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July 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.The OGC Interoperability Program has conducted more than 85 collaborative testbeds, pilot projects, interoperability experiments and plugfests.Organizations interested in sponsoring or hosting the pilot are invited to contact OGC before September 15 to provide input in the planning phase.

July 13, 2015

OGC® invites organizations to co-sponsor a major spatial interoperability testbed

The encodings and interfaces often become candidate OGC standards that are vetted, voted on and then adopted by the OGC membership as open international standards.The OGC’s Testbed 11 web page provides information about the process and results of the recently concluded OGC Testbed 11.The OGC invites organizations to become co-sponsors of the upcoming OGC Testbed 12.Organizations that join early maximize OGC staff’s ability to match those organizations’ requirements with other organizations’ requirements, thus reducing each sponsor’s share of the cost.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.

July 2, 2015

OGC requests comment on extension that integrates OGC Web Coverage Service Standard with JPEG 2000 and JPIP

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the OGC® Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard – JPEG2000/JPIP Coverage Encoding Extension – abbreviated as “JPEG2000/JPIP-Coverage”.This candidate OGC Best Practice extends version 2.0 of the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard to add support for requesting and returning coverage data formatted as JPEG 2000 (JP2), both as a static image and as a JPEG 2000 Interactive Protocol (JPIP) stream, encoded using either the classic JP2 format or the OGC GML in JPEG 2000 Encoding Standard.JPEG 2000 (an ISO/IEC standard) is an image compression standard and coding system.JPIP, also an ISO/IEC standard, is a compression streamlining protocol that works with JPEG 2000 to produce an image using as little bandwidth as necessary.JPEG2000/JPIP-Coverages details can be found in the candidate OGC Best Practice document titled OGC® Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard – JPEG2000/JPIP Coverage Encoding Extension.

June 25, 2015

OGC seeks public comment on OGC Web Coverage Service – Transaction operation extension

The OGC membership seeks public comment on the candidate OGC® Web Coverage Service (WCS) – Transaction operation extension, version 2.0.The OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard is an open standard widely implemented in geospatial applications around the world.With the new Transaction extension, the standard will support not only retrieval but also transactions such as create, update, and delete.Such access will be useful generally in geospatial information management and use, and also in “big data” applications that involve geospatial data.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.

June 24, 2015

OGC® adopts WPS 2.0 standard interface for accessing computational services via the Web

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) Version 2 Interface Standard.The OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) Version 2 Interface Standard provides rules for standardizing how inputs and outputs (requests and responses) for geospatial processing services, such as polygon overlay, can be structured in a standard way.By implementing this standard, any geospatial processing service, regardless of the source, can be “wrapped” with a standard interface and integrated into existing workflows.The WPS process model has been encapsulated into separate requirements and conformance classes so it may be used independently from WPS servers in process catalogs and metadata records.The OGC Web Processing Service 2.0 Interface Standard [OGC 14-065] document package can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wps.

June 23, 2015

OGC requests comment on draft charter for Hydrologic Features Standards Working Group

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Hydrologic Features (HY_Features) Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose of the proposed SWG is to progress the HY_Features hydrologic feature model to the state of an adopted OGC standard for a common and stable identification and referencing of hydrologic features.Hydrologic features are the “unit of study” for water information, and a means is required to convey identity of such real-world water-objects through the data processing chain from observation to water information.Examples are the WaterML2.0 standard, the HY_Features common hydrologic feature model and the ongoing GroundWaterML2 work.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

June 18, 2015

OGC seeks public comment on SensorThings API standard for Internet of Things

The OGC® membership seeks public comment on the candidate OGC SensorThings API Standard, Part 1.The OGC SensorThings API is a free and non-proprietary lightweight interface specification that simplifies and accelerates the development of Web-based Internet of Things (IoT) applications.System manufacturers can embed the OGC SensorThings API in their IoT hardware and software platforms so that the different platforms’ IoT devices can effortlessly connect with other servers that implement the standard.Thus the OGC SensorThings API is extensible and can be applied in both simple and complex use cases.At a high level the OGC SensorThings API provides a Sensing Profile and a Tasking Profile.

June 18, 2015

OGC® adopts updated KML Earth browser standard – KML 2.3

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that the OGC membership has approved the OGC KML 2.3 Standard.In early 2007, Google submitted KML to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to be maintained and evolved within the OGC consensus process.KML 2.3 is now based on XML Schema 1.1 enabling authors of KML Application Profile extensions to experimentally add foreign element and attribute content interleaved among existing KML elements.The OGC KML 2.3 documents are free and may be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/kml#downloads.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.

June 18, 2015

OGC requests comment on charter for Point Cloud Domain Working Group

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Point Cloud Domain Working Group (DWG).The Point Cloud DWG is being established to address the gap in the OGC standards baseline with regard to interoperability issues related to sharing and processing point cloud data.This working group is motivated by the fast growing popularity and use of point cloud technology and data.Based on these considerations this charter defines the OGC Point Cloud Domain Working Group (DWG).However, point cloud data has often been overlooked or treated in the same buckets as images or terrain.