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Posted: November 24th, 2008, 6:00am CET
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) and GeoConnections announce the release of a video that documents last year's successful interoperability
demonstration, a major output of the Canadian Geospatial Data
Infrastructure Interoperability Pilot (CGDI IP) (
[www.geoconnections....]
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Posted: November 24th, 2008, 6:00am CET
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)), the Fisheries & Marine Institute of
Memorial University of Newfoundland, and the Alliance for Coastal
Technologies organized a one day workshop "From Sensors to
Applications: Advancing the Interoperability of Ocean Sensors."
The worksh...
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Posted: November 17th, 2008, 6:00am CET
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced the completion and availability of Version 2.0 of the OGC Reference Model (ORM) at
[www.opengeospatial.org] The ORM provides a framework for the ongoing work of the OGC and a guide for those who seek to implement interoperable soluti...
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Posted: November 10th, 2008, 6:00am CET
The Open Geospatial
Consortium (OGC) completed a successful kick-off meeting October 14-17
for the OGC Web Services, Phase 6 (OWS-6) Interoperability Initiative,
a testbed to advance OGC's open interoperability framework for
geospatial capabilities.
The organizations sponsoring OWS-6 s...
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Posted: November 10th, 2008, 6:00am CET
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that Dr. David Arctur has been appointed as a Director, Interoperability Programs for the Consortium. In his new position, Dr. Arctur plans and manages OGC Interoperability Initiatives which include testbeds, pilots and experiments - all designed to de...
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Posted: October 28th, 2008, 5:00am CET
Standards developed by the members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
(OGC®) play a key role in OneGeology ( www.onegeology.org ), a
global project to produce the first digital geological map of the
world. OneGeology is supported by UNESCO and six other international
umbrella bodies. ...
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Posted: October 23rd, 2008, 6:00am CEST
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces a webinar on leveraging XML in geoint applications. The Geography Markup Language (GML) encoding standard is used as a key example.
This free webinar is scheduled from 1:30 - 2:30 pm EDT on Thursday, October 23, 2008.
Dr. Carl Reed, III...
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Posted: September 30th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that OGC members Blue Marble and 1Spatial have released the results of the OGC Spatial Data Quality
Survey. The results are now available at
[portal.opengeospatial.org]
The OGC Technical Committee'...
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Posted: September 30th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
At the September meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) in Norcross, Georgia, Dr. Mike Botts received the OGC's tenth annual Kenneth D. Gardels
Award (
[www.opengeospatial.org] ). The Gardels Award, a
gold medallion, is awarded to individuals who have made ...
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Posted: September 30th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
At the September meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) in Norcross, Georgia, Terry Fisher received an OGC Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mr. Fisher, recently retired from the national GeoConnections (
www.geoconnections.org/ ) program led by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), h...
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Posted: September 10th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) joins GIS Development Pvt Ltd (India) in a Call forSponsorship and Participation
[www.opengeospatial.org] in
the Delhi Transit Routing Interoperability Pilot (D-TRIP)
[www.opengeospatial.org]
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Posted: August 28th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
Landgate contributed the following write-up about SLIP, a network that provides access to 1200 WMS and WFS layers. If your organization uses OGC Standards and has a story to tell, particularly including why it uses OGC Standards and any "Lessons Learned," please contact <editor at openg...
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) will participate in the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference (
[www.foss4g2008.org] ) September 29 - October 3, 2008 at Cape
Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa. FOSS4G
2008 is organize...
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have adopted
version 1.0.0 of the OpenGIS® CityGML Encoding Standard (
[www.opengeospatial.org]
[www.opengeospatial.org] and
www.citygmlwiki.org
[www.citygmlwiki.org] ) as a...
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Posted: August 15th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
The August issue of GIM International carries a story about www.geobeijing.info. The portal was developed as a Master's thesis to serve attendees at the Olympic Games and also delegates to the recent ISPRS Congress. OGC's Simple Feature Specification and GML are used. The story is online a...
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Posted: July 21st, 2008, 6:00am CEST
The Open Geospatial Consortium
(OGC) has issued a Request for Quotes/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) for the OGC Web Services, Phase 6 (OWS-6) Interoperability Initiative, a testbed to advance OGC's open interoperability framework for geospatial capabilities. The RFQ/CFP will available at htt...
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Posted: July 18th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.(OGC) announced that on May 15 and 16, 2008, more than 40 researchers, members of the GEO (Group on Earth Observations) Secretariat and representatives of the European Commission met at the GEO offices in
Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss concepts, ongoing activit...
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Posted: July 17th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) has held its biennial election and two new directors, Lisa Campbell and Dr. John C. Curlander, have been elected to the Board of
Directors.
Lisa Campbell is vice president in charge of Autodesk's Geospatial
Solutions. In her role at Autodesk,...
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Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 6:00am CEST
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
(OGC®) announced that a Call for Participation (CFP) in Phase 2 of
the GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) Architecture
Implementation Pilot (AIP) has been issued by the GEO (Group on Earth
Observations).
Phase 1 of the AIP demonstrat...
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Posted: June 25th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
The Open Geospatial Consortium,
Inc. (OGC®) is inviting the public to offer change requests
for consideration by the OGC Technical Committee on a revision of the
OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard. GML
defines a data encoding in XML for geographic data and a gramm...
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Posted: June 17th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate in advancing standards-based, interoperable workflow and Web-enabled
geospatial content sharing, modeling and visualization to add...
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Posted: May 19th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
OGC Interoperability Days will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 3 and 4, 2008, in Potsdam, Germany. These events will coincide with the OGC Technical Committee meetings, which are being held in Potsdam that week. The first day will be in English and the second day in German.
On Tuesday, Mar...
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Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 6:00am CEST
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...
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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 6:00am CEST
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...
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Posted: April 14th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
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...
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Posted: April 9th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
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...
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Posted: April 9th, 2008, 6:00am CEST
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...
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Posted: March 12th, 2008, 5:00am CET
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...
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Posted: March 11th, 2008, 5:00am CET
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...
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 6:00am CET
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
[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 ...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 6:00am CET
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...
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 6:00am CET
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...
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Posted: January 24th, 2008, 6:00am CET
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 ...
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Posted: January 4th, 2008, 6:00am CET
OGC® and buildingSMART allianceTM Announce Joint Call for Sponsors -
AECOO Testbed
PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For information about this announcement, contact:
Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-70...
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Posted: December 17th, 2007, 6:00am CET
The Open Geospatial Consortium
(OGC®) announces a new category of membership, Aggregate
Membership. It enables collaborating entities to bring their common
issues and perspectives into the OGC process of developing
interoperability standards. For example, state or provincial and local
gover...
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Posted: December 17th, 2007, 6:00am CET
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
(OGC) processes contributed to the interoperability achievements
announced in the "GEOSS Report on Progress 2007" accepted by
the Member Nations of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) at their
EO Summit in Cape Town on 30 November.
At the Summi...
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Posted: December 7th, 2007, 6:00am CET
The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
(GSDI) Association announced that the deadline for early registration
for the 10th International Conference for Spatial Data Infrastructure
(GSDI 10) is December 15, 2007. By registering early, attendees can
take advantage of the best conference registratio...
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Posted: December 7th, 2007, 6:00am CET
COMCARE Emergency Response
Alliance, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), the National
Emergency Number Association (NENA) and the National Association of
State Fire Marshals (NASFM) jointly announced they will conduct a Core
Services Initiative to significantly improve interoperable,
in...
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