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June 13, 2011

OGC Seeks Comment on Earth Observation Metadata profile of Observations & Measurements Standard

13 June 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate standard “Earth Observation Metadata profile of the OGC Observations and Measurements Standard.”The Earth Observation (EO) profile of Observations and Measurements is intended to provide a standard schema for encoding Earth Observation metadata to support the description and cataloguing of products from sensors aboard EO satellites.This second version of the Earth Observation metadata profile is based on Observations and Measurements, an OGC and ISO standard used in several communities.The candidate OGC Earth Observation Metadata profile of Observations & Measurements Standard document is available for review and comment at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/77.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 7, 2011

OGC Meetings and International Augmented Reality Standards Meeting to be held 12-17 June 2011 in Taiwan

7 June 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced that it will hold the next OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee meetings (http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1106tc) from 12-17 June 2011 in Taichung, Taiwan.The week’s events will run concurrently with the Third International AR (Augmented Reality) Standards Meeting, which the OGC is hosting with the support of the OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee meeting sponsors.Taiwanese developers introduced the candidate Open GeoSMS standard into the OGC standards process.“We have been involved in the OGC since 2006 and have been advancing OGC standards in government and enterprise applications.GovFuture membership focuses on helping local and sub-national governments implement and use OGC standards to achieve government mission objectives.

June 2, 2011

OGC Requests Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) Reference Implementations

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests reference implementations of the OGC Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) Interface Standard for use in compliance testing.The OGC Compliance Testing program (CITE) tests whether implementations of OGC standards comply with mandatory elements in the standards.A WMTS enabled server application can serve map tiles of spatially referenced data using tile images with predefined content, extent, and resolution.WMTS is related to the OGCs Web Map Server (WMS) but is designed to enable better server performance in applications that involve many simultaneous requests.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

May 18, 2011

OGC Reduces Membership Fees for Developing Nations

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced new membership options for organizations based in emerging economies.GovFuture membership focuses on helping local and sub-national governments implement and use OGC standards to achieve government mission objectives.Visit the OGC Value page to learn more about the value of OGC membership for both technology providers and technology users.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.

May 17, 2011

OGC GovFuture Webinar Invitation

17 May 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites professionals in local and subnational (county, state, province, etc.)governments to participate in a free webinar: “Location Standards – How Do They Help Government?” The webinar will be held on Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 18:00:00 UTC (2:00 PM EDT).This OGC GovFuture webinar will show how local and subnational governments are already benefiting from the “organizational interoperability” enabled by technical interoperability.The webinar will provide a case study from a GovFuture Subnational member working on Australia’s Shared Land Information Platform (SLIP) information delivery system, plus a review of pertinent legal and policy issues and an introduction to the OGC.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

April 28, 2011

OGC Technical Meetings and International Augmented Reality Standards Meeting to be held June 2011 in Taiwan

The week’s events will run concurrently with the Third International AR (Augmented Reality) Standards Meeting, which the OGC is hosting with the support of the Technical Committee and Planning Committee meeting sponsors.Taiwanese developers introduced the candidate Open GeoSMS standard into the OGC standards process.We have been involved in the OGC since 2006 and have been advancing OGC standards in government and enterprise applications.The OGC encourages interested parties to consider attending OGC meetings.The AR Standards Meeting will increase mutual awareness of standards relevant to AR and deepen dialog among industry leaders, standards development organizations, industry associations and others interested in AR initiatives.

April 27, 2011

OGC Announces XML Encoding Standard for Observations and Measurements

27 April 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has voted to approve the OGC Observations and Measurements (O&M) – XML Encoding Standard as an official OGC standard.This standard specifies an XML implementation for the OGC and ISO Observations and Measurements (O&M) conceptual model (OGC Observations and Measurements v2.0, which is also published as ISO/DIS 19156), including a schema for Sampling Features.This encoding is an essential dependency for the OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Interface Standard.More specifically, this standard defines XML schemas for observations and for features involved in sampling when making observations.The O&M XML standard is available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/om.

April 26, 2011

OGC Releases Java(R) Interface Standard for Geospatial Software

26 April 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has voted to adopt the OGC GeoAPI 3.0 Interface Standard as an official OGC standard.The GeoAPI standard provides a set of interfaces in the Java language to help software projects produce high quality geospatial software.The OGC GeoAPI 3.0 Interface Standard documents, including jars (Java archives) and schemas are available at (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/geoapi).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.

April 25, 2011

OGC Announces “SWE Common” Standards to Simplify Sensor Web Development

25 April 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has voted to approve the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Common Service Model Interface Standard Version 2.0 and the OGC SWE Common Data Model Encoding Standard Version 2.0 as official OGC standards.The OGC SWE Common Service Model Interface Standard is applicable to all services that provide or require information from or about sensors.The OGC SWE Common Encoding Standard provides a standard model (and XML implementation of the model) for the representation, nature, structure and encoding of sensor related data.Both of the SWE Common standards are designed to be used with other existing OGC® Sensor Web Enablement standards such as OGC Sensor Model Language (SensorML) Encoding Standard, Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Interface Standard and Sensor Planning Service (SPS) Interface Standard.The OGC SWE Common Service Model 2.0 Interface Standard is available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/swes and the OGC SWE Common Data Model Encoding Standard Version 2.0 is available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/swecommon.