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December 5, 2018

OGC calls for sponsors for a pilot to improve discovery, access and use of online disaster-related geographic information

Disasters Pilot will benefit all disaster stakeholders through improved access to the expanding sphere of online disaster-related geographic information.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking additional sponsors to support the OGC Disasters Pilot.The Disasters Pilot will run as an OGC Innovation Program initiative that aims to help all disaster stakeholders benefit from improved access to the expanding sphere of online disaster-related geographic information.By sponsoring the Disasters Pilot, organizations will share, with other like-minded organizations, the costs associated with development, engineering, and demonstration of these outcomes.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

November 28, 2018

Announcing the OGC Energy & Utilities Summit, to be held as part of OGC’s December TC Meeting in Charlotte

2nd Energy & Utilities Summit will examine the role of OGC standards in support of Smart Energy Utilities, Smart Energy Communities, and Smart Energy Networks.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Energy & Utilities Domain Working Group (DWG) is excited to announce that its 2nd Energy Summit will be held alongside the December OGC Technical Committee Meeting in Charlotte, NC.This 2nd Energy & Utilities Summit will examine the role of OGC standards in support of Smart Energy Utilities, Smart Energy Communities, and Smart Energy Networks.For background, the 1st Energy Summit, in 2017, resulted in the report and presentations now available on the Energy & Utilities DWG Wiki Page.To register for the Energy Summit and the OGC TC Meeting, visit ogcmeet.org.

November 20, 2018

OGC seeks public comment on adoption of two jointly developed OGC/W3C standards

OGC/W3C Time Ontology in OWL (OWL-Time) and Semantic Sensor Network (SSN) Ontology standards were prepared by the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group and published as W3C RecommendationsThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks comments on the possible adoption of the jointly developed OGC/W3C Time Ontology in OWL (OWL-Time) and Semantic Sensor Network (SSN) Ontology candidate standards.OGC is now seeking comment as to whether these documents should also be approved as OGC standards.OGC is seeking public input on if it should adopt these documents as OGC Standards.The Time Ontology in OWL and Semantic Sensor Network Ontology W3C Recommendations are available for download from W3C: Time Ontology in OWL (OWL-Time) and Semantic Sensor Network (SSN) Ontology.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

November 20, 2018

Open Geospatial Consortium announces HERE Technologies has joined OGC as a Principal Member

As Principal Member, HERE will help to explore market and technology trends to drive standards for the development of interoperable location servicesThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce that HERE Technologies has joined the OGC as a Principal Member.Principal Members also participate in final approval decisions for all OGC standards and for nominations to the Board of Directors.“We look forward to working with HERE and its Open Location Platform for interoperable and open location data management services.”“The Open Geospatial Consortium unites key players from the global geospatial industry as a platform for building and providing open standards around location data and APIs.About HERE TechnologiesHERE, the Open Location Platform company, enables people, enterprises and cities to harness the power of location.About OGCThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of more than 525 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.

November 15, 2018

OGC announces a Request for Information on Marine Concept Development Study

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is requesting information to help shape the Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Concept Development Study (MSDI- CDS), which will assess the current state of data management and exchange technologies used in the marine domain.Demand for the marine geospatial data collected and managed by organizations supporting, operating within, or researching this domain is increasing, due to a growing user-base with a variety of new applications.The purpose of this Concept Development Study is to bring together the marine and broader geospatial standards communities to guide future OGC Innovation Program partnership activities by:Engaging executive-level participants to understand the most important challengesEngaging different marine geospatial data stakeholders (i.e.To learn more about the study, visit the Marine SDI Concept Development Study page on the OGC website.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

October 29, 2018

Open Geospatial Consortium and Natural Resources Canada partner on Geospatial Innovation

Additionally, NRCan will now participate in final approval decisions for all OGC standards and nominations to the Board of Directors.www.nrcan.gc.caNRCan has been a key proponent in the development of Canadian geospatial data infrastructure as well as the development of international open geospatial standards.Grâce à ce travail novateur et à son leadership, RNCan participera maintenant à l’OGC à titre de membre stratégique .De plus, RNCan participera désormais aux décisions d’approbation finale pour toutes les normes de l’OGC et les nominations au conseil d’administration.Le Ministère est un chef de file établi dans les domaines de l’énergie, des forêts et des minéraux et métaux.

October 19, 2018

OGC seeks public comment on Symbology Conceptual Core Model

SCCM aims to offer a consistent approach to specifying data portrayal and symbology rules that will increase consistency between mapsThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the early development of a Symbology Conceptual Core Model (SCCM).The Symbology Conceptual Core Model (SCCM) is an abstract, modular, and extensible model, with no encoding dependency, used for the portrayal of geographical data.Existing OGC standards for styling and symbology can only be used with a few OGC standards (e.g.The Symbology Conceptual Core Model is currently in early development and not yet a part of the OGCs standards process.Comments are due by 21st November 2018 and should be submitted via the method outlined on the Symbology Conceptual Core Model’s request page.

October 15, 2018

OGC adopts new revision to GML in JPEG 2000 (GMLJP2), allowing standardized markup for rectified and referenceable imagery

Sensor model images are useful because they contain geospatial information that is lost upon processing into rectified ‘map’ images.The 2.1 revision adds support for referenceable grid coverages (and thus sensor model images) via the Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) extension, ReferenceableGridCoverage.By providing a raw unprocessed image with a SensorML 2.0 sensor model placed in a referenceable grid description, one defines a sensor model image.Although most high resolution satellites have pushbroom imaging systems, instead of providing standardized physical sensor models, vendors normally provide highly accurate bias-corrected replacement sensor models using a set of rational polynomial coefficients (RPC).The addition of sensor model imagery is an important evolution to exploit new UAV and satellite data.

October 10, 2018

OGC and Khronos Form a Liaison to Improve Interoperability between the Geospatial and 3D Graphics Communities

Further, OGC will adopt published Khronos standards as part of the OGC Standards Baseline where it believes their inclusion to be appropriate, or where Khronos standards are normatively referenced by OGC standards.Khronos standards include Vulkan®, OpenGL®, OpenGL® ES, OpenGL® SC, WebGL™, COLLADA™, OpenXR™ and glTF™.About OGCThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of more than 525 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 within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.