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August 31, 2015

OGC requests participation in Point Cloud Domain Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is calling for public participation in its newly-established Point Cloud Domain Working Group (Point Cloud DWG).The purpose of the Point Cloud DWG is 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.Details on the Point Cloud Domain Working Group can be found at: http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/pointclouddwg.The OGC is an international geospatial standards consortium of more than 510 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.

August 31, 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.

August 24, 2015

OGC requests comment on charter for spatial services security standards working group

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Open Web Services (OWS) Common Security Standards Working Group (SWG).The OGC OWS Common Security SWG is being established to define a common way to make available to a client a description of the security framework(s) that control access to Web services that implement OGC standards.OGC Web Service standards are widely implemented in service interfaces to provide interoperable access to spatial data and spatial processing services.As OGC-based services move to these platforms, a Common Security extension for OGC services based on mainstream IT becomes critical.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

August 20, 2015

OGC requests comment on Discussion Papers extending access to 4D weather data collections

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on a proposed OGC Discussion Paper A MetOcean Metadata Profile for WCS 2.0 and the supporting Discussion Paper OGC Web Coverage Service Interface Standard – Coverage Collection Extension.These proposed Discussion Papers specify data and service model extensions to the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard that optimize use of that standard for 4-D x/y/z/t spatio-temporal climatology, meteorology, and ocean (“MetOcean”) coverages.New request types are added over WCS Core and Extensions for spatio-temporal search and the encoding of MetOcean specific metadata.Details can be found in the candidate OGC discussion papers titled A MetOcean Metadata Profile for WCS 2.0 and OGC(R) Web Coverage Service Interface Standard – Coverage Collection Extension.OGC’s open standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

August 18, 2015

OGC requests comment on standard model and encoding for timeseries data

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on proposed OGC standards for the representation of observations as timeseries, that is, a sequence of data values which are ordered in time.The OGC Timeseries Profile of Observations and Measurements candidate standard is a conceptual model for the representation of observations data as timeseries, with the intent of enabling the exchange of such data sets across information systems.This standard does not define an encoding for the conceptual model, however there is an accompanying OGC candidate standard which defines an XML encoding (OGC TimeseriesML 1.0 – XML Encoding of the Timeseries Profile of Observations and Measurements).These candidate OGC standards are available for review at www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/137.OGC’s open standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

August 13, 2015

NRCan becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has raised its membership level from Technical level to Principal level.Led through the GeoConnections Program at the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (CCMEO), Natural Resources Canada has been an active member in the OGC since1998.Principal Members also participate in final approval decisions for all OGC standards and for nominations to the Board of Directors.NRCan has been a very strong partner in fulfilling the OGCs mission of advancing an international open geospatial standards platform, said Mark Reichardt, President and CEO of the OGC.About the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)The OGC is an international consortium of more than 510 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.

July 28, 2015

OGC requests comment on draft charter for temporal standards working group

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for a proposed OGC Standards Working Group (SWG).The OGC Temporal Well Known Text (WKT) for Calendars Standards Working Group is being formed to adapt existing standards to provide the capability to represent and encode temporal metadata within data sets and protocols that use customised calendars.OGC Members proposing the OGC Temporal WKT for Calendars Standards Working Group have identified a number of communities who use time representations based on calendars which are not the Gregorian calendar.This work will involve adaptations and extensions to existing OGC standards and to ISO standards developed in conjunction with the OGC.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

July 27, 2015

OGC announces Common DataBase Best Practice

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership announces OGC’s approval of the OGC Common DataBase specification as an OGC Best Practice.This OGC Best Practice specifies an open format and encoding for the storage, access and modification of a representation of the natural and built environment for simulation applications.The Best Practice makes use of several commercial and simulation data formats endorsed by leaders of the simulation database tools industry.The OGC Common Database Volume 1 (Main Body) and Volume 2 (Appendices) are available at www.opengeospatial.org/standards/bp.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

July 23, 2015

OGC seeks input on GeoPackage extensions

23 July 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) GeoPackage Standards Working Group (SWG) seeks public input to guide their development and prioritization of new extensions to the OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Encoding Standard.Adopted by the OGC membership last year, GeoPackage has rapidly become implemented in a broad range of products and applications.The GeoPackage SWG has posted a survey at http://tinyurl.com/phvjygk.The GeoPackage standard describes a set of conventions for storing various kinds of geospatial data within a SQLite database.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.