and Boundaries Pilot Initiative webpage or contact techdesk [at] opengeospatial.org.
Extension to and Profile for WCS 2.1 will enable MetOcean community to efficiently query and access required data contained in datacubesThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the MetOcean profile and extensions to WCS 2.1.The Meteorological and Oceanography (MetOcean) community works with massive datacubes of content organized in 4-dimensional space and time.The community has developed a new profile and two new extensions to WCS 2.1 to address MetOcean requirements.The MetOcean Profile fully exploits the multi-dimensional nature of WCS2.1, which is built on the new OGC Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) 1.1.The candidate MetOcean profile and extensions to WCS 2.1 is available for review and comment on the MetOcean profile and extensions to WCS 2.1 request page.
This part of the Testbed-15 solicitation allows interested and eligible parties to join those Testbed-15 activities that are sponsored by ESAThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces that the European Space Agency (ESA) has released the Open Invitation To Tender OGC Testbed 15 - ESA Sponsored Threads - Exploitation Platform.This tender allows interested and eligible parties to join those Testbed-15 activities that are sponsored by ESA.It complements the OGC Testbed-15 Call for Participation released in January.The ESA ITT is available on EMITS (AO700000 under the Telespazio Vega UK entity).OGC standards support interoperable solutions that ‘geo-enable’ the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) proudly announces new Consortium leadership, effective 1 March 2019.“The Board of Directors is excited to announce the OGC leadership”, said The Honorable Jeffrey K. Harris, Chairman of OGC.About OGCThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of more than 525 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.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 within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested organizations to respond to the Call for Participation (CFP) for OGC’s Testbed-15 Innovation Initiative.Participants’ prototype solutions will implement existing OGC standards as well as new prototype interface and encoding specifications introduced or developed in Testbed-15.Prototype specifications may ultimately become official, member approved OGC standards, revisions to existing OGC standards, or best practices for using OGC standards.Previous OGC Innovation Initiatives have helped transformed how we share and use geospatial information, from advancing the sharing of digital maps over the web (e.g.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that ‘geo-enable’ the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
Study will explore the convergence of real world data with virtual 3d/4d environments for mobile and disconnected users.Standards enable governments, non-governmental organizations, private industry, and citizens to better and more cost-effectively transform and integrate 3d/4d geospatial content into actionable information for decision makers at all levels.The OGC Website has further information on the Mixed Reality to the Edge Concept Development Study.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 within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites you to attend its 110th Technical and Planning Committee Meeting, which will be sponsored by the Singapore Land Authority and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore and held at the National University of Singapore from 25 February to 1 March 2019.The purpose of OGC Technical and Planning Committee Meetings is to network, knowledge share, and advance the development of open geospatial standards.To enjoy access to all the standards meetings on offer during the week you will need to be an OGC member.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 within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
Disasters Pilot will benefit all disaster stakeholders through improved access to the expanding sphere of online disaster-related geographic information.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking additional sponsors to support the OGC Disasters Pilot.The Disasters Pilot will run as an OGC Innovation Program initiative that aims to help all disaster stakeholders benefit from improved access to the expanding sphere of online disaster-related geographic information.By sponsoring the Disasters Pilot, organizations will share, with other like-minded organizations, the costs associated with development, engineering, and demonstration of these outcomes.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is requesting information to help shape the Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Concept Development Study (MSDI- CDS), which will assess the current state of data management and exchange technologies used in the marine domain.Demand for the marine geospatial data collected and managed by organizations supporting, operating within, or researching this domain is increasing, due to a growing user-base with a variety of new applications.The purpose of this Concept Development Study is to bring together the marine and broader geospatial standards communities to guide future OGC Innovation Program partnership activities by:Engaging executive-level participants to understand the most important challengesEngaging different marine geospatial data stakeholders (i.e.To learn more about the study, visit the Marine SDI Concept Development Study page on the OGC website.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
Additionally, NRCan will now participate in final approval decisions for all OGC standards and nominations to the Board of Directors.www.nrcan.gc.caNRCan has been a key proponent in the development of Canadian geospatial data infrastructure as well as the development of international open geospatial standards.Grâce à ce travail novateur et à son leadership, RNCan participera maintenant à l’OGC à titre de membre stratégique .De plus, RNCan participera désormais aux décisions d’approbation finale pour toutes les normes de l’OGC et les nominations au conseil d’administration.Le Ministère est un chef de file établi dans les domaines de l’énergie, des forêts et des minéraux et métaux.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core Standard.Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) is a data model, a programming interface, and a storage model for keeping and managing data.The candidate OGC HDF5 Core standard defines the HDF5 data model to allow implementers to develop HDF5 content and tools using the HDF5 or other storage models and programming interfaces.HDF5 is already in use by the OGC community: OGC’s NetCDF Enhanced Data Model (OGC 11-038r2) can be fully described by the HDF5 data model because its storage format is also HDF5.The candidate OGC Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.
Extension to and Profile for WCS 2.1 will enable MetOcean community to efficiently query and access required data contained in datacubes.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the MetOcean profile and extensions to WCS 2.1.The Meteorological and Oceanography (MetOcean) community works with massive datacubes of content organized in 4-dimensional space and time.The MetOcean Profile fully exploits the multi-dimensional nature of WCS2.1, which is built on the new OGC Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) 1.1.The candidate MetOcean profile and extensions to WCS 2.1 is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.
Location Powers: ‘Data, Interoperability and our Urban World’ will occur in Singapore 25-26 September 2018.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces the full agenda for its next Location Powers event, which will focus on Data, Interoperability and our Urban World.The ‘Data, Interoperability and our Urban World’ Location Powers event will occur on 25-26 September 2018, with the Integrated Digital Built Environment (IDBE) meetings on 26-27 September.Full agenda, venue, and registration information is available on the Location Powers website.Event details:Website: www.locationpowers.net / #LPUrbanEnviroWhen: 25-27 September 2018Where: GeoWorks, 460 Alexandra Road, Singapore, 119963About Location PowersThe Location Powers Summits are provided by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), whose members have been making the world’s location standards for over 20 years.
Location Powers: ‘Data, Interoperability and our Urban World’ will occur in Singapore 25-26 September 2018.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces its next Location Powers event, which will focus on Data, Interoperability and our Urban World.The ‘Data, Interoperability and our Urban World’ Location Powers event will occur on 25-26 September 2018, with the Integrated Digital Built Environment (IDBE) meetings on 26-27 September.If you’re interested in speaking or attending, please use the contact form at the bottom of the Location Powers website.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that ‘geo-enable’ the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
OGC’s 15th Testbed will use current technology trends to improve the way geospatial information is accessed and sharedThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued a call for sponsors for its latest innovative interoperability initiative, Testbed 15.The OGC Innovation Program provides a venue to advance solutions for modeling, finding, accessing, analyzing, and visualizing geospatial data through using open standards.the world-wide use OGC standards in disaster management).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 within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
Pilot will further an implementation model, architecture, and prototypes for sharing Maritime Limits and Boundaries information.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued a call for sponsors for a Maritime Limits and Boundaries Pilot.These maritime zones are established in law by their geographic limits and where such limit is delimiting two neighbouring States, this limit is described as a maritime boundary, hence the term Maritime Limits and Boundaries.Benefits to Sponsors of the OGC Maritime Limits and Boundaries Pilot include:Influence the technology with specific requirements and advance market solutions (models and implementation) related to maritime limits and boundaries.For more information about this Pilot, contact Luis Bermudez, Executive Director Innovation Program lbermudez [at] opengeospatial.org, or visit the Maritime Limits and Boundaries Pilot webpage.
ESA will also participate in final approval decisions for all OGC standards and nominations to the Board of Directors.Earth Observation information is vital to decision making to address a range of social, environmental and economic challenges.About OGCThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of more than 525 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.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 within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks comments on the candidate CDB version 1.1 standard.CDB version 1.1 is a minor revision and is fully backwards compatible with Version 1.0.A detailed description of the changes to the CDB standard can be found in the CDB 1.1 release notes.The candidate OGC CDB Version 1.1 Standard is available for review and comment by downloading this zip file from the OGC Portal.Comments are due by 30 April 2018 and should be submitted via the method outlined on the CDB Version 1.1 requests page.
This new OGC CDS is the first step in improving the way that geospatial data is visually represented in web mapsThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces the Portrayal Concept Development Study (CDS).Additionally, the poor presentation of spatial data creates a negative perception of data quality, spatial data infrastructures, and web standards alike.The Portrayal CDS is looking to the OGC membership and beyond to help define the future direction of portrayal and digital cartographic practices within the OGC and beyond.About OGCThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of more than 525 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
OGC’s 14th Testbed aims to explore new levels of interoperable geospatial data processing using core Web principlesThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested organizations to respond to the Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC Testbed 14 Interoperability Testbed.Organizations selected to participate in Testbed 14 will develop prototype solutions based on the sponsors’ use cases, requirements and scenarios.Participants’ prototype solutions will implement existing OGC standards as well as new prototype interface and encoding specifications introduced or developed in Testbed 14.Prototype specifications may ultimately become official, member approved OGC standards, revisions to existing OGC standards, or best practices for using OGC standards.Anyone interested in learning more about, or participating in, Testbed 14 should contact Scott Serich, Director Innovation Programs (techdesk [at] opengeospatial.org).
Joint OGC and W3C Pilot project will propose standards to unite Augmented Reality, Web, and Geospatial technologies.(Image from Wikitude)The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), together are calling for sponsors for an upcoming Augmented Reality (AR) Pilot Project that seeks to advance W3C and OGC standards related to Augmented Reality.The OGC and W3C AR Pilot Project aims to help solve these problems.A video about the benefits of the OGC Innovation Program is available here.Benefits to Sponsors of the W3C OGC AR Pilot include:Assess and affect market direction based on your and other sponsor organisations’ needs.
OGC Plugfest will advance, test, and validate the interoperability of geospatial software that implements specific profiles of open standards.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is calling for interested participants in its ‘Geospatial to the Edge’ Interoperability Plugfest.OGC Plugfests, initiatives of the OGC Innovation Program, provide a venue for sponsors and technology implementers to come together to solve geospatial interoperability challenges in a collaborative, agile process.A plugfest is organized around scenarios and a testing environment to advance the implementation of OGC standards and profiles of OGC standards in commercial and open source software products.The ‘Geospatial to the Edge’ Interoperability Plugfest is co-sponsored by Army Geospatial Center and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA/CIO&T).
The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the 3D Portrayal Service (3DPS) 1.0 standard.Viewing 3D geospatial content from diverse sources has just become easier with the release of the new OGC 3DPS standard.The 3DPS standard describes how a client and service negotiate what is to be delivered and in which manner, to enable interoperable 3D portrayal.An important aspect of the 3DPS standard is that the portrayal service is optimized to best operate with the abilities of the client.As with any OGC standard, the open 3D Portrayal Service 1.0 standard is free to download and implement.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces a Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Related Tables Extension Interoperability Experiment (GPKG-RTE IE).Compusult has proposed a Related Tables extension to the OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard (12-128r14).The GeoPackage Standards Working Group (SWG) proposes to validate this extension by running an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Interoperability Experiment (IE).An OGC Interoperability Experiment is a rapid, low overhead, formally structured activity in which members achieve specific technical objectives that further the OGC Standards Baseline.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that ‘geo-enable’ the Web, wireless and location based services, and mainstream IT.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces a Call for Participation in a simulated disaster response exercise that will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina on September 7th, 2017, during the Disaster Risk Reduction (DDR) Across the Americas Summit.La convocatoria de participación está disponible en: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/158 y el registro se realiza a través de la página principal de la cumbre.Los estándares de OGC soportan soluciones interoperables que geo-habilitan los servicios basados en la Web, inalámbricos, de ubicación, y corrientes principales de las tecnologías de información.Los estándares de OGC capacitan a los desarrolladores de tecnología para que la información y los servicios geoespaciales sean accesibles y útiles con cualquier aplicación que necesite ser habilitada geoespacialmente.Visite el sitio web de OGC en www.opengeospatial.org.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking public comment on the candidate InfraGML 1.0: Part 7 – LandInfra Land Division - Encoding Standard.The candidate OGC InfraGML Encoding standards define the implementation-dependent, GML encoding of concepts supporting land and civil engineering infrastructure facilities.InfraGML is a GML implementation of the OGC Land and Infrastructure Conceptual Model Standard (LandInfra).The Candidate OGC InfraGML 1.0: Part 7 – LandInfra Land Division - Encoding Standard is available for review and comment at https://portal.ogc.org/files/73435.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®) announces Dr Luis Bermudez as the new Executive Director of its Innovation Program.Continuing OGC’s leadership in advancing geospatial information, OGC is pleased to announce Dr. Luis Bermudez as the new Executive Director of OGC’s Innovation Program (previously the Interoperability Program).The Innovation Program provides a collaborative agile process for advancing geospatial technologies: Innovation Program Initiatives like testbeds, pilots and plugfests help develop, test, and validate technologies that lead to open standards for advancing geospatial information interoperability and innovation.Luis recently composed a blog post on Innovation Principles , which outlines how the Innovation Program embraces core fundamentals that enable the development of ‘net technology and the advancement of open standards.Dr. Bermudez has demonstrated experience and skill in guiding and shaping OGC program activities to remain agile with the rapid market and technology changes that are commonplace today.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking public comment on the candidate standard GRIB2 Coverage, an Encoding Profile of the OGC Coverage Implementation Schema.The candidate standard specifies the usage of the GRIB2 data format for the encoding of OGC coverages.The GRIB2 Coverage Encoding Profile is based on the authoritative format specification available in the WMO Manual on Codes.The candidate GML Application Schema – Coverages, GRIB2 Coverage Encoding Profile is available for review and comment at https://portal.ogc.org/files/68769.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved GeoSciML as an OGC Standard.The OGC GeoSciML Standard defines a model and encoding for geological features commonly described and portrayed in geological maps, cross sections, geological reports, and databases.This standard describes a logical model and GML/XML encoding rules for geological map data, geological time scales, boreholes, and metadata for laboratory analyses.“Earlier versions of GeoSciML have been used for several years by geological data sharing projects around the world when GeoSciML was only an IUGS (International Union of Geological Sciences) standard.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location based services, and mainstream IT.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Common Object Model Container (COMC) Standards Working Group (SWG).The core philosophy behind the COMC SWG is that a user should be able to publish and retrieve data in the format most suitable for that user.Delivery of data to the end user would then occur using the most appropriate OGC web service for the data and users needs.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.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites interested organizations to respond to Part 2 - ESA Thematic Exploitation Platform.The overall Testbed 13 Call for Participation (CFP) is provided in two parts, a general call referred to as “Part 1 CFP” (see http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/2525) and a specialized call referred to as ‘Part 2 ITT’.A Testbed 13 Bidders Q&A Webinar will be held on Tuesday, 7 February 2017 at noon US Eastern Standard Time.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.
For the most up to date details on the OGC Testbed 13 CFP please see the CFP page http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/154 **The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites interested organizations to respond to the just released Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC Testbed 13 Interoperability Testbed.Organizations selected to participate in Testbed 13 will develop prototype solutions based on the sponsors’ use cases, requirements and scenarios.Participants’ prototype solutions will implement existing OGC standards as well as new prototype interface and encoding specifications introduced or developed in Testbed 13.Prototype specifications may ultimately become official, member approved OGC standards, revisions to existing OGC standards, or best practices for using OGC 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 membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on its candidate InfraGML standards.The candidate OGC InfraGML Encoding standards define the implementation-dependent, GML encoding of concepts supporting land and civil engineering infrastructure facilities.The Parts of InfraGML are as follows:Part 0: LandInfra Core Encoding StandardPart 1: LandInfra Land Features Encoding StandardPart 2: LandInfra Facilities and Projects Encoding StandardPart 3: LandInfra Alignments Encoding StandardPart 4: LandInfra Roads Encoding StandardPart 5: LandInfra Railways Encoding StandardPart 6: LandInfra Survey Encoding StandardThe Candidate OGC InfraGML encoding Standards are available for review and comment at https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=72352.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.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) requests comments on the charter for a proposed Quality of Service and Experience (QoSE) Domain Working Group (DWG).Spatial data now plays a critical role in the smooth functioning of contemporary society.The closely related fields of Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) deal with estimating, reporting, and improving the experienced quality of communication between the components of distributed systems to inform the SDI users of the suitability of the service for the users’ needs.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.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling for public participation in its newly-established Land Administration Domain Working Group (Land Admin DWG).Worldwide, effective and efficient land administration is an ongoing concern, as only a small number of nations have mature land information systems, and few others have some for of land administration capability in place.Location is a crucial aspect of land administration, and OGC’s experience in solving spatial interoperability issues makes it well suited to provide guidance and insight to nations looking to establish or overhaul land administration systems.The OGC is looking for interested parties to assist the Land Admin DWG in achieving these goals.Details on the Land Admin Domain Working Group can be found at: URL, with the charter available at: https://portal.ogc.org/files/68770.
Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) recently approved the release of 7 draft public OGC Engineering Reports, products of the recently completed OGC Interoperability Testbed 12 Aviation Thread.Asynchronous Messaging - OGC web services are primarily request-reply services, which require specific interaction by an end user.While OGC Engineering Reports are not standards, the information they contain is intended to be useful to developers and implementers of OGC standards.The draft Testbed 12 Aviation Engineering Reports are available at docs.opengeospatial.org/per/, and include:Aviation Architecture Engineering ReportCatalog Services for AviationAsynchronous Messaging for AviationAviation Semantics Engineering ReportFIXM GML Engineering ReportSBVR Engineering ReportData Broker Engineering ReportThe final versions of the reports will be published in the coming weeks.Contact the OGC to learn more about OGC Testbeds and how your organization can become a sponsor or technology provider participant of OGC Testbed 13.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and sponsors, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), in collaboration with the Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure Participants, announce a Request for Quotation (RFQ) and Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC Interoperability Program’s Arctic Spatial Data Pilot Phase-2 (Arctic SDP) initiative.The purpose of this Request for Quotation and Call for Participation is to solicit proposals in response to a set of requirements for the OGC Arctic Spatial Data Pilot Interoperability Program (IP) initiative.The goal of the OGC Arctic Spatial Data Pilot is to demonstrate the power and efficiency of distributed online environments for the exchange of geospatial Arctic data.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.
Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Land Administration Domain Working Group (DWG).Worldwide, effective and efficient land administration is an ongoing concern.Key is the ability of land administration frameworks to support the regulatory and policy environments that are often unique to individual jurisdictions and nations.The draft DWG charter defines the role for OGC activities related to land administration, and is available for review at portal.ogc.org/files/68353.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location based services, and mainstream IT.
24 February 2016 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) requests information to help advance the “Arctic Spatial Data Pilot”.The Arctic Spatial Data Pilot is an OGC Interoperability Program initiative sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey and Natural Resources Canada.An open Arctic SDI will be essential infrastructure for widespread Arctic geospatial data discovery, sharing, integration and commerce to support many different communities of interest.This OGC Arctic Spatial Data Pilot Request for Information (RFI) will help the U.S. Geological Survey and Natural Resources Canada collect information to demonstrate the diversity, richness and value of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Web services that can be made available to Arctic SDI stakeholders.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
01 February 2016 - The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC® Land and Infrastructure Conceptual Model Standard (LandInfra).This conceptual standard will provide a basis for one or more implementation standards for encoding infrastructure data.After evaluating the LandXML 1.2 schema, the OGC Land and Infrastructure Domain Working Group (LandInfraDWG) recommended the development of an alternative standard to be part of the OGC standards baseline.Having a common underlying Conceptual Model across all LandInfra encodings will help ensure compatibility across multiple encoding standards.The Candidate OGC Land and Infrastructure Conceptual Model Standard is available for review and comment at www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/148.
21 January 2016 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®), the Inlocation Alliance (ILA) and the i-locate Project invite you to contribute to a survey on use cases and benefits of indoor positioning.Kirk Burroughs, Board Chair of InLocation Alliance stated that the indoor positioning market is currently translating the successful use cases of outdoor GPS based positioning indoors, and has the potential to deliver significant benefits to both application users and application providers.The InLocation Alliance is an industry collaboration dedicated to promoting indoor positioning solutions that directly benefit the industry and users of indoor location services and solutions on mobile devices.Coordinated by Trilogis Srl based in Rovereto, Italy, the i-locate Project helps extend current open standards to support indoor/outdoor Location Based Services based on sound privacy and security policies.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.
4 January 2016 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces a new OGC Interoperability Program project called the Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure Standards and Communication Pilot (Arctic SDI Pilot).The Arctic SDI Pilot is sponsored by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Natural Resources Canada.In Phase 1, project planners are building an inventory of currently available Arctic geospatial data layers and Web services and defining the Arctic SDI architecture.OGC pilot projects apply and test OGC Standards in operational applications using Standards Based Commercial Off-The-Shelf (SCOTS) products that implement OGC Standards.A video will be produced to engage policymakers on the benefits of integrating diverse data utilizing Arctic SDI standards and information management best practices.
The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC 3D Portrayal Service (3DPS) Standard.Based on the results of the 3DPIE, an OGC 3D Portrayal Service Standards Working group (3D Portrayal Service SWG) was chartered to progress two different OGC proposals to the state of one integrated, adopted OGC standard.The current candidate 3D Portrayal Service Standard, a unified web service for 3D portrayal, is intended to make it easy for applications to present, explore, and analyze complex 3D geospatial data from diverse sources.The candidate OGC 3D Portrayal Service Standard is designed to support both client and server side rendering.The documents for the candidate OGC 3D Portrayal Service Standard are available for review and comment at (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/140).
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) in the OGC Testbed 12 Interoperability Testbed.Testbed 12 sponsors have documented interoperability requirements and objectives for this testbed initiative.Participants’ solutions will implement existing OGC standards as well as new prototype interface and encoding specifications introduced or developed in Testbed 12.Prototype specifications may ultimately become OGC standards, revisions to existing OGC standards, or best practices for using OGC standards.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.
7 October 2015 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the OGC OpenSearch Extension for Earth Observation, a candidate OGC standard.This OpenSearch extension provides a simple way to make queries to a repository that contains Earth Observation information and enables syndication of repositories for this purpose.This OGC candidate standard specifies an Earth Observation extension to OpenSearch that defines query parameters that allow the filtering of search results with those fields.This candidate standard is complementary to the OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions Standard (OGC 10-032).Download the candidate OGC OpenSearch Extension for Earth Observation Standard here: https://portal.ogc.org/files/65168.
On October 14th, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) will demonstrate the results of the eleventh OGC Interoperability Testbed.The OGC North American Forum (NAF), a group of 53 OGC members in North America, addresses OGC standards requirements, OGC program coordination, outreach and education needs of government, academic, research and industry organizations in Canada, US and Mexico.Some of the prototypes may ultimately become OGC standards, revisions to existing OGC standards, or best practices for using OGC standards.Some of the Testbed 11 sponsors have already begun assembling interoperability requirements for Testbed 12, which will begin in the fall.Learn more about the 15 year old OGC Interoperability Program in which OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments are organized, planned and managed.
The FutureCities Pilot will bring together visionary sponsors to help define activities that meet cities spatial information requirements.Ordnance Survey, a Strategic Member of the OGC, has long used open standards and contributed to their development.As one of the sponsors of this pilot, Ordnance Survey will bring valuable experience and expertise.Hosting cities make relevant data available to exercise the services developed in the initiative.Organizations interested in sponsoring or hosting the pilot are invited to contact OGC before October 15, 2015 to provide input in the planning phase.
On October 14th, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) will demonstrate the results of the eleventh OGC Interoperability Testbed.The OGC North American Forum (NAF), a group of 53 OGC members in North America, addresses OGC standards requirements, OGC program coordination, outreach and education needs of government, academic, research and industry organizations in Canada, US and Mexico.Some of the prototypes may ultimately become OGC standards, revisions to existing OGC standards, or best practices for using OGC standards.Some of the Testbed 11 sponsors have already begun assembling interoperability requirements for Testbed 12, which will begin in the fall.Learn more about the 15 year old OGC Interoperability Program in which OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments are organized, planned and managed.
Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Open Web Services (OWS) Common Security Standards Working Group (SWG).The OGC OWS Common Security SWG is being established to define a common way to make available to a client a description of the security framework(s) that control access to Web services that implement OGC standards.OGC Web Service standards are widely implemented in service interfaces to provide interoperable access to spatial data and spatial processing services.As OGC-based services move to these platforms, a Common Security extension for OGC services based on mainstream IT becomes critical.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
23 July 2015 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) GeoPackage Standards Working Group (SWG) seeks public input to guide their development and prioritization of new extensions to the OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Encoding Standard.Adopted by the OGC membership last year, GeoPackage has rapidly become implemented in a broad range of products and applications.The GeoPackage SWG has posted a survey at http://tinyurl.com/phvjygk.The GeoPackage standard describes a set of conventions for storing various kinds of geospatial data within a SQLite database.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
The encodings and interfaces often become candidate OGC standards that are vetted, voted on and then adopted by the OGC membership as open international standards.The OGC’s Testbed 11 web page provides information about the process and results of the recently concluded OGC Testbed 11.The OGC invites organizations to become co-sponsors of the upcoming OGC Testbed 12.Organizations that join early maximize OGC staff’s ability to match those organizations’ requirements with other organizations’ requirements, thus reducing each sponsor’s share of the cost.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.
The OGC membership seeks public comment on the candidate OGC® Web Coverage Service (WCS) - Transaction operation extension, version 2.0.The OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard is an open standard widely implemented in geospatial applications around the world.With the new Transaction extension, the standard will support not only retrieval but also transactions such as create, update, and delete.Such access will be useful generally in geospatial information management and use, and also in “big data” applications that involve geospatial data.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that the OGC membership has approved the OGC KML 2.3 Standard.In early 2007, Google submitted KML to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to be maintained and evolved within the OGC consensus process.KML 2.3 is now based on XML Schema 1.1 enabling authors of KML Application Profile extensions to experimentally add foreign element and attribute content interleaved among existing KML elements.The OGC KML 2.3 documents are free and may be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/kml#downloads.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.
Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Point Cloud Domain Working Group (DWG).The Point Cloud DWG is being established to address the gap in the OGC standards baseline with regard to interoperability issues related to sharing and processing point cloud data.This working group is motivated by the fast growing popularity and use of point cloud technology and data.Based on these considerations this charter defines the OGC Point Cloud Domain Working Group (DWG).However, point cloud data has often been overlooked or treated in the same buckets as images or terrain.
On 4 June, 2015 the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) will demonstrate the results of the eleventh OGC Interoperability Testbed.Nine Testbed 11 sponsors documented interoperability requirements and objectives for this activity.Some of the prototypes may ultimately become OGC standards, revisions to existing OGC standards, or best practices for using OGC standards.Some of the Testbed 11 sponsors have already begun assembling interoperability requirements for Testbed 12, which will begin in the fall.See http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/programs/ip for more information about the 15 year old OGC Interoperability Program in which OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments are organized, planned and managed.
11 March 2015 – Two global organizations, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the InLocation Alliance (ILA), have begun working together to advance indoor positioning capabilities.While outdoor navigation is common place, much work is still needed to exploit the full potential of indoor Location Based Services supported by reliable and affordable indoor location positioning systems.The OGC provides a standards forum in which indoor location stakeholders are working together to develop open standard ways of communicating the indoor location information provided by those solutions.With standards like IndoorGML and CityGML, the OGC has already provided elements of the necessary indoor location standards infrastructure.When the ILA published the System Architecture white paper for indoor positioning solutions in September, 2014 we welcomed close collaboration with relevant SDOs.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the OGC® Augmented Reality Markup Language 2.0 Interface Standard (ARML 2.0).Augmented Reality (AR) content encoded in ARML 2.0 displayed in Wikitude, Layar and Junaio browsers respectively.The server thus matches real objects in the image to AR content objects and displays them for the user.ARML 2.0, on the other hand, provides an open AR content encoding language and service interface.Martin Lechner, Chairman of the OGC ARML 2.0 Standards Working Group and CTO at Wikitude GmbH.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that it has adopted the OGC Unified Geo Data Reference Model For Law Enforcement and Public Safety as an OGC Best Practice.The Best Practice defines a data model for encoding spatially enabled law enforcement and public safety data.The ability to easily and effectively share law enforcement and public safety data across jurisdictional and national boundaries is a critical international need.While there are numerous widely used and excellent national systems for sharing law enforcement data, there are currently no internationally agreed to standards for sharing spatially enabled law enforcement and public safety data.The OGC Unified Geo Data Reference Model For Law Enforcement and Public Safety is free and available online at http://docs.opengeospatial.org/bp/14-106/14-106.html.
30 January 2015 – The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the 8th phase of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-8).AIP-8 aims to increase the use of GEOSS resources by end-users.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) provides leadership in AIP-8 and invites OGC members and other organizations to respond to the CFP.The AIP-8 schedule will be presented at the GEO XII Plenary, scheduled for 11 and 12 November in Mexico City, Mexico.GEO, a voluntary partnership of 156 governments and international organizations, is coordinating efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that it has adopted the OGC Unified Geo Data Reference Model For Law Enforcement and Public Safety as an OGC Best Practice.The Best Practice defines a data model for encoding spatially enabled law enforcement and public safety data.The ability to easily and effectively share law enforcement and public safety data across jurisdictional and national boundaries is a critical international need.While there are numerous widely used and excellent national systems for sharing law enforcement data, there are currently no internationally agreed to standards for sharing spatially enabled law enforcement and public safety data.The OGC Unified Geo Data Reference Model For Law Enforcement and Public Safety is free and available online at http://docs.opengeospatial.org/bp/14-106/14-106.html.
28 January 2015 - The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC 3D Portrayal Service (3DPS) Standard.Based on the results of the 3DPIE, an OGC 3D Portrayal Service Standards Working group (3D Portrayal Service SWG) was chartered to progress two different OGC proposals to the state of one integrated, adopted OGC standard.The current draft candidate 3D Portrayal Service Standard, a unified web service for 3D portrayal, is intended to make it easy for applications to present, explore, and analyze complex 3D geospatial data from diverse sources.The candidate OGC 3D Portrayal Service Standard is designed to support both client and server side rendering.The documents for the candidate OGC 3D Portrayal Service Standard are available for review and comment at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/130.
21 January 2015 - The OGC and Fraunhofer IOSB have organized the Geospatial ICT Support for Crisis Management and Response workshop at ISCRAM 2015.Risk and crisis management experts will meet software architects and engineers who participate in the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Emergency and Disaster Management (EDM) domain working group.ISCRAM attendees are invited to contribute to this workshop by providing one page crisis and response management scenario descriptions.A facilitated discussion will identify the Geospatial ICT requirements and map them to present and future ICT capabilities in the light of emerging technological trends.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
19 December 2014 - The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC KML 2.3 Standard.KML is an XML grammar used to encode representations of places and objects for display in an earth browser, such as a 3D virtual globe, 2D web browser application, or 2D mobile application.A KML Track can capture and display the path and other aspects of a moving object over a specified period of time.KML 2.3 is now based on XML Schema 1.1 enabling authors of KML Application Profile extensions to experimentally add foreign element and attribute content interleaved among existing KML elements.The documents for the candidate OGC KML 2.3 Standard are available for review and comment at (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/128).
20 November 2014 – The OGC seeks comment on the charter for a new OGC Standards Working Group (SWG) being formed to develop an OGC standard for disseminating relatively small “tiles” of geospatial data to lightweight devices.This group will also define in detail how existing widely used OGC standards can be used to support data tiling functionality.OGC Web Coverage Tiling Service ‘data cubes’ will be able to transfer virtually any type of complex spatial data, such as multi-dimensional atmospheric or ocean data, hyperspectral Earth images or even vector geometry.The draft charter for the OGC Web Coverage Tile Service Standards Working Group is available at https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=60231.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotation/Call for Participation (RFP/CFP)in the OGC Testbed 11 Interoperability Testbed.Testbed 11 sponsors have documented interoperability requirements and objectives for this testbed activity.Participants’ solutions will implement existing OGC standards as well as new prototype interface and encoding specifications introduced or developed in Testbed 11.Prototype specifications may ultimately become OGC standards, revisions to existing OGC standards, or best practices for using OGC standards.See http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/programs/ip for more information about the 15 year old OGC Interoperability Program in which OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments are organized, planned and managed.
In recent weeks, sponsors committed to supporting the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Testbed 11 have been documenting use cases, submitting requirements, and interoperability scenarios for this testbed.If new potential sponsors’ requirements align roughly with what is now in the plan, those organizations can still become sponsors and tune the testbed plan to meet their needs.The current Testbed 11 plan addresses:Interface and Encoding engineering REST and SOAP for the OGC suite of service standards Using JSON and GeoJSON across OGC service standards.Security – standards based solutions to implementing Authentication, Authorization, Access, Control and Auditing capabilities for the suite of OGC service standards.Semantically Enabled OGC Web Services: Semantic Mediation between Vocabularies and Ontologies; Linked Data; Data ProvenanceClimate change is the theme for the Testbed 11 scenario.
19 public Engineering Reports resulted from the Open Geospatial Consortiums (OGC®) OGC Testbed 10, the most recent in the OGCs yearly series of major geospatial interoperability testbeds.This information may be useful to implementors of OGC standards, but OGC Engineering Reports do not represent official OGC positions.The OGC Public Engineering Reports web page provides links to the engineering reports.The Testbed 10 Open Mobility Engineering reports include:OGC Testbed 10 OWS Context in NIEM Engineering Report (14-017)(14-017) OGC Testbed 10 GeoPackaging Engineering Report (14-058r1) (Still being edited.OGC Testbed 10 Service Integration Engineering Report ( 14-013r1)14-013r1) OGC Testbed 10 Annotations Engineering Report (14-002)(14-002) OGC Testbed 10 Rules for JSON and GeoJSON Adoption: Focus on OWS-Context Engineering Report (14-009r1)Below are descriptions of some of these Engineering Reports.
An OGC Agriculture Domain Working Group (SWG) is being chartered as an open forum for the discussion and presentation of interoperability requirements, use cases, pilots, and implementations of OGC standards in the Agriculture domain.Agriculture now touches many aspects of the work that OGC is doing to promote interoperability of geospatial data and geographic analysis.All of these activities require information standards that support market and regulatory transparency.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 475 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comments on the charter for a new GeoTIFF Standards Working Group (SWG).The OGC GeoTIFF SWG formation and process are being driven by the existing GeoTIFF user community.The OGC GeoTIFF SWG will survey current GeoTIFF practice and address potential refinements to the specification available at http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/wiki/RefiningGeoTIFF.These efforts will form a basis for updating the current GeoTIFF Specification (available at http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/) to align it with OGC processes.The initiators of the GeoTIFF SWG are the following OGC member representatives:Ted Habermann, The HDF GroupJeff Walter, NASAEmmanuel Devys, DGIWGThe initiators encourage comments on the charter and participation in the OGC GeoTIFF Standards Working Group.
The Virginia-based United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) recognized industry innovation and employment of OGC standards to nearly 4,000 international attendees at the 2014 GEOINT Symposium in Tampa, Florida.Pixia invented, developed, and donated its WAMI specification to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), who in turn adopted the specification as the OGC international WAMI Best Practice.This effort paves the way for a future user environment that leverages standard open architectures across all geospatial data types.According to Rudi Ernst, Pixia Corp CEO, OGC standards are crucial to making data relevant and useful.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.
In 2008 it was adopted by the OGC membership as an international OGC standard.Active participation in the CityGML 3.0 development process does not require OGC membership.To be most effective, organizations and individuals responding to this CFP should plan to fully participate in the CityGML 3.0 development activities.Responses to the CFP are requested by the time of the 10 June 2014 kickoff of CityGML 3.0 development at the OGC Technical Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.Note, however, that this CFP will remain open for the duration of the CityGML 3.0 development process.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a call for sponsors for the 11th annual OGC location standards innovation testbed.OGC Testbed 11 Sponsor Planning meeting to be held from 9000-1000 CEST 12 on June 2014 during the OGC Technical Committee (TC) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.OGC Testbed 11 will build on the outcomes of prior OGC initiatives.More about the Testbed 11 Sponsor MeetingParticipation in the 29 May Testbed 11 planning meeting does not constitute a commitment to sponsor OGC Testbed 11.Join two other webinar to learn about results of OGC Testbed 10 (OWS-10)Interested organizations are also invited to attend two free OGC Testbed 10 webinars:OGC Testbed 10 Aviation Thread Webinar – 27 May 2014, from 1000 to 1130 EDT.
