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June 5, 2014

The OGC seeks comment on charter for GeoTIFF Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comments on the charter for a new GeoTIFF Standards Working Group (SWG).The OGC GeoTIFF SWG formation and process are being driven by the existing GeoTIFF user community.The OGC GeoTIFF SWG will survey current GeoTIFF practice and address potential refinements to the specification available at http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/wiki/RefiningGeoTIFF.These efforts will form a basis for updating the current GeoTIFF Specification (available at http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/) to align it with OGC processes.The initiators of the GeoTIFF SWG are the following OGC member representatives:Ted Habermann, The HDF GroupJeff Walter, NASAEmmanuel Devys, DGIWGThe initiators encourage comments on the charter and participation in the OGC GeoTIFF Standards Working Group.

June 4, 2014

New OGC Domain Working Group for Mobile Location Services

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has formed the Mobile Location Services Domain Working Group (DWG).The kick-off meeting of the new Mobile Location Services DWG will be at the June 2014 Technical Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.The Mobile Location Services DWG provides a forum for both OGC members and interested non-members to review the requirements of the growing mobile and location services industry and make recommendations for OGCs development and adoption of open standards to improve interoperability.Some of the OGC standards that are particularly relevant to Mobile Location Services are:Pending standards and OGC working groups that are particularly relevant to Mobile Location Services include:Developers working in areas of mobile and location services application development are encouraged to investigate these OGC standards and follow and participate in the activities of the OGC Domain Working Groups and Standards Working Groups whose work impacts their development objectives.These workshops were organized with the participation of members of the Mobile Location Services DWG.

June 2, 2014

The OGC seeks comment on Unified Geo-Data Reference Model for Law Enforcement and Public Safety (LEAPS) Services

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership seeks public comment on the Unified Geo-Data Reference Model for Law Enforcement and Public Safety (LEAPS) Services, with the intent to establish this model as a new OGC Best Practice.The the Unified Geo-Data Reference Model for Law Enforcement and Public Safety (LEAPS) Services can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/120.Open standards are essential if diverse systems are to provide law enforcement, civil security and public safety stakeholders with current and accurate role-based location information.The Unified Geo-Data Reference Model for Law Enforcement and Public Safety (LEAPS) Services specifies a framework that can be used to support interoperability at the data and services level.The GIS CS is an active member of the OGC Law Enforcement and Public Safety Domain Working Group (LEAPS DWG), which provides a unifying forum in which local, national, regional and international law enforcement, civil security and public safety forces can work collaboratively on issues related to law enforcement, civil security and public safety.

May 29, 2014

OGC extensions to Web Coverage Service Standard improve access to Earth data

29 May 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Membership has approved six OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard extensions as official OGC standards.The OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard defines an interface for requesting coverage data, such as sensor data, satellite imagery, image time series, point clouds, and TINs (triangulated irregular networks).• WCS Processing Extension: Specifies the standard service interface to the Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) query language.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.

May 28, 2014

US Intelligence Foundation promotes value of OGC standards at international conference

The Virginia-based United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) recognized industry innovation and employment of OGC standards to nearly 4,000 international attendees at the 2014 GEOINT Symposium in Tampa, Florida.Pixia invented, developed, and donated its WAMI specification to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), who in turn adopted the specification as the OGC international WAMI Best Practice.This effort paves the way for a future user environment that leverages standard open architectures across all geospatial data types.According to Rudi Ernst, Pixia Corp CEO, OGC standards are crucial to making data relevant and useful.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.

May 22, 2014

OGC Seeks Public Comment on Catalogue Service Version 3.0 candidate standard

22 May 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Membership seeks public comment on a new version of the OGC Catalogue Service interface standard.Therefore, the second document describes the rules for deploying a Catalogue Service in the HTTP environment, also known as Catalogue Service for the Web, or CS-W.The new version of the candidate OGC Catalogue Service interface standard is available for comment at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/121.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.

May 20, 2014

OGC encourages attendance at AGILE & COBWEB Workshop – Citizen Science, Quality and Standards

The AGILE & COBWEB Workshop – Citizen Science, Quality and Standards will be held June 3, 2014 in Castellón, Spain in conjunction with the AGILE 2014 conference.This workshop seeks to engage the scientific community in discussions about the use of quality controlled crowdsourced environmental data.COBWEB infrastructure is being designed to enable citizens living within Biosphere Reserves to collect environmental information on a range of parameters including species distribution, flooding and land cover/use.Specifically, COBWEB will aim to improve the usability of OGC Sensor Web Enablement standards and the OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard with mobile devices, develop widespread acceptance of the data quality approach developed and maximize the applications potential of COBWEB outputs.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

May 19, 2014

The OGC calls for presentations and invites public to the Third OGC 3D Summit

The primary topic for this year’s 3D Summit is State of the Art in 3D, with particular focus on the following aspects:1.This 3D Summit will also include the award of the second 3DIM Award for exceptional use of 3D standards.The organizers of the 3D Summit invite potential presenters to submit short abstracts (less than 300 words) of their topics by 22 May 2014.See the OGC Technical Committee Meeting page for information about OGC Technical Committee Meeting registration, meeting schedule, accommodations, local information and travel.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

May 19, 2014

The OGC® seeks public participation in Development of CityGML 3.0

In 2008 it was adopted by the OGC membership as an international OGC standard.Active participation in the CityGML 3.0 development process does not require OGC membership.To be most effective, organizations and individuals responding to this CFP should plan to fully participate in the CityGML 3.0 development activities.Responses to the CFP are requested by the time of the 10 June 2014 kickoff of CityGML 3.0 development at the OGC Technical Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.Note, however, that this CFP will remain open for the duration of the CityGML 3.0 development process.