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August 29, 2012

OGC Announces Health Mapping Webinar

This is the fourth GovFuture (http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1568) webinar presented by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Directions Media.In this webinar, we look at how improved sharing of geospatial information plays an important role in improving public health.Eddie Oldfields current work involves creating a national portal to bring together climate and health resources for decision-makers in public health, municipal emergency management, and local climate adaptation.The portal will aid in expanding public health heat alert and response, community resilience / disaster risk reduction, and modeling of historical and forecast impacts from climate on public health.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

August 22, 2012

OGC seeks comments on Climate and Forecast (CF) extension to NetCDF Core data model standard

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.

August 21, 2012

OGC hires Lew Leinenweber and Bart de Lathouwer to fill key technical positions

21 August 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has appointed both Lew Leinenweber and Bart de Lathouwer to the position of Director, Interoperability Programs.These are key technical positions in the OGC Interoperability Program.OGC members will benefit greatly from the leadership that Lew and Bart will bring to OGC Interoperability Program (IP) initiatives, said George Percivall, Chief Architect and Executive Director, OGC Interoperability Program.Lew brings a wealth of experience from leading prior OGC initiatives, including the fourth OGC Web Services Testbed (OWS-4) and the Geo-Decision Support Services (GeoDSS) activity.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

August 20, 2012

The OGC forms Energy & Utilities Domain Working Group

20 August 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of a new OGC Energy & Utilities Domain Working Group (E&U DWG) to address geospatial interoperability challenges in the international energy and utility domains.Communicating geospatial information is a critical requirement all along the diverse, complex and dynamic value chains related to energy and utilities.The E&U DWGs mission is broad ranging, with focus intentionally open to advance interoperability efforts among all market participants in the Energy and Utilities ecosystem.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 13, 2012

Attend the OGC North American Forum Open Standards Technology Exposition!

Attend the OGC North American Forum Open Standards Technology Exposition!13 August 2012The North American Forum (NAF) of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is organizing the first OGC North American Open Standards Technology Exposition.The vendors will show how OGC standards are being used throughout U.S. Department of Defense, Intelligence Community and Civil Agencies.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatialy enabled.The OGC North American Forum was established in 2012 to address OGC standards requirements, OGC program coordination, outreach and education needs of government, academic, research and industry organizations in Canada, the US and Mexico.

August 3, 2012

OGC Calls for Participation in Climatology-Hydrology Information Sharing Pilot

3 August 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) to solicit proposals in response to requirements for the OGC Climatology-Hydrology Information Sharing Pilot (CHISP), Phase 1 (CHISP-1).CHISP-1 will exercise OGC encoding and service standards, including the OGC WaterML 2.0 Encoding Standard, the OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) standard and others.In addition to identifying and clarifying what is possible, the pilot will identify the key technical and non-technical barriers to continued progress in sharing and integrating hydrologic and climatic information.Because it is an international project with broad industry participation, it will promote understanding and strengthen ties within the existing hydro-climatic community.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

July 19, 2012

OGC Seeks Comments on GeoServices REST API Candidate Standard

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.

July 10, 2012

The OGC Forms Sensor Web for IoT Standards Working Group

The OGC members invite the public to comment on the Sensor Web for IoT SWG charter (https://portal.ogc.org/files/49608) and will consider comments received before 10 August 2012.The OGCs existing Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards, as well as standards from other groups and proposals submitted by members, will inform the new Sensor Web for IoT work.Sensor Web for IoT SWG members anticipate that REST and sensors will be important factors in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT).The new Sensor Web for IoT SWG will meet regularly via conference calls and at future Technical Committee meetings to promote maximum participation in its activities.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

July 9, 2012

OGC Australia & New Zealand Forum Announced

9 July 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that OGC members in the Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) region, with the assistance of the Australian and New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC), recently chartered an Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) Forum to support regional coordination and communication regarding geospatial standardisation activities.The Forums industry, government, academic and research organisations will support the OGCs outreach and education efforts regionally.ANZ Forum members are committed to the use of the open standards defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the members will work with other relevant industry, government and international standards bodies to achieve the OGCs vision.The OGC is an international consortium of more than 450 companies, government agencies, research organisations, 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.