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February 10, 2014

OGC, Layar, Metaio and Wikitude invite Mobile World Congress attendees to AR Interoperability Demo

Layar, Metaio and Wikitude, the largest AR platform providers, have cooperated to make it easy for AR content to be shared across their technology platforms.The companies demonstrating AR interoperability believe tomorrows AR market will be much more open, and thus much larger, than todays AR market.On January 21, 2014 the AR Browser Interoperability Architecture document 1.2 was agreed upon by the AR Browser publishers participating in this process.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.

January 29, 2014

The Open Geospatial Consortium and the Small Cell Forum Co-Operate to Develop Support for Indoor Location Based Services

Small cells can be used to support location services in a range of indoor locations including: navigation in airports, retail unit location in shopping centers and asset location in hospitals and warehouses.As part of the agreement the Small Cell Forum and the OGC will cooperatively develop a joint document that indicates to operators which OGC standards are relevant for small cell based location based services within the context of mobile networks and will also exchange technical and marketing information about the use of location based services for small cells and small cell based services.We look forward to working with the Small Cell Forum to help enable the flow of such location information.Accurate indoor location information has become a critical component to the mobile user experience,” said Andy Germano, Vice President Americas at the Small Cell Forum.About the Small Cell Forum (SCF):The Small Cell Forum (www.smallcellforum.org), supports the wide-scale adoption of small cells.

December 13, 2013

OGC Announces Winners of OGC Student App Challenge, sponsored by Google

For his WalkYourPlace app, Mr. Poorazizi has won a Nexus Tablet donated by Google.Also, Mr. Poorazizi’s university, University of Calgary, will receive a two-year free renewal of its current OGC membership.Ebrahim Poorazizi, Mohammed Jazayeri, Jade Lacosse and Soo Jin Lee each have a dedicated award page on the OGC Student App Challenge website featuring their application.Because most online sources of geographic information implement OGC standards, apps that implement OGC standards have access to thousands of geospatial services and databases.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

December 12, 2013

The OGC forms working group to draft Point of Interest (POI) encoding standard

This group will develop a candidate POI encoding specification for possible adoption by the OGC membership as an OGC Standard.Considering the ubiquitous need for POI information, surprisingly little effort has gone into international PoI standardization.Co-chairs of the new OGC POI SWG are Ashley Holt, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Peter Cotroneo, Ordnance Survey.Members of the public can follow the activities of the OGC POI SWG, make comments, and ask questions by subscribing to the OGC POI SWG listserv.A prototype implementation of the candidate OGC POI Encoding Standard in the OGC OpenPOIs database has also influenced development of the candidate standard.

December 6, 2013

OGC announces new Compliance Fee Schedule

5 December 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced a new, simplified compliance fee schedule.The new fee schedule will take effect 1 March 2014.The current fee schedule is here: http://www.opengeospatial.org/compliance#trademark.The new fee schedule is here: http://www.opengeospatial.org/compliance/newfees14.The OGC Compliance Program provides a free online testing facility to check for proper implementation of the standards, and a process for certification of products that implement OGC standards.

November 22, 2013

OGC and USGIF invite I/ITSEC attendees to see how open standards integrate geospatial services with Modeling and Simulation

The USGIF M&S Working Group Demo is part of the I/ITSEC 2013 Modeling, Simulation & Training Conference, to be held this year in Orlando, Florida.The OGC and USGIF also invite I/ITSEC attendees to attend the I/ITSEC Panel Discussion on Geospatial Environment Database Standards (details below).Attendees will see how implementations of open standards enable:Direct flow of real-world maps, Earth images, sensor data, ocean data, weather data etc.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, 2013

OGC and PODS Association plan to enhance PODS pipeline management standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium and the PODS Association, Inc. (“PODS”), have signed a liaison agreement to provide value for the members of each organization.Janet Sinclair, Executive Director of the Pipeline Open Data Standard (PODS) Association added, “We recognize the tremendous value and expertise brought by the OGC, and we look forward to working together to improve interoperability to support lifecycle data management for pipelines.Visit the PODS Association website at http://www.pods.org.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 19, 2013

The OGC publishes new conformance tests for existing OGC standards

The OGC Compliance Program provides an online free testing facility to check for proper implementation of the standards, and a process for certification of products that are compliant with OGC standards.The product is also promoted on the OGC Compliant Products Web page.The Certified OGC Compliant mark increases potential buyers confidence in a product, making the product easier to market and sell.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 18, 2013

The OGC adopts OWS Context Conceptual Model and ATOM Encoding Standards

18 November 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted the OGC OWS Context Conceptual Model and the associated OGC OWS Context ATOM Encoding as OGC adopted standards, along with schemas and examples.The OGC answer to address this paradigm is the OWS Context specification.The OGC OWS (OGC Web Services) Context Conceptual Model describes the use cases, requirements and conceptual data model of an OWS Context Document.An OWS context document defines a fully configured set of OGC services that can be consistently shared, interpreted and invoked by clients.The OGC OWS Context Conceptual Model Standard can be downloaded from https://portal.ogc.org/files/51860 and the associated ATOM Encoding standard can be downloaded from https://portal.ogc.org/files/51861.