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November 21, 2019

Linda van den Brink receives OGC’s 2019 Gardels Award

Congratulations to Linda van den Brink, awarded the 2019 Gardels Award for being “an outstanding representative both internal to OGC and external.”Linda van den Brink (left) receives the 2019 OGC Gardels Award from OGC President Bart De Lathouwer (right)Last night, at the November meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Technical Committee in Toulouse, France, Linda van den Brink received the OGC’s prestigious Kenneth D. Gardels Award.The Gardels Award is presented each year to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to advancing OGCs vision of using location to connect people, communities, technology, and decision making for the greater good.Linda van den Brink was awarded because of her effective coordination between the OGC and other standards and industry bodies.As noted by one of the nominating committee: “Linda has been an outstanding representative both internal to OGC and external.“I’m very happy that Linda van den Brink has received the 2019 Gardels Award,” commented Bart De Lathouwer, President of OGC.

October 30, 2019

OGC updates IndoorGML standard to v1.1; seeks public comment before approval

IndoorGML v1.1 is fully compatible with the previous version IndoorGML v1.0.The OGC IndoorGML Encoding Standard was developed to provide a common schema framework for interoperability between indoor spatial applications.These cover a broad spectrum of application areas such as indoor location services, indoor web map services, indoor emergency control, indoor IoT sensors, guiding services for visually handicapped persons in indoor space, and indoor robotics.The candidate IndoorGML v1.1 standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by 29 November, 2019, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the IndoorGML v1.1 standard’s public comment request page.

October 30, 2019

OGC updates IndoorGML standard to v1.1; seeks public comment before approval

IndoorGML v1.1 introduces a new feature for level (i.e. storey or floor) information to meet requirements from many indoor spatial applications

April 9, 2019

OGC publishes results from its Testbed-14 Innovation Initiative

They describe prototypes developed by Testbed-14’s participating technology providers, and provide a clear vision on potential new or enhanced OGC standards.As with all Testbeds, the results have now been handed over to the OGC Standards Program for further consideration in development of consensus-based open standards and best practices.Selected Testbed-14 results formed the core content of the Testbed-14 demonstration event (see our coverage of the event on the OGC Blog) held in January at ESA/ESRIN in Frascati, Italy.These, and all Testbed-14 results, are documented in the newly published Engineering Reports.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that ‘geo-enable’ the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

June 18, 2018

OGC Calls for Participation in its Indoor Mapping and Navigation Pilot

The Indoor Mapping and Navigation Pilot will create and advance solutions to complex geospatial challenges related to indoor mapping and navigation for first responders.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has released a Call for Participation to solicit proposals for the OGC Indoor Mapping and Navigation Pilot Initiative.The Indoor Mapping and Navigation Pilot, sponsored by the Public Safety Communications Research Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will create and advance solutions to complex geospatial challenges related to indoor mapping and navigation for first responders.More information on the Pilot, including the requirements for participation, and how to submit any questions, is available in the Indoor Mapping and Navigation Pilot Call for Participation (CFP) or on the Indoor Mapping and Navigation Pilot webpage.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that ‘geo-enable’ the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

March 21, 2018

Open Geospatial Standards track at ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium 2018

The call for papers for the 2018 Symposium, including the Open Geospatial Standards track, is now openThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that it is hosting a special ‘Open Geospatial Standards’ track at the upcoming ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium 2018, to be held October 1-5, 2018 in Delft, Netherlands.The topics of the ISPRS Symposium cover the work of the Commissions 10 working groups, as well as – for the first time – a special Open Geospatial Standards track, hosted by OGC.The call for papers to be presented during the Open Geospatial Standards track is now open.Further information about the ISPRS Symposium can be found at the ISPRS Symposium web site.About ISPRS Technical Commission IVISPRS TC IV ‘Spatial Information sciences’ is one of the five Technical Commission of ISPRS and has a mandate of four years (2016-2020).

March 7, 2018

OGC publishes Testbed 13 Engineering Reports

Engineering Reports document the outcomes of Testbed 13, including new interoperability prototypes and potential OGC standards.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has released 24 Engineering Reports, created from the research undertaken during its Testbed 13 initiative.The Engineering Reports document interoperability prototypes developed by Testbed 13’s participating technology providers, and describe work-in-progress on potential new OGC standards, as well as work done to validate candidate standards or improve existing OGC standards.While OGC Engineering Reports are not standards, the information they contain is intended to be useful to developers and implementers of OGC standards.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that ‘geo-enable’ the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

December 14, 2017

OGC is seeking sponsors for Phase 2 of its Future Cities Pilot Project

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking interested Sponsors to define the challenges for Phase 2 of the successful Future Cities Pilot Project.About the OGC Innovation ProgramThe OGC Innovation Program provides global, hands-on, collaborative prototyping for rapid development and delivery of proven candidate specifications to the OGC Standards Program, where these candidates can then be considered for further action.More information on the OGC Innovation Program, including its policies and procedures, can be found at http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/policies/ippp.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that ‘geo-enable’ the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

October 4, 2017

OGC Announces New 3D Portrayal Service Standard

The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the 3D Portrayal Service (3DPS) 1.0 standard.Viewing 3D geospatial content from diverse sources has just become easier with the release of the new OGC 3DPS standard.The 3DPS standard describes how a client and service negotiate what is to be delivered and in which manner, to enable interoperable 3D portrayal.An important aspect of the 3DPS standard is that the portrayal service is optimized to best operate with the abilities of the client.As with any OGC standard, the open 3D Portrayal Service 1.0 standard is free to download and implement.