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November 7, 2014

OGC Announces Location Powers: Smart Cities Summit, December 2nd, Tokyo, Japan

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites you to attend the inaugural Location Powers Summit (www.locationpowers.net) on 2nd December 2014 in Tokyo, Japan.The day’s journey will see us test our assumptions of what a Smart City is, explore the role of the citizen, look at how we “see” a Smart City, the fundamental infrastructure and how we understand a Smart City.Two important new OGC standards will be introduced at the Location Powers: Smart Cities Summit.The Location Powers Summits are hosted by the OGC, whose members have been making the world’s location standards for over 20 years.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT.

June 23, 2014

OGC 3DIM honors Gerhard Gröger with OGC 3D award

During the 3rd OGC™ 3D Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, the second OGC 3DIM Award was given to Gerhard Gröger from the University of Bonn, Germany.He was chosen to receive the award for his contributions to the development and adoption of the OGC CityGML Standard.SIG 3D developed the initial CityGML specification before it was brought into the OGC in 2007.The mission of the OGC 3D Information Management (3DIM) Domain Working Group is to facilitate the definition and development of standards for sharing and accessing 3D geo-information.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

March 24, 2014

Ordnance Survey becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

24 March 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Ordnance Survey has raised its membership level from Technical Committee level to Principal level.Ordnance Survey is a world renowned national mapping authority already internationally recognized as a leader in the adoption and consensus advancement of geospatial standards.The new Principal Membership reinforces Ordnance Surveys vision to be at the forefront of developments in open standards development.Peter ter Haar, Ordnance Survey Director of Products and Innovation, adds: Ordnance Survey has an excellent working relationship with OGC and the new Principal Membership highlights our commitment to the development of open geospatial standards.We expect the new level of membership to deliver significant opportunities to Ordnance Survey, by firstly helping to future-proof systems and secondly by creating opportunities to develop commercial growth for Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey International.

February 21, 2014

The OGC approves SensorML 2.0, advanced standard for Internet of Things

24 February 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the OGC Sensor Model Language (SensorML) 2.0 Encoding Standard.SensorML 2.0 provides a standard encoding for describing sensors (things that measure), actuators (things that act), and processors (things that calculate).SensorML 2.0 includes a number of changes to the previous version 1.0.1, which was approved in 2007.Efforts are also underway to take advantage of the complementary role that SensorML 2.0 can play with the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard and the candidate OGC standard IndoorGML.The OGC SensorML 2.0 Encoding Standard can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sensorml.

February 19, 2014

The OGC invites comments on the candidate IndoorGML navigation standard

19 February 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) IndoorGML Standards Working Group seeks public comments on the candidate OGC IndoorGML Encoding Standard.The candidate OGC IndoorGML Encoding Standard has been developed to provide a common schema framework for interoperability between indoor spatial applications.These cover a wide spectrum of application areas such as indoor location services, indoor web map services, indoor emergency control, guiding services for visually handicapped persons in indoor space, and indoor robotics.IndoorGML is currently implemented as an application schema of the OGC Geography Markup Language Encoding Standard version 3.2.1.The candidate OGC IndoorGML Encoding Standard is available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/117.

October 30, 2012

The OGC seeks comment on candidate SensorML 2.0 standard

5 November 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC SensorML 2.0 Encoding Standard.In addition, SensorML 2.0 includes the following new or improved features:Support for property extension using external schemaBetter-defined support for positions and dynamic state (e.g.Efforts are also underway to take advantage of the complementary role that SensorML 2.0 can play with the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard and the candidate OGC standard IndoorGML.The OGC SensorML 2.0 Encoding Standard Evaluation Package is free and can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/93.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

September 13, 2012

OGC seeks comments on Land Information Domain Working Group charter

13 September 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the formation of a new OGC Land Information Domain Working Group (Land Info DWG) to address CAD, Land Information System (LIS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) interoperability challenges facing industry domains concerned with the built environment.They, and others in fields as diverse as environmental sciences and location marketing, also need to be able use such data with geospatial data and geospatial applications.The goals of the Land Information DWG are to find the best approach for incorporating the LandXML schema into the OGC’s standards base and to explore ways to incorporate land related information into OGC standards.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.

August 21, 2012

OGC hires Lew Leinenweber and Bart de Lathouwer to fill key technical positions

21 August 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has appointed both Lew Leinenweber and Bart de Lathouwer to the position of Director, Interoperability Programs.These are key technical positions in the OGC Interoperability Program.OGC members will benefit greatly from the leadership that Lew and Bart will bring to OGC Interoperability Program (IP) initiatives, said George Percivall, Chief Architect and Executive Director, OGC Interoperability Program.Lew brings a wealth of experience from leading prior OGC initiatives, including the fourth OGC Web Services Testbed (OWS-4) and the Geo-Decision Support Services (GeoDSS) activity.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

April 24, 2012

OGC City Geography Markup Language v 2.0 Adopted

– The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted Version 2.0 of the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml).CityGML is a community defined information model and XML-based encoding for the representation, storage, and exchange of virtual 3D city and landscape models.Because CityGML is based on the OGC Geography Markup Language Encoding Standard (GML), it can be used with the whole family of OGC web services for data accessing, processing, and cataloging.It also plays an important role in bridging Urban Information Models with Building Information Models (BIM) to improve interoperability among information systems used in the design, construction, ownership and operation of buildings and capital projects.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.