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January 22, 2015

Scott Simmons to lead OGCs Standards Program

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces that Scott Simmons will assume the role of Executive Director, Standards Program as Carl Reed leaves that position at the end of January.We are extremely fortunate to have Scott Simmons on board as Executive Director for Standards, said Mark Reichardt, OGCs president and CEO.Through his positions in the private sector, Scott has had the opportunity to implement OGC standards and standards that complement OGC standards in a range of programs worldwide.Mr. Simmons was formerly Executive Director (Technology) for CACI International, Inc. At CACI, Mr. Simmons responsibilities included alignment of new business opportunities in the geospatial domain.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

January 21, 2015

OGC requests scenarios for Crisis Management ICT Workshop

21 January 2015 – The OGC and Fraunhofer IOSB have organized the Geospatial ICT Support for Crisis Management and Response workshop at ISCRAM 2015.Risk and crisis management experts will meet software architects and engineers who participate in the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Emergency and Disaster Management (EDM) domain working group.ISCRAM attendees are invited to contribute to this workshop by providing one page crisis and response management scenario descriptions.A facilitated discussion will identify the Geospatial ICT requirements and map them to present and future ICT capabilities in the light of emerging technological trends.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

January 20, 2015

OGC® adopts IndoorGML standard for encoding indoor navigation data

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the OGC IndoorGML Encoding Standard.This OGC standard specifies an open abstract data model and XML schema for indoor spatial information.Because IndoorGML is an application schema of the OGC Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard, it enables easy integration of indoor navigation and outdoor navigation systems.IndoorGML focuses specifically on modeling indoor spaces from a navigation viewpoint.Requirements for other types of applications including indoor facility management, indoor robot maps, and indoor positioning may be addressed in the next version of IndoorGML.

January 14, 2015

Scott Serich appointed OGC Director, Interoperability Programs

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that it has appointed Dr. Scott Serich as Director, Interoperability Programs.Dr. Serich will support OGC’s participation in the Project Interoperability initiative sponsored by the U.S. Government Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE), an OGC member.Project Interoperability develops recommendations and guidance on an interoperability framework to improve interoperability at all levels of government in the US.Dr. Serich earned a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Michigan and a JD from Concord Law School.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

January 13, 2015

OGC approves WaterML 2.0 Water Quality Best Practice

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the OGC WaterML 2.0 Water Quality (WaterML-WQ) document for publication as an OGC Best Practice.This OGC Best Practice describes how to configure XML documents for single and time series water quality measurements.This document is intended to complement the OGC WaterML 2.0 standard as part of a suite of standards for water observation data.The OGC WaterML-Water Quality Best Practice is available at http://docs.opengeospatial.org/bp/14-003/14-003.html.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

January 6, 2015

W3C and OGC to Collaborate to Integrate Spatial Data on the Web

6 January 2015 — The W3C and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced today a new collaboration to improve interoperability and integration of spatial data on the Web.Spatial data is integral to many of our human endeavors and so there is a high value in making it easier to integrate that data into Web based datasets and services.Participants will evaluate the use of Linked Data for managing the complex evolution and integration of spatial data.For this collaboration, W3C and OGC have each launched a Spatial data on the Web Working Group.About the World Wide Web ConsortiumThe World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

December 19, 2014

OGC seeks public comment on KML 2.3 standard

19 December 2014 – The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC KML 2.3 Standard.KML is an XML grammar used to encode representations of places and objects for display in an earth browser, such as a 3D virtual globe, 2D web browser application, or 2D mobile application.A KML Track can capture and display the path and other aspects of a moving object over a specified period of time.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 documents for the candidate OGC KML 2.3 Standard are available for review and comment at (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/128).

December 1, 2014

Trimble becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Trimble has raised its membership level from Technical Committee level to Principal level.As a Principal Member, Trimble will participate in OGCs Planning Committee to explore market and technology trends relevant to OGCs mission to assure that OGCs policies and procedures remain effective and agile in a changing technology environment.As a member of the Planning Committee, Trimble will participate in final approval decisions for all OGC standards and for nominations to the Board of Directors.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location based services and mainstream IT.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

November 20, 2014

OGC seeks comment on new working group focused on disseminating lightweight “datacubes”

20 November 2014 – The OGC seeks comment on the charter for a new OGC Standards Working Group (SWG) being formed to develop an OGC standard for disseminating relatively small “tiles” of geospatial data to lightweight devices.This group will also define in detail how existing widely used OGC standards can be used to support data tiling functionality.OGC Web Coverage Tiling Service ‘data cubes’ will be able to transfer virtually any type of complex spatial data, such as multi-dimensional atmospheric or ocean data, hyperspectral Earth images or even vector geometry.The draft charter for the OGC Web Coverage Tile Service Standards Working Group is available at https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=60231.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.