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...
OGC Adopts SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing Standard
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...
OGC Requests Participation in its Marine DWG
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,...
OGC Announces v3.0 of its Catalogue Services (CAT) Standard
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...
OGC Invites Proposals for an Arctic Spatial Data Pilot Project
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...
OGC and SIBA Sign Memorandum of Understanding
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...
OGC’s 99th Technical & Planning Committee Meetings to be held 20-24 June in Dublin, Ireland
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...
OGC Adopts WaterML2.0 Part 2 – Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Standard
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...
OGC Requests Comment on Charter for Land Administration Domain Working Group
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...
OGC Seeks Public Comment on CDB Candidate Standard
This OGC Candidate Standard specifies an open format and encoding for the storage, access and modification of a representation of the natural and built environment for simulation applications. CDB defines the data representation, organization and storage structure of...
