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August 8, 2013

The OGC requests comment on the Range Subsetting Extension to the OGC Web Coverage Service Interface Standard

8 August 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard Range Subsetting Extension.The OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard defines an open standard interface to access multi-dimensional spatio-temporal coverages, such as satellite imagery, image time series, point clouds, and meshes.The candidate WCS Range Subsetting Extension document establishes a standard way to extract specific fields from the range set of a coverage during server-side processing of a coverage in a WCS GetCoverage request.The candidate OGC WCS Range Subsetting Extension Standard can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/106The OGC WCS Standards Working Group will consider all comments when preparing a final draft of the candidate standard.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

August 6, 2013

The OGC Seeks Comments on Candidate GeoPackage Standard

6 August 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comments on the current draft of the candidate OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Standard.The GPKG Standards Working Group (SWG) will consider all submitted comments when they prepare a final draft of the GeoPackage Standard.The candidate OGC GeoPackage Standard provides an open, non-proprietary, platform-independent SQLite container for distribution and direct use of all kinds of geospatial data, including vector features and tile matrix sets.Standard configuration and APIs for access and management of GeoPackage data will provide consistent query and update results across such applications and services.Download the candidate GeoPackage Standard.

July 30, 2013

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Location Based Marketing Association (LBMA) to jointly address location information issues

The Location Based Marketing Association (The LBMA) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) recently signed a liaison agreement.Mark Reichardt, president and CEO of the Open Geospatial Consortium, explained, We are very pleased to be setting out to work on projects of mutual interest with the Location Based Marketing Association.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 spatially enabled.About the Location Based Marketing Association (LBMA): The Location Based Marketing Association is a group dedicated to the fostering of a community of interest around all avenues of advertising and marketing as it relates to location-specific opportunities.

July 23, 2013

The OGC requests comment on the Processing Extension to the OGC Web Coverage Service Interface Standard

23 July 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard Processing Extension.The OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard defines an open standard interface to access multi-dimensional spatio-temporal coverages, such as sensor data, satellite imagery, image time series, point clouds, and meshes.The candidate WCS Processing Extension standard specifies the standard service interface to a Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) query language that may optionally be implemented by WCS servers.To this end, the WCS extension defines an additional request type, ProcessCoverages, beyond the core WCS request types GetCapabilities, DescribeCoverage, and GetCoverage.Download the candidate OGC WCS Processing Extension Standard.

July 17, 2013

The OGC requests comments on proposed working group to develop Earth Observation extension to OpenSearch

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the charter [ available at: https://portal.ogc.org/files/54744 ] for a proposed OGC Standards Working Group (SWG).The new SWG will revise the Earth Observation Metadata profile of Observations & Measurements, an existing OGC standard for documenting Earth Observation (EO) product metadata.The OGC is an international consortium of more than 480 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.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

July 15, 2013

OGC Calls for Participation in Major Interoperability Testbed

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) to solicit proposals in response to requirements for the OGC Testbed 10.The OGC Testbed 10 Kickoff event for the CCI and Open Mobility threads (see below) will be held 7-9 October 2013 in Washington, DC.OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments are part of the OGC Interoperability Program, a global, hands-on collaborative agile prototyping program designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven candidate standards into the OGC Standards Program, where they are formalized for public release.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 480 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.

July 9, 2013

The OGC requests comments on the OWS Context Encoding Standard

9 July 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate OGC OWS Context Encoding Standard.This standard is comprised of three documents:The OGC Web Services Context Document (OWS Context) standard was created to allow a set of configured information resources (service set) to be passed between applications primarily as a collection of services.This initial call for comment is for two (2) OWS Context documents: A Conceptual Model and the ATOM encoding for the conceptual model.The Conceptual model document describes the use cases, requirements, conceptual data model of the OWS Context encoding standard.The OGC OWS Context Standards Working Group will consider all comments when preparing a final draft of the candidate standard.

June 27, 2013

The OGC requests comment on OGC WaterML 2.0 – Part 2: Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Discussion Paper

For Immediate Release27 June 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced a call for public comment on the OGC WaterML 2.0 – part 2: Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Discussion Paper.This document describes an information model for exchanging rating tables, or rating curves, that are used for the conversion of related hydrological phenomenon (e.g.The information model is proposed as a second part of the OGC WaterML 2.0 suite of standards, building on OGC WaterML 2.0: Part 1, which addresses the exchange of time series data.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.

June 17, 2013

The OGC wins Sensor Magazines Best of Sensors Gold Application Award

On June 5, at the Sensors Expo & Conference, Melanie Martella, Executive Editor of Sensors, presented the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) with the magazines 2013 Best of Sensors Gold Application Award.Melanie Martella said, I am thrilled to to recognize the OGC for its Sensor Web Enablement Initiative.Mike Botts, chair of the OGC Sensor Web Enablement Domain Working Group, deserves special mention for bringing SensorML into OGC 13 years ago and creating the momentum in OGC to advance our sensor standards framework.The encodings and interfaces are based on fundamental, widely used and open Internet and Web standards and best programming practices.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.