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Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

The OGC Seeks Comment on GML Coverages GeoTIFF Extension and WCS 2.0 GeoTIFF Extension Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comment on a GeoTIFF extension to the OGC GML Coverages (GMLCOV) 1.0 Standard and on a GeoTIFF extension to the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) 2.0 Standard, based on the former.

Monday, September 17th, 2012

OGC Joins ITU, Participates in Joint Coordination Activity on Internet of Things

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has become an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecommunications Standardization Sector (ITU-T) Member, following the decision of the ITU Council 2012 in July.

Saturday, July 21st, 2012

OGC Seeks Comments on GeoServices REST API Candidate Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC GeoServices REST API standard. The GeoServices REST Application Programming Interface (API) provides a standard way for web clients to communicate with geospatial technologies, such as Geographic Information System (GIS) servers, based on Representational State Transfer (REST) principles.

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

The OGC Forms “Sensor Web for IoT” Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced the formation of a new OGC Technical Committee Standards Working Group (SWG) to advance the candidate OGC Internet of Things REST API (Sensor Web for IoT) Standard. The OGC members invite the public to comment on the Sensor Web for IoT SWG charter (https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/49608) and will consider comments received

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

OGC Requests Web Map Service Clients (WMS) Reference Implementations

To support compliance testing, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests reference implementations for client software that implements the OGC Web Map Service (WMS) 1.3 Interface Standard. Development and testing of WMS 1.3 Reference Implementations will be coordinated and managed as part of the Compliance and Interoperability Testing & Evaluation (CITE) Thread in this year’s major

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

David Wesloh Receives OGC’s Gardels Award

At the June meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) in Exeter, England, David Wesloh received the OGC’s prestigious Kenneth D. Gardels Award. The Gardels Award, a gold medallion, is awarded each year to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to advance OGC’s vision of geospatial information fully integrated into the world’s information systems.

Friday, June 1st, 2012

OGC Seeks Comments on NetCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership seeks comments on an OGC candidate standard, the Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) NetCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension Encoding Standard. This document specifies an extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0.