USGS data services get over 1 million hits per day.As part of the USGS Interoperability Assessment Initiative, the OGC and its members are evaluating the different USGS data services with the goal of assessing whether OGC standards as implemented in USGS servers are meeting users requirements.To achieve this goal, the OGC is issuing a Call for Participation (CFP) for the USGS Interoperability Assessment Virtual Exercise Responses to this call for participation are due by 31 May 2014.The overall goal of the initiative is to improve the user’s experience with USGS data services.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
24 April 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Members approved OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions as an OGC standard.OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/opensearchgeo.The OGC® OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions standard provides a very simple way to configure OpenSearch for spatial and temporal queries over distributed repositories of contents having geographic and time properties, and for syndication of these search results in one large index.The OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions candidate standard specifies how to enhance search engines and configure them to access spatial data servers.The OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions standard includes work undertaken within the GENESI-DR (Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations - Digital Repositories) project funded by the 7th Framework program of the European (EC Grant Agreement no.
25 February 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Directions Media invite government information system managers to attend a free webinar on the new OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard, an open standard for accessing spatial data on mobile devices.The webinar, fifth in a series of OGC GovFuture Webinars, will be held on 5 March 2014 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST (GMT-5:00 hours).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, with offices in Huntsville, Alabama and Glencoe, Illinois, encompasses media properties: Directions Magazine, All Points Blog as well as the Location Intelligence and GEO Huntsville annual conferences.
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 February 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites Mobile World Congress attendees to attend workshops on the new OGC GeoPackage Service Interface Standard, the candidate OGC IndoorGML Encoding Standard, and the candidate OGC Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML2) Encoding Standard.The demo and workshops will be held in the afternoon after the morning presentations on OGC Location Standards for a Mobile World by representatives from OGC, OMA (Open Mobile Alliance), W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and the Small Cell Forum.The Mobile World Congress, running 24-27 February 2014 in Barcelona, is the worlds largest exhibition, conference and networking event for mobile operators, cell phone and device manufacturers, and providers of mobile software.These cover a wide spectrum of application areas such as indoor location services, indoor web map services, indoor emergency control, guiding services for visually handicapped persons in indoor space, and indoor robotics.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
13 February 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted the OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Encoding Standard.The GeoPackage standard will make it much easier to exchange and share geospatial (or location) information across different devices, applications and web services throughout the mobile world.From a technical perspective, the GeoPackage standard defines an open, non-proprietary, platform-independent SQLite container for distribution and direct use of geospatial data, including vector features and tile matrix sets.The OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Encoding Standard has been developed by OGC members with additional participation by interested developers on GitHub, a web-based hosting service for software development projects.The OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard and associated resources can be found at http://www.geopackage.org/.
Layar, Metaio and Wikitude, the largest AR platform providers, have cooperated to make it easy for AR content to be shared across their technology platforms.The companies demonstrating AR interoperability believe tomorrows AR market will be much more open, and thus much larger, than todays AR market.On January 21, 2014 the AR Browser Interoperability Architecture document 1.2 was agreed upon by the AR Browser publishers participating in this process.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.
Small cells can be used to support location services in a range of indoor locations including: navigation in airports, retail unit location in shopping centers and asset location in hospitals and warehouses.As part of the agreement the Small Cell Forum and the OGC will cooperatively develop a joint document that indicates to operators which OGC standards are relevant for small cell based location based services within the context of mobile networks and will also exchange technical and marketing information about the use of location based services for small cells and small cell based services.We look forward to working with the Small Cell Forum to help enable the flow of such location information.Accurate indoor location information has become a critical component to the mobile user experience,” said Andy Germano, Vice President Americas at the Small Cell Forum.About the Small Cell Forum (SCF):The Small Cell Forum (www.smallcellforum.org), supports the wide-scale adoption of small cells.
For his WalkYourPlace app, Mr. Poorazizi has won a Nexus Tablet donated by Google.Also, Mr. Poorazizi’s university, University of Calgary, will receive a two-year free renewal of its current OGC membership.Ebrahim Poorazizi, Mohammed Jazayeri, Jade Lacosse and Soo Jin Lee each have a dedicated award page on the OGC Student App Challenge website featuring their application.Because most online sources of geographic information implement OGC standards, apps that implement OGC standards have access to thousands of geospatial services and databases.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
This group will develop a candidate POI encoding specification for possible adoption by the OGC membership as an OGC Standard.Considering the ubiquitous need for POI information, surprisingly little effort has gone into international PoI standardization.Co-chairs of the new OGC POI SWG are Ashley Holt, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Peter Cotroneo, Ordnance Survey.Members of the public can follow the activities of the OGC POI SWG, make comments, and ask questions by subscribing to the OGC POI SWG listserv.A prototype implementation of the candidate OGC POI Encoding Standard in the OGC OpenPOIs database has also influenced development of the candidate standard.
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.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites participation in the Ratings, Gaugings and Cross-Sections Interoperability Experiment (RGSIE), which will further develop and test the current OGC WaterML 2.0 Part 2 candidate encoding standard.This candidate OGC standard is currently available as an OGC public discussion paper (https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=54423).This candidate OGC standard defines a draft information model for exchanging rating tables and the observational data used in development of these rating tables.The OGC WaterML 2.0 Part 1: Time Series Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/waterml) was adopted by the OGC membership as an official OGC standard in 2012.An OGC Interoperability Experiment is a rapid, low overhead, formally structured OGC-facilitated activity in which members achieve specific technical objectives that further the OGC Technical Baseline.
13 November 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate standard, OGC® OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions.This document extends the implementation of the popular OpenSearch technologies so that users can take advantage of the geospatial search capabilities enabled by OGC standards.The OGC® OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions candidate standard provides a very simple way to configure OpenSearch for spatial and temporal queries over distributed repositories of contents having geographic and time properties, and for syndication of these search results in one large index.The following organizations submitted this document to the Open Geospatial Consortium:Terradue SrlFGDCFortiusOne, Inc.EDINACubewerx Inc.Download the candidate OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions Standard from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/116.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
30 October 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks final “last-call” public comments on the current draft of the candidate OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Encoding Standard.The candidate OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard provides an open, non-proprietary, platform-independent SQLite container for distribution and direct use of all kinds of geospatial data, including vector features and tile matrix sets.The candidate OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/115 .OGC will also release the candidate OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Encoding Standard on GitHub, a web-based hosting service for software development projects, on 1 November 2013.The GeoPackage SWG will consider change requests for the candidate GeoPackage Standard that have been posted through 8 November 2013.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that DigitalGlobe has raised its membership level from Technical Committee level to Principal level.“The work the OGC does in creating open source standards for geospatial information is key to what we do at DigitalGlobe,” said Walter Scott, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at DigitalGlobe.About DigitalGlobeDigitalGlobe is a leading provider of commercial high-resolution earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions that help decision makers better understand our changing planet in order to save lives, resources and time.About the OGCThe OGC is an international consortium of more than 475 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
At the September meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) in Frascati, Italy, Jeff de La Beaujardière, PhD, received the OGCs prestigious Kenneth D. Gardels Award (http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/awards).Access is about using open standards to improve usability, and the Open Geospatial Consortium obviously plays a key role in that space.Jeff de La Beaujardières participation in the OGCs standards process began in 1998 during the first Web Mapping Testbed while at NASA.It is given annually in memory of Kenneth Gardels, a founding director of OGC and OGCs former director of academic programs.OGCs open standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
The purpose of UKIAP 2013 is to advance the interoperability of geospatial products and services based on OGC standards within the UK geospatial information (GI) community.The OGC and Ordnance Survey would like to involve as many participants in the initiative as possible.The OGC and Ordnance Survey will have a clarification call on 25 September starting at 10:45 BST.Ordnance Survey is a government department founded in 1791 and is the national mapping agency of Great Britain.The mission of the Ordnance Survey is to maximise the use of geographic information (GI) for the benefit of the citizen, good governance and commerce.
6 August 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 (SWG) will consider all submitted comments when they prepare a final draft of the GeoPackage Standard.The candidate OGC GeoPackage Standard provides an open, non-proprietary, platform-independent SQLite container for distribution and direct use of all kinds of geospatial data, including vector features and tile matrix sets.Standard configuration and APIs for access and management of GeoPackage data will provide consistent query and update results across such applications and services.Download the candidate GeoPackage Standard.
30 May 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public input on the draft charter of a proposed Standards Working Group (SWG) that will develop a candidate POI (Point of Interest) encoding standard for possible adoption by the OGC membership as an OGC Standard.A point of interest (POI) is a specific point location that someone may find useful or interesting.It provides a reference implementation for an early version of the proposed Point of Interest (POI) encoding standard.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.
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.
23 May 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortiums (OGC®) standards are cited in the Obama Administrations National Science and Technology Councils (NSTC) recently released National Strategy for Civil Earth Observations—a framework for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the Nation’s Earth-observation enterprise.The OGC WaterML 2.0 Encoding Standard, recently approved by the OGC membership, has been endorsed as an official component of the civil Earth observation strategy of the federal government of the United States.The National Strategy for Civil Earth Observations identifies 12 Societal Benefit Areas for collection of information, one of which is water.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.
10 April 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the OGC Student Map App Challenge, sponsored by Google, an OGC Principal Member.The Student Map App Challenge is a contest for students who have programming skills and an interest in maps and location services.The OGC has launched the Student Map App Challenge to make entrepreneurial students aware of the enormous social and commercial potential of these open standards.Three winning applicants will receive an OGC Student Map App Challenge Award and the opportunity to have their apps featured on the OGC website and in other media channels.The OGC Student Map App Challenge page provides search tools that can be used to find these existing OGC service instances.
In response to the growing interest and use of OGC standards throughout the region, the Ministry of the Interior hosted the OGC TC PC meetings to connect the existing OGC community to the region and to broaden awareness of the OGC within the Middle East.This is the first time the OGC Technical and Planning Committee meetings have been held in the Middle East.Middle East involvement in the OGCs international process is important for a number of reasons, explained Mark Reichardt, President of the OGC.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, mainstream IT, and wireless and location-based services.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 the formation of a new OGC Technical Committee Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose of this SWG is to progress the GeoSciML data model and application schema for geoscience information interchange to the state of an adopted OGC standard.The OGC members convening this group invite the public to comment on the GeoSciML 4.0 SWG charter (https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=51418) and will consider comments received before 8 April 2013.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.
25 February 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted Semantic annotations in OGC standards as an OGC Best Practice.OGC standards provide standard ways of locating and transporting network-resident geospatial data and ways of locating and invoking geospatial services.This OGC Best Practice explains preferred methods of providing semantic annotation in OGC Web Service environments.It extends existing OGC standards and applies standards from other organizations such as the W3C to OGC Standards.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
20 February 2013 - The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the 6th phase of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-6).AIP-6 aims to increase the use of GEOSS resources by end-users.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) provides leadership in AIP-6 and invites OGC members and other organizations to respond to the CFP.The AIP-6 schedule will support the GEO Plenary and Ministerial Summit, to be held 15-17 January 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland.GEO, a voluntary partnership of 156 governments and international organizations, is coordinating efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS.
14 February 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted the OGC CF-netCDF Data Model extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0.The CF-netCDF Data Model is a flexible data model widely used in climate and weather forecast systems and in other geoscience communities.The candidate CF-netCDF Data Model extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0 is the latest step in a longer-term plan for establishing CF-netCDF as an OGC standard for binary encoding.The NetCDF data model is particularly well suited to providing data in forms familiar to atmospheric and oceanic scientists: namely, as sets of related arrays.The CF-netCDF Data Model extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0 is available along with other netCDF standards and a netCDF Primer at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/netcdf .
31 January 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC MilOps Geospatial Interoperability Experiment (MOGIE).The purpose of this experiment is to ensure interoperability of the MilOps Domain with the OGCs geospatial standards and with tools built on those standards.The OGC members that are acting as initiators of the Interoperability Experiment are:National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)MITREGeorgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) (http://www.gtri.gatech.edu)Expressions of interest for participation are due by 4 March 2013.Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is also one of the organizations that will be participating in the Interoperability Experiment.An OGC Interoperability Experiment is a rapid, low overhead, formally structured OGC-facilitated activity in which members achieve specific technical objectives that further the OGC Technical Baseline.
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.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a call for sponsors of the 10th annual OGC Web Services Testbed (OWS-10) (http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/ows-10).Sponsors of OGC testbeds provide interoperability requirements that drive rapid development, testing and delivery of proven candidate standards into the OGC Standards Program.- OGC Web Services (OWS) innovations: New OGC compliance tests and improved interoperability for mobile device apps that use OGC standards in providing location services.At this meeting, potential sponsors will review the OGC standards baseline, discuss OWS-9 outcomes, and capture initial OWS-10 requirements and plans.Sponsors of OGC Interoperability Program initiatives provide requirements, use/business cases and funding for OGC testbeds and pilot projects.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites interested organizations to attend the January 15 OWS-9 Testbed Demonstration and Exhibition.OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments are part of the OGC Interoperability Program, a global, hands-on collaborative prototyping program designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven candidate spatial encoding and interface standards into the OGC Standards Program, where they are formalized for release as adopted OGC Standards.OGC Web Services (OWS) innovations: Technologists involved in spatial communication technology got new OGC compliance tests and improved interoperability for mobile device apps that use OGC standards in providing location services.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has also issued a call for sponsors of the 10th annual OGC Web Services Testbed (OWS-10) (http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/ows-10).OWS-10 will build on the outcomes of the OWS-9 Testbed (http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/ows-9) and other prior OGC initiatives (http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/demos).
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites participation in a Groundwater Interoperability Experiment (GWIE2).Participants will then prepare an engineering report with the intent to develop it into a data encoding specification that will be advanced toward adoption as the OGC Groundwater Markup Language 2 (GWML 2) Standard.An OGC Interoperability Experiment is a rapid, low overhead, formally structured OGC-facilitated activity in which members achieve specific technical objectives that further the OGC Technical Baseline.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 470 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
2 November 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML) 2.0 Encoding Standard.ARML 2.0 provides an interchange format for Augmented Reality applications to describe and interact with objects in an AR scene, with a focus on mobile, vision-based AR.ARML 2.0 emerged from ARML 1.0, developed by the creators of the Wikitude World Browser, and was completely remodeled within the OGC ARML 2.0 Standards Working Group to fit existing AR use cases.The OGC ARML 2.0 Encoding Standard Evaluation Package is free and can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/94.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
29 October 2012The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that it has appointed Denise McKenzie as Executive Director, Marketing and Communications.Working with OGC staff, board, membership and partner organizations, Denise will be responsible for the planning and execution of marketing, communications and education programs to raise awareness and increase application of OGC standards by technology providers and users worldwide.Mark Reichardt commented, I am delighted that Denise is joining the OGC staff.She brings a tremendous level of energy, experience, enthusiasm and skill to the OGC international team, including an exceptional background in communications and information technology policy.The consortium has played the lead role since 1994 in making geospatial information – location, GIS, Earth images, routing, etc.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of a new OGC® Technical Committee Standards Working Group (SWG) to advance the candidate OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Standard.OGC members are proposing an open, non-proprietary, platform-independent GeoPackage container for distribution and direct use of all kinds of geospatial data.The GeoPackage container and related API will increase the cross-platform interoperability of geospatial applications and web services in the mobile world.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.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of a new OGC® Technical Committee Standards Working Group (SWG) to advance the candidate OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Standard.OGC members are proposing an open, non-proprietary, platform-independent GeoPackage container for distribution and direct use of all kinds of geospatial data.The GeoPackage container and related API will increase the cross-platform interoperability of geospatial applications and web services in the mobile world.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.
24 September 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the Enhanced Data Model Extension to the OGC Network Common Data Form (netCDF) Core Encoding Standard.The Enhanced Data Model Extension, along with the Core Encoding Standard, the netCDF Binary Encoding Extension Standard - netCDF Classic, and the 64-bit Offset Format (adopted as official OGC standards in April 2011) are available for free download at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/netcdf.The enhanced data model (sometimes referred to as the netCDF-4 data model) is an extension to the classic model that adds new forms of data representation and new data types while preserving backward compatibility.Specifically, it adds six new primitive data types, four user-defined data types, multiple unlimited dimensions, and groups to organize data hierarchically and provide scopes for names.The netCDF data model is particularly well suited to providing data in forms familiar to atmospheric and oceanic scientists, specifically, as sets of related arrays.
The OGC has previously participated in the ITU Joint Coordination Activity on Internet of Things (JCA-IoT).In the future, the OGC will consider participation in the ITU Internet of Things Global Standards Initiative (IoT-GSI) and various ITU Study Groups that pertain to IoT.The OGC will coordinate with ITU on the OGC Sensor Web for IoT Standards Working Group.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.
August 22, 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership seeks comments on an OGC candidate standard, the CF-netCDF Data Model extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data Form (netCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0.The CF-netCDF Data Model is a flexible data model widely used in climate and weather forecast systems as well as for other types of environmental data.The candidate CF-netCDF Data Model extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data Form (netCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0 is the latest step in establishing CF-netCDF as an OGC standard for binary encoding.The OGC netCDF encoding supports electronic encoding of geospatial data, specifically digital geospatial information representing space- and time-varying phenomena.The netCDF data model is particularly well suited to providing data in forms familiar to atmospheric and oceanic scientists: namely, as sets of related arrays.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC GeoServices REST API standard.The GeoServices REST Application Programming Interface (API) provides a standard way for web clients to communicate with geospatial technologies, such as Geographic Information System (GIS) servers, based on Representational State Transfer (REST) principles.In early 2011, Esri contacted the Open Geospatial Consortium about submitting the GeoServices Rest API as a candidate OGC standard.The OGC’s adoption of this candidate standard will provide the wider Web developer community with additional standards-based choices for leveraging geospatial information.The candidate OGC GeoServices REST API standard documents are available for review and comment at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89.
