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January 20, 2009

Climate Change Integration Plugfest to be launched at FOSS4G

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) have announced a Climate Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP) to be launched at the FOSS4G conference, 20-23 October 2009, http://2009.foss4g.org.The CCIP will demonstrate standards based interoperability between geospatial applications based on a Climate Change scenario.Companies or individuals interested in sponsoring or participating in the Climate Change Integration Plugfest should contact Greg Buehler .The theme for 2009 is User Driven, highlighting the power of Open Source to integrate with existing systems.http://2009.foss4g.orgThe Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software.

January 15, 2009

Final Reminder: Please Complete the Business Benefits of Using OGC Standards Survey!

*** Win a 1.5TB Hard Drive, an Apple iPod, or Noise Canceling Headphones!***Dear geospatial technology user:This is the final reminder for the Business Benefits of Using OGC Standards Survey.The information we have collected will help us understand OGC standards effectiveness and improve OGC programs.Three valuable prizes will be awarded at random by the researchers to three individuals who complete the survey.Please forward this message to others who might be interested in the Business Benefits of Using OGC Standards Survey.

January 7, 2009

OGC and OSGeo Sign Memorandum of Understanding

Wayland, Mass., January 7, 2009 – In Valencia, Spain, at the December Technical Committee meetings of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), the OGC and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to coordinate in advancing open geospatial standards (OGCs mission) and open source geospatial software and data (OSGeos mission).Vendors of proprietary software have found that todays more open and complex business ecosystem, which includes both open source software and open standards, is good for their businesses.Open source software is software that has been designed and developed in an open, community process.The OSGeo is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial technologies and data.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

December 10, 2008

Successful OGC Interoperability Day Held in Orleans, France

Orleans, France, December 10, 2008: An OGC Interoperability Day was held Tuesday, 9 December, 2008, at BRGM in Orleans, France.This event, organized by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) France Forum with the support of the Conseil Régional du Centre, followed the OGC Technical Committee meeting, an international event held last week in Valencia, Spain.Established in April 2008, the French Forum of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is a platform for government, academic, research and industry organizations in France to learn about and discuss issues related to interoperability of geographic information involving OGC standards.The Forum seeks to promote interoperability and create synergy between the various producers and users of geographic information and geomatics products and services in France.The Forum also provides a way for French organizations to coordinate their efforts to ensure that French requirements are addressed by the international standards of the OGC.

December 8, 2008

GeoVirtual Takes Strategic Membership in the OGC

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (http://www.opengeospatial.org) announced that GeoVirtual, SL (Spain) (http://www.geovirtual.com) has joined the OGC as a Strategic Member.Strategic Membership is the highest level of membership in the OGC.To advance OGC program objectives, Strategic Members provide significant resources in the form of funding and other in-kind resources.Mark Reichardt, President, OGC, said, By joining at the Strategic level, GeoVirtual has shown its commitment to leadership in bringing open standards together with geobrowsing and high quality dynamic 3D representation of geographic features and phenomena.GeoVirtual brings value to and derives value from the new global geospatial computing environment based on OGC standards and interoperability.

November 24, 2008

OGC Members Demo Sensor Web Interoperability at Oceans Conference

Workshop attendees included ocean sensor manufacturers, researchers and government officials in the ocean observation community.The conference brought together the global ocean observing systems community to discuss a revolution in ocean data collection.Increasingly, the community is embracing consensus-based open standards to better coordinate their efforts and share invaluable sensor data.The IEEE 1451 Smart Sensor standard and the Marine Plug-and-Work Consortiums PUCK standard, which are typically implemented on sensor hardware, were demonstrated working with OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards at the Web application level.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

November 24, 2008

GeoConnections Releases CGDI Interoperability Pilot Demo Video

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) and GeoConnections announce the release of a video that documents last years successful interoperability demonstration, a major output of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Interoperability Pilot (CGDI IP) ( http://www.geoconnections.org/en/communities/developers/technologies/fa=developersCorner.cgdiv2) .GeoConnections sponsored the Pilot, which concluded with a Web Conference that was witnessed live and online by more than 500 people.The CGDI IP was an OGC Interoperability Initiative.The CGDI Interoperability Pilot video is available in English and French at http://www.opengeospatial.org/pub/www/cgdi/index.html and is also viewable (via YouTube) from the CGDI IP link noted above.The main objective of the CGDI IP was to assess opportunities for improving the management and dissemination of geospatial data through open-standards-based technology.

November 17, 2008

The OGC(R) Announces Updated OGC Reference Model

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced the completion and availability of Version 2.0 of the OGC Reference Model (ORM) at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/orm.It is the result of extensive development by hundreds of OGC Member Organizations and individuals who have contributed to the development of OGC standards since 1994.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 365 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OpenGIS® 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.

November 10, 2008

The OGC(R) Announces Successful OWS-6 Testbed Kick-off Event

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) completed a successful kick-off meeting October 14-17 for the OGC Web Services, Phase 6 (OWS-6) Interoperability Initiative, a testbed to advance OGCs open interoperability framework for geospatial capabilities.In OGCs Interoperability Initiatives, international teams of technology providers work together to solve specific geoprocessing interoperability problems posed by the Initiatives Sponsors.OGC Interoperability Initiatives include testbeds, pilot projects, interoperability experiments and interoperability support services – all designed to encourage rapid development, testing, validation and adoption of OGC standards.OpenGIS® 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.