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December 23, 2016

OGC Calls for Participation in its Indian Interoperability Plugfest

26 December 2016: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling to vendors doing business in India for participation in its latest Interoperability Plugfest.The Department of Science and Technology (DST), under Government of India, is interested in planning and convening an Indian OGC Interoperability Plugfest.OGC Plugfests benefit participants in the following ways:Proven multi-vendor interoperability in your productIncreased confidence in OGC specificationsI ncreased confidence in your implementationReinforce your market claims with actionTo learn more about the OGC Indian Interoperability Plugfest, visit www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/indianplugfest.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 with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

February 5, 2016

OGC® calls for Proposals for a Future City Pilot Phase 1 project

By demonstrating capabilities employed in a holistic urban planning scenario, the Future Cities Pilot will show how cities can begin to reap the benefits.The BIM data is stored with links to geospatial data and BIM data.City data navigation, search & reporting applications enable simultaneous queries across diverse linked data sources.Contact Bart de Lathouwer, the OGC Initiative Director for the pilot at the email address above.The OGCs open standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

February 1, 2016

OGC seeks public comment on candidate OGC® Land and Infrastructure Conceptual Model Standard (LandInfra)

01 February 2016 – The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC® Land and Infrastructure Conceptual Model Standard (LandInfra).This conceptual standard will provide a basis for one or more implementation standards for encoding infrastructure data.After evaluating the LandXML 1.2 schema, the OGC Land and Infrastructure Domain Working Group (LandInfraDWG) recommended the development of an alternative standard to be part of the OGC standards baseline.Having a common underlying Conceptual Model across all LandInfra encodings will help ensure compatibility across multiple encoding standards.The Candidate OGC Land and Infrastructure Conceptual Model Standard is available for review and comment at www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/148.

May 18, 2015

OGC announces Geospatial/BIM/Indoor Location Workshop

18 May 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces a Geospatial/BIM/Indoor Location (“GIS BIM”) Workshop to be held at the UCAR/NCAR Center Green in Boulder, Colorado on Tuesday, 2 June 2015.This event is part of the June 2015 OGC Technical Committee (TC) Meeting.The Geospatial/BIM/Indoor Workshop will focus on developing a work programme to bridge standards gaps between geospatial, BIM (building information modeling) and Indoor Location technologies.The geospatial/BIM/indoor location integration topic will also be discussed in the OGC CityGML Standards Work Group (SWG), 3DIM Domain Working Group (DWG), LandInfra DWG and in a planned Indoor/Infrastructure/City ad hoc session.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

May 14, 2015

OGC’s 95th Technical Committee/Planning Committee Meetings to be held 1-5 June in Boulder, CO

Wednesday, 3 June – OGC Water Data Summit : This summit is intended to stimulate engagement in development of tools and policies for the U.S. Open Water Data Initiative (OWDI) .The Open Water Data Initiative will integrate currently fragmented water information into a connected, national water data framework and leverage existing systems, infrastructure and tools to underpin innovation, modeling, data sharing, and solution development.Those seeking to attend special events (except the GeoSemantics summit) must register for the OGC Technical Committee Meeting and pay the registration fee.Then they must also register for each of the special events they want to attend, so that we know how many attendees to accommodate.(Registration for this or any of the other special events does not authorize attendance at other Technical Committee sessions.)

March 11, 2015

OGC and ILA to Collaborate on Indoor Positioning

11 March 2015 – Two global organizations, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the InLocation Alliance (ILA), have begun working together to advance indoor positioning capabilities.While outdoor navigation is common place, much work is still needed to exploit the full potential of indoor Location Based Services supported by reliable and affordable indoor location positioning systems.The OGC provides a standards forum in which indoor location stakeholders are working together to develop open standard ways of communicating the indoor location information provided by those solutions.With standards like IndoorGML and CityGML, the OGC has already provided elements of the necessary indoor location standards infrastructure.When the ILA published the System Architecture white paper for indoor positioning solutions in September, 2014 we welcomed close collaboration with relevant SDOs.

February 24, 2015

OGC® Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework white paper announced

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the OGC® Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework white paper.This paper addresses an open information technology standards framework that is critical to achieving the benefits of spatial communication for Smart Cities.This OGC White Paper provides the beginnings of a spatial information framework for urban spatial intelligence based on open standards such as OGC CityGML, IndoorGML, Moving Features, and Augmented Reality Markup Language 2.0 (ARML 2.0).It also gives Smart City system architects insight into how changing computing paradigms, particularly the widespread use of XML and the rise of RESTful programming, figure into Smart City planning.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

January 22, 2015

OGC requests comment on LandInfra Conceptual Model

22 January 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) membership has issued a Request for Comments on the OGC LandInfra Conceptual Model.This document, the first public draft of the OGCs proposed UML conceptual model for land parcels and the built environment, communicates the proposed intent and content of a new candidate OGC standard to be called the OGC InfraGML Encoding Standard.The UML conceptual model establishes a single set of consistent concepts that could be implemented in GML (as InfraGML) or in other encoding mechanisms.The OGC LandInfra Conceptual Model and Request for Comment are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/129.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

January 20, 2015

OGC® adopts IndoorGML standard for encoding indoor navigation data

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the OGC IndoorGML Encoding Standard.This OGC standard specifies an open abstract data model and XML schema for indoor spatial information.Because IndoorGML is an application schema of the OGC Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard, it enables easy integration of indoor navigation and outdoor navigation systems.IndoorGML focuses specifically on modeling indoor spaces from a navigation viewpoint.Requirements for other types of applications including indoor facility management, indoor robot maps, and indoor positioning may be addressed in the next version of IndoorGML.