June 1, 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership seeks comments on an OGC candidate standard, the Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) NetCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension Encoding Standard.This document specifies an extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0.The OGC netCDF encoding supports electronic encoding of geospatial data, specifically digital geospatial information representing space- and time-varying phenomena.The netCDF data model is particularly well suited to providing data in forms familiar to atmospheric and oceanic scientists: namely, as sets of related arrays.The candidate OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) NetCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension Encoding Standard and information about submitting comments on this document are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/88.
- The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted Version 2.0 of the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml).CityGML is a community defined information model and XML-based encoding for the representation, storage, and exchange of virtual 3D city and landscape models.Because CityGML is based on the OGC Geography Markup Language Encoding Standard (GML), it can be used with the whole family of OGC web services for data accessing, processing, and cataloging.It also plays an important role in bridging Urban Information Models with Building Information Models (BIM) to improve interoperability among information systems used in the design, construction, ownership and operation of buildings and capital projects.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
8 March 2012 – The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the 5th phase of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-5).The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) provides leadership in AIP-5 and invites OGC members and other organizations to respond to the CFP.AIP-5 places a priority on these areas:Increase GEOSS capacity to support several societal benefit areas (SBAs): Disasters, Health, Energy, Water and Agriculture.Deploy user management and authentication to support GEOSS Data-COREConduct research to be considered for the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)Responses to this CFP are requested by 11 April 2012.GEO is coordinating efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced that Dr. Jinsoo You has become the first Director of Asian Services for the OGC.He will promote awareness and adoption of OGC standards, help OGC members optimize their engagement in the OGC process, assist with recruitment, and represent OGC in dealing with OGC alliance partners.As the new director of Asian Services, Dr. You will focus on providing OGC services to members in Asia, identifying opportunities in the region for testbeds, pilot projects, and training sessions.He will work with Asian organizations to ensure that Asian requirements are addressed by the international standards of the OGC.As the Chair of OGC Korea Forum, Dr. You has focused on developing a geospatial services network in Korea based on international standards.
22 February 2012 - The global aviation community is moving forward on the adoption of an international framework of standards that enable communication in a net-centric, globally interoperable Air Transport System (ATS).The ninth OGC Web Services testbed (OWS-9) will have sponsorship from numerous organizations including the FAA (US Federal Aviation Administration) and Eurocontrol.The Aviation Thread of OWS-9 builds on the Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) and aviation threads of OWS-6, OWS-7 and OWS-8.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.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) Board of Directors has unanimously elected The Honorable Jeffrey K. Harris as Chairman of the Board of the Open Geospatial Consortium.Mr. Harris succeeds OGC Founder David Schell, who will continue to serve as Chairman Emeritus.He is now a private consultant to both industry and government on geospatial and space technology programs.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.
***The survey is a joint effort by two academic researchers who are OGC members and by the OGC Business Value Committee.The OGC Business Value Committee will use a summary of the results to help the OGC better understand the value of the OGC’s open standards and improve its programs for geospatial standards development, compliance testing and outreach.OGC membership is not a requirement, and you can participate even if the software you use or provide does not implement OGC standards.The researchers will summarize the data gathered from the survey, removing all references to individual responses, and make the summary available to OGC Business Value Committee members.The members of the OGC Business Value Committeehttp://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/businessvalueThe OGC is an international consortium of more than 430 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.
August 25, 2011 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the OpenMI Association announced that they recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate in standards development and promotion of open standards related to computer modelling.Roger Moore, chairman of the OpenMI Association, said, “The OpenMI Association sees huge opportunities ahead if the linking of models of different processes as they run can be made simple and reliable.The OpenMI Association is therefore looking forward to the next step, which is working with the OGC to publish the OpenMI as an adopted OGC standard.The agreement between the OGC and the OpenMI Association exemplifies the trend among global standards organizations to form partnerships that make their standards more useful and useful to larger populations of users.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, sensors and mainstream IT.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites participation in a Hydrologic Forecasting Interoperability Experiment (IE).The objectives for the Hydrologic Forecasting IE are to implement and test WaterML 2.0 and OGC services within a real-time forecasting context.The OGC members that are acting as initiators of the Interoperability Experiment are:US National Weather Service (NOAA/NWS)Deltares USA Inc.An OGC Interoperability Experiment is a rapid, low-overhead, formally structured OGC-facilitated activity in which members achieve specific technical objectives that further the OGC Technical Baseline.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
15 August 2011 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on Version 1.1 of the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml).With this guidance, the Working Group developed the draft CityGML Version 1.1, a minor revision of the current CityGML version 1.0 that maintains backwards compatibility with version 1.0.The candidate CityGML Version 1.1 standard documents are available for review and comment at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/82.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.
27 July 2011 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the OGC GML Working Group (WG) invite interested parties to attend a one-day workshop on GML 4 on September 19th in Boulder, Colorado.Besides a number of pending change requests to be considered by the GML Working Group, GML 4.0 is also required to comply to the OGC’s new modular specification policy.The goal of the workshop is to get input and guidance from the GML user community for the development of GML 4.0.The current understanding is that GML 4.0 should not replace GML 3.2/3.3 and that existing community encodings with specific application support will likely continue to use GML 3.x.Key features of GML 4.0 that would justify developing and publishing a new version of GML.
30 June 2011 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced successful completion of the Special Activity Airspace (SAA) Dissemination Pilot.OGC Web Service standards specify open and widely used geospatial interfaces that support communication of geospatial information in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based systems.Videos and presentations from the June 2 SAA Dissemination Pilot demonstrations are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/pub/www/saa/index.html.OGC Interoperability Initiatives are designed to encourage rapid development, testing, validation and adoption of OGC standards.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
24 June 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced that OGC staff and members will be involved in three workshops at the INSPIRE Conference 2011.Steven Ramage, an Executive Director from the OGC will participate in this afternoon workshop with a talk, Beyond interoperability: What does interoperability enable?Workshop 2: INSPIRE and open standards for sustainable growth, Tuesday 28th June, 9:00-10:30, will be moderated by OGC staff, Steven Ramage and Athina Trakas, Director of European Services.Workshop 3: SDI Workshop: ESDIN Lessons, Tuesday 28th June, 11:00 – 12:30, organized by Arnulf Christl (metaspatial), an independent consultant and formerly ESDIN Technical Coordinator, and Athina Trakas from the OGC.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®) 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.
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 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.The OGC encourages interested parties to consider attending OGC meetings.The AR Standards Meeting will increase mutual awareness of standards relevant to AR and deepen dialog among industry leaders, standards development organizations, industry associations and others interested in AR initiatives.
7 April 2011 – The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the 4th phase of the GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-4).The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) provides leadership in AIP-4 and invites OGC members and other organizations to respond to the CFP.AIP-4 will improve access to GEOSS datasets that support the “Critical Earth Observation Priorities” that have been identified by the GEO User Interface Committee.AIP-4 aims to:Increase on-line access to Critical Earth Observation Priorities Data Sources;Ensure datasets are discoverable through the GEOSS Common Infrastructure; andDemonstrate effectiveness of general and specialized software tools for using data.GEO is coordinating efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS.
The FAA SAA Dissemination Pilot will extend the SAA SWIM Services to enable the dissemination of SAA information (including updates and schedule changes) to National Airspace System (NAS) stakeholders and other external users via services that implement OGC Web Services (OWS) standards.In support of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), the FAA SWIM program seeks to achieve systems interoperability and information management for diverse Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems using Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA).The FAA SWIM capabilities include supporting the exchange of SAA information between operational ATM systems.Navin Vembar, AIM Modernization Segment 2 Program Manager, FAA notes The FAA SAA Dissemination pilot is an opportunity to work closely with industry to demonstrate that OGC Web Services and international standards facilitate the FAAs efforts to communicate with our stakeholders in an automated manner.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the Smart Ocean Sensor Consortium (SOSC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance sensor observing systems for the oceans community.Under the agreement the two organizations will participate in joint outreach and marketing activities to raise awareness and interest in smart sensor systems and Sensor Web Enablement.Smart ocean sensors will reduce cost and effort and offer greater value to the end user.The agreement between OGC and the Smart Ocean Sensors Consortium is an important step in establishing a new class of interoperable plug and work sensors.About the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®)The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 395 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) will develop conforming documentation for key OGC standards and geospatial open source application descriptions.According to Cameron Shorter, coordinator of the OSGeo-Live project, OGC standards underpin our geospatial Open Source applications, and hence OGC this support from the OGC will greatly enhance the Open Source documentation being developed.About OSGeoThe Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo (http://www.osgeo.org/), is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data.About the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®)The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 395 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial 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(R)) announces the formation of an Open GeoSMS Standards Working Group (SWG) (http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/geosmsswg).The Open GeoSMS SWG will advance the OGC Candidate Open GeoSMS Standard (https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=36261) as an OGC adopted standard.The GeoSMS candidate standard is currently an OGC “Discussion Paper”.The GeoSMS encoding for location is compatible with other OGC standards, such as those for sensor webs and earth imaging.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) (http://www.opengeospatial.org ) and AGISEE, the Association for Geospatial Information in South-East Europe (http://www.agisee.org) announced that they have established a cooperative relationship to promote the importance of open standards in the development of spatial data infrastructures and raise the awareness of interoperability in South-East Europe.Interested people are also invited to a workshop on Spatial Data Infrastructures on 16 June 2010 in Nessebar, Bulgaria, as part of the International Conference forCartography and GIS (ICCG3) (http://www.cartography-gis.com ).The Association for Geospatial Information in South-East Europe (AGISEE) (http://www.opengeospatial.org ) promotes geospatial data use and Spatial Data Infrastructures in South-East Europe.AGISEE is a non-for-profit organization which supports the needs of all groups in South-East Europe for access to, sharing and use of geospatial information (GI).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®) has appointed Steven Ramage as Executive Director, Marketing and Communications.Over the last 15 years, Steven has worked in a variety of organisations in the geospatial industry including Oceonics (now part of Fugro), Navteq (now part of Nokia) and most recently 1Spatial.Steven Ramage added, There is a massive opportunity for geospatial data, applications and services to be widely accepted in everyday use.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 390 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
Wayland, Mass., 15 March, 2010 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) seeks public comment on the draft OGC Table Joining Service (TJS) Interface Standard.The proposed OGC TJS 1.0 standard and information on submitting comments on this document are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/62 .The OGC is an international consortium of more than 390 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.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.
Wayland, Mass., 5 March 2010 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) announces adoption and availability of the OGC Catalogue Services Standard Extension Package for ebRIM Application Profile: Earth Observation Products, and also the related Geography Markup Language (GML) Application Schema for EO Products.The CS-W ebRIM EO standard describes a set of interfaces, bindings and encodings to be implemented in catalog servers so that data providers can publish descriptive information (metadata) about Earth Observation data.The CS-W ebRIM EO standard was developed based on requirements from the European Space Agency and partners as part of the Heterogeneous Missions Accessibility project.The CS-W ebRIM EO standard and the GML Application Schema for EO products are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/cat2eoext4ebrim.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
Wayland, Mass., 21 January 2010 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) announces adoption and availability of the OGC Earth Observation (EO) Application Profile for the OGC Catalogue Services - Web (CSW) Specification 2.0.2.The EO-CSW standard describes a set of interfaces, bindings and encodings that can be implemented in catalog servers that data providers will use to publish collections of descriptive information (metadata) about Earth Observation data and services.Developers can also implement this standard as part of Web clients that enable data users and their applications to very efficiently search and exploit these collections of Earth Observation data and services.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 385 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial 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®) joins the World Standards Day celebration, announcing a Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP).In accordance with this years theme for World Standards Day, Tackling climate change through standards, the OGC, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) will conduct a Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP) at the FOSS4G (Free, Open Source Software for Geomatics) Conference in Sydney, Australia, 20-23 October, 2009.The OGC supports the climate change community in efforts such as:- The OGC leads architecture development and interoperability demonstrations for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) (http://earthobservations.org/about_geo.shtml).- Geoscientists involved in ocean observation, meteorology and hydrology are embracing OGC standards.This framework is a critical asset for those who are working to understand and mitigate climate change and its impacts.
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.
The India Forum of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) was recently chartered to provide government, academic, research and industry organizations in India with opportunities to learn about and discuss issues related to interoperability of geographic information involving OGC standards.Dr. Ashok Kaushal, Managing Director, PCI Geomatics (India), author of the India Forum charter, said, Forum members want to work together in India to maximize the benefits of using open standards in dealing with geospatial information.The OGC India Forum founding members are:Director General Military SurveyDepartment of Science &TechnologyDSM Soft Private LtdERDASGIS Development Private LtdInfoTech Enterprises LtdINCOISPCI GeomaticsRolta India LtdThe members of the India Forum of the OGC invite other Indian organizations to join the Forum.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 385 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial 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®) announces an important new set of public resources for learning about, developing and implementing interoperable geospatial capabilities.The OGC Learn page is interactive.The Learn page is part of OGC NetworkTM, a window onto the dynamic, constantly changing Geospatial Web as described by the OGC Reference Model (ORM) (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/orm).From the OGC NetworkTM site developers and geodata coordinators can quickly locate OGC-compatible geospatial Web services, the latest XML schema documents, discussion forums, compliance testing resources, and GML profile working areas.It provides the latest information on OGC-compatible software, services, and information models (GML profiles, Style Layer Descriptor (SLD) examples, etc.).
Seoul, Korea, August 24, 2009: The Korea Forum of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is a Korean organization chartered to provide government, academic, research and industry organizations in Korea with opportunities to learn about and discuss issues related to interoperability of geographic information involving OGC standards.Jinsoo You, Chair of OGC Korea, said, This national forum will be the foundation for the development of GeoWeb Services Network - a Paradigm of Mutual Prosperity in Korea.The OGC Korea Forum will hold a national geospatial interoperability event on November 18 in Seoul to introduce OGC standards and activities to Korean geospatial industry and government sectors.The current membership of the OGC Korea Forum includes: Korea Land Corporation, TopQuadrant Korea, National Geographic Information Institute, Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute, Pusan National University, Sejong University, Dept.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, Inc. (OGC®), the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) are conducting a Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP) to be launched at the FOSS4G (Free, Open Source Software for Geomatics) Conference in Sydney, Australia, 20-23 October, 2009 (http://2009.foss4g.org).CCIP Participants are invited to deploy services that implement OGC standards, or clients for such services.Participation is encouraged by commercial entities as well as free and open source projects.Companies or individuals interested in participating should respond to the CCIP Call for Participation at http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/CcipCFP by August 10, 2009.The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) (http://osgeo.org) has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software.
The sponsor, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), will provide profiles of the OGC Web Map Service, Web Feature Service and Web Coverage Service Interface Standards.With the help of Plugweek participants, the NGA will examine the suitability and performance of these profiles and corresponding profile compliance tests.The NGA is providing cost-sharing funds and seeks to involve as many participants as possible.Participants will use the profiles mentioned above and also schemas and data provided by the NGA.Non-member proposals will be considered if a completed application for OGC membership accompanies or precedes a letter of intent to submit a proposal.
On Tuesday, June 9, 2009, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) will conduct a free webinar demonstrating results from the OGC Web Services, Phase 6 (OWS-6) testbed activity.- Decision Support Services (DSS): ISO 19117 and OpenGIS Style Layer Descriptor (SLD) Encoding Standard portrayal; 3D fly-through; indoor/outdoor 3D route services; OpenGIS Web Map Tiling Service (WMTS) interface development; and integrated clients for multiple OGC Web Service (OWS) services.- Compliance and Interoperability Test and Evaluation (CITE): Continued development of robust test and certification tools for the OGC Web Mapping Service (WMS) 1.3 standard.The webinar will demonstrate OWS-6 achievements involving Web services architecture and interoperability solutions that are documented in OGC Engineering Reports.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
On Wednesday, June 10, 2009, from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDT (15:00-17:00 UTC), the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) will conduct a free webinar demonstrating results from the OGC Web Services, Phase 6 (OWS-6) testbed activity.- Decision Support Services (DSS): ISO 19117 and OpenGIS Style Layer Descriptor (SLD) Encoding Standard portrayal; 3D fly-through; indoor/outdoor 3D route services; OpenGIS Web Map Tiling Service (WMTS) interface development; and integrated clients for multiple OGC Web Service (OWS) services.- Compliance and Interoperability Test and Evaluation (CITE): Continued development of robust test and certification tools for the OGC Web Mapping Service (WMS) 1.3 standard.The webinar will demonstrate OWS-6 achievements involving Web services architecture and interoperability solutions that are documented in OGC Engineering Reports.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, Inc. (OGC®) announces the release of two Discussion Papers: Uncertainty Markup Language (UncertML) (https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=33234) and the OpenGIS® Web Coverage Service Standard (WCS) Extension for CF-netCDF Encoding (https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=32195).Most data contains uncertainty arising from sources such as measurement error, observation operator error, processing/modeling errors, or corruption.UncertML utilizes the OGC Geography Markup Language (GML) Standard and the OGC Sensor Web Enablement Common (SWE) Standard.The OGC Web Coverage Service Standard (WCS) Extension for CF-netCDF Encoding provides a way for users of CF-NetCDF (http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/) data to use the OpenGIS Web Coverage Service Interface Standard (WCS).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, Inc. (OGC(R)) announces the formation of Domain Working Groups (DWG) for Hydrology (http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/hydrologydwg ) and Meteorology (http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/meteodwg ).The OGC’s standards are enabling a new degree of interoperability within and between the hydrology and meteorology communities.This working group is to be hosted by the OGC and co-chaired by a representative from the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) Commission for Hydrology (CHy) (http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/hwrp/chy/chy_index.html ).The OGC’s current standards are enabling a new degree of interoperability within and between the hydrology and meteorology communities.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
Wayland, Mass., April 21, 2009.On Wednesday, April 29, 2009, from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDT, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) will conduct a free webinar demonstrating results from the OGC Web Services, Phase 6 (OWS-6) testbed activity.Compliance and Interoperability Test and Evaluation (CITE): Continued development of robust test and certification tools for OGC standards.The webinar will demonstrate OWS-6 achievements involving Web services architecture and interoperability solutions that are documented in OGC Engineering Reports.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.
