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
Thursday, June 9th, 2016
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The Carbon Project today announced it has been selected by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGCR) to support the Testbed 12 Interoperability Initiative. In OGC Testbed 12, major sponsoring organizations work with technology providers from around the world to test new ways for mapping software to share information. When participants gain consensus on
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
Friday, April 22nd, 2016
Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Coordinate Reference System (CRS) Standards Working Group (SWG). The purpose of the OGC SWG is to revise Abstract Specification Topic 2 – Spatial Referencing by Coordinates to the state of an adopted OGC standard and an identical ISO International
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) requests public comment on the update of OGC Abstract Specification Topic 11: Metadata from ISO 19115:2003 to ISO 19115:2014. The update has been approved by the OGC Architecture Board (OAB) and the Metadata Domain Working Group (DWG). The period for public comment ends 07 May, 2016 ISO 19115-1:2014 defines the
Friday, April 1st, 2016
1 April 2016 — ASTM International and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) will collaborate on developing and disseminating standards, best practices, and other tools that support the growing geospatial industry. The organizations plan to work together in areas such as data acquisition and dissemination, location-based services, and unmanned (autonomous) navigation. Daniel Smith, vice president, technical
Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
8 March 2016 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has announced the recent successful completion of the OGC Incident Management Information Sharing Internet of Things Pilot Project (IMIS IoT Pilot). The IMIS IoT Pilot was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the IJIS Institute. The project
