OGC Recent News

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced the completion and availability of Version 2.0 of the OGC Reference Model (ORM) at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/orm. The ORM provides a framework for the ongoing work of the OGC and a guide for those who seek to implement interoperable soluti...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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 ( http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/awards ). The Gardels Award, a gold medallion, is awarded to individuals who have made ...

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 http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=30415. The OGC Technical Committee&#039...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) joins GIS Development Pvt Ltd (India) in a Call forSponsorship and Participation [http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/delhipilot] in the Delhi Transit Routing Interoperability Pilot (D-TRIP) http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiat...

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...

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) will participate in the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference ( http://www.foss4g2008.org/ ) September 29 - October 3, 2008 at Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa. FOSS4G 2008 is organize...

The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have adopted version 1.0.0 of the OpenGIS® CityGML Encoding Standard ( http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml] and www.citygmlwiki.org [http://www.citygmlwiki.org/] ) as a...

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...