OGC standards are becoming widely used in the geospatial world and they hold the key to building geospatial data infrastructures based on interoperable components.While market demand for standards-compliant components is growing, many end users have questions about how the standards work and how the standards will benefit them in their day to day business.Attendees at the OGC & HellasGI Greek Interoperability Day will have a chance to get first-hand answers to such questions.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/.
At the recent Map World Forum trade show and conference in Hyderabad, India, Indias GIS Development communication network awarded the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) GIS Developments Professional Service to Geospatial Community Award.OGC president and CEO Mark Reichardt accepted the award on behalf of OGC members, staff and Board of Directors.Reichardt and OGC Director Bob Moses held an OGC Global Advisory Council fact finding session with 15 prominent industry and government leaders.A Steering Committee under the Global Advisory Council will be formed to help Indian OGC members create an OGC India Forum and to help with outreach to the Indian user community.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 370 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.
The Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has chartered a committee of the Board to specifically address the spatial law and policy issues which will influence development requirements of the Consortiums technology process.The Spatial Law and Policy Committee (SLPC) will be chaired by OGC director and Executive Committee member, Kevin Pomfret, and will be organized under board leadership as an educational forum to include both select member and community participation.David Schell, OGC Chairman, said, The OGC plays an expanding role in addressing societys increasing dependence on geospatial information services.The OGCs Spatial Law and Policy Committee can play a critical role in the development of such a framework.The SLPC, in particular, will provide an open forum for OGC members legal and policy advisors to discuss the unique legal and policy issues associated with spatial data and technology.
- The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is requesting comments on the candidate standard OpenGIS(R) GeoLinking Service (GLS) Interface.For example, a table of populations of cities on one server may not contain the geometry information that describes the cities locations and boundaries, while a second server may house the cities geometry.After the OGCs GLS Standards Working Group has addressed comments received in response to the RFC, the draft standard will be submitted to the OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee for their review and possible approval as an adopted OGC Standard.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.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), Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) have announced a Climate Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP) to be launched at the FOSS4G conference, 20-23 October 2009, http://2009.foss4g.org.The CCIP will demonstrate standards based interoperability between geospatial applications based on a Climate Change scenario.Companies or individuals interested in sponsoring or participating in the Climate Change Integration Plugfest should contact Greg Buehler .The theme for 2009 is User Driven, highlighting the power of Open Source to integrate with existing systems.http://2009.foss4g.orgThe Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software.
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Wayland, Mass., January 7, 2009 - In Valencia, Spain, at the December Technical Committee meetings of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), the OGC and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to coordinate in advancing open geospatial standards (OGCs mission) and open source geospatial software and data (OSGeos mission).Vendors of proprietary software have found that todays more open and complex business ecosystem, which includes both open source software and open standards, is good for their businesses.Open source software is software that has been designed and developed in an open, community process.The OSGeo is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial technologies and data.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
Orleans, France, December 10, 2008: An OGC Interoperability Day was held Tuesday, 9 December, 2008, at BRGM in Orleans, France.This event, organized by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) France Forum with the support of the Conseil Régional du Centre, followed the OGC Technical Committee meeting, an international event held last week in Valencia, Spain.Established in April 2008, the French Forum of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is a platform for government, academic, research and industry organizations in France to learn about and discuss issues related to interoperability of geographic information involving OGC standards.The Forum seeks to promote interoperability and create synergy between the various producers and users of geographic information and geomatics products and services in France.The Forum also provides a way for French organizations to coordinate their efforts to ensure that French requirements are addressed by the international standards of the OGC.
At the September meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) in Norcross, Georgia, Terry Fisher received an OGC Lifetime Achievement Award.He served in the OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee and served as Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) (www.ceos.org/) liaison with OGC.In CEOS, he helped the international Earth observation community become a leading implementer community for OGC.Mark Reichardt, president of OGC, said, Terry has been a force behind GeoConnections endorsement and deployment of OGC standards, which has led to the CGDI becoming the largest single implementation community for OGC.More than any other individual, Terry Fisher has been responsible for Canada becoming a global model for National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) development that takes full advantage of OGC standards.
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 https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=30415The OGC Technical Committees Spatial Data Quality Working Group, under the leadership of Blue Marble (www.bluemarblegeo.com) President Patrick Cunningham (Vice Chair), and Seb Lessware (Chair) of 1Spatial (www.1spatial.com), developed the survey and distributed it to thousands of geospatial data suppliers and users around the world.The goal of the survey was to provide user feedback to guide the OGCs development of appropriate terms of quality measure and a robust spatial data quality model.With this data, we will be able to move forward with the Working Groups directive of researching the best framework for spatial data quality standards.The mission of the Data Quality Working Group of the OGC Technical Committee is to provide a forum for describing an interoperable framework or model for OGC quality assurance measures and Web services.
The WfMC is excited for this partnership between the two respective industry leaders, explained Nathaniel Palmer, Executive Director of the Workflow Management Coalition.It took strong interoperable standards to deliver the geo-enabled Web that is critical to all business today.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.Founded in 1993, the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) is a global organization of over 300 adopters, developers, consultants, analysts, and university and research groups engaged in workflow and BPM.The WfMC creates and contributes to process related standards, educates the market on related issues, and is the only standards organization that concentrates purely on process.
All organizations and individuals with expertise in the building information management field are encouraged to review and respond to the RFQ / CFP.The buildingSMART alliance and OGC decided that OGCs Interoperability Program is the right mechanism to encourage broad international participation in solving well-defined sets of AECOO community problems; facilitating cooperation among AECOO standards bodies; and achieving results no group could achieve alone.buildingSMART International and its National Chapters and the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) including its buildingSMART alliance and National Building Information Modeling Standard (NBIMS) Project have large roles in the ultimate success of this testbed.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.Visit the buildingSMART alliance website at http://www.buildingsmartalliance.org.
Wayland, MA May 1, 2008 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) program Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) is implementing a number of OGC standards.NOAA will begin the effort by establishing interoperable access to online databases maintained by the National Weather Service (NWS) National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), the National Ocean Service (NOS) Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) and the National Environmental Satellite Data Information Service (NESDIS) CoastWatch Program.This will be accomplished using web service interface and encoding standards developed by the OGC.The use of interoperable standards to study the ocean ecosystem will help to yield a range of environmental, social and economic benefits.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
Wayland, Mass., April 14, 2008 - The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today announced the approval of the OpenGIS® KML Encoding Standard (OGC KML), marking KMLs transition into an open standard which will be maintained by the OGC.The OpenGIS KML 2.2 Encoding Standard formalizes the KML 2.2 model and language while remaining backwards compatible with existing KML 2.2 files and tools.In comparison with the GoogleTM KML 2.2 Reference, the standard defines:the KML 2.2 geometry encoding and interpolation modelan extension model in support of application profilesconformance requirements and test casesThe adopted OpenGIS KML 2.2 Encoding Standard (OGC KML) is available athttp://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/kml/.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Google and Google Earth are trademarks of Google Inc.
OASIS Standards enable a broad set of capabilities, and OGCs standards apply wherever where and when are included, explained Mark Reichardt, President and CEO of the OGC.This committee developed the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL), OASIS Standards.The OGCs Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards reference CAP and other relevant OASIS alerting standards including the OASIS Web Services Notification (WS-N) and Asynchronous Service Access Protocol (ASAP) specifications.About OASISOASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) drives the development, convergence, and adoption of open standards for the global information society.OASIS open standards offer the potential to lower cost, stimulate innovation, grow global markets, and protect the right of free choice of technology.
Wayland, Mass., February 19, 2008 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is requesting public comment on the candidate CityGML Encoding Standard.CityGML is a Geography Markup Language 3 (GML3) application schema for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D city models.CityGML is a common information model for the representation of 3D urban objects.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 345 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial 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) Spatial Data Quality Working Group is pleased to announce that there has been a great response to the survey on spatial data quality measures.A survey on spatial data quality has been live since mid-October 2007, targeting thousands of geospatial data suppliers and users from around the world.However, before this is possible it is necessary to ascertain what organizations involved in the marketplace understand and mean when they use the term spatial data quality.The Working Group hopes this survey will reach thousands of geospatial data users and provide a solid foundation for developing relevant terms of measure and a powerful spatial data quality model.The modern era demands the unconstrained sharing of spatial data between systems, business areas, organisations, and the public.
- The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) seeks public comment on a draft Sensor Alert Service (SAS) Standard.The draft OGC® Sensor Alert Service standard defines an alert and notification mechanism that specifies how alert or alarm conditions are defined, detected, and made available to interested users.The Sensor Alert Service uses the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) to provide the push-based notification functionality.This draft standard can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/44.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
Industry Leaders Support Organizations Commitment to Geospatial InteroperabilityWayland, MA and San Antonio, TX, October 23, 2007 - Today, at the annual Geoint 2007 Symposium, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced that Microsoft Corporation has joined the consortium as a Principal Member.According to David Schell, Chairman and CEO of OGC, Microsofts support of OGCs standards process signifies the further maturation of world markets for products and services which require geospatial capabilities.Through its involvement with OGC, Microsoft is able to ensure the geospatial interoperability of its technology, including its flagship geospatial offerings - the Microsoft Virtual Earth platform - and Microsoft SQL Server 2008, which is scheduled to ship in the second quarter of calendar year 2008.About The Open Geospatial ConsortiumThe OGC® is an international industry consortium of more than 350 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
The OGC® Technical Committees Spatial Data Quality Working Group (WG) has been gathering information and requirements from OGC members for the past year and has now begun primary research on spatial data quality measures.Their survey on spatial data quality went live on Monday, October 15, targeting thousands of geospatial data suppliers and users from around the world.The group seeks to develop an interoperable framework or model for OGC Quality Assurance Web Services that will enable improved access and sharing of high quality geospatial information.To achieve this goal it is necessary to learn what organizations mean when using the term spatial data quality.We encourage all geospatial users to participate in this survey and build momentum in this increasingly important area of the geospatial industry.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
Wayland, MA, October 15, 2007 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today announced that Northrop Grumman Corporation has upgraded its OGC membership from Principal Member to Strategic Member.Strategic Membership is the highest level of membership in OGC.Northrop Grummans membership is through Northrop Grummans Information Technology sector.Northrop Grumman joined OGC in 1996 and has been either a Strategic or Principal Member of the Consortium since 2001.As a premier integrator for the geoprocessing and imagery communities and now as a Strategic Member in OGC, Northrop Grumman plays a leading role in the development and implementation of OGC standards for geospatial interoperability.Northrop Grummans continuing commitment to OGC reflects the companys understanding of their diverse clients needs for interoperable geoprocessing.Northrop Grumman is able to help companies and agencies address increasingly complex problems that involve sharing spatial data and processing resources.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued an addendum to its May 11 Request for Quotes/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) for the OGC Web Services, Phase 5 (OWS-5) Interoperability Initiative.OWS-5 is a testbed to advance OGCs open geospatial interoperability framework.The OWS Core + Extensions work item involves participants implementing a more formal and modular approach to structuring OGC standards.OWS testbeds are part of OGCs Interoperability Program, a global, hands-on and collaborative prototyping program designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven candidate specifications into OGCs Specification Program, where they are formalized for public release.In OGCs Interoperability Initiatives, international teams of technology providers work together to solve specific geoprocessing interoperability problems posed by the Initiatives sponsoring organizations.
Wayland, MA, September 5, 2007 - Six of the nine regional 2007 The User and the GEOSS Architecture workshops organized by the IEEE, ISPRS and OGC have been completed.In regional scientific application scenarios, the workshops demonstrate publishing, discovery, and access of complex geospatial data and online processing services using existing OGC standards consistent with the architecture principals of the GEOSS 10 Year Implementation Plan.Most recently, The Impact of Climate Change and Variability on Biodiversity and Energy in the Arctic was demonstrated by Compusult, CIESIN and IMAA-CNR on 19-20 August 2007.The demonstration will address access to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Data Distribution Centres for data to support regional decision makers considering the predicted effects of climate change.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have approved the OpenGIS® Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Implementation Specification (a profile of the Web Map Service) and the related OpenGIS Symbology Encoding Implementation Specification.The OpenGIS® Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) profile of the Web Map Service Implementation Specification defines an encoding that extends the Web Map Service specification to allow user-defined symbolization of feature and coverage data.Symbology Encoding provides this language, while the SLD profile of WMS enables application of Symbology Encoding to WMS layers using extensions of WMS operations.The OpenGIS Symbology Encoding Implementation Specification defines Symbology Encoding, an XML language for styling information that can be applied to digital Feature and Coverage data.The OpenGIS® Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) profile of the Web Map Service is, together with the OpenGIS Symbology Encoding Implementation Specification, the direct follow-up of Styled Layer Descriptor Implementation Specification 1.0.0.
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) seeks public comment on two draft OpenGIS® Implementation Specifications:1) The OpenGIS Geospatial eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (GeoXACML) Draft Implementation Specification (OGC Document 07-026) defines a geo-specific extension to the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) OASIS standard.This draft specification can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/41.2) The OpenGIS Image Geopositioning Service (IGS) Draft Implementation Specification defines an Image Geopositioning Service (IGS) interface to services that perform triangulation.Suggested additions, changes, and comments on these draft specifications are welcome and encouraged.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
Wayland, MA, March April 18, 2007 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) has issued a Request For Quotations and Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) to solicit proposals in response to requirements for the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) Interoperability Pilot.The CGDI Interoperability Pilot is sponsored by GeoConnections, a Canadian partnership program whose primary objective is to evolve and expand the CGDI.GeoConnections and the OGC intend to involve as many participants in the initiative as possible and thus are soliciting proposals that will enhance and/or make use of the initiative outcomes.Responses are due by 2 May 2007 and the Pilot Kickoff Meeting will be held the week of 25 June 2007.Provincial stakeholders will receive business consulting and technical assistance with the implementation of onsite OGC standards-based components.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
Wayland, MA, March April 18, 2007 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) has issued a Call for Participation (CFP) in the Architecture Implementation Pilot, which is a coordinated interoperability initiative of GEOSS, FedEO and Tri-Lateral initiatives.Responses are due by 11 May 2007 and the Pilot Kickoff Meeting will be held 5-6 June 2007 in ESRIN the European Space Agencys establishment in Italy.This CFP seeks participants in a coordinated Architecture Implementation Pilot.A Pilot is a collaborative effort that applies open standards for interoperability to achieve user objectives in an environment representative of operational use.Outcomes include best-practices and interoperability arrangements suitable for an operational capability.This CFP seeks proposals from organizations involved with Earth Observation systems to:The CFP was initiated to solicit response for the GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot.The Pilot aims to incorporate contributed components consistent with the GEOSS Architecture - using a solicited GEO Web Portal and a GEOSS Clearinghouse search facility - to access services through GEOSS Interoperability Arrangements in support of the GEO Societal Benefit Areas.The Pilot benefits from the collaborative support of two OGC Interoperability Program Pilots:The Architecture Implementation Pilot CFP documents can be downloaded from https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=20953.
Wayland, MA, April 12, 2007 - Robert Frances Group (RFG), an international Information Technology consulting and research group and the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to cooperate in promoting the use of geospatial technologies in business.The two organizations plan to leverage their strengths to enable organizations to better leverage and benefit from location information.Many executives are unaware of the possibilities available by exploiting location, said Ron Exler, Vice President and Research Fellow at RFG who leads their location work.It has published a number of research papers about the value of geospatial information in business.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
Wayland, Mass., April 10, 2007 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is pleased to announce that its membership has approved an abstract specification for the management of digital rights in the area of geospatial data and services.The Geospatial Digital Rights Management Reference Model (GeoDRM RM) (available at https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=17802 ), is Topic 18 of The OpenGIS® Abstract Specification.The goal of the GeoDRM effort in the OGC is to make sure that a larger market has access to geospatial resources through a well understood and common mechanism that enables more than todays all or nothing protection.A key aspect of the GeoDRM RM is that it is independent of the type of agreement between the participants.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
Wayland, MA, March 13, 2007 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced that Bentley Systems, Incorporated has upgraded to become a Principal Member in the OGC.Principal Members have complete authority over the specification release and adoption process through their voting rights in the Planning Committee (PC).The OGC is pleased that Bentley has chosen to assume a leadership position in the consortiums membership, Sam Bacharach, Executive Director of the Outreach Program, said.Carey Mann, Vice President Geospatial Solutions for Bentley, added, Bentley is pleased to take this central role at the OGC.Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the worlds infrastructure.2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study.To receive Bentley press releases as they are issued, visit www.bentley.com/bentleywire .
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and the Web3D Consortium signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to cooperatively advance standards to support web-based 3D visualization, modeling and simulation.Mark Reichardt, President of the OGC explained, The OGC membership, working with ISO TC/211 and other standards groups, has helped to make standards-based interoperable geospatial services a reality on the Web.Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org The Web3D Consortium is a non-profit, international standards organization that originally spearheaded the development of the VRML 1.0 and 2.0 specifications.Today, the Web3D Consortium is utilizing its broad-based industry support to continue developing the X3D specification, for communicating 3D on the Web, between applications and across distributed networks and web services.Through well-coordinated efforts with the ISO and W3C, and now the OGC, the Web3D Consortium is maintaining and extending its standardization activities.Visit the Web3D Consortium at http://www.web3d.org
Software services based on open architectures have opened the door to standardized tasking of Earth imaging satellites, explained Mandl.NASA also supported the live demonstration showcasing the NASA Earth Science Gateway as a successful implementation of open standards in support of better decision making.The Geospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA) co-hosted the Interoperability Day Seminar, which highlighted successful applications of standards-based interoperable geospatial technologies.FM Global, a major insurer of large buildings, industrial complexes, and facilities around the world, depends heavily on geospatial data and processing to maintain its leadership position in the industry, so it is actively engaged in the integration of geospatial standards with building information model standards.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
Wayland, MA, September 21, 2006 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC), in association with the Geospatial Information and TechnologyAssociation (GITA) will host an Interoperability Day Seminar focusingon the confirmed benefits of using standards-based interoperablegeospatial technologies and the challenges for the future.A diverse panel with representatives from Oak Ridge National Labs,Canadian Forest Service, U.S.During lunch and the social, OGCmembers will be available to demonstrate their interoperable solutionsat the Vendor Interoperability Showcase.The OGC® is an international industry consortium of more than 320companies, government agencies, research organizations, anduniversities participating in a consensus process to develop publiclyavailable interface specifications.The specifications empowertechnology developers to make complex spatial information and servicesaccessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
From a user perspective, that means that once a watershed model is selected, the necessary data sets are automatically chosen.The dataset will provide a visual backdrop for modeling.FMSM Engineers, of Louisville, KY, will provide expertise on watershed modeling and will help develop Web services to access local data sources.See http://www.opengeospatial.org ESRI has been dedicated to the building and use of geographic information systems (GIS) for more than 30 years.Our suite of geospatial information services focused on:FMSM was founded in 1966 as a civil engineering and design firm with emphasis in geotechnical engineering and related earth sciences.Because of our intense focus on our clients and their need for solutions to complicated problems, our service offerings have grown to include environmental, water resources and seismic engineering, geographic information systems, and information systems.
