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October 25, 2012

The OGC Forms GeoPackage Standards Working Group

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.

October 24, 2012

OGC Seeks Comments on NIL Extension to Geography Markup Language (GML)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate GML-NIL profile of the OGC Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding standard.The candidate OGC GML-NIL standard document is available for review and comment at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/91.The OGC is an international consortium of more than 465 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.

September 27, 2012

The OGC Forms GeoPackage Standards Working Group

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.

September 24, 2012

OGC adopts netCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension Standard

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.

September 20, 2012

The OGC adopts WaterML 2.0 Hydrologic Time Series Encoding Standard

20 September 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted the OGC WaterML 2.0 Part 1: Time Series Encoding Standard as an official OGC standard.OGC WaterML 2.0 is an important new XML-based international standard for encoding and exchanging data describing the state and location of water resources, both above and below the ground surface.WaterML 2.0 Time Series supports encoding of hydrological and hydrogeological observation data in exchange scenarios such as:- Exchange of data for operational monitoring and forecasting programs- Supporting infrastructure operation (e.g.The WaterML 2.0 Time Series Encoding standard is implemented as an application schema of the OGC Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard version 3.2.1 and encodes hydrologic semantics onto the OGC Observations and Measurements (O&M) model and encoding standards.The OGC WaterML 2.0 Part 1: Time Series Encoding Standard document is free and can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/waterml.

September 19, 2012

OGC completes 3D Portrayal Interoperability Experiment

19 September 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has completed the 3D Portrayal Interoperability Experiment (3DPIE).The 3DPIE was designed to test and demonstrate different approaches for service-based 3D visualization using the candidate OGC standards for 3D portrayal: the OGC Web 3D Service (W3DS) and Web View Service (WVS) Interface standards.This report will provide the basis for further standardization efforts in service-based 3D portrayal.The experiments demonstrated the feasibility of 3D portrayal services using massive real-world 3D data, including a complete textured 3D city model of Paris.By linking various solutions for serving geospatial 3D assets with web and mobile applications using the 3D portrayal services, interoperability was successfully demonstrated.

September 17, 2012

OGC Joins ITU, participates in Joint Coordination Activity on Internet of Things

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.

September 13, 2012

OGC seeks comments on Land Information Domain Working Group charter

13 September 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the formation of a new OGC Land Information Domain Working Group (Land Info DWG) to address CAD, Land Information System (LIS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) interoperability challenges facing industry domains concerned with the built environment.They, and others in fields as diverse as environmental sciences and location marketing, also need to be able use such data with geospatial data and geospatial applications.The goals of the Land Information DWG are to find the best approach for incorporating the LandXML schema into the OGC’s standards base and to explore ways to incorporate land related information into OGC 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.

September 4, 2012

Trevor Taylor joins the OGC as Director, Services for the Americas

Trevor Taylor joins the OGC as Director, Services for the Americas4 September 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has appointed Trevor Taylor to the position of Director, Services for the Americas.The OGC community is indeed fortunate to have Trevor Taylor now on our staff, said Jeff Burnett, Vice President Operations and Finance, OGC.Trevor Taylor has over 24 years of private sector experience in the international Earth Observation community.Mr. Taylor has significant global experience in a wide variety of technical, client services, project, business and strategic planning activities.In addition, Mr. Taylor was involved at the start up phase of the OGC Global Advisory Council.