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March 24, 2014

Ordnance Survey becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

24 March 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Ordnance Survey has raised its membership level from Technical Committee level to Principal level.Ordnance Survey is a world renowned national mapping authority already internationally recognized as a leader in the adoption and consensus advancement of geospatial standards.The new Principal Membership reinforces Ordnance Surveys vision to be at the forefront of developments in open standards development.Peter ter Haar, Ordnance Survey Director of Products and Innovation, adds: Ordnance Survey has an excellent working relationship with OGC and the new Principal Membership highlights our commitment to the development of open geospatial standards.We expect the new level of membership to deliver significant opportunities to Ordnance Survey, by firstly helping to future-proof systems and secondly by creating opportunities to develop commercial growth for Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey International.

March 12, 2014

OGC announces new Discrete Global Grid Systems Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the formation of a new OGC Technical Committee Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose of this SWG will be to explore and propose terms for a standard to enable interoperability through the use of Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS).The OGC members convening this group invite the public to comment on the DGGS SWG charter ( https://portal.ogc.org/files/57326 ) and will consider comments received via email to: charter-requests AT opengeospatial.org before 11 April 2014.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 useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

March 4, 2014

OGC invites research papers for OGC Academic Summit 2014 and ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI)

OGC PRESS RELEASEContact: info [at] opengeospatial.org4 March 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Academic Summit 2014 will be held 15-16 September 2014 at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada as part of the September OGC Technical Committee Meeting.We invite you to submit papers describing your cutting-edge, exciting new research to the OGC Academic Summit 2014.The ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI) will publish a special issue for the OGC Academic Summit 2014.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.

February 26, 2014

OGC invites government information system managers to a GeoPackage Webinar

25 February 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Directions Media invite government information system managers to attend a free webinar on the new OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard, an open standard for accessing spatial data on mobile devices.The webinar, fifth in a series of OGC GovFuture Webinars, will be held on 5 March 2014 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST (GMT-5:00 hours).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.Directions Media, with offices in Huntsville, Alabama and Glencoe, Illinois, encompasses media properties: Directions Magazine, All Points Blog as well as the Location Intelligence and GEO Huntsville annual conferences.

February 21, 2014

The OGC approves SensorML 2.0, advanced standard for Internet of Things

24 February 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the OGC Sensor Model Language (SensorML) 2.0 Encoding Standard.SensorML 2.0 provides a standard encoding for describing sensors (things that measure), actuators (things that act), and processors (things that calculate).SensorML 2.0 includes a number of changes to the previous version 1.0.1, which was approved in 2007.Efforts are also underway to take advantage of the complementary role that SensorML 2.0 can play with the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard and the candidate OGC standard IndoorGML.The OGC SensorML 2.0 Encoding Standard can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sensorml.

February 19, 2014

The OGC invites comments on the candidate IndoorGML navigation standard

19 February 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) IndoorGML Standards Working Group seeks public comments on the candidate OGC IndoorGML Encoding Standard.The candidate OGC IndoorGML Encoding Standard has been developed to provide a common schema framework for interoperability between indoor spatial applications.These cover a wide spectrum of application areas such as indoor location services, indoor web map services, indoor emergency control, guiding services for visually handicapped persons in indoor space, and indoor robotics.IndoorGML is currently implemented as an application schema of the OGC Geography Markup Language Encoding Standard version 3.2.1.The candidate OGC IndoorGML Encoding Standard is available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/117.

February 19, 2014

OGC invites Mobile World Congress attendees to GeoPackage and IndoorGML workshops and an Augmented Reality interoperability demo

18 February 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites Mobile World Congress attendees to attend workshops on the new OGC GeoPackage Service Interface Standard, the candidate OGC IndoorGML Encoding Standard, and the candidate OGC Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML2) Encoding Standard.The demo and workshops will be held in the afternoon after the morning presentations on OGC Location Standards for a Mobile World by representatives from OGC, OMA (Open Mobile Alliance), W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and the Small Cell Forum.The Mobile World Congress, running 24-27 February 2014 in Barcelona, is the worlds largest exhibition, conference and networking event for mobile operators, cell phone and device manufacturers, and providers of mobile software.These cover a wide spectrum of application areas such as indoor location services, indoor web map services, indoor emergency control, guiding services for visually handicapped persons in indoor space, and indoor robotics.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

February 17, 2014

The OGC seeks comment on revised GML in JPEG 2000 Encoding Standard

17 February 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comment on the candidate GML in JPEG 2000 Encoding Standard version 2.This geospatial data encoding standard defines how the Geography Markup Language (GML) is to be used within JPEG 2000 images for adding geographic content to imagery.All OGC standards are free and publicly available on the OGC Standards Page.The candidate GML in JPEG 2000 Encoding Standard version 2 can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/118.The GML in JPEG 2000 Standards Working Group (GMLJP2 SWG) will consider comments on the candidate GMLJP2 Standard that have been posted through 19 March 2014.

February 13, 2014

OGC adopts important GeoPackage Standard for Mobile

13 February 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted the OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Encoding Standard.The GeoPackage standard will make it much easier to exchange and share geospatial (or location) information across different devices, applications and web services throughout the mobile world.From a technical perspective, the GeoPackage standard defines an open, non-proprietary, platform-independent SQLite container for distribution and direct use of geospatial data, including vector features and tile matrix sets.The OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Encoding Standard has been developed by OGC members with additional participation by interested developers on GitHub, a web-based hosting service for software development projects.The OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard and associated resources can be found at http://www.geopackage.org/.