Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has released the results of the CityGML Quality Interoperability Experiment (QIE) as a public Engineering Report. Carried out as a joint activity between the OGC, SIG3D and EuroSDR, the CityGML QIE, defined data quality requirements for a general CityGML data specification, created recommended implementation guidance for CityGML encoded 3D data,
Friday, August 19th, 2016
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has announced its Location Powers: Big Data workshop, occurring on Tuesday 20th September in Orlando, Florida. The Location Powers: Big Data workshop will bring together leading developers of geospatial big data systems. This is an opportunity for participants to hear about the latest developments in the field, as well as
Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
09 August 2016 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing as an official standard. The OGC SensorThings API provides an open, geospatially enabled way to interconnect Internet of Things (IoT) devices, data, and applications over the Web. It builds on a rich set of proven and widely-adopted open standards,
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling for public participation in its newly-established Marine Domain Working Group (Marine DWG). The Marine DWG was established to address applicability of the OGC standards baseline with regards to marine geospatial data, and to ensure knowledge is exchanged effectively between the relevant standards organizations, the OGC membership, and the
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
12 July 2016 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the release of version 3.0 of the OGC Catalogue Services standard. Catalogue services support the ability to publish and search geospatial data and services. Information (metadata) provided by catalogues supports evaluation and further processing by both humans and software. The OGC Catalogue interface standards specify the
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
25 May 2016 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and sponsors, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), in collaboration with the Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure Participants, announce a Request for Quotation (RFQ) and Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC Interoperability Program’s Arctic Spatial Data Pilot Phase-2 (Arctic SDP) initiative. The purpose
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
24 May 2016 —The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will further the missions of both organizations by collaborating as partners in the development and conduct of outreach and education program activities to advance standards-based, interoperable modelling approaches to address the needs
Monday, May 16th, 2016
16 May, 2016 —The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites you to join us for our 99th Technical & Planning Committee (TC/PC) Meetings – to be hosted by University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland from 20 June to 24 June, 2016. This meeting will be partly framed by a theme of Citizen Science and use of
Wednesday, May 11th, 2016
11 May 2016 —The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the WaterML2.0 Part 2 – Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Standard as an official OGC standard. WaterML2.0 represents an initiative within the joint World Meteorological Organization (WMO) / OGC Hydrology Domain Working Group to address standards development and interoperability of hydrological information systems
Wednesday, May 4th, 2016
Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Land Administration Domain Working Group (DWG). Worldwide, effective and efficient land administration is an ongoing concern. Only 40 countries around the world have mature land information systems. Of the remaining nations, only 10% have some land administration capability in
