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June 4, 2015

Paul Scarponcini receives OGC’s Gardels Award

At the June meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) Technical Committee in Boulder, Colorado, USA, Paul Scarponcini, PE, PhD received the OGCs prestigious Kenneth D. Gardels Award (http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/awards).Carl Reed, PhD, who recently retired from his position as OGC’s CTO, received an honorary Gardels Award for his many years of Technical Committee leadership.The Gardels Award is awarded each year to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to advance OGCs vision of geospatial information fully integrated into the worlds information systems.Over almost two decades, Paul Scarponcini, a Senior Information Architect at Bentley Systems, has been an important OGC Technical Committee contributor.The Gardels Award is the OGC’s highest honor bestowed upon a Consortium member representative.

May 26, 2015

Ordnance Survey becomes a Strategic Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

The OGC is pleased to announce that Ordnance Survey (OS) has raised its Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership level to become the first Strategic Member outside of the USA.As a strategic member OS will use their skill and expertise to drive a collective and unified approach to promoting interoperability for the geospatial industry.“We are very pleased to have Ordnance Survey as a Strategic Member, OGC’s highest level of membership, said Mark Reichardt, President and CEO of the OGC.OS’s continuing commitment to OGC – they have been a member since 1998 and a Principal Member since 2014 – reflects their strong commitment to the benefits of open standards.I am particularly keen to see greater interoperability in the smart cities space.”The new OS OGC Strategic Membership was officially announced at the World Geospatial Forum on 27 May 2015.

May 18, 2015

OGC announces Geospatial/BIM/Indoor Location Workshop

18 May 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces a Geospatial/BIM/Indoor Location (“GIS BIM”) Workshop to be held at the UCAR/NCAR Center Green in Boulder, Colorado on Tuesday, 2 June 2015.This event is part of the June 2015 OGC Technical Committee (TC) Meeting.The Geospatial/BIM/Indoor Workshop will focus on developing a work programme to bridge standards gaps between geospatial, BIM (building information modeling) and Indoor Location technologies.The geospatial/BIM/indoor location integration topic will also be discussed in the OGC CityGML Standards Work Group (SWG), 3DIM Domain Working Group (DWG), LandInfra DWG and in a planned Indoor/Infrastructure/City ad hoc session.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

May 15, 2015

OGC announces Water Data Summit

15 May 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces a Water Data Summit to be held at the UCAR/NCAR Center Green in Boulder, Colorado on June 3, 2015.This event is part of the June 2015 OGC Technical Committee Meeting.The goal of the Water Data Summit is to stimulate engagement in development of tools and policies for the U.S. Open Water Data Initiative (OWDI).The Open Water Data Initiative will integrate different sources of water information into a connected, national water data framework and leverage existing systems, infrastructure and tools to underpin innovation, modeling, data sharing, and solution development.For an agenda, details and registration, see the Water Data Summit web page.

May 14, 2015

OGC’s 95th Technical Committee/Planning Committee Meetings to be held 1-5 June in Boulder, CO

Wednesday, 3 June – OGC Water Data Summit : This summit is intended to stimulate engagement in development of tools and policies for the U.S. Open Water Data Initiative (OWDI) .The Open Water Data Initiative will integrate currently fragmented water information into a connected, national water data framework and leverage existing systems, infrastructure and tools to underpin innovation, modeling, data sharing, and solution development.Those seeking to attend special events (except the GeoSemantics summit) must register for the OGC Technical Committee Meeting and pay the registration fee.Then they must also register for each of the special events they want to attend, so that we know how many attendees to accommodate.(Registration for this or any of the other special events does not authorize attendance at other Technical Committee sessions.)

May 12, 2015

OGC issues GeoPackage corrigendum

12 May 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a corrigendum to correct minor flaws in the OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Encoding Standard.GeoPackage was developed by OGC members with additional participation by interested developers using GitHub as a collaborative framework.The OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard with corrigendum can be viewed at http://www.geopackage.org/.At the upcoming OGC Testbed 11 Demonstration on 4 June 2015 at the OGC Technical Committee Meeting in Boulder, Colorado GeoPackage being used for cross-community sharing of geospatial data and services will be demonstrated.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

May 6, 2015

OGC to demo results of major interoperability testbed

On 4 June, 2015 the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) will demonstrate the results of the eleventh OGC Interoperability Testbed.Nine Testbed 11 sponsors documented interoperability requirements and objectives for this activity.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.See http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/programs/ip for more information about the 15 year old OGC Interoperability Program in which OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments are organized, planned and managed.

May 6, 2015

OGC seeks participants for international Soil Data Interoperability Experiment

7 May 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC Soil Interoperability Experiment (Soil IE).Various initiatives have started work on the soil data integration problem by defining soil information models.The OGC Soil Data IE aims to reverse that by allowing data integration to be automated as much as possible.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.Participants in the OGC Soil Data IE, which will run until December 2015, will test implementations and provide constructive comments on the exchange data model and resulting trial documentation.

May 5, 2015

OGC announces standard for concise description of Earth coordinate reference systems

5 May 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted the OGC Well-known Text (WKT) Representation of Coordinate Reference Systems Encoding Standard.The newly announced standard revises the earlier WKT specification to be consistent with OGC Abstract Specification Topic 2 and ISO 19111:2007 – Spatial referencing by coordinates.The text strings specified in the new standard provide a means for humans and machines to correctly and unambiguously interpret and utilise a coordinate reference system definition.The Well-known Text Representation of Coordinate Reference Systems Encoding Standard was prepared by the Open Geospatial Consortium jointly with ISO Technical Committee ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics.The OGC Well-known Text (WKT) Representation of Coordinate Reference Systems Encoding Standard is available at http://docs.opengeospatial.org/is/12-063r5/12-063r5.html.