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January 19, 2016

W3C and OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group publishes First Public Working Draft of its Best Practices

19 January 2016 – The W3C and OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of its Best Practices document for Spatial Data on the Web.Although clearly a lot remains to be done, the editors seek to illustrate the full scope of the best practices.The editors are particularly keen for reviewers to cite examples that may be used to further illustrate the best practices.The First Public Working Draft of the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group Best Practices document, published simultaneously by the OGC and the W3C, is available at www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-sdw-bp-20160119 .OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

January 18, 2016

OGC seeks public comment on candidate Geospatial User Feedback Conceptual Model and XML encoding Standard

18 January 2016 – The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the following two candidate standards: OGC Geospatial User Feedback Conceptual Model (“GUF Model”) and the OGC Geospatial User Feedback XML encoding Standard.The first candidate standard specifies the structure of a conceptual Geospatial User Feedback data model.Geospatial User Feedback is metadata that is predominantly produced by consumers of geospatial data products as they gain experience with those products.Encoding standards can be derived from the GUF Conceptual Model Standard, and the GUF XML encoding Standard is such an encoding standard.The documents for the candidate OGC Geospatial User Feedback Conceptual Model Standard and XML encoding are available for review and comment at (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/144).

January 5, 2016

OGC® seeks public comment on a candidate standard that may replace legacy coordinate systems

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests public comment on the OGC candidate Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) Core Standard.The OGC DGGS candidate standard defines a set of rules for defining highly efficient architectures for spatial data storage and analytics.The candidate OGC DGGS Core Standard enables interoperability within and between different Discrete Global Grid Systems and it promotes reusability, knowledge exchange, and choices.The documents for the candidate OGC Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) Core Standard are available for review and comment at (www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/143).OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.

January 4, 2016

OGC announces new Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure Project

4 January 2016 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces a new OGC Interoperability Program project called the Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure Standards and Communication Pilot (Arctic SDI Pilot).The Arctic SDI Pilot is sponsored by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Natural Resources Canada.In Phase 1, project planners are building an inventory of currently available Arctic geospatial data layers and Web services and defining the Arctic SDI architecture.OGC pilot projects apply and test OGC Standards in operational applications using Standards Based Commercial Off-The-Shelf (SCOTS) products that implement OGC Standards.A video will be produced to engage policymakers on the benefits of integrating diverse data utilizing Arctic SDI standards and information management best practices.

December 17, 2015

OGC requests comment on the OGC Coverage Implementation Schema

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the OGC® Coverage Implementation Schema(abbreviated as “CIS”).The Coverage Implementation Schema version 1.1 is the backwards compatible successor of the “GML 3.2.1 Application Schema – Coverages” version 1.0 (abbreviated as “GMLCOV”).The OGC Abstract Topic 6 Standard defines an abstract coverage model.The OGC Coverage Implementation Schema complements OGC Abstract Topic 6 with a concrete coverage structure definition of a subset of coverage models in OGC Abstract Topic 6 that can be conformance tested, regardless of the implementations’ data format encoding.Download the candidate OGC® Coverage Implementation Schema here: https://portal.ogc.org/files/64632 and on the request page.

December 15, 2015

OGC announces standard that makes complex environmental data easier to use in GIS

15 December 2015 – The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the OGC CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding using GML Coverage Application Schema, an extension to the OGC CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding standard.The OGC CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding standard has emerged as a widely used and well supported data model and encoding for domains such as atmospheric science, oceanography, climatology, meteorology, and hydrology.The new extension to the OGC CF-netCDF standards suite specifies how CF-netCDF datasets are encoded to conform to “OGC Implementation Schema for Coverages.This extension specifies how these complex multi-dimensional CF-netCDF data are encoded as OGC coverages for use in geographic information systems (GIS) or other geospatial systems.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

November 16, 2015

OGC® announces new deadline for submissions to participate in Major Interoperability Testbed (Testbed 12)

16 November 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that there will be two separate submission deadlines and kickoff dates for “threads” of the OGC Testbed 12 Interoperability Testbed.Responses to the OGC Testbed 12 Aviation thread must still be received before 5:00 pm U.S. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 20 November 2015.Also, Testbed 12 kickoff venues and dates have been announced.The Aviation Thread kickoff meeting will be held at the Harris Corporation Offices in Washington, DC, 19-21 January 2016.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.

November 5, 2015

OGC® seeks participants for international GeoPackage Elevation Data Interoperability Experiment

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces a Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Elevation Extension Interoperability Experiment (GPKG-EE IE).The OGC GeoPackage Standards Working Group (SWG) has identified a need to store tiled gridded elevation data in a GeoPackage.The SWG has developed a candidate extension to the GeoPackage Encoding Standard to support elevation data.An OGC Interoperability Experiment is a rapid, low overhead, formally structured OGC-facilitated 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.

November 4, 2015

OGC publishes Testbed 11 Aviation Information Management Engineering Reports

4 November 2015 – The OGC Members recently approved release of 26 public OGC Engineering Reports, products of the recently completed OGC Interoperability Testbed 11.While OGC Engineering Reports are not standards, the information they contains is intended to be useful to developers of OGC standards and implementers of OGC standards.The OGC Public Engineering Reports web page provides links to the Engineering Reports.The OGC Testbed 11 Aviation – Aviation Architecture Engineering Report describes the overall architecture that was implemented in the Aviation thread.The OGC Testbed 11 Aviation – Aviation Feature Schema (AFX) Recommendations Engineering Report addresses the Aviation Feature Schema (AFX) developed by EUROCONTROL.