Wayland, MA, June 15, 2006 - Interoperable OGC Web Services (OWS) applied to the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) architecture were successfully demonstrated at a 22-23 May 2006 workshop at the 2006 International Symposium on Future Intelligent Earth Observing Satellites (FIEOS06) in Beijing, China.This was the third in a series of GEOSS Architecture workshops organized by IEEE.The workshop, titled The User and GEOSS Architecture III, focused on wind energy and natural resource management.In China the aim to use satellite imagery and database information for wind resource mapping is higher than anywhere else I have seen.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless andlocation-based services, and mainstream IT.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
Fortunately, it is now possible, through collaboration on open standards, to remove the technical barriers that have prevented interoperability among the computer aided design and geospatial systems used in these activities.We look forward to working with the OGC to advance a standards framework that will bring these disciplines closer together.The alliance between IAI International and the OGC is a major step in addressing a coordinated standards solution.”The OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 300 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
Wayland, Mass., April 3, 2006 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) requests public comment on a candidate specification, the OpenGIS® GeoDRM Reference Model [ http://www.opengeospatial.org/specs/?page=requests&request=rfpc30 ].The specification provides a standard system of operating agreements and associated open specifications for Web services that will enable broader use of geodata while protecting the rights of producers and users.The reference model will be valuable not only for commercial sellers and distributors of data, for also those who lend data in the way that libraries lend books.Comments received will be consolidated and reviewed by OGC members for incorporation into the document before it goes to a vote for adoption by the OGC as an OpenGIS Specification.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
March 13, 2006, Wayland, Massachusetts - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) announces the availability of two online multimedia demonstrations documenting the milestones achieved in the OGC Web Services Phase 3 Initiative, (OWS-3).The focus of the presentations is to share the OWS-3 goals and to provide a synopsis of the final demonstration.The presentations are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/demo/ows3/ The interactive demonstration uses the Macromedia Flash player to show short movies of client applications.Among the topics addressed are catalog services, digital rights management, Web mapping and sensor services.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
gpercivall [at] opengeospatial.orgJanuary 6, 2006, Wayland, Massachusetts., The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a call for sponsors for the OGC Web Services, Phase 4 (OWS-4) Interoperability Initiative, a testbed to advance OGCs open interoperability framework for geospatial capabilities.In last years OWS-3 initiative, participants advanced specifications relating to Sensor Web Enablement, Geospatial Decision Support Services, Geospatial Digital Rights Management, Open Location Services and OWS common architecture.In OGCs Interoperability Initiatives, international teams of technology providers work together to solve specific geoprocessing interoperability problems posed by the Initiatives sponsoring organizations.OGC Interoperability Initiatives include test beds, pilot projects, interoperability experiments and interoperability support services - all designed to encourage rapid development, testing, validation and adoption of OpenGIS standards.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
Wayland, Mass, and Uttar Pradesh, India, September 16, 2005 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and GIS Development Pvt.Ltd recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to grow the market for interoperable geospatial solutions in Asia Pacific and Middle East.They also work together to attract organizations from the areas into OGC membership and GIS Development programs.GIS Development promotes the use of geospatial technologies for the community at large by fostering the growing network of those interested in geo-informatics worldwide.GIS Development strives to promote and propagate the usage of geospatial technologies in various areas of development for the community at large.
Wayland, MA, September 9, 2005 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced the signing of a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Digital Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG) Secretariat and the OGC.DGIWG wishes to transition from creating military specific standards to using consensus industry and international standards wherever possible.Mark Reichardt, OGC President, explained that the benefit to OGC comes from the close connection to users that this MOU provides.The OGC and DGIWG will at times collocate their meetings to provide an opportunity for the OGC and DGIWG member outreach, networking and discussion of programs and issues.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
Wayland, MA, August 5, 2005 - OGC Web Services (OWS) as applied to the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) architecture were successfully demonstrated to an IEEE-OGC-ISPRS GEOSS Workshop on 24 July 2005 in Seoul, Korea.The geospatial communitys development, adoption and implementation of OGC specifications provides a broad based capability to implement GEOSS.The GMU client accessed layers of Tsunami damage summaries provided by a server that implemented the OpenGIS Web Map Server Specification (WMS).Next, imagery was accessed from a Spot Image server - via an interface implementing the OpenGIS Web Coverage Server Specification(R) (WCS) - to see additional detailed damage from the Tsunami.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
gpercivall [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, 17 May, 2005 - The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) will soon begin an Interoperability Experiment to create a draft specification and implementations of a Sensor Alert Service (SAS).Therefore, this Interoperability Experiment will create a draft Sensor Alert Service (SAS) specification for consideration by the OGC SWE Working Group.An initial task of the SAS Interoperability Experiment will be to determine if existing standards meet the focused SAS requirements.The SAS Interoperability Experiment Initiator Team is comprised of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Radiance Technology; Innovative Research, Ideas, & Services Corporation (IRIS); and Intergraph.Other OGC members are encouraged to participate in or sign on as observers for this Interoperability Experiment.
Call to Action Is Key Step in Averting Proprietary Interface Wayland, MA, October 21, 2004 - The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) today launched a digital rights management (DRM)-related project aimed at collecting essential information from governments, businesses, and academia.Geospatial DRM manages all rights, not only the rights applicable to permissions over digital geographic data.This framework is comprised of OGC Web services specifications and related standards developed by the broader information technology industry.The application of DRM to geographic activities differs somewhat from its function in other arenas, such as music, where digital rights management solutions are applied, Reichardt added.The alternative is the further fragmentation of data and service sectors promoted by vertical proprietary rights management solutions.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (formerly the Open GIS Consortium), announced that it will conduct live, multi-vendor demonstrations of Web-based geoprocessing interoperability at Interoperability 2004 - Integrating process, organization, systems.This conference, organized by the Institute for Defense & Government Advancement (IDGA) will be held October 20 - 21, 2004 in Washington, DC.The demonstrations will be part of a Wednesday, October 20 workshop titled, Net Centric Interoperability for Multi-Source Integration and Application.A standards-based interoperability framework for geospatial data and Web-based geoprocessing services is of critical importance to the advancement of NCES, Horizontal Fusion initiatives, and other critical DoD and homeland security objectives.OGCs framework, the product of a decade-long, global industry effort, has been tested and broadly implemented in the geospatial technology marketplace.
Wayland, MA, September 22, 2004 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces that the OpenGIS® Catalog Services Specification 2.0 has been adopted by the OGC membership.Catalog services are required to support the discovery of registered network accessible resources within and between collaborating communities that seek to share information and processing resources efficiently.Uwe Voges of con terra GmbH (Germany) explains that, The new version enables the development of standardized and interoperable Catalog Services throughout Europe.In particular, it supports application profiles that conform to ISO 19106 (Geographic information - Profiles).Hence, con terra, lat/lon and others are developing an application profile for ISO 19115/ISO 19119 metadata that allows the implementation of interoperable catalog services that handle metadata about geospatial data, services and applications.
In this capacity Mr. Reichardt will assume day-to-day operational management of the company and responsibility for implementation of the corporate business plan.In his new position Mr. Reichardt is also appointed to the OGC Board of Directors and will serve on the boards Executive Committee.Before joining the OGC, Mr. Reichardt was involved in mapping technology modernization and production programs for the Department of Defense.Mr. Reichardt helped establish several international collaborative agreements to advance proven practices regarding Spatial Data Infrastructure.He has also managed key interoperability initiatives and has extensively represented the OGC community at industry events around the world.
Wayland, MA, USA, September 07, 2004 - The Web Simulation Partnership announced that online registration for its Second Workshop on Web Enabled Modeling and Simulation is now available at http://www.omg.org/registration/ .The Object Management Group (OMG), Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO), and Web3D Consortium agreed last year to collaborate on open, non-proprietary standards for Modeling and Simulation (M&S) and related technologies, forming the Web Simulation Partnership.Technologies such as the World Wide Web, and Global Grid Computing, and Utility Computing are transforming the way that Modeling and Simulation services are provided to the vast collection of user communities.About the Web Simulation Partners: The Object Management Group (OMG) is an open membership, not-for-profit consortium that produces and maintains computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications.The Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) focuses on facilitating simulation interoperability and component reuse across the DoD, other government, and non-government applications.
Wayland, MA, USA, September 1, 2004 - Today the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) announced it has changed its name to the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.It also highlights the importance of OGC Web services standards as part of information technology best practices for integrating geospatial processing into service oriented architectures and enterprise workflows.The market focus on GIS and GIS experts has shifted in recent years to one championing geospatial processing and content availability to decision makers.Instead, they can focus on their areas of expertise and capitalize on the increased - but more and more invisible - access to geospatial processing.Much like the Internets search engines and travel services, geospatial services and content are now available online for direct use.
At the OGCs 50th Technical Committee meeting this month in Southampton, UK, two new Technical Committee working groups were formed: the Geospatial Digital Rights Management Working Group (GeoDRM WG) and the University Working Group (University WG).GeoDRM Working Group As geographic content becomes widely available over ubiquitous networks, it becomes easier to distribute, share, copy and alter that data.GeoDRM chair Graham Vowles of the UK Ordnance Survey said of this new working group, The GeoDRM Working Group will make it possible to build a viable business based on Web accessible geospatial data and services.University Working Group Academic institutions from 26 nations constitute approximately one third of the OGCs 260 members.The chair of the University Working Group, Ingo Simonis of the University of Muenster, in Germany, said, This is an exciting time for the OGCs academic members.
At the June meeting of the Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) in Southampton, UK, Martin Daly received the annual Kenneth G. Gardels Award.The Gardels Award is awarded each year to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to advancing the OGC vision of geographic information fully integrated into the worlds information systems.He wrote the compliance tests for the Grid Coverages and Coordinate Transformation Services specifications.The award is given annually in memory of Kenneth Gardels, one of the founding directors of OGC and OGCs former director of academic programs.Mr. Gardels coined the term Open GIS, and devoted his life to the humane and democratic uses of geographic information systems.
Wayland, MA, May 25, 2004 - The Open GIS Consortium Inc. (OGC) invites participation in an Interoperability Experiment that will result in a proposed XML schema for encoding OGC Web Services Context documents (OWS Context).Cadcorp, DM Solutions, GeoConnections/Natural Resources Canada, and IONIC Software have initiated the OGC Web Services Context Document Schema Interoperability Experiment.The OpenGIS Web Map Service Specification (WMS), used widely in the marketplace, specifies how individual web map servers describe and provide their map content.Building on the Web Map Context Document, the OWS Context Document experiment will produce a draft schema for referencing other OGC Web Services, such as Web Feature Services (WFS) and Web Coverage Services (WCS).Interoperability Experiments, a new kind of OGC Interoperability Initiative, are brief, low-overhead initiatives led and executed by OGC members to achieve specific technical objectives that further the OGC Technical Baseline.
The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) announced the Canadian Interoperability Day, an all-day event to be held on April 23 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.The Canadian Interoperability Day is sponsored by OGC, PCI Geomatics and GeoConnections - a Canadian partnership initiative led by Natural Resources Canada.Canadian agencies, organizations and companies will attend the Canadian Interoperability Day to learn about, witness and discuss the use of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) and the OpenGIS(R) Specifications that are a central part of the CGDIs standards infrastructure.The Canadian Interoperability Day is free and open to employees of the Canadian federal government, but attendees must register at the OGCs web site at http://www.opengeospatial.org/events/?page=040423 .About PCI Geomatics PCI Geomatics is a world leading developer of image-centric geomatics software solutions.
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.
Members of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) will demonstrate how that can happen using OpenGIS(R) Interface Specifications at the Geospatial Information Technology Association (GITA) Annual Conference 27 in Seattle, Washington April 25-28, 2004.OGC members will demonstrate how their products take advantage of OGC interfaces to optimize discovery, access, integration and application of geospatial information and applications on servers accessible via the Internet.Vendors will illustrate a range of OpenGIS Specifications, including Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Coordinate Transformation, Grid Coverages, Simple Features, Catalog and Geography Markup Language (GML) Specifications.Attendees are also invited to a half-day seminar titled Open GIS-Improving Interoperability and sessions on OGC topics including Open GIS Interoperability: A Requirement for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security and Geospatial Interoperability by Design.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
The OGC also announced that PCI Geomatics and GeoConnections are sponsoring a Canadian Interoperability Day, a one-day event on April 23 to be held at the same location.The Canadian Interoperability Day is free and open to employees of the Canadian federal government, but attendees must register at OGCs Web site.About OGC OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 250 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications.About PCI Geomatics PCI Geomatics is a world-leading developer of image-centric geomatics software solutions.PCI Geomatics flagship solution, Geomatica, meets the growing demands of the Remote Sensing, GIS, Cartography, and Photogrammetry worlds.
Members of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) will demonstrate how that can happen using OpenGIS(R) Interface Specifications at the GeoTec Event 2004 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 28-31, 2004.OGC members will demonstrate how their products take advantage of OGC interfaces to optimize discovery, access, integration and application of geospatial information and applications on servers accessible via the Internet.Vendors will illustrate a range of OpenGIS Specifications, including Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Coordinate Transformation, Grid Coverages, Simple Features, Catalog and Geography Markup Language (GML) Specifications.There will also be a panel discussion on OGC Interoperability through Oracle Database Toolkits.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
kbuehler [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, March 19, 2004 - The Open GIS Consortium Inc. (OGC) announced the successful March 8-12, 2004 kickoff of a major new Interoperability Initiative to develop and enhance OGC Web Services (OWS) standards that enable easy discovery, access and use of geographic data and geoprocessing services.Requirements categories include: - Common Architecture: Enabling OpenGIS® Web Services utilizing W3Cs WSDL and SOAP standards.- Conformance & Interoperability Testing & Evaluation: Developing compliance tests for and improving the OpenGIS Specifications for Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Web Coverage Service (WCS), and Catalog Services - Web (CS-W).A Reference Implementation for Web Coverage Server and for Catalog Services - Web will be created under this initiative.Standards-based Commercial-of-the-shelf clients to OGC Web Services will be extended to meet the requirements of the government communities represented by the agencies sponsoring OWS-2.
Wayland, Mass., February 20, 2004 - Open GIS Consortium Inc. (OGC) members have implemented a new, automated compliance testing process to validate compliance for software products that implement OpenGIS® Specifications.OGC compliance certification is an important milestone for software providers, as it assures users that products properly implement OpenGIS Specifications.Developers that successfully test for specification compliance can apply for formal OGC certification.Once granted, developers can affix the Certified OGC Compliant seal on their products and marketing materials.The crowning glory of the program is that a general online testing framework is now in place that can be easily extended for each new OGC Web Service Specification that is adopted, bringing OGC compliance testing and certification into the mainstream geospatial information arena.
Wayland, MA, November 20, 2003 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is issuing a Request for Quotations and a Call For Participation in the Emergency Mapping Symbology (EMS) Initiative.This call seeks interested technology providers to make proposals in response to a defined set of requirements addressing interoperability needs for the use of symbology in emergency mapping.The EMS Initiative will mature OGCs specification framework for interoperable geographic symbolization while simultaneously testing emerging standard map symbol sets for emergency response developed by national-level agencies.This initiative is expected to help shape the future of interoperable technology to meet Emergency Management and Response requirements.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
Wayland, MA, November 19, 2003 - The joint work of the Open GIS Consortium Inc. (OGC) and the Institute for Professional Education (IPE) has already impacted the geospatial interoperability landscape.Richard Whitney, president of IPE commented, We see the partnership as an innovative and constructive way of developing and delivering content important to the user community.Geospatial interoperability is one of the topics we are hearing more and more about from both business and the public sector side of information technology.Global Science & Technology (GST), Inc. is an OGC member and partner with IPE in the delivery of the Geospatial Interoperability training.Lee Meeks, of General Dynamics, who attended the Geospatial Interoperability for Managers class, described the class as an outstanding seminar.
This new TIGER/GML® data format is being tested for public acceptance as a standards-based alternative to the TIGER/Line® format currently used to distribute TIGER data.The WebTIGER and WebBAS application demonstrations are the first steps in ground-breaking change for the Census Bureau and OGC.Equally important, the applications plug directly into other systems and portals that support OGC specifications, including GOS.Anne Satterlee of the City of Fort Pierce, Florida was the first local tester of the on-line WebBAS application.The architecture produced as part of this effort can be used to assure the interoperability of future Census Bureau procurements.
jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, October 3, 2003- The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is issuing a Call for Sponsors for an Emergency Mapping Symbology (EMS) Initiative.This call seeks interested Sponsors to provide input on technology requirements and concepts to address interoperability needs for emergency mapping and homeland security.The development of standards for emergency mapping will strengthen coordination, communication and interoperability.If your organization is interested in driving the evolution of geospatial interoperability and emergency mapping standards by sponsoring and/or participating in the Emergency Mapping Symbology (EMS) Initiative please contact Mr. Jeff Harrison, OGC Executive Director, Program Development, by telephone at (703) 628-8655, or by e-mail at.The EMS Initiative is part of the next phase of OGCs Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative (CIPI), an OGC Interoperability Initiative designed to test the application of interoperable technology to meet critical infrastructure and homeland security detection, prevention, planning, response, and recovery challenges.
