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May 30, 2013

The OGC seeks public input on charter for proposed working group to draft a Point of Interest (POI) encoding standard

30 May 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public input on the draft charter of a proposed Standards Working Group (SWG) that will develop a candidate POI (Point of Interest) encoding standard for possible adoption by the OGC membership as an OGC Standard.A point of interest (POI) is a specific point location that someone may find useful or interesting.It provides a reference implementation for an early version of the proposed Point of Interest (POI) encoding standard.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 29, 2013

OGC , SIG 3D, and TUM announce workshop to gather CityGML requirements

29 May 2013 – The OGC CityGML SWG, the SIG 3D, and Technische Universität München will host a joint international workshop to gather requirements to guide the development of the next major version of CityGML (3.0).Short OGC CityGML 3.0 Standards Working Group meeting : 15:00-17:00Friday 21 JuneLocation:Workshop : Technische Universität München, Vorhoelzer Forum,Arcisstr.21, 80333 Munich, Germany Evening Event : Will be announced on the Workshop Wiki: Will be announced on the Workshop Wiki OGC CityGML Standards Working Group (SWG) Meeting: To be announcedSee more details at http://www.opengeospatial.org/node/1812 and in the Workshop Wiki at http://en.wiki.modeling.sig3d.de/index.php/Workshop_Munich_2013Register for the SIG 3D – OGC – TUM International Workshop on Requirements for CityGML 3.0 at https://portal.ogc.org/public_ogc/register/130620citygml.php.SIG 3D members developed the first version of CityGML (http://www.citygml.org) and in 2005 submitted CityGML as a candidate standard into the OGC standards process.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

May 23, 2013

OGC standards support US Presidents National Strategy for Civil Earth Observations

23 May 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortiums (OGC®) standards are cited in the Obama Administrations National Science and Technology Councils (NSTC) recently released National Strategy for Civil Earth Observations—a framework for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the Nation’s Earth-observation enterprise.The OGC WaterML 2.0 Encoding Standard, recently approved by the OGC membership, has been endorsed as an official component of the civil Earth observation strategy of the federal government of the United States.The National Strategy for Civil Earth Observations identifies 12 Societal Benefit Areas for collection of information, one of which is water.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 2, 2013

The OGC calls for comments on the Open Modelling Interface (OpenMI) standard

2 May 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the OpenMI Association (OA) have announced a call for public comment on the Open Modelling Interface Version 2 (OpenMI) and its accompanying reference manual.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.Learn more about the OpenMI Association at http://www.openmi.org.

April 10, 2013

OGC Announces Student Map App Challenge, sponsored by Google

10 April 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the OGC Student Map App Challenge, sponsored by Google, an OGC Principal Member.The Student Map App Challenge is a contest for students who have programming skills and an interest in maps and location services.The OGC has launched the Student Map App Challenge to make entrepreneurial students aware of the enormous social and commercial potential of these open standards.Three winning applicants will receive an OGC Student Map App Challenge Award and the opportunity to have their apps featured on the OGC website and in other media channels.The OGC Student Map App Challenge page provides search tools that can be used to find these existing OGC service instances.

April 8, 2013

The OGC Elects Directors

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) recently held its biennial election of directors.The new OGC board members are Christopher Holmes, Walter Scott and Geoff Zeiss.Jeffrey Harris, Chairman of the OGC Board of Directors, said, “We are delighted that Walter Scott, Geoff Zeiss and Chris Holmes have joined our Board.We look forward to Chris, Walter and Geoff’s leadership as members of the OGC Board.”The OGC Board and staff thank Dr. John Curlander and John Olesak for their valuable service as they depart the Board.The Board and staff and the whole OGC community mourn the passing of Board member Stefano Morisi, who died 13 January 2013.

April 4, 2013

The OGC requests comment on Coordinate Reference System Extension to Web Coverage Service Interface Standard

5 April 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced a call for public comment on the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Coordinate Reference System (CRS) Extension Standard.The OGC WCS CRS Extension defines an extension to the WCS Core that enables requests to specify that coverages be returned in one of a number of different Coordinate Reference Systems.The OGC WCS CRS Extension is free and can be downloaded from the OGC Request for Comment page at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/100.The OGC WCS Standards Working Group will consider all comments when preparing a final draft of the candidate standard.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

March 25, 2013

OGC announces creation of Middle East and North Africa Forum

In response to the growing interest and use of OGC standards throughout the region, the Ministry of the Interior hosted the OGC TC PC meetings to connect the existing OGC community to the region and to broaden awareness of the OGC within the Middle East.This is the first time the OGC Technical and Planning Committee meetings have been held in the Middle East.Middle East involvement in the OGCs international process is important for a number of reasons, explained Mark Reichardt, President of the OGC.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, mainstream IT, and wireless and location-based services.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

March 22, 2013

OGC announces Climate-Hydrologic Information Sharing Pilot Demo webinar

CHISP-1 is prototyping an innovative inter-disciplinary, inter-agency and international virtual observatory system for publishing water resources information collected from observations and forecasts in the U.S. and Canada, building on current networks and capabilities.This requires accessing water-quality data from multiple agencies and integrating the data with stream flow information for calculating loads.OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments are part of the OGC Interoperability Program, a global, hands-on collaborative prototyping program designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven candidate spatial encoding and interface standards into the OGC Standards Program, where they are formalized for release as adopted OGC 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.