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December 13, 2012

The OGC Invites Public to Final Demonstration of Major Testbed Activity

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).

December 5, 2012

The OGC Forms 3D Portrayal Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of the 3D Portrayal Standards Working group (3D Portrayal SWG).This group is chartered to progress the Candidate OGC Web 3D Service Interface Standard and the OGC Web View Service Discussion Paper to the state of an integrated, adopted OGC standard.The OGC members convening this group invite the public to comment on the 3D Portrayal SWG Charter and will consider comments received before 14 December 2012.The proposed OGC 3D Portrayal v1.0 standard will provide a standard interface for web-based scene graph rendering and image based rendering of 3D city models.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

December 5, 2012

OGC WaterML Standard Recommended for Adoption as Joint WMO/ISO Standard

10 December 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) reports an important milestone in efforts to have the OGC WaterML 2.0 Encoding Standard adopted by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission for Hydrology (CHy) as an official WMO/ISO standard.OGC WaterML 2.0 is an important new international standard for encoding and exchanging time series water data.It is suitable for the exchange of a broad range of water information typically associated with surface and ground water resource systems.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.

December 4, 2012

OGC and CRCSI working together to make data widely available

The Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information (CRCSI) has joined forces with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) through the signing of a memorandum of understanding.CRCSI input to the OGC will inform the direction of research for existing and new OGC standards.Mark Reichardt, President and CEO of the OGC noted, “We are delighted to have CRCSI’s participation and leadership in the OGC international process.The impact of research organisations like CRCSI in the OGC international process is significant.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

November 29, 2012

The OGC Seeks Participants for Ground Water Interoperability Experiment

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.

November 2, 2012

The OGC seeks comments on candidate Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML 2.0) standard

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.

October 30, 2012

The OGC seeks comment on candidate SensorML 2.0 standard

5 November 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC SensorML 2.0 Encoding Standard.In addition, SensorML 2.0 includes the following new or improved features:Support for property extension using external schemaBetter-defined support for positions and dynamic state (e.g.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 Evaluation Package is free and can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/93.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

October 30, 2012

The OGC seeks comment on GML Coverages GeoTIFF extension and WCS 2.0 GeoTIFF extension standard

30 October 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comment on a GeoTIFF extension to the OGC GML Coverages (GMLCOV) 1.0 Standard and on a GeoTIFF extension to the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) 2.0 Standard, based on the former.The OGC Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard is a widely used XML encoding for geospatial data of all types.To provide maximum flexibility in sharing coverage data, the GML Coverages GeoTIFF extension provides a way to encode coverages that are represented in encoding formats other than GML, such as GeoTIFF.The WCS 2.0 GeoTIFF extension binds the former extension to WCS 2.0 to allow usage of GeoTIFF encoded coverages with WCS.The OGC seeks public comment on the OGC documents describing the candidate GMLCOV and WCS extension standards for encoding GeoTIFF data in GMLCOV and using them with WCS.

October 29, 2012

Denise McKenzie Joins OGC as Executive Director, Marketing and Communications

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.