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July 5, 2012

OGC Requests Web Map Service Clients (WMS) Reference Implementations

5 July 2012 – To support compliance testing, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests reference implementations for client software that implements the OGC Web Map Service (WMS) 1.3 Interface Standard.The OGC Compliance Program (CITE) provides the resources, procedures, and policies for improving software implementations compliance with OGC standards.Development of abstract and executable test suites (ETS) for WMS 1.3 clients is underway as part of the OWS-9 initiative.The current draft of the WMS test suite is available at the OGC SVN repository.OGC Members with WMS 1.3 client implementations are invited to become WMS CITE Initiative sponsors by making these resources available for free for black box testing.

June 26, 2012

David Wesloh Receives OGC’s Gardels Award

David Wesloh Receives OGC’s Gardels AwardWayland, MA, USA, 26 June 2012.At the June meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) in Exeter, England, David Wesloh received the OGCs prestigious Kenneth D. Gardels Award (http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/awards).David has done much to educate others in his community about the importance of OGC standards and the OGC process.He frequently plays an active role in OGC Technical Committee Standards Working Groups to bring testbed results into the standardization program.Currently, David is chair of the OGC Web Services Context Standards Working Group, a charter member of the Geosynchronization Standards Working Group, and a participant in numerous other OGC working groups.

June 19, 2012

OGC and AGI host Interoperability Day 2012 – Open Government and Open Standards

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Association of Geographic Information (AGI) have joined forces to offer European organizations the chance to learn more about open standards and interoperability.If you are interested in standards policy and the EC INSPIRE Directive, or the recent UK Government consultation on Open Standards, there will be representation from Central Government, Ordnance Survey Great Britain and the Met Office, amongst others.About the OGCThe OGC is an international consortium of more than 445 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.

June 1, 2012

OGC Seeks Comments on NetCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension Standard

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.

June 1, 2012

OGC Energy & Utilities Group Invites Smart Grid Standards Presentations

This meeting, focused on Smart Grid standards, will be part of the upcoming OGC Technical Committee meeting to be held June 18-21 in Exeter.This group of OGC members, who are finalizing an OGC Energy & Utilities Domain Working Group (E&U DWG) charter, plan to focus on geospatial standards that impact the energy and utility domain, of which one subset are those that are Smart Grid related.At this meeting, the members seek further input on both the draft charter and on Smart Grid standards from the European energy and utility standards community.The ability to communicate geospatial information is seen as a crosscutting requirement in Smart Grid standards efforts worldwide.This meeting (an ad hoc meeting in the OGCs formal meeting nomenclature) follows a similar meeting in Austin, Texas on March 20 that confirmed strong interest among US Smart Grid standards players in addressing open geospatial standards for the Smart Grid.

May 25, 2012

United Nations Geographic Information Working Group becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group (UNGIWG) has taken Principal level membership.The UNGIWG addresses topics related to geospatial information sharing and quality of location information.The Consortium’s Principal Members together with OGC Strategic Members constitute the OGC Planning Committee (PC).The PC is the final authority for approval of OGC standards as well as discussions related to market and business drivers impacting the standards development focus of the OGC.UNGIWG was established in 2000 by acknowledgement of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) High Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP).

April 25, 2012

OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Standard Version 2.0 Adopted

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted the OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Interface Standard Version 2.0.The OGC® Sensor Observation Service Interface Standard (SOS) provides an open, well-defined API for managing measured data as well as metadata from deployed sensors.The SOS is one standard in the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) suite of standards.SOS 2.0 is highly modular and follows the OGC core/extension design pattern.The SOS 2.0 standard is available at:

April 24, 2012

OGC City Geography Markup Language v 2.0 Adopted

– 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.

March 26, 2012

U.A.E Ministry of Interior/Abu Dhabi Police GIS Center for Security Joins the OGC as a Principal Member

Ministry of the Interior, represented by Abu Dhabi Police GIS Center for Security, has become a Principal Member of the OGC to chair a new, planned international OGC Law Enforcement and Public Safety Working Group.Mark Reichardt, President of the OGC, said, “By becoming a Principal Member in the OGC, the U.A.E.Its also important for the Middle East region that we now have an OGC Principal Member from the UAE.About the Abu Dhabi Police GIS Center for SecurityThe Abu Dhabi Police GIS Center for Security has developed a strategic roadmap to utilize the capabilities of spatial systems in areas of law enforcement, public safety and homeland security.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.