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April 29, 2015

OGC calls for participation in GeoSemantics Summit

30 April 2015 – On 3 June 2015, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) GeoSemantics Domain Working Group will host a summit, GeoSemantics: Standards Intersect Ontologies.Well defined, community agreements on semantics hold considerable promise for solving harmonization and integration of geospatial data sources from different regions, domains, and communities.This OGC summit is focused on bringing the informal linked data and formal ontology worlds closer together in the geospatial standards development process.Should OGC address these needs with a central geospatial ontology standard, an assortment of geospatial ontology patterns, or general rules for formation of geospatial ontologies from other semantic / syntactic representations?OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

April 22, 2015

OGC Calls for participation in major sensor IoT interoperability pilot project

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) in the OGC Incident Management Information Sharing Internet of Things Pilot Project (IMIS IoT Pilot).OGC pilot projects apply and test OGC standards in real world applications using Standards Based Commercial Off-The-Shelf (SCOTS) products that implement OGC standards and other related standards.IMIS IoT Pilot sponsors have documented interoperability requirements and objectives for this pilot activity.SOS/STA: OGC Sensor Observation Service Interface Standard/OGC Lightweight SOS Profile for Stationary In-Situ Sensor Best Practice.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.

April 20, 2015

OGC® Compliance Overview – Guide for Software Acquisition white paper available

The OGC membership has approved “OGC Compliance Overview – Guide for Software Acquisition” as an official OGC white paper.This white paper provides an overview of the OGC compliance process.It describes the benefits of acquiring OGC compliant products, as opposed to products that implement OGC standards but have not been certified as being OGC compliant.The white paper also provides guidance regarding language to use in specifying requirements for OGC compliant products in software acquisition (procurement) documents.Government procurements that specifically require OGC compliant products maximize the likelihood of system-to-system interoperability and efficient sharing of geospatial data.

April 9, 2015

OGC seeks public comment on the OGC WaterML2.0: part 2 – Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Standard

9 April 2015 – The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate WaterML2.0 – part 2: Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Standard.The first part of WaterML2.0 focused on a standard information model, and an XML encoding derived from that model, for time series of hydrological observations.The candidate WaterML2.0 – part 2: Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Standard describes an information model for exchanging rating tables, gauging observations and river sections.The documents for the candidate OGC WaterML2.0 – part 2: Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Standard are available for review and comment at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/132.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

March 11, 2015

OGC and ILA to Collaborate on Indoor Positioning

11 March 2015 – Two global organizations, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the InLocation Alliance (ILA), have begun working together to advance indoor positioning capabilities.While outdoor navigation is common place, much work is still needed to exploit the full potential of indoor Location Based Services supported by reliable and affordable indoor location positioning systems.The OGC provides a standards forum in which indoor location stakeholders are working together to develop open standard ways of communicating the indoor location information provided by those solutions.With standards like IndoorGML and CityGML, the OGC has already provided elements of the necessary indoor location standards infrastructure.When the ILA published the System Architecture white paper for indoor positioning solutions in September, 2014 we welcomed close collaboration with relevant SDOs.

March 9, 2015

OGC Information Technology Standards for Sustainable Development white paper announced

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the OGC® Information Technology Standards for Sustainable Development white paper.This important document for environmental science, business and policy is available free at https://portal.ogc.org/files/60920.Measuring and managing our impact on the Earth requires constant and widespread communication and integration of spatial environmental information.The volume of environmental data flowing from sensors, satellites, citizens, models etc.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

March 4, 2015

OGC seeks public comment on CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding using the GML Coverage Application Schema Standard

4 March 2015 – The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding using the GML Coverage Application Schema Standard.This extension is an encoding model of the CF-netCDF dataset that uses the OGC GML Application Schema – Coverages schema.The GML Application Schema – Coverages schema (GMLCOV) specifies the OGC Geography Markup Language (GML) coverage structures to be used by OGC standards.The OGC CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding using the GML Coverage Application Schema Standard supports three different ways of encoding the CF-netCDF data model: binary, XML, or ASCII.The documents for the candidate OGC CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding using the GML Coverage Application Schema Standard Standard are available for review and comment at (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/131).

February 27, 2015

OGC requests comment on charter for group developing a terrain modeling standard

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Common DataBase Standards Working Group.The proposed OGC Common DataBase SWG charter can be downloaded from https://portal.ogc.org/files/62190.The convener of the OGC Common DataBase Standards Working Group is David Graham, CAE Inc.The following charter members of the SWG are committed to the charter and projected meeting schedule.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

February 24, 2015

OGC® Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework white paper announced

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the OGC® Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework white paper.This paper addresses an open information technology standards framework that is critical to achieving the benefits of spatial communication for Smart Cities.This OGC White Paper provides the beginnings of a spatial information framework for urban spatial intelligence based on open standards such as OGC CityGML, IndoorGML, Moving Features, and Augmented Reality Markup Language 2.0 (ARML 2.0).It also gives Smart City system architects insight into how changing computing paradigms, particularly the widespread use of XML and the rise of RESTful programming, figure into Smart City planning.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.