Innovations and Standards
This blog highlights several recent innovations in OGC processes: Changes in the OGC Innovation Program; Community Standards in the OGC Standards Program; and Geospatial Trends Tracking by the OGC Architecture Board.
Blogs
Looking Forward / Looking Back
As we transition into the 2017 New Year, I thank OGC members for their continuing contributions to improve location information sharing and interoperability.
The OGC Community Standard Process
For many years, the OGC membership discussed and struggled with defining a process and set of related policies for accommodating submission of widely used, mature specifications developed outside the OGC standards development and approval process. Examples of these specifications are GeoTIFF,
OGC and GEO - in partnership from the start
Recent guest blog for the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) by our CEO Mark Reichardt
OGC invests in improving Quality of Service and Quality of Experience
We live in a world stealthily powered by Web Services and APIs: nearly everything we do on our laptops and mobile devices uses background services to talk over the Internet. These services are especially important for applications providing access to small subsets of information, based on a user’s location, fed from large, remotely stored datasets. Any quality issues in the communication between the applications and their backend services quickly become critical, causing bad user experience for tens of thousands of people.
OGC GeoPackage: Enabling the Next Generation of Geospatial Technologies
Geospatial and OGC to feature at Apache: Big Data Europe
The Apache Software Foundation will hold a conference on Big Data technology in Sevilla, Spain, November 14 to 16. For the second time, this conference will have a track dedicated to the geospatial aspects of big data.
Open geospatial standards and social analytics
The Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and the Business and Local Government Data Research Centre (BLGRC) have established the Social Analytics Strategic Network (SASNet), a research-based network focused on capacity building for social analytics of emerging forms of data, including big data. Geospatial data represents one of the key data types across many of the UBDC and SASNet activities.
RM-ODP: A Critical Enabler for Sustainable Development
The countless systems that will make up the UN Sustainable Development Goals System of Systems will need to communicate, interoperate, and behave as one big distributed processing system. This can be accomplished by means of open, international, consensus derived data model standards, open encoding standards based on the open data models, and open interface standards based on the open encodings.
OGC Health Summit - Review
The OGC Health Domain Working Group organized an OGC Health Summit, June 21, in Dublin Ireland, to bring attention to health market requirements, technical solutions, advances in geospatial standards, and implementation examples / health applications. The OGC Health Summit:
