Monday, September 20th, 2010
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 Special Activity Airspace (SAA) Dissemination Pilot, sponsored by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA SAA Dissemination Pilot will extend the SAA SWIM Services to enable the dissemination of SAA information
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) members are seeking comments on OGC candidate standards Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard, and NetCDF Binary Encoding Extension Standard – NetCDF Classic and 64-bit Offset Format. NetCDF (network Common Data Form) can be used to communicate and store many kinds of multidimensional data, although it was originally
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) calls for participation in the OGC Web Services (OWS) Shibboleth Interoperability Experiment (IE) to advance best practice for implementing standards on federated security in transactions involving geospatial data and services. Shibboleth is an open source software package released by the Internet2 Consortium based on the SAML standard from OASIS. The
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that Dr. Luis E. Bermudez has been appointed Director ofInteroperability Certification for the Consortium. In his new position, Dr. Bermudez will manage the OGC Certification Program, lead plugfest activities, and support OGC testbeds, pilots and interoperability experiments designed to develop, test and validate specifications for geospatial information. Learn More
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance the development and use of geospatial standards. Under the agreement the two organizations will work cooperatively to raise the awareness, acceptance, and implementation of open standards and to promote educational programs
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
he Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) recently concluded the OGC Web Services, Phase 7 (OWS-7) Testbed initiative. Interoperability architectures, enhancements to existingOGC standards, and candidate standards developed in the testbed for sensors, video change detection, database synchronization, information cataloguing, web processing services, event architecture and aviation will be presented in a 2 hour webinar. The webinar
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) will develop conforming documentation for key OGC standards and geospatial open source application descriptions. Both sets of documentation will be available online and on the OSGeo-Live DVD, to be released at the international conference for Free and Open Source Software, FOSS4G, in September
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
On the 17th of June 2010, the OGC held a business seminar at the OGCTechnical Committee (TC) Meeting in Silver Spring, MD, USA. The attendeesat this seminar proposed that a Business Value WG be considered. Based onthis recommendation, a charter was drafted and is now available forcomment by OGC members and non-members: Read More
Monday, June 21st, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)(http://www.opengeospatial.org ) and AGISEE, the Association for Geospatial Information in South-East Europe (http://www.agisee.org) announced that they have established a cooperative relationship topromote the importance of open standards in the development of spatial data infrastructures and raise the awareness of interoperability in South-East Europe.The ultimate goals of the relationship are to create a group of peoplewho
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
In November 2007, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) asked editors from a number of online publications to help with an industry survey on data quality. This was possibly one of the largest industry surveys of its kind, eliciting more than 750 responses from across the world. The information provided was subsequently used for a conference
