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OGC seeks sponsors for its Underground Infrastructure Pilot Project, releases Underground Infrastructure Concept Study Engineering Report

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling for sponsors of a pilot project that will implement and demonstrate the sharing of information concerning underground infrastructure.The Pilot will implement sponsor requirements based on the findings of OGC’s Underground Infrastructure Concept Study, of which the summary Engineering Report is now available.Worse yet, underground assets rarely exist in isolation, so the failure of one organisation’s asset may cause the cascading failure of other organisation’s assets.“The OGC Underground Pilot project is the next step in making underground mapping a reality.”OGC’s Underground Pilot Project will create, test, and validate a reusable, standards-based underground information architecture that will enable cities around the world to rapidly advance their smart underground projects.OGC’s Underground Infrastructure Mapping & Modeling Concept Development Study Engineering Report now availableThe Underground Pilot Project will be based on the results of OGC’s recent Underground Infrastructure Mapping & Modeling Concept Development Study (Underground CDS).

OGC recognizes the IJIS Institute with Distinguished Member Award

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that the IJIS Institute has been awarded OGC’s Distinguished Member Award, and Steve Ambrosini a Lifetime Achievement Award.The Distinguished Member Award was established by the OGC Board to recognize OGC member organizations that have made a substantial, positive, and sustained impact on one or more areas of OGC mission accomplishment through a high level of commitment surpassing traditional member engagement.“The OGC – IJIS relationship generated substantially improved understanding of the power of location and best harnessing of technology innovations to foster improved public service.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.

OGC is seeking participants for its GeoPackage (GPKG) Related Tables Extension Interoperability Experiment

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces a Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Related Tables Extension Interoperability Experiment (GPKG-RTE IE).Compusult has proposed a Related Tables extension to the OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard (12-128r14).The GeoPackage Standards Working Group (SWG) proposes to validate this extension by running an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Interoperability Experiment (IE).An OGC Interoperability Experiment is a rapid, low overhead, formally structured activity in which members achieve specific technical objectives that further the OGC Standards Baseline.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that ‘geo-enable’ the Web, wireless and location based services, and mainstream IT.

OGC seeks public comment on candidate ‘GeoPackage Extension for Tiled Gridded Coverage Data’ standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate GeoPackage Extension for Tiled Gridded Coverage Data standard.‘GeoPackage Extension for Tiled Gridded Coverage Data’ was initially documented in the GeoPackage 1.2 draft standard as Annex F.11 Tiled Gridded Elevation Data.In 2016, the GeoPackage Elevation Extension was tested and refined as part of the OGC GeoPackage Elevation Extension Interoperability Experiment.As part of the work, the scope of the extension was expanded from just elevation data to any regular gridded coverage data.The extension now defines how to store any gridded coverage in a GeoPackage data store.

OGC Invites you to participate in a Simulated Exercise at the Disaster Risk Reduction (DDR) Across the Americas Summit

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces a Call for Participation in a simulated disaster response exercise that will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina on September 7th, 2017, during the Disaster Risk Reduction (DDR) Across the Americas Summit.La convocatoria de participación está disponible en: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/158 y el registro se realiza a través de la página principal de la cumbre.Los estándares de OGC soportan soluciones interoperables que geo-habilitan los servicios basados ​​en la Web, inalámbricos, de ubicación, y corrientes principales de las tecnologías de información.Los estándares de OGC capacitan a los desarrolladores de tecnología para que la información y los servicios geoespaciales sean accesibles y útiles con cualquier aplicación que necesite ser habilitada geoespacialmente.Visite el sitio web de OGC en www.opengeospatial.org.

OGC is calling for sponsors for an innovative interoperability initiative, Testbed 14

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a call for sponsors for an innovative interoperability initiative, Testbed 14.Testbed 14 marks OGC’s 100th Innovation Program initiative.With previous initiatives, OGC has helped develop new standards and architectures that have transformed how we share and use geospatial information.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.

Open Geospatial Consortium announces Leidos’ upgrade to Principal Membership

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Leidos has raised its membership level from Technical to Principal Level.Leidos will also participate in final approval decisions for all OGC standards and nominations to the Board of Directors.Recently, Leidos chose to elevate its membership to the Principal level, which expands the company’s contributions to the OGC mission.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.

OGC publishes results of international Arctic Spatial Data Pilot

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce the publication of results from the Arctic Spatial Data Pilot (Arctic SDP).The Arctic SDP, an 18 month project, was initiated to demonstrate the diversity, richness, and value of providing geospatial data using international standards in support of seamless spatial data exchange with application to a range of Arctic topics.The Pilot supports the strategic goals of the Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure (Arctic SDI), a cooperative voluntary, multilateral activity between the 8 Arctic Countries National Mapping Agencies (including USGS and NRCan).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.

Open Geospatial Consortium announces Geoscience Australia as its newest Principal Member

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Geoscience Australia has raised its membership level from Technical to Principal Level.Geoscience Australia has been an active member of OGC since 1999.Geoscience Australia has been a major contributor to developing and promoting international OGC standards for essential datasets, including the Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) standard and the Geoscience Markup Language (GeoSciML) standard.Principal Members also participate in final approval decisions for all OGC standards and for nominations to the Board of Directors.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that ‘geo-enable’ the Web, wireless and location based services, and mainstream IT.

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