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September 20, 2016

OGC requests participation in its Land Administration DWG

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling for public participation in its newly-established Land Administration Domain Working Group (Land Admin DWG).Worldwide, effective and efficient land administration is an ongoing concern, as only a small number of nations have mature land information systems, and few others have some for of land administration capability in place.Location is a crucial aspect of land administration, and OGC’s experience in solving spatial interoperability issues makes it well suited to provide guidance and insight to nations looking to establish or overhaul land administration systems.The OGC is looking for interested parties to assist the Land Admin DWG in achieving these goals.Details on the Land Admin Domain Working Group can be found at: URL, with the charter available at: https://portal.ogc.org/files/68770.

September 20, 2016

OGC publishes Testbed 12 Aviation Thread Engineering Reports

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) recently approved the release of 7 draft public OGC Engineering Reports, products of the recently completed OGC Interoperability Testbed 12 Aviation Thread.Asynchronous Messaging – OGC web services are primarily request-reply services, which require specific interaction by an end user.While OGC Engineering Reports are not standards, the information they contain is intended to be useful to developers and implementers of OGC standards.The draft Testbed 12 Aviation Engineering Reports are available at docs.opengeospatial.org/per/, and include:Aviation Architecture Engineering ReportCatalog Services for AviationAsynchronous Messaging for AviationAviation Semantics Engineering ReportFIXM GML Engineering ReportSBVR Engineering ReportData Broker Engineering ReportThe final versions of the reports will be published in the coming weeks.Contact the OGC to learn more about OGC Testbeds and how your organization can become a sponsor or technology provider participant of OGC Testbed 13.

September 16, 2016

OGC seeks public comment for candidate Moving Features Access Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on its candidate Moving Features Access Standard.The OGC currently maintains two Moving Features Encoding Standards for capturing and managing data describing moving features/objects.The OGC has developed the Moving Features Access candidate standard to provide a framework for analytical operations for moving feature data.This OGC Standard specifies a set of operations related to trajectory data of moving features.The candidate Moving Features Access Standard is available for review and comment at https://portal.ogc.org/files/70563.

August 29, 2016

OGC is considering a proposed work item for 3D Tiles as a Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is considering start of a new work item for a Community Standard: 3D Tiles.3D Tiles is a publicly available open specification for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets for visualization.To expand on existing 2D and 2.5D streaming of map tiles and terrain, 3D Tiles support 3D models such as buildings (exterior and interior), trees, point clouds, TIN terrain, and vector data use cases.A document has been prepared by several OGC members that provides a justification to the OGC Technical Committee (TC) for consideration of 3D Tiles as a Community standard.This justification, along with the submitted candidate Community standard, will form the basis for TC review and vote to approve the start of the Community standard process for this standard.

August 29, 2016

OGCs 100th Technical and Planning Committee Meetings to be held September 19-23 2016 in Orlando, Florida

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites you to attend its 100th Technical and Planning Committee Meeting, which will be sponsored by CAE and held at the University of Central Florida from September 19-23, 2016.The purpose of OGC Technical and Planning Committee meetings is to network, knowledge share and advance the development of Open Geospatial Standards.The Technical and Planning Committee Meeting in Orlando will mark OGC’s 100th Technical meeting since its inception in 1994.For an overview of the history of OGC, visit http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/history, or if you’d like an extended Sunday morning read, visit http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/historylong.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location based services, and mainstream IT.

August 29, 2016

OGC requests comment on charter for environmental electromagnetic field data model Domain Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the draft OGC Spectrum Model Language Domain Working Group (SpectrumML DWG) Charter.The OGC SpectrumML Domain Working Group will provide an important coordination and harmonization function for future studies of frequency interference.The candidate OGC SpectrumML DWG Charter is available for review at https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=70148&version=1.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.

August 18, 2016

Location Powers Workshop to advance Geospatial applications of Big Data

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has announced its Location Powers: Big Data workshop, occurring on Tuesday 20th September in Orlando, Florida.The Location Powers: Big Data workshop will bring together leading developers of geospatial big data systems.This is an opportunity for participants to hear about the latest developments in the field, as well as contribute to the collective discussion concerning advancing the use of big data computing techniques being applied to geospatial data.Big Data is driven by the real-time collection, analyses, and visualization of vast amounts of that data.Processing this enormous and varied stream of geospatial information with big data analytics and visualization will bring benefits to many applications in our world.

August 17, 2016

OGC releases CityGML Quality Interoperability Experiment Engineering Report

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has released the results of the CityGML Quality Interoperability Experiment (QIE) as a public Engineering Report.Carried out as a joint activity between the OGC, SIG3D and EuroSDR, the CityGML QIE, defined data quality requirements for a general CityGML data specification, created recommended implementation guidance for CityGML encoded 3D data, and provided a suite of tools to carry out quality assurance on CityGML data.The CityGML QIE improves the interoperability of CityGML data by removing some ambiguities from the current standard, and formally defining data quality requirements for a general CityGML data standard.These requirements and guidance should meet the OGC Membership and community’s desire for better implementation guidance for OGC standards.The Engineering Report, available for free at portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=68821, specifies the results and findings of the CityGML QIE.

August 8, 2016

OGC adopts SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing as an official standard.The OGC SensorThings API provides an open, geospatially enabled way to interconnect Internet of Things (IoT) devices, data, and applications over the Web.Such a foundation ensures that the OGC SensorThings API is widely useful, extensible, and can be applied to simple and complex use cases alike.The OGC also provides a SensorThings API compliance test suite, which is available on the OGC beta validation web site.The OGC SensorThings API is an open standard, which means it is non-proprietary, approved by an open governance process, and freely available.