News

Welcome to OGC News. You can use the filter below to show only Calls For Participation in or Sponsorship of OGC Initiatives, Requests for Public Comment, General Press Releases, or Blog Posts. Or use the search box to find news on a specific topic.

You may also want to subscribe to the OGC Newsletter: a short digest of news and events sent every two weeks.

All news (1453 match criteria)

July 1, 2014

The OGC adopts Open Modelling Interface (OpenMI) Standard

1 July 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the Open Modelling Interface Standard Version 2 (OpenMI) as an OGC standard.By publishing the OpenMI as an adopted OGC standard, we seek to make the OpenMI standard available and accessible to the worldwide modelling community.Environmental modelling is not the only application of integrated modelling.The OpenMI Association is an entirely open not-for-profit international group of organizations and people dedicated to taking the OpenMI (Open Modelling Interface) forward into the future.Its primary objectives are to develop, maintain and promote the OpenMI and integrated modelling.

July 1, 2014

OGC seeks comments on charter for Agriculture Domain Working Group

An OGC Agriculture Domain Working Group (SWG) is being chartered as an open forum for the discussion and presentation of interoperability requirements, use cases, pilots, and implementations of OGC standards in the Agriculture domain.Agriculture now touches many aspects of the work that OGC is doing to promote interoperability of geospatial data and geographic analysis.All of these activities require information standards that support market and regulatory transparency.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 475 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

June 26, 2014

OGC publishes Testbed 10 Aviation Information Management Engineering Reports

This information may be useful to implementors of OGC standards, but OGC Engineering Reports do not represent official OGC positions.The OGC Public Engineering Reports web page provides links to the Engineering Reports.The Testbed 10 Aviation Engineering Reports include:OGC Testbed 10 Aviation Dissemination of Weather Data Engineering Report (14-038r1)OGC Testbed 10 Aviation Human Factor Based Portrayal of Digital NOTAMs (14-039)OGC Testbed 10 Engineering Report: GML for Aviation Conformance Testing (14-000)OGC Testbed 10 FIXM GML Schema (14-037)OGC Testbed 10 Recommendations for the Exchange of Terrain Data (14-006)OGC Testbed 10 Report on Aviation Architecture (14-008)OGC Testbed 10 Report on Aviation Binding AIXM to Development Tools (14-007)OGC Testbed 10 WFS Temporality Extension Discussion Paper Revision (12-027r3)The OGC Testbed 10 FIXM GML Schema Engineering Report, for example, provides guidance for implementing the Flight Information Exchange Model (FIXM) using the same best practice as the Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) and the Weather Information Exchange Model (WXXM).OGC Testbed 11 requirements will undoubtedly include additional Aviation Information Management interoperability requirements.Contact the OGC to learn more about OGC Testbed 11 and how you might get involved as a sponsor or technology provider participant.

June 24, 2014

The OGC calls for participation in a CityGML Data Quality Interoperability Experiment

The OGC calls for participation in an interoperability experiment to define data quality requirements for virtual 3D city models encoded in CityGML.An increasing range of applications has raised the demand for high quality 3D data.The CityGML Data Quality Interoperability Experiment (CityGML QIE) aims to provide implementation recommendations for CityGML data based on data specification and a conception of the validation workflow.This will be accomplished by evaluating the quality of existing CityGML data as well as the quality of CityGML sample data sets that have been specifically developed for this experiment with available quality checking tools.Organisations and individuals are invited to participate in the activity by providing CityGML test data and/or test tools, defining requirements, or carrying out tests using a variety of different test tools.

June 23, 2014

OGC 3DIM honors Gerhard Gröger with OGC 3D award

During the 3rd OGC™ 3D Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, the second OGC 3DIM Award was given to Gerhard Gröger from the University of Bonn, Germany.He was chosen to receive the award for his contributions to the development and adoption of the OGC CityGML Standard.SIG 3D developed the initial CityGML specification before it was brought into the OGC in 2007.The mission of the OGC 3D Information Management (3DIM) Domain Working Group is to facilitate the definition and development of standards for sharing and accessing 3D geo-information.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

June 19, 2014

OGC and Joint Research Centre to collaborate on standards for geospatial interoperability

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the European Commissions Joint Research Centre (JRC) have signed a collaboration agreement to enhance the development and use of geospatial standards.It is anticipated that this collaboration will enable the JRC to more effectively contribute to the OGC standards process, and facilitate the consideration of European objectives and requirements during the development of international open geospatial standards.OGC benefits from the JRCs leadership in advancing geospatial information sharing across Europe, enabled by open standards, including those of the OGC.About the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®)The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 475 companies, government agencies, research organisations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

June 11, 2014

OGC seeks comment on charter for new netCDF Standards Working Group

A new netCDF Standards Working Group (SWG) is being chartered to further extend the existing netCDF standard with extension modules for additional data models, encodings, and conventions.The additional extensions to be addressed by the new netCDF SWG include, but are not limited to, those currently under consideration by the currently existing CF-netCDF 1.0 SWG, which will be disbanded and replaced by this NetCDF SWG.Additional netCDF conventions extensions will improve the effectiveness and usability of netCDF datasets by a wider community.One example is the recently released OGC NetCDF Uncertainty Conventions Discussion Paper.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

June 10, 2014

The OGC seeks comments on candidate OGC Web Map Tile Service Simple Profile

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC™) membership seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Web Map Tile Service Simple Profile of the OGC Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) Interface Standard.The candidate OGC WMTS Simple Profile aligns the currently implemented and more comprehensive OGC WMTS Interface Standard to other popular tile initiatives that are less flexible but widely adopted.The WMTS Simple Profile is designed to allow developers to more quickly implement the WMTS standard.The 30 day public comment period for the OGC WMTS Simple Profile ends 2014-07-12.The WMTS Simple Profile RFC can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/122.

June 9, 2014

OGC and ECCMA announce agreement to work together on standards for the identification and description of real property

The mission of the workgroup is real property data content standardization and seeks to foster the adoption of standards published by the organizations.Quality data as defined by ISO 8000, the international standard for quality data, is simply portable data that meets requirements.Mark Reichardt, President and CEO of OGC commented, Its extremely important to have standards for managing information about real property.Its also extremely important for property information to be easily integrated with other kinds of spatial information.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.