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June 6, 2017

Open Geospatial Consortium announces Dassault Systèmes has joined OGC as a Principal Member

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Dassault Systèmes 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.Dassault Systèmes’ collaborative solutions foster social innovation, expanding possibilities for the virtual world to improve the real world.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.

May 23, 2017

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.The OGC Innovation Program provides a venue to advance solutions to geospatial data and service challenges through using open standards.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.

May 8, 2017

OGC invites you to its Environmental Linked Feature Interoperability Experiment: ELFIE

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites interested members & non-members alike to participate in the OGC Environmental Linked Feature Interoperability Experiment (ELFIE).In recent years, environmental domain feature models have been established by a number of OGC groups, including the Hydrology, Agriculture, and Sensor Web Enablement Domain Working Groups.The IE is intended to serve the needs of existing systems that offer or could offer services that would benefit from a linked feature data-encoding best practice.If you are interested in participating in the Environmental Linked Feature Interoperability Experiment, please contact techdesk [at] opengeospatial.org before 25th May 2017.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

April 21, 2017

OGC seeks public comment on candidate OGC Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard – Earth Observation Application Profile 1.1

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking public comment on its Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard – Earth Observation Application Profile 1.1.This OGC WCS Application Profile – Earth Observation Interface Standard (EO-WCS) defines data structures and operations that together allow retrieval of Earth Observation coverages offered by a WCS 2.0 server.EO-WCS defines a profile of WCS 2.0 for use with Earth Observation data.An OGC Application Profile bundles requirements from several OGC standards that must be implemented for conformance with the application profile.The candidate Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard – Earth Observation Application Profile 1.1 is available for public review and comment at https://portal.ogc.org/files/73692.

April 20, 2017

OGC seeks comment on candidate InfraGML Part 7 Land Division Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking public comment on the candidate InfraGML 1.0: Part 7 – LandInfra Land Division – Encoding Standard.The candidate OGC InfraGML Encoding standards define the implementation-dependent, GML encoding of concepts supporting land and civil engineering infrastructure facilities.InfraGML is a GML implementation of the OGC Land and Infrastructure Conceptual Model Standard (LandInfra).The Candidate OGC InfraGML 1.0: Part 7 – LandInfra Land Division – Encoding Standard is available for review and comment at https://portal.ogc.org/files/73435.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

April 19, 2017

OGC seeks comment on proposed GeoScience Domain Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comments on the draft charter of a proposed GeoScience Domain Working Group (DWG).The GeoScience Domain Working Group aims to connect people interested in GeoSciences by providing an open forum in which to develop, improve, and promote technologies for GeoScience data description and sharing.The GeoScience DWG will be a joint OGC and CGI-IUGS working group.See the OGC’s Domain Working Group and Standards Working Group pages to learn about other standards activities that are ongoing in the OGC.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

April 4, 2017

OGC appoints Dr. Luis Bermudez to head OGC Innovation Program

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces Dr Luis Bermudez as the new Executive Director of its Innovation Program.Continuing OGC’s leadership in advancing geospatial information, OGC is pleased to announce Dr. Luis Bermudez as the new Executive Director of OGC’s Innovation Program (previously the Interoperability Program).The Innovation Program provides a collaborative agile process for advancing geospatial technologies: Innovation Program Initiatives like testbeds, pilots and plugfests help develop, test, and validate technologies that lead to open standards for advancing geospatial information interoperability and innovation.Luis recently composed a blog post on Innovation Principles , which outlines how the Innovation Program embraces core fundamentals that enable the development of ‘net technology and the advancement of open standards.Dr. Bermudez has demonstrated experience and skill in guiding and shaping OGC program activities to remain agile with the rapid market and technology changes that are commonplace today.

March 29, 2017

OGC seeks public comment on ‘GML Application Schema – Coverages, GRIB2 Coverage Encoding Profile’ Candidate Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking public comment on the candidate standard GRIB2 Coverage, an Encoding Profile of the OGC Coverage Implementation Schema.The candidate standard specifies the usage of the GRIB2 data format for the encoding of OGC coverages.The GRIB2 Coverage Encoding Profile is based on the authoritative format specification available in the WMO Manual on Codes.The candidate GML Application Schema – Coverages, GRIB2 Coverage Encoding Profile is available for review and comment at https://portal.ogc.org/files/68769.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

March 28, 2017

OGC requests public comment on proposed GeoRSS Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is requesting public comment on the proposed GeoRSS Community Standard.GeoRSS is the first OGC Community Standard to be released for public comment.An OGC Community Standard is an official position of the OGC endorsing a specification or standard developed external to the OGC.One key aspect of a Community standard is that the specification is broadly implemented.The candidate GeoRSS Community Standard standard is available for public review and comment at https://portal.ogc.org/files/72442.