ogc news

The buildingSMART alliance, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and Sponsors of the AECOO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owner and Operator) Testbed have today issued a Request for Quotation (RFQ) and Call for Participation (CFP) for the AECOO-Phase 1 Testbed. The testbed aims to f...

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) program Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) is implementing a number of OGC standards. IOOS is a multidisciplinary system that will provide data and information on the oceans...

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services. The OGC Interoperability Program conducts hands-on engineering initiatives that accelera...

The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today announced the approval of the OpenGIS® KML Encoding Standard (OGC KML), marking KML's transition into an open standard which will be maintained by the OGC. Developers will now have a standard approach for using KML to code an...

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) membership has approved the OASIS ebRIM (electronic business Registry Information Model) application profile of the OpenGIS® Catalogue Service 2.1.2 standard. The Catalogue Standard specifies a design pattern that allows for the definition of in...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) has issued calls for sponsors of two interoperability initiatives: the OGC Web Services, Phase 6 (OWS-6) Testbed, and the OGC Pilot in support of GEOSS. OGC also seeks to establish alliances with standards bodies having technology relevant to the two initiati...

Progress on ongoing collaborative efforts was announced today by two international standards consortia, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards). The groups have fostered an active commitment to cooperation si...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that the OGC's founder and Chairman of the OGC Board of Directors, David Schell, has been appointed to a three-year term on the recently formed US National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC). The NGAC is a Federal Advisory Committee sponsored...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (http://www.opengeospatial.org) announced that Astrium has increased its level of membership in the OGC to become a Principal Member. Principal Members have authority over the development, release and adoption of OpenGIS® Specifications through their ...

The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have approved version 1.0 of the OpenGIS® Web Processing Service (WPS) Interface Standard. The WPS standard defines an interface that facilitates the publishing of geospatial processes and makes it easier to write software clients...

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is requesting public comment on the candidate CityGML Encoding Standard. CityGML [http://www.citygml.org/] is a Geography Markup Language 3 (GML3) application schema for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D city models. CityGML is a common informa...

buildingSMART alliance, the OGC and Sponsors of the AECOO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owner and Operator) Testbed have today issued a Request for Technology (RFT). This document provides global software and research communities, business trade organizations and their membership an oppo...

The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have approved version 1.0 of the OpenGIS® Observations & Measurements (O&M) Encoding Standard. The O&M standard defines an abstract model and an XML schema encoding for observations and measurements. This framework is requ...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Spatial Data Quality Working Group is pleased to announce that there has been a great response to the survey on spatial data quality measures. The survey will close by the 25 th of January. This working group, under the leadership of Seb Lessware (Chair) from ...

Sam Bacharach was interviewed on A Very Spatial Podcast, episode 58 (at minute 12:17). He explains what OGC is about and how it it helping to enable interoperability.

You can see the impact of OGC on the IT/geospatial market via job ads. This one says it all. The job is in Australia. Key desirable skills include: System Support/Administration for Unix (Solaris, Linux) & J2EE platforms Scripting (Shell, Perl).

Blogger and OS CTO Ed Parsons described Jack Dangermond's vision of the future this way. There is a clear vision developing around the concept of the Geoweb, a network of both GI clients and servers which offer the potential to democratise not just geographic data, but also geographical knowledge as represented by the publishing of spatial models or the mounting of analytical task based servers, the ability for example for a server in Australia to process data on a server in the USA, for display on a PDA in England.

Sean Gilles notes on his blog that he's at work on a Python client library for OGC Web Services. He writes in his blog about the project: OWSLib.

By George Percivall Executive Director, Interoperability Architecture Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. The 2003 Earth Observation Summit (EOS) called for an international effort to establish a comprehensive, coordinated and sustained Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). Sixty-one countries and forty international organizations, including the OGC, are now involved in GEOSS.

NASA announced the awards for the Earth Applications Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Program. Ninety-nine proposals offered explorations into smart sensing, sensor web communications and enabling model interactions in sensor webs. Twenty-eight projects were selected for approximately $31 million in funding, over a period of three years.