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February 24, 2016

OGC requests information to guide Arctic Spatial Data Pilot

24 February 2016 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) requests information to help advance the “Arctic Spatial Data Pilot”.The Arctic Spatial Data Pilot is an OGC Interoperability Program initiative sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey and Natural Resources Canada.An open Arctic SDI will be essential infrastructure for widespread Arctic geospatial data discovery, sharing, integration and commerce to support many different communities of interest.This OGC Arctic Spatial Data Pilot Request for Information (RFI) will help the U.S. Geological Survey and Natural Resources Canada collect information to demonstrate the diversity, richness and value of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Web services that can be made available to Arctic SDI stakeholders.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

February 23, 2016

OGC® announces kickoff of major interoperability testbed – Testbed 12

At the March 2-4 Kickoff Event, Testbed 12 Sponsors and OGC Staff will present the interoperability requirements and objectives for the six Testbed 12 threads listed above.These Participants will deliver completed OGC Engineering Reports for public review and deliberation in the OGC Standards Program.The reports will become Discussion Papers, candidate OGC standards, revisions to existing OGC standards, or best practices for using OGC standards and related standards from other standards development organizations.Details surrounding the Testbed 12 technology threads and the entire Testbed 12 Architecture can be found in Annex B of the RFQ and in the RFQ’s clarifications document.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.

February 8, 2016

OGC invites input to guide Point Cloud standards work

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Point Cloud Domain Working Group (Point Cloud DWG) formed late last year to assess the current state of standards and best practices in the management of point cloud data and to guide OGC activities in working with or developing standards for point cloud data interoperability, discovery, and dissemination.The OGC Members decided that the best way to begin the process is to survey the point cloud community, asking for input and details about usage of various point cloud formats, sizes, device types, etc.Interested parties can also join the Point Cloud DWG e-mail list.The OGC® is a not-for-profit international consortium of more than 515 companies, government agencies, research organizations and universities participating in a consensus process to develop open and publicly available geospatial standards.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.

February 5, 2016

OGC® calls for Proposals for a Future City Pilot Phase 1 project

By demonstrating capabilities employed in a holistic urban planning scenario, the Future Cities Pilot will show how cities can begin to reap the benefits.The BIM data is stored with links to geospatial data and BIM data.City data navigation, search & reporting applications enable simultaneous queries across diverse linked data sources.Contact Bart de Lathouwer, the OGC Initiative Director for the pilot at the email address above.The OGCs open standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

February 1, 2016

OGC seeks public comment on candidate OGC® Land and Infrastructure Conceptual Model Standard (LandInfra)

01 February 2016 – The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC® Land and Infrastructure Conceptual Model Standard (LandInfra).This conceptual standard will provide a basis for one or more implementation standards for encoding infrastructure data.After evaluating the LandXML 1.2 schema, the OGC Land and Infrastructure Domain Working Group (LandInfraDWG) recommended the development of an alternative standard to be part of the OGC standards baseline.Having a common underlying Conceptual Model across all LandInfra encodings will help ensure compatibility across multiple encoding standards.The Candidate OGC Land and Infrastructure Conceptual Model Standard is available for review and comment at www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/148.

January 27, 2016

OGC® seeks public comment on discussion paper describing JSON implementation of the OGC and ISO Observations & Measurements standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests public comment on the OGC OGC Observations and Measurements – JSON Implementation Discussion Paper.IT progress from 2000-2010 provided the Web services foundation that supports OGC Web Services, which depend on XML and the OGC (and ISO) Geography Markup Language (GML), an XML grammar for encoding geospatial information.The OGC Observations and Measurements (O&M) Standard v2.0 (also published as ISO/DIS 19156) provides, uniquely, a universal conceptual data model for virtually any type of physical observation or measurement.The OGC Observations and Measurements – JSON Implementation Discussion Paper specifies a JSON implementation for the O&M conceptual model.The OGC Observations and Measurements – JSON implementation Discussion Paper is available for review and comment at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/146.

January 25, 2016

OGC announces simplified web mapping standard

25 January 2016 – The OGC announces that the OGC membership has adopted the The OGC® WMTS Simple Profile, which defines a simplified profile of the OGC Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) Interface Standard (see below).The original OGC Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) interface standard specifies a standard way for servers to serve map tiles of spatially referenced data using prepared tile images with predefined content, extent, and resolution.WMTS complements the OGC Web Map Service (WMS) Interface Standard, which focuses on rendering custom maps.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.

January 21, 2016

OGC, InLocation Alliance and i-locate Project seek input on use cases and benefits of indoor positioning

21 January 2016 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®), the Inlocation Alliance (ILA) and the i-locate Project invite you to contribute to a survey on use cases and benefits of indoor positioning.Kirk Burroughs, Board Chair of InLocation Alliance stated that the indoor positioning market is currently translating the successful use cases of outdoor GPS based positioning indoors, and has the potential to deliver significant benefits to both application users and application providers.The InLocation Alliance is an industry collaboration dedicated to promoting indoor positioning solutions that directly benefit the industry and users of indoor location services and solutions on mobile devices.Coordinated by Trilogis Srl based in Rovereto, Italy, the i-locate Project helps extend current open standards to support indoor/outdoor Location Based Services based on sound privacy and security policies.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.

January 20, 2016

OGC seeks public comment on OGC Emergency and Disaster Management Information Framework Discussion Paper

20 January 2016 – The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the OGC Emergency and Disaster Management Information Framework Discussion Paper.This paper proposes the establishment of information management ecosystems for Emergency and Disaster Management (EDM) planning and for decision support during unpredictable and rapidly evolving EDM situations.The OGC Emergency and Disaster Management Information Framework Discussion Paper is available for review and comment at (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/145).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.