Wayland, MA, July 16, 2003 - In June, OGC members voted to adopt the OpenGIS(R) Location Services (OpenLS(TM)) Implementation Specification, and the OpenGIS Web Map Context Implementation Specification.
The associated portal architecture, based on a design philosophy compatible with that of the US Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) is well positioned to support future construction of a national infrastructure of interoperable portal capabilities.The OGC portal and associated architecture are the product of a recent U.S. Government contract to design and validate a comprehensive, multi-vendor geospatial portal and associated architecture.The OGC portal effort was managed within OGCs Interoperability Program, a global, collaborative, hands-on engineering and testing program that rapidly delivers proven candidate specifications into OGCs Specification Program, where they are formalized for public release.Questions about the Interoperability Program should be addressed to Mr. Jeff Harrison, Executive Director,, or +1 (703) 491-9543.Questions about the OGC Portal and Architecture should be addressed to Mr. Mark Reichardt, Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption,, or +1 (301) 840-1361.
sales [at] questerra.comWayland, MA, June 27, 2003 - Questerra, a wholly owned subsidiary of MeadWestvaco Corporation (NYSE: MWV), and the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) have announced that Questerra has become a Strategic Member of the OGC.As a Strategic Member, Questerra is in a position to provide real leadership on the business intelligence and visualization frontier.About Questerra Questerra is a provider of information technology and services to Global 2000 companies and governments worldwide.About MeadWestvaco MeadWestvaco, headquartered in Stamford, Conn., is a leading global producer of packaging, coated and specialty papers, consumer and office products, and specialty chemicals.About OGC OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 250 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications.
Recently, OGC members voted to release a document describing the Critical Infrastructure Collaborative Environment (CICE) Architecture.The CICE Architecture can be downloaded at http://ip.opengeospatial.org/cip/ .Applications for critical infrastructure protection, asset management, damage prevention and incident management depend on geospatial information.OGC has established the website to encourage an ongoing dialog and partnership to advance geoprocessing and location-based services objectives of critical infrastructure protection.The CICE Architecture is a living document intended to be a guide / tool for user and developer communities to advance their capabilities rapidly in support of critical infrastructure protection.
Wayland, MA, May 28, 2003 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today announced the availability of the Web Map Service (WMS) Cookbook version 1.0, the first in a planned series of books detailing the implementation and use of OpenGIS(R) Specifications.The Cookbook provides the basic understanding and steps needed for implementing and exploiting the WMS interface and related technologies.Cookbook contributors include software vendors, universities, and local government users of the WMS interface from around the world.Chapter 2 addresses the design architecture of software systems that implement the WMS interface through use-case scenarios, WMS request examples, and illustrations.OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 250 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications.
The sponsors of this phase of the initiative include GeoConnections, led by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), the US Geological Survey (USGS), and General Dynamics - Advanced Information Systems.Not only could the different data be brought together, it could be brought together from different hardware platforms - from mainframes to cell phones - using software from a wide variety of vendors.OGC Web Services will allow distributed geoprocessing systems to communicate with each other using technologies such as XML and HTTP.Questions about the OGC Interoperability Program should be addressed to Mr. Ron Fresne, Interoperability Initiatives Manager,, +1 (703) 707-0261.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
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.
Wayland, MA, April 3, 2003 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today announced that BAE SYSTEMS has renewed its Strategic Membership in OGC.BAE SYSTEMS joined OGC in 1995 and has been a Strategic Member of the Consortium since 2001.The OGC member companies have a strong history of aligning with commercial, national and international priorities and BAE SYSTEMS, as a large systems integrator, takes pride in our involvement with OGC.Under the terms of BAE SYSTEMS Strategic Membership the companys Information Systems Sector provides, on loan to OGC, a senior technical program manager.Mr. Arliss Whiteside, also a BAE SYSTEMS employee, continues to play an active role as the companys Technical Committee representative to OGC.
Wayland, MA, April 2, 2003 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today announced the public release of the OpenGIS(R) Reference Model (ORM).It can help providers of geospatial technology products and geographic data expand their market reach.In most cases, OpenGIS specifications are also submitted to ISO for adoption as international standards.The ORM summarizes and puts in context all the work that OGC members have done since 1994 to develop, test, and deploy OpenGIS Specifications.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
Sessions at the two conferences will also highlight OGCs contribution to making geospatial data and services work together.At the GeoTec Event, a three-paper session titled, Open GIS and the Internet highlights different approaches to solving interoperability challenges using OpenGIS interfaces.Our ongoing relationship with the Open GIS Consortium is expanding - and thats great news for our constituents from local governments, utilities and infrastructure-focused organizations of all types.The event theme, A Spirit of Collaboration, is designed to highlight progress toward geospatial interoperability, said Matt Ball, show manager of the GeoTec Event.Geospatial data initiatives and interoperability developments are breaking down barriers to unleash the collaborative power of geotechnology.
Wayland, MA, February 19, 2003 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces a Request for Comment (RFC) on the proposed Web Map Context Documents Implementation Specification.This proposed specification describes a standardized approach to enable the capture and maintenance of the context - or state information - of a Web Map Server (WMS) request so that this information can be reused easily in the future user session.This RFC is the result of Web Services work accomplished over the past few years as part of OGCs Interoperability Program of fast paced testbeds and pilot projects.This program has led to a foundation of web-based interoperability involving not only map display but also more sophisticated geoprocessing functions, as well as location based services, sensor and camera geolocation, web catalogs of spatial data and spatial web services, and other capabilities.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
February 6, 2003, Wayland, MA, USA - The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) announces the approval and release of Geography Markup Language version 3.0 (GML 3).GML 3 is almost entirely backwards compatible with GML 2, so that developers and users familiar with GML 2 can begin working immediately with GML 3.Like GML 2, GML 3 will play a key role in both spatial data encoding and transport, and in the description of geographic objects for geospatial Web services.Kurt Buehler, OGC CTO explains GML 3s modular structure means that those choosing to use GML can literally pick out the schemas or schema components that apply to their work.GML 3.0 also includes a sample packaging tool that creates a tailored schema containing only the required components from the GML core schemas.
Wayland, MA, February 12, 2003 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) recently presented the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) with the first annual OGC Vision Award.In 1993, the Corps spatial technology team at the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) germinated the interoperability concept that led to the creation of the OGC.ERDC has been instrumental in the creation and success of OGCs Interoperability Program, an ongoing series of testbeds, pilot projects and other activities related to the rapid development and testing of interoperability specifications.Lt. Gen. Robert Flowers, USACE said, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is greatly honored by this recognition for our role in helping OGC introduce interoperability into the spatial technology market.David Schell, President of OGC, said, The spatial technology community is motivated by interest in a wide range of technology applications.
jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgGaithersburg, MD, USA, January 17, 2003 - Sponsors, participants and invited guests joined the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) at Lockheed Martin recently to view the results of the OGC Web Services 1.2 Testbed initiative.Attendees saw the use of live sensors, the tasking of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and the integration of data, services, and other elements hosted on servers worldwide.Draft interfaces for a variety of services, including a Sensor Planning Service, Web Notification Service, Sensor Collection Service, Sensor Markup Language (SensorML), Image Archive Service, Web Coverage Service, and Coverage Portrayal Service each played a part in the procedure.OGC Web Services 1.2 is part of OGCs Interoperability Program, a global, collaborative, hands-on engineering and testing program that rapidly delivers proven candidate specifications into OGCs Specification Program, where they are formalized for public release.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
Wayland, MA, January 22, 2003 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced industry approval of an expanded version of the OpenGIS® Catalog Service Implementation Specification.The OpenGIS Catalog Service Specification version 1.1.1 documents industry consensus regarding an open, standard interface to online catalogs for geographic information and web-accessible geoprocessing services.Catalog services support the ability to publish and search collections of descriptive information (metadata) for data, services, and related information objects.Catalog services are required to support the discovery of registered information resources within and between collaborating communities that seek to share information efficiently.Version 1.1.1 is more comprehensive than earlier OpenGIS® Catalog Service Specification versions and proposals.
OpenGIS Specifications specify common interfaces, encodings and schemas that support the development and deployment of interoperable geospatial solutions, services, data, and applications.The OGC Interoperability Program and the OGC Specification Program are currently focused on OpenGIS(R) Specifications for OGC Web Services (OWS).As producers of geoprocessing products modernize their offerings based on OpenGIS Specifications, users require verification of a vendors product conformance with OpenGIS Specifications.For more information on the Interoperability Program, please contact Mr. Jeff Harrison, OGC Executive Director, Interoperability Program, at (703) 491-9543, or.OpenGIS Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location based services and mainstream IT.
December 2, 2002 - Members of the Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have publicly demonstrated a set of prototype interfaces and schemas that support Location Based Services (LBS) interoperability.These include emergency response, personal navigator, traffic information service, proximity service, location recall, mobile field service, travel directions, restaurant finder, corporate asset locator, concierge, routing, vector map portrayal and interaction, friend finder, and voice directions.The demonstration, held at IIRs November 18, 2002 GIS in Telecoms conference in Nice, France, marked the successful completion of phase 1 of OpenLS.Draft Interface Specifications based on the prototype interfaces and schemas developed in the OpenLS initiative will now be reviewed in the OGC Specification Program.Users will expect, for example, continuity of location services when a cell phone roams from one carriers network to anothers.
jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, November 20, 2002 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced that Phase 1 of its Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative (CIPI-1) recently began with a successful kick-off meeting held in Reston, Virginia.One of the overarching goals is the development of a collaborative, distributed network of critical infrastructure information sources and services based on open standards and specifications.CIPI-1 represents the first of a series of pilot projects to help advance interoperability for critical infrastructure protection and other vital service needs.Their leadership and involvement in CIPI-1, along with sponsors and participants, will be crucial to the success of this initiative, stated Terry Idol, Director of CIPI-1 Initiative for the OGC.Organizations interested in learning more about Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative should contact Mr. Jeff Harrison, Executive Director of OGC Interoperability Programs, (703) 491-9543,.
portal-cfar-comments [at] sunrise.gsfc.nasa.govWayland, MA, USA, November 7, 2002 - The Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) initiative recently issued a Call for Additional Requirements for the Geospatial One-Stop Portal (see http://www.geo-one-stop.gov/cfar/ ).Geospatial One-Stop will provide a Portal for discovery of and access to certain basic themes of geospatial data, known as Framework data.Also, applications such as desktop GIS software, Decision Support Systems, and other services will be able to utilize the Geospatial One-Stop Portal through open software interfaces.The Portal is all about access, said NASAs Myra Bambacus, Acting Executive Director of Geospatial One-Stop.Respondents to the Call for Additional Requirements will help the Geospatial One-Stop Portal Team of state, local, and federal representatives develop the functional requirements of the Portal.
Wayland, MA, USA, October 30, 2002 - Members of the Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have publicly demonstrated a set of prototype interfaces and schemas that support Location-Based Services (LBS) interoperability.Location-Based Services employ real-time positioning technologies and networked resources to enable a wide variety of applications.The demonstration was held at the October 24-25 ETS1: Location-Based Services conference in Reston, Virginia USA.The demonstration marked successful completion of phase 1 of the OGC Open Location Services (OpenLS(TM)) Testbed Initiative.Users will expect, for example, continuity of location services when a cell phone roams from one carriers network to anothers.
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.
Wayland, MA, USA, October 4, 2002 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that OGC President, David Schell this week received a CIO Magazine 20/20 Vision award as a visionary creator/seller of technology.Mr. Schell will participate with other 20/20 Vision award winners on a panel moderated by Esther Dyson at CIO Magazines Perspectives Conference, Oct. 6 - 8 at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort, San Diego, CA.See http://www.cio.com/archive/100102/honoree_dev.html The CIO 20/20 Vision Awards mark the first award program weve done to honor individuals instead of organizations, says Abbie Lundberg, CIO magazines editor-in-chief.Earlier this year, the leadership of the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) nominated Mr. Schell for the CIO 20/20 award.Davids CIO 20/20 Award is a fitting tribute to his vision and hard work, without which we wouldnt have these specifications.
jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgRequest for Quotations Available Sept. 27 Wayland, MA, USA, September 24, 2002 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today the U.S. Census Bureau will sponsor the second phase of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative, CIPI-2.The online editing system will be the first step to moving a currently manual system on the Web.WebTIGER aims to develop a standards-based Web server to serve TIGER® data and map images over the Web.The online TIGER Mapping service, developed as a stand-alone prototype system in the last decade, serves TIGER data from 1998.The OGC Census TIGER/GML® pilot is being conducted as part of CIPI to maximize collaboration and sharing of development activities, technology enhancements, OGC Critical Infrastructure Collaboration Environment (CICE) testing, and web services delivery.
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).
Wayland, MA, June 4, 2002 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced that the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) upgraded its membership level from Principal Member to Strategic Member.NASA has been a member of OGC since its founding in 1994.GIO holds the OGC membership for NASA and coordinates participation in OGC activities.NASAs Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) goal to develop advanced information technologies for processing, archiving, accessing, visualizing, and communicating Earth science data is consistent with OGCs vision.As a Strategic Member, NASA will contribute significant in-kind support, providing, for example, specification revisions, discussion papers, proposals, and tutorials, as well as chairing Working Groups and Special Interest Groups.
Wayland, MA, May 13, 2002 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions, a business division of Intergraph Corporation, has upgraded its OGC membership to the Strategic level - the Consortiums highest level of membership.Intergraph will engage in strategic planning as a member of both the OGC Planning Committee and as a member of the newly formed OGC Strategic Advisory Committee.Making the investment to become an OGC strategic member is a natural next step for our company and our strategic direction.Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions brings together geospatial and information technology to help customers achieve their business goals.Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions is a division of Intergraph Corporation (NASDAQ: INGR), Huntsville, Ala., and does business in more than 60 countries through its wholly owned subsidiaries and global distributor and partner network.
On March 7, 2002, OGC members completed an on-line OGC Web Services (OWS) 1.1 demonstration in which a variety of commercial and government geoprocessing servers, clients and middleware seamlessly communicated using interoperability interfaces.The OWS 1.1 demonstration scenario developed by the sponsors challenged participating technology developers and integrators to implement interoperability capabilities that address specific critical disaster management needs.Interfaces based on OGCs draft Sensor Web Specifications enabled discovery of and real-time access to measurements from meteorological, water quality, air quality, and seismic sensors.The OGC Web Coverage Service was demonstrated accessing a variety of imagery including visible, hyperspectral and radar.For more information, contact Mr. Jeff Harrison, Executive Director, OGC Interoperability Program, by telephone at (703) 628-8655, or by e-mail at.
OGC members specify interfaces, which enable developers to create open spatial solutions, including location service solutions that operate on a variety of personal devices, wireless networks and applications.About OGC OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 230 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geoprocessing specifications.About PCIA PCIA is an association of companies working together to increase the reach, frequency and impact of wireless technology integration into the enterprise, business and consumer markets.With a history of launching and nurturing wireless industries, PCIA addresses wireless issues from a marketplace, regulatory and technical perspective.PCIA members include interdependent companies that provide mobile technology solutions to every sector of the economy.
As part of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) Military Pilot Project Phase 1.1 (MPP-1.1), OGC members recently demonstrated important new developments in interoperable solutions for the communication, portrayal, and analysis of geographic information to more than sixty invited federal agency and defense contractor IT managers.Many of the vendors were on hand to demonstrate how their products work together using these interfaces, which were developed in OGCs rapid-prototyping testbeds.Therefore, now is the time for technology procurements to require vendors to adhere to OpenGIS Specifications.This will further encourage industry to build out the supply chain of interoperable products, increasing user choice and market competition.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web and mainstream IT and empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.
The cooperation between LIF and OGC will bring industry consensus on location-based ser-vices standards and ensure Plug and Play functionality for subscribers.OGCs Open Location Services (OpenLS) Initiative, currently underway, aims to develop candidate interface specifications in support of interoperable location application ser-vices to be made available through mobile terminals and to develop multi-vendor, specifica-tion-based mobile demonstrations of these interfaces in action.About Location Interoperability Forum (LIF) The Location Interoperability Forum, a global industry initiative, was formed jointly by Erics-son, Motorola and Nokia in September 2000 with the purpose of developing and promoting common and ubiquitous solutions for Mobile Location Services (MLS).Location based services will allow mobile users to receive personalized and lifestyle-oriented services relative to their geographic location.Mobile Location Services are predicted to be-come one of the most compelling value-added services, allowing wireless appliance users to combine mobility with the Internet.
jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, February 4, 2002 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc (OGC) today announced a Call for Sponsors for the OGC Web Services (OWS), Thread Set 2 Initiative.OWS Thread Set 2, set to commence in April 2002, will build on the successful results of previous OGC Interoperability Program initiatives.OWS Thread Set 2 aims to extend engineering specifications developed in OWS Thread Set 1 and other initiatives including: OGC Common Architecture, Web Mapping, and Sensor Web specifications.The OGC Web Services Initiative is part of OGCs Interoperability Program, a global, collaborative, hands-on engineering and testing program that rapidly delivers proven candidate specifications into OGCs Specification Program, where they are formalized for public release.In OGCs Interoperability Initiatives, international teams of technology providers work together to solve specific geoprocessing interoperability problems posed by the Initiatives Sponsors.
TASC will engage in strategic planning as a member of both the OGC Planning Committee and as a member of the newly formed OGC Strategic Advisory Committee.To assist the OGC in meeting global spatial technology interoperability needs, TASC has assigned Jen Barmann as OGC Interoperability Program (IP) Deputy Director for Engineering.In this role, she will provide leadership and direction to major initiatives within the OGC Interoperability Program.OGC President David Schell commented, We are very pleased to have Northrop Grumman IT, TASC among our strategic members.Northrop Grumman Information Technology is a premier provider of advanced IT solutions, engineering and business services for government and commercial clients.
