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November 10, 2008

David Arctur Joins OGC as Director, Interoperability Programs

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that Dr. David Arctur has been appointed as a Director, Interoperability Programs for the Consortium.As part of the OGCs Interoperability Program team, Dr. Arctur is leading the sixth OGC Web Services (OWS-6) Interoperability Initiative, a major testbed activity.We are fortunate indeed to have him on staff now to play a key role in advancing OGC Interoperability Initiatives.Most recently, he served as President and Chief Technology Officer for the OGC Interoperability Institute (OGCii), a non-profit organization promoting greater interoperability of scientific information resources.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

October 28, 2008

OGC Standards Are the “Bedrock” of Global Geology Mapping Project

In addition to GeoSciML, OneGeology uses the OpenGIS Web Map Service Interface Standard ( http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms ) and other OGC standards.Without such standards, geology data clients and servers around the world would not be able to interoperate across the Web as OneGeology nodes.He explained the significance of the project: Geological maps are essential tools in finding natural resources such as water, hydrocarbons and minerals, and when planning to mitigate geohazards such as earthquakes, volcanoes and radon.The OGC Interoperability Institute (OGCii), a not-for-profit subsidiary of the OGC, plays an advisory role in OneGeology.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

October 20, 2008

Webinar Features Geography Markup Language

The Geography Markup Language (GML) encoding standard is used as a key example.Joe Francica, Editor-in-Chief of Directions Media, and Chris Biow, Chief Technologist of Mark Logic Corporation, are also on the panel.The webinar will be moderated by Mike Agron, Executive Advisor of Directions Media.Directions Media is hosting the event, which is sponsored by Mark Logic Corporation.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

September 30, 2008

Terry Fisher Receives OGC Lifetime Achievement Award

At the September meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) in Norcross, Georgia, Terry Fisher received an OGC Lifetime Achievement Award.He served in the OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee and served as Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) (www.ceos.org/) liaison with OGC.In CEOS, he helped the international Earth observation community become a leading implementer community for OGC.Mark Reichardt, president of OGC, said, Terry has been a force behind GeoConnections endorsement and deployment of OGC standards, which has led to the CGDI becoming the largest single implementation community for OGC.More than any other individual, Terry Fisher has been responsible for Canada becoming a global model for National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) development that takes full advantage of OGC standards.

September 30, 2008

Mike Botts Receives OGC’s Gardels Award

At the September meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) in Norcross, Georgia, Dr. Mike Botts received the OGCs tenth annual Kenneth D. Gardels Award ( http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/awards ).The Gardels Award, a gold medallion, is awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to advance OGCs vision of geospatial information fully integrated into the worlds information systems.He has played a major role in coordinating with other sensors standards groups, including the IEEE 1451 (http://ieee1451.nist.gov/) Standards Working Group.The Gardels Award is given annually in memory of Kenneth Gardels, a founding director of OGC and OGCs former director of academic programs.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

September 30, 2008

OGC Spatial Data Quality Working Group Releases Survey Results

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that OGC members Blue Marble and 1Spatial have released the results of the OGC Spatial Data Quality Survey.The results are now available at https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=30415The OGC Technical Committees Spatial Data Quality Working Group, under the leadership of Blue Marble (www.bluemarblegeo.com) President Patrick Cunningham (Vice Chair), and Seb Lessware (Chair) of 1Spatial (www.1spatial.com), developed the survey and distributed it to thousands of geospatial data suppliers and users around the world.The goal of the survey was to provide user feedback to guide the OGCs development of appropriate terms of quality measure and a robust spatial data quality model.With this data, we will be able to move forward with the Working Groups directive of researching the best framework for spatial data quality standards.The mission of the Data Quality Working Group of the OGC Technical Committee is to provide a forum for describing an interoperable framework or model for OGC quality assurance measures and Web services.

September 10, 2008

OGC(R) Calls for Sponsors and Participants in Delhi Transit Routing Interoperability Pilot

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) joins GIS Development Pvt Ltd (India) in a Call for Sponsorship and Participation in the Delhi Transit Routing Interoperability Pilot (D-TRIP) http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/delhipilot This is an OGC Interoperability Initiative to advance OGCs open framework for geospatial data and systems interoperability and sharing in the context of transportation circulation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.The Pilot will demonstrate best practices and standards enabling interoperability among diverse information resources used for transportation routing.OGC Interoperability Initiatives are part of OGCs Interoperability Program, a global, hands-on collaborative prototyping program designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven candidate standards into OGCs Specification Program, where they are formalized for public release.GIS Development (http://www.gisdevelopment.net/) promotes the usage of Geographic Information Science, technology and applications worldwide and in Asia in particular.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.

August 26, 2008

OGC Announces Participation in FOSS4G Conference

Wayland, Mass., August 26, 2008 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) will participate in the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference ( http://www.foss4g2008.org/ ) September 29 – October 3, 2008 at Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.FOSS4G 2008 is organized by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) ( http://www.osgeo.org ) in cooperation with the Geo-Information Society of South Africa (GISSA) ( http://www.gissa.org.za ).The two organizations have begun to collaborate to promote the synergy between open standards and open source software in the geospatial domain.Raj Singh, Director of Interoperability Programs at OGC, will discuss the open source work of OGC members in the conferences demo theater.He will also deliver a paper on WFS Simple, ( http://www.ogcnetwork.net/wfssimple ) a candidate standard for consideration by the OGC membership.

August 20, 2008

OGC(R) Adopts CityGML Encoding Standard

Wayland, Mass., August 20, 2008 – The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have adopted version 1.0.0 of the OpenGIS® CityGML Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml and www.citygmlwiki.org) as an official OGC Standard.CityGML is an open data model framework and XML-based encoding standard for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D urban models.CityGML is an application schema of the OpenGIS Geography Markup Language 3 (GML3) Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml), an international standard for spatial data exchange and encoding approved by the OGC and ISO.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.