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February 22, 2008

OGC(R) Approves Web Processing Service Standard

Wayland, Mass., February 22, 2008 – The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have approved version 1.0 of the OpenGIS® Web Processing Service (WPS) Interface Standard.The WPS standard defines an interface that facilitates the publishing of geospatial processes and makes it easier to write software clients that can discover and bind to those processes.Processes include any algorithm, calculation or model that operates on spatially referenced raster or vector data.The OGCs WPS standard will play an important role in automating workflows that involve geospatial data and geoprocessing services.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

February 19, 2008

OGC(R) Requests Comments on CityGML Encoding Standard

Wayland, Mass., February 19, 2008 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is requesting public comment on the candidate CityGML Encoding Standard.CityGML is a Geography Markup Language 3 (GML3) application schema for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D city models.CityGML is a common information model for the representation of 3D urban objects.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 345 companies, government agencies, research organizations, 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.

February 11, 2008

OGC® and BuildingSMART® alliance Tackle Interoperability Across the Building Life Cycle

Respondents will provide buildingSMART alliance, the OGC and the Sponsors a current and accurate understanding of what technologies the software and research communities are ready to bring to the table for integration into an interoperable environment for commercialization.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/ The buildingSMART allianceis a program of the National Institute of Building Sciences and is the North American Chapter of the worldwide International Alliance for Interoperability.Our collective goal is open interoperability and full lifecycle implementation of building information models.Visit the buildingSMART alliance website at http://www.buildingsmartalliance.org/

January 30, 2008

OGC(R) Approves Observations & Measurements Encoding Standard

Wayland, Mass., January 29, 2008 – The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have approved version 1.0 of the OpenGIS® Observations & Measurements (O&M) Encoding Standard.The O&M standard defines an abstract model and an XML schema encoding for observations and measurements.This framework is required for use by other OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards as well as for general support for OGC compliant systems dealing in technical measurements in science and engineering.When scientists and engineers encode data in O&M, they can easily publish the data (or live data feeds) in catalogs and registries so others can efficiently discover, access and use the data, using relatively simple software.OpenGIS(R) 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.

January 29, 2008

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging Takes Strategic Membership in the OGC®

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (http://www.opengeospatial.org) announced that Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging has increased its level of membership in the OGC to become a Strategic Member.Strategic Membership is the highest level of membership in the OGC.Leica Geosystems’ strong commitment to OGC reflects the companys understanding of their diverse clients needs for standards-based geospatial data management solutions.Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging transforms your raw data to useable information, integrating a broad range of geospatial technology throughout your enterprise, via web-based, mobile and desktop clients.With Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) interoperability, Leica Geosystems develops solutions with the most advanced service-oriented platform available.

January 24, 2008

OGC® Data Quality Working Group Closing Survey on Spatial Data Quality Measures January 25th

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Spatial Data Quality Working Group is pleased to announce that there has been a great response to the survey on spatial data quality measures.A survey on spatial data quality has been live since mid-October 2007, targeting thousands of geospatial data suppliers and users from around the world.However, before this is possible it is necessary to ascertain what organizations involved in the marketplace understand and mean when they use the term spatial data quality.The Working Group hopes this survey will reach thousands of geospatial data users and provide a solid foundation for developing relevant terms of measure and a powerful spatial data quality model.The modern era demands the unconstrained sharing of spatial data between systems, business areas, organisations, and the public.

January 6, 2008

OGC Calls for Participation in ECO8 OGC Pilot

Wayland, Mass., January 4, 2008 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) has issued a Request For Quotations and Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) to solicit proposals in response to requirements for the Empire Challenge 08 Pilot (EC08 OGC Pilot).The EC08 OGC Pilot is sponsored by a US agency which will provide cost-sharing funds to offset expenses associated with the initiative.This RFQ/CFP is soliciting partners to provide and deploy hardware / software and to collaborate on the final technology design for the pilot network.Responses are due by January 24, 2008 and the Pilot Kickoff Meeting will be held the week of February 26-28, 2008, in the Washington, DC area.Several use cases and supporting workflows are provided to enable understanding of the design of the pilot.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

January 4, 2008

OGC® and buildingSMART allianceTM Announce Joint Call for Sponsors – AECOO Testbed

Testbed roles are defined in OGCs and buildingSMART alliances presentation to attendees at the Fall 2007 AEC-ST Conference about the AECOO Testbed that is available at: http://nbims.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=1276.The AECOO Testbed will build on these relationships as well as OGCs relationship with the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and other AECOO community and private organizations.Organizations having interest in sponsoring are invited to contact the OGC and the buildingSMART alliance at aec-techdesk [at] opengeospatial.org.The buildingSMART alliance is a participating organization of the worldwide International Alliance for Interoperability.The IAI-NA is one of 13 chapters of buildingSMART® and is a committee of the buildingSMART alliance.

December 17, 2007

OGC Processes Advance GEOSS Interoperability

The GEOSS Report on Progress highlighted the news that the development of interoperability of GEOSS was ahead of schedule.Development of GEOSS interoperability is led by the GEO Architecture and Data Committee.The OGC led the GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot, an OGC Interoperability Initiative, which has brought together technical contributions from over 120 organizations.GEOSS Interoperability is based on non-proprietary, formal international standards.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.