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October 29, 2015

OGC and ASPRS to collaborate on geospatial standards, invite participation in Point Cloud work

2 November 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) have agreed to work together more closely in the application and promotion of standards and best practices for the location and geospatial industries.“We are deeply appreciative of the alliance recently established between ASPRS and OGC.The two organizations invite the public to participate in the Point Cloud standards discussion.The members of the OGC Point Cloud Domain Working Group DWG have made the Working Group open to members and the public by allowing open membership to the email list and all meetings.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.

October 28, 2015

OGC seeks public comment on candidate 3D Portrayal Service Standard

The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC 3D Portrayal Service (3DPS) Standard.Based on the results of the 3DPIE, an OGC 3D Portrayal Service Standards Working group (3D Portrayal Service SWG) was chartered to progress two different OGC proposals to the state of one integrated, adopted OGC standard.The current candidate 3D Portrayal Service Standard, a unified web service for 3D portrayal, is intended to make it easy for applications to present, explore, and analyze complex 3D geospatial data from diverse sources.The candidate OGC 3D Portrayal Service Standard is designed to support both client and server side rendering.The documents for the candidate OGC 3D Portrayal Service Standard are available for review and comment at (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/140).

October 22, 2015

OGC® Calls for Participation in Major Interoperability Testbed (Testbed 12)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) in the OGC Testbed 12 Interoperability Testbed.Testbed 12 sponsors have documented interoperability requirements and objectives for this testbed initiative.Participants’ solutions will implement existing OGC standards as well as new prototype interface and encoding specifications introduced or developed in Testbed 12.Prototype specifications may ultimately become OGC standards, revisions to existing OGC standards, or best practices for using OGC standards.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.

October 7, 2015

OGC® seeks comment on the OGC OWS Context GeoJSON Encoding Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the OGC OWS Context GeoJSON Encoding candidate standard.The OGC Web Services Context Document standard (OWS Context) (OGC 12-080r2) was created to allow a set of configured information resources to be passed between applications primarily as a collection of services (e.g., OGC Web Services, but also potentially in-line content).The OWS Context specification, already defined by a conceptual model and ATOM document encoding, is now complemented with a GeoJSON document encoding.The OGC OWS Context GeoJSON Encoding Standard specifies how to use GeoJSON to encode a context document, making it possible to transform context documents between the different encodings without loss of information.Download the candidate OGC OWS Context GeoJSON Encoding standard here: https://portal.ogc.org/files/63324.

October 7, 2015

The OGC requests comment on the OGC® OpenSearch Extension for Earth Observation Standard

7 October 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the OGC OpenSearch Extension for Earth Observation, a candidate OGC standard.This OpenSearch extension provides a simple way to make queries to a repository that contains Earth Observation information and enables syndication of repositories for this purpose.This OGC candidate standard specifies an Earth Observation extension to OpenSearch that defines query parameters that allow the filtering of search results with those fields.This candidate standard is complementary to the OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions Standard (OGC 10-032).Download the candidate OGC OpenSearch Extension for Earth Observation Standard here: https://portal.ogc.org/files/65168.

September 28, 2015

OGC North American Forum to demo results of major interoperability testbed

On October 14th, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) will demonstrate the results of the eleventh OGC Interoperability Testbed.The OGC North American Forum (NAF), a group of 53 OGC members in North America, addresses OGC standards requirements, OGC program coordination, outreach and education needs of government, academic, research and industry organizations in Canada, US and Mexico.Some of the prototypes may ultimately become OGC standards, revisions to existing OGC standards, or best practices for using OGC standards.Some of the Testbed 11 sponsors have already begun assembling interoperability requirements for Testbed 12, which will begin in the fall.Learn more about the 15 year old OGC Interoperability Program in which OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments are organized, planned and managed.

September 28, 2015

OGC supports American Geographical Society Geography 2050 Fall Symposium

28 September 2015 – The OGC is a partner with the American Geographical Society and the Earth Institute in presenting the American Geographical Society (AGS) Fall Symposium, “Geography 2050: Exploring Our Future in an Urbanized World”.The symposium will be held on Thursday, November 19, 2015 8:00 AM – Friday, November 20, 2015 9:45 PM (Eastern Time).The preliminary program for this years Urban Habitat theme has been released on the Geography 2050 website.The OGC® is an international geospatial standards consortium of more than 515 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available standards.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

September 23, 2015

OGC requests comment on Publish/Subscribe standards for geospatial data

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the candidate OGC Publish/Subscribe Core (PSC) 1.0 Interface Standard and the OGC Publish/Subscribe SOAP Binding (PSSB) 1.0 Interface Standard.These candidate OGC standards define core concepts and mechanisms for enabling the Publish/Subscribe messaging pattern with OGC Web Services.Publish/Subscribe may be used independently of or in conjunction with the Request/Reply messaging pattern specified by many existing OGC Web Services.The candidate OGC Publish/Subscribe SOAP Binding 1.0 Interface Standard specifies an extension to OGC Publish/Subscribe 1.0 Core to allow for Publish/Subscribe communications using the SOAP protocol.These candidate OGC standards are available for review at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/138.

September 22, 2015

OGC seeks sponsors for FutureCities Pilot

The FutureCities Pilot will bring together visionary sponsors to help define activities that meet cities spatial information requirements.Ordnance Survey, a Strategic Member of the OGC, has long used open standards and contributed to their development.As one of the sponsors of this pilot, Ordnance Survey will bring valuable experience and expertise.Hosting cities make relevant data available to exercise the services developed in the initiative.Organizations interested in sponsoring or hosting the pilot are invited to contact OGC before October 15, 2015 to provide input in the planning phase.