Wayland, MA, USA, November 7, 2001 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces the development of an authoritative index of software products that implement OpenGIS® Interface Specifications.OGC requests the assistance of technology developers worldwide to help establish a directory that will be the ultimate source of information about software products and services that use OGCs interoperability specifications.Since 1998 when the first publicly available OGC Interface Specification was announced, an additional five interface specifications have been approved and released through the OGC consensus process for use by technology developers worldwide.In addition, there are numerous OGC Discussion and Recommendation papers for a group of draft interface specifications.These include Geocoding, Geoparser, Gazetteer, Web Coverage Server, Web Terrain Server, and Style Layer Descriptor.
Wayland, MA, USA, October 5, 2001 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA), Aurora, Colorado, have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at working together to accomplish common objectives.GITA Executive Director Bob Samborski comments, GITA members are on the cutting edge of technology spanning many uses of geospatial technology.OGC President David Schell said, This partnership provides a superb opportunity for GITA and OGC to enhance our ability to meet the expanding needs of a growing community of spatial information users.OGCs process for introducing interoperability into the market depends on close communication with both the technology development and user communities.The mission of the Geospatial Information & Technology Association is to provide excellence in education and information exchange on the use and benefits of geospatial information and technology in telecommunications, infrastructure, and utility applications worldwide.
jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, August 31, 2001 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for the Object Domain Modeling Support (ODMS) Initiative is available at http://ip.opengeospatial.org/odms .The ODMS Initiative aims to develop domain models for utilities as a vehicle to achieve semantic interoperability within and across information communities.The OGC is issuing this RFQ in collaboration with the CADD/GIS Center for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment (CADD/GIS Center).According to Dr. Warren Bennett, CADD/GIS Center, The OGC ODMS Initiative will help enable geospatial content sharing within and across information communities.Inquiries related to the ODMS Initiative should be addressed to Mr. Jeff Harrison, Director of OGC Interoperability Programs,, or (703) 491-9543.
Geospatial fusion refers to the ability of interoperable technologies to integrate text with geoprocessing and web based services.For this demonstration, In-Q-Tel funded the integration of commercial component software, with integration made possible by candidate OpenGIS interfaces developed last year in OGCs Geospatial Fusion Services Testbed (GFST).The prototype system was built to evaluate the potential of OpenGIS interface-enabled Geospatial Fusion Services (GFS) technology in an operational setting.The demonstration was the conclusion of the Geospatial Fusion Pilot Project (GFPP), part of OGCs Interoperability Program.The Geospatial Fusion Services pilot validated the value of geospatial fusion services to initiative sponsors and participants and illustrated the flexibility and utility of these technologies.
MPP-1, which began April 5 and will run through September 2001, has been organized to test and exercise newly developed OGC specifications in a near-operational user environment.At the end of a Pilot, major customers will see real world proof of interoperability between software products from different vendors enabled by interfaces implementing OpenGIS Specifications.Findings contribute to the refinement of the OpenGIS® Specifications that define the products interoperability interfaces.For example, MPP-1 will help enhance OpenGIS Specifications to accommodate three-dimensional photo-realistic terrain views over the Internet.Many military Coordinating Organizations currently use commercial products that vendors are now opening up with interfaces that implement OpenGIS Specifications.
jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgMarch 28, 2001: OGC, Inc. (the Open GIS Consortium) announced the release today of a Request for Technology (RFT) for a major OGC Web Services Initiative.OGC Web Services are envisioned as an evolutionary, standards-based framework that will enable seamless integration of a variety of online geoprocessing and location services.OGC Web Services will allow distributed geoprocessing systems to communicate with each other using technologies such as XML and HTTP.The content of the OGC Web Services Initiative has grown out of previous OGC Testbeds and Pilot Projects.The OGC Web Services Initiative RFT provides details on several proposed focus areas: - Web Mapping Testbed Phase 3 - will consolidate the progress made in previous testbeds with work accomplished in the OGC Web Services Initiative and refine Basic and General Services Models.
jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgMarch 9, 2001: The Open GIS Consortium, Inc (OGC) announced today its intent to release a Request for Technology (RFT) for a major Web Services Initiative.This set of six planned activities will extend OpenGIS standards, enabling freer access to web services that process geographic information.The Web Services Initiative will build on the results of previous OGC testbeds and pilot projects and the work of the OGC Technical Committee and other standards organizations.Major focus areas of the Web Services Initiative are: - Web Mapping Testbed, Phase 3 will consolidate the progress made in previous testbeds with work accomplished in OGC Web Services Initiative threads.This activity will also investigate future web services for visualization, feature and coverage data access, and other services.
Wayland, MA, USA, February 27, 2001: Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced that the OpenGIS Coordinate Transformation Services Implementation Specification, which reached general consensus in OGC last year, has been finalized and released to the public.Coordinate transformation refers to mathematical processing that enables overlay of digital maps that use different coordinate reference systems, that is, map projections and earth measurement systems.In part because coordinate reference systems are complex and diverse, geographic information systems (GIS) and earth imaging systems have required too much expertise to become part of mainstream computing.Cadcorps marketing executive Chris Holcroft said, Cadcorp responded to the OGC Request for Proposals to develop both a Coordinate System package to handle multidimensional coordinates and a Coordinate Transformation package that allows points to be transformed between any two coordinate systems.The OpenGIS standard now includes facilities for compound coordinate systems such as those used in the petroleum industry, as well as facilities for resource defaults that will make web-based operation more efficient.
The goal of the OpenLS Initiative is to develop standards needed by industry to support implementation of the location services invoked by mobile or wireless Internet devices.OGCs Interoperability Program is well suited to meet the immediate needs of the wireless location services for gateway access to the location content of the Internet.2) Gateway Services that integrate location application services with common mobile terminals, wireless platforms, Internet Protocol (IP) platforms, and/or mobile position determination systems that operate between wireless-IP systems and location application servers.3) OGC Services Framework, or services and content protocols that have been developed and tested in previous OGC testbed and specification initiatives.However, the great social and commercial value offered by Location Services to anyone, anywhere depends upon the implementation of a consistent infrastructure of standard Location Service interfaces.
On April 28, 2000 the Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) issued a Request For Quotation (RFQ) and Call for Participation in the Web Mapping Testbed Phase 2, an OGC Interoperability Program Initiative.Like the highly successful first phase of the Web Mapping Testbed, the WMT-2 testbed project will - Employ spiral engineering methodologies with extensive participation of the commercial sector.- Ensure applicability of resulting interface specifications by performing integration of different vendor implementations of the interface specifications in integration experiments.Following the conclusion of WMT-1, testbed sponsors and participants provided requirements and requests for items to be considered during WMT-2.The on-going OGC Web Mapping Testbed Upper-Susquehanna Lackawanna (WMT USL) Pilot Project ( http://www.opengeospatial.org/uslpilot/ ) is also a source of requirements, requests, and new technical components for WMT-2.
On April 19 the Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) made the new OpenGIS (TM) Web Map Server Interface Implementation Specification available on its public web site ( http://www.opengeospatial.org ).Software with interfaces conforming to this specification will enable automatic overlay, in ordinary web browsers, of map images obtained from multiple dissimilar map servers, regardless of map scale, projection, earth coordinate system or digital format.Already, the OpenGIS Web Map Server Interface Specification works with catalog services defined in the OpenGIS Catalog Services Specification.The development of open standards and specifications will greatly accelerate our ability to access and understand geospatial information from multiple sources.The Web Mapping Team, both the organizations and individuals involved, are to be congratulated on their accomplishment.
The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today released a Request For Quotation (RFQ) to solicit technology proposals for the OGC Geospatial Fusion Services Testbed.The GFS Testbed Project is designed to support In-Q-Tel and its sponsor, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.This testbed is targeted to automate the fusion of inherent geospatial characteristics into an overall information framework.The interfaces for the automation technologies, which we call the Location Organizer, will form the foundation for future phases.It is the OGCs intention to coordinate this Testbed with the Web Mapping 2 Testbed, an RFQ for that is scheduled for public release on April 28, 2000.
It enables automatic overlay, in ordinary web browsers, of map images obtained from multiple dissimilar map servers.This dramatic breakthrough ushers in the long-awaited integration of where information into information systems.In coming months, vendors of these systems will implement the OpenGIS Web Map Server Interface Specification and other OpenGIS standards in software upgrades and new software.Map and imagery suppliers will make their data available over the Web through these vendors OpenGIS-conformant servers.The OpenGIS Web Map Server Interface Specification works with catalog services defined in the OpenGIS Catalog Services Specification.
Wayland, MA, USA, December 13, 1999: The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today issued Requests for Comment on its pending OpenGIS Web Map Server Interface Specification and OpenGIS Geography Markup Language (GML) Specification.The OpenGIS Web Map Server Interface Specification provides a set of open protocols that will make it possible for users of ordinary web browsers to obtain and automatically overlay map layers of the same geographic region, where each layer is a view into geographic data potentially held by a different web server.GML is a method for encoding OpenGIS Simple Features (basic vector-based geographic data) in XML.In the OpenGIS Web Mapping Testbed, the Web Map Server was used with catalog services defined in the OpenGIS Catalog Services Specification, which provides a common architecture for online automated directories or registries of web-based geospatial data and geoprocessing services, rather like spatial search engines.OGC is an international, not-for-profit organization working toward integration of geospatial capabilities into the worlds information systems.
Much geospatial data is currently available on the web, but users must possess considerable expertise and special geographic information system (GIS) software to overlay or otherwise combine different map layers of the same geographic region.The Web Mapping Testbed will greatly accelerate our ability to access and understand geospatial information from multiple sources.The Web Mapping Testbed is the first of OGCs planned Interoperability Initiatives, which involve sponsors and participants.For the Web Mapping Testbed, Lockheed Martin Management and Data Systems provided integration support, logistical support, and a testbed laboratory.OGC is an international, not-for-profit organization working toward integration of geospatial capabilities into the worlds information systems.
Wayland, MA, USA, August 24, 1999: Maps and map queries will become a much more important part of the Web thanks to two key interoperability standards passed by members of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) on August 13 in Southampton, England.The standards will make it much easier for businesses, citizens, and governments to find, view, pan, zoom, overlay, and query geographical images and maps on the Worldwide Web.The new OpenGIS Grid Coverages Specification and OpenGIS Distributed Catalog Services Specification, combined with the already available OpenGIS Simple Features Specification and technology from OGCs Web Mapping Testbed, provide means for unprecedented interoperability between systems that use geospatial data.Catalog Services refers to a common architecture for online automated directories of geodata and geoprocessing services, rather like spatial search engines.We are adding where to the kinds of questions the web can answer.
The new OpenGIS Grid Coverages Specification and OpenGIS Distributed Catalog Services Specification, combined with the already available OpenGIS Simple Features Specification and technology from OGCs Web Mapping Testbed, provide the means for unprecedented interoperability between systems that use geospatial data.In OGC, Grid Coverages refers to satellite images, digital aerial photos, digital elevation data, and other kinds of data represented in a grid cell or raster coordinate system.(Interoperability for a wider range of image operations awaits the OpenGIS Image Exploitation Services Specification, which is in progress in OGCs Technical Committee.)- Create and maintain collections of universally discoverable geospatial data sets, including a metadata set and metadata entities associated with each stored data set.- Retrieve complete or partial forms of geodata resources, including entire geospatial data sets or geographical subsections of data sets, returned to the requestor as a file or set of files.
Wayland, MA, USA, June 28, 1999: The OpenGIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for open interfaces that enable software to first discover the coordinate reference systems of geospatial data held in network-accessible systems and then to transform coordinates from one coordinate reference system to another.Coordinate reference systems are complex and diverse, which is one of the reasons that geographic information systems (GIS) and earth imaging systems have required too much expertise to become part of mainstream computing.The Simple Features specification contained only rudimentary coordinate reference system capabilities, to be extended by the pending OpenGIS Coordinate Reference System Specification.Subsequent OpenGIS Specifications will address catalog services (to enable spatial search engines, for example), image exploitation services (to enable interoperability between earth imaging systems), and other technology standards related to geoprocessing.OGC is a not for profit, open membership organization founded in 1994 to help providers of geoprocessing software achieve interoperability between their products.
Wayland, MA, USA, May 10, 1999: The OpenGIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that Oracle is one of the first companies to pass conformance tests for OGCs OpenGIS Simple Features Specification for SQL.(See http://www.opengeospatial.org/testing for details of the conformance tests.)Oracle tested its Oracle Spatial product (versions 8.0.5 and 8.1.5), which allows seamless integration with enterprise client applications.Users can help by reminding vendors that OpenGIS interoperability interfaces are a high priority.Jack Pellicci, Vice President, Oracle Service Industries, said, We are proud to be the first Principle Member of the OpenGIS Consortium to pass conformance testing with our Oracle Spatial 8.0 and 8i products.
Information technology standards are often book-sized documents of rather arcane technical information and directives.Yet, the best information technology standards directly affect our daily lives, change the way we do business, and, indeed, change the world.The result will be tighter linkages for the family of information technology standards related to geography, mapping, land use, land ownership, surveying, and so on.A secondary goal of the Cooperative Agreement is the advancing of OGC Implementation Specifications toward International Standard Status.The work on Gridded Coverages will provide consensus implementation specifications for fundamental behaviors that Gridded Coverages need to support.
The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) issued a request for technology (RFT) for an OGC Interoperability Initiative called the Web Mapping Technology Testbed.Sponsored by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), the US Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), the testbed is intended to advance Web mapping technology, support development of a multi-vendor portable demonstration, and feed requirements into OGCs OpenGIS Specification process.The rapidly evolving World Wide Web provides unprecedented on-line access to information and services.Web-based Mapping Technology describes technology and architectures to provide users with on-line, distributed access to geospatial information, geographic analysis, and terrain visualization applications using a web-based client and internet/intranet access and protocols.Testbed sponsors seek interoperable, web-based access to distributed geographic information, the ability to rapidly construct sophisticated end-user applications on demand, and tools to transmit geographic information directly to the user desktop.
Wayland, Massachusetts, USA March 31, 1998 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that Ordnance Survey, the National Mapping Agency of Great Britain, has joined OGC as a Technical Committee member.Ordnance Survey is the first major non-US government agency to join OGC.About Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey employs around 1850 people in their headquarters in Southampton and in 81 offices across Britain.The NTD is also the prime source of information used to create a wide range of Ordnance Survey products at many scales, from paper maps to digital datasets.UKs Ordnance Survey joins a group of US federal agencies in OGC, including the US Geological Survey National Mapping Division, Department of Defense National Imagery and Mapping Agency, NASA National Space Science Data Center, and the Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service.
These most recent OGC bimonthly meetings were hosted by Siemens Nixdorf Informationssystemes (SNI) (Munich, Germany), a Principal Member of OGC.It goes the next step beyond the first OpenGIS Implementation Specifications for Simple Features.OpenGIS Grid Coverages Implementation Specifications will provide standard methods for systems to create and share additional types of geospatial information.The Open GIS Consortium is an international organization of 118 members engaged in a cooperative effort to create open computing specifications in the area of geoprocessing.OGC envisions the full integration of geospatial data and geoprocessing resources into mainstream computing and the widespread use of interoperable, commercial geoprocessing software throughout the information infrastructure.
Wayland, Massachusetts, USA, February 27, 1998 - The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today two important milestones in the development of its OpenGIS Specification, a specification for software interfaces that will give computer users easy access to complex geospatial data and geographic information processing capabilities.The RFPs request the submission of proposed detailed engineering specifications for software interfaces which implement recently completed parts of OGCs OpenGIS Abstract Specification.One of the RFPs is called the Grid Coverages RFP, which goes the next step beyond the first OpenGIS Implementation Specifications for Simple Features.The previously completed Simple Features Implementation Specifications provide standard methods for systems to communicate simple geometry, spatial reference system, and attribute information.OpenGIS Implementation Specifications for Catalogs will provide standard methods for publishing and discovering information about network-resident geodata.
This first release of OpenGIS interfaces (OGC Request Number 1: OpenGIS Simple Features) was the result of an extraordinary collaborative effort among members, many of whom normally compete with each other.Since August, 1994, the OGC committees have met to solve technical and market problems that have restricted the sharing of digital geographic data.The OpenGIS Simple Features submission for SQL (via the ODBC application programming interface) was the result of a joint submission by ESRI, IBM Corporation (Poughkeepsie, NY), Informix Software, Inc., MapInfo Corporation, and Oracle Corporation.The leading database vendors have already delivered versions of relational database systems t hat can store complex geographic data.The OpenGIS Simple Features Specification for SQL makes it possible to create open interfaces on these servers which will make the data accessible to client applications that understand these interfaces.
Dr. Corell is chair of the interagency committee that developed and now coordinates the U.S.Dr. Corell graduated from Case Institute of Technology (BSME, 1956; Ph.D., 1964) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S.M.E., 1959).Martin Faga is Senior Vice President and General Manager, Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems at The MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia.The Center serves Department of Defense and Intelligence Community Sponsors in the integration of intelligence systems from sensor through presentation to the ultimate user.About OGC OGC coordinates development of the OpenGIS Specification and also organizes related business development and institutional adoption of open systems approaches to the collection, management, distribution, and processing of digital geographic information.
The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that it has received excellent responses to its recent Requests for Information (RFIs) which are part of the OpenGIS Interoperability Specification effort. The RFIs cover geographic information catalog services and imagery. Seven organizations submitted information in response to the "OpenGIS Catalog Services RFI."
The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that in November and December, 1996, the following organizations became members of the consortium: Microsoft Corporation, Autodesk, Inc., Member.Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc., Regional Science Institute, LAS (Logiciels et Applications Scientifiques), Inc., Urban Logic, Inc., Pusan National University, and INHA National University/
The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) has become a Principal Member of the consortium
The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) recently announced a new Request for Proposals (RFP) policy by which geoprocessing software vendors will deliver specifications for interoperable geoprocessing software on targeted distributed computing platforms (DCPs) such as OLE/COM, CORBA, and Java
The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (Wayland, MA) today announced that Bentley Systems, Inc. (Exton, PA) has joined the Consortium as a principal member
The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that Larry Ayers, Executive Vice President, Intergraph Corporation, has joined OGC's Board of Directors
The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that the "OpenGIS(TM) Guide: An Introduction to Interoperable Geoprocessing, Part 1 of the Open Geodata Interoperability Specification (OGIS)" was recently completed and is now available to the public
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