Hello and welcome to the 3rd issue of OGC Update for 2018. Next month will see our 108th Technical C
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August 3 · Issue #3 · View online
The quarterly update from OGC concerning the latest happenings from the organization and its members.
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Hello and welcome to the 3rd issue of OGC Update for 2018. Next month will see our 108th Technical Committee meeting, to be held in Stuttgart, Germany. Have you registered to attend, yet? If not head to ogcmeet.org for all the details. |
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After almost 18 years with OGC, 14 years as President, I plan to transition to part-time work with OGC early next year. In my new capacity, I will focus on strategic opportunity development in the areas of membership value and growth, and the advancement of key programs and initiatives in support of OGC’s technology and marketplace priorities. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as OGC’s President and CEO, and I am honored to have been able to serve the geospatial and standards communities in this capacity. This transition is something that I have carefully considered for some time, and I believe that it is time for new leadership to help take OGC to the next step in its evolution.
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OGC’s Fort Collins TC Meeting
OGC’s Director of Member Services for Asia & the Americas, Trevor Taylor, discusses our 107th Technical Committee (TC) Meeting, held at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO, USA, and sponsored by DigitalGlobe, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
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Big Data and Clouds: Research Presentations at IGARSS
As part of its Innovation Program, OGC invited international experts to two sessions at this year’s International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) in sunny, hot Valencia, Spain, the week of July 23rd.
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'Hello' from our newest OGC staff member, Josh Lieberman
I’m very pleased to be joining the staff of OGC as a Director of the Innovation Program, in a new and exciting phase of an involvement with OGC that has extended over many years and almost as many roles.
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OGC @ ApacheCon 2018
This year marks the 20th anniversary of ApacheCon. For the last several years, there’s been a strong representation at Apache from projects in the Geospatial sciences space. This year at ApacheCon North America, in Montreal, Apache is once again featuring a track of Geospatial-focused talks, in cooperation with OGC.
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Adding access to over 100 years of water quantity data at Canadian gauging stations via MSC GeoMet
The Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) is a part of Environment and Climate Change Canada and is responsible for collecting, interpreting and disseminating weather, water and climate data. The MSC has expanded its contribution to the recently released MSC GeoMet 2 by adding historical water quantity data via the emerging Web Feature Service (WFS) 3.0 standard.
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Towards a digital twin of infrastructure: on the cusp of efficient reality capture of underground utilities
Geoff Zeiss provides an overview of the benefits of the ‘digital twin’ model of cities, with a mention of OGC’s Model for Underground Data Definition and Interchange (“MUDDI Data Model”), which is being developed as an interchange and integration model to support a range of critical underground infrastructure and environment information that is currently held in a wide and disparate variety of forms.
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A Review of OS Open Zoomstack
OS Open Zoomstack is a giant, beautifully styled vector dataset for the whole of Great Britain. It can be used in a webmap (e.g. Mapbox) in a desktop GIS (e.g. QGIS) and other ways (e.g. PostGIS). The review also shows off some of the valuable capabilities of GeoPackage.
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Locate modern addresses on Earth 240 million years ago
Ian Webster built a tool to plot modern addresses on a map of the Earth from up to 750 million years ago. Just input an address and it’ll find where that spot of land was on the Earth at a given time. [Editor’s note: I’ve spent a little too much time playing with this site - really great fun!]
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Nearly two decades of revealing satellite images now available at your fingertips
Bear witness to the changing face of our planet using an easy-to-use tool for accessing a trove of satellite data.
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Following a Tuna from Fiji to Brooklyn—on the Blockchain
Startups—and big companies like IBM and Walmart—are betting that blockchain technology will change how goods travel around the world.
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Vector Tiles Pilot: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has released a Call for Participation to solicit proposals for the OGC Vector Tiles Pilot Initiative. More information on the Pilot, including the Call for Participation, is available on the OGC Vector Tiles Pilot Initiative Webpage. Responses are due by August 6, 2018. Please contact Dr. Terry Idol with any questions.
Disasters Interoperability Concept Development Study (Disasters CDS): The Disasters CDS had two successful workshops during the last two months. The latest was held July 24 and 25 at NOAA in Silver Spring, MD. Over 150 people from Federal, State and Local governments as well as private organizations attended. The next stage of the Study is the actual planning of the first Pilot. Please contact Dr. Terry Idol if you’d like to provide input to the first Disasters Pilot.
Smart Cities Interoperability Reference Architecture (SCIRA): Assess the state of emerging standards for the Smart Cities in the area of public safety and the development of an open architecture for interoperable Internet of Things (IoT) sensors. Research, design, and test a Smart Cities Interoperability Reference Architecture (SCIRA) that integrates commercial proprietary IoT sensors for public safety applications at the community level.
Testbed 14 (T14): T14 has now reached an important milestone: the finalization of the draft design for all implementation work! From now on, the focus will be on component implementations for all 20 tasks.
Testbed 15 (T15): now entering the phase of requirements development. In this phase, Testbed-15 chief architect Ingo Simonis starts developing requirements together with sponsors to identify synergies and collaboration potential. This is one of the most important phases of the testbed preparation, as it aligns sponsor requirements with technology trends and the OGC baseline.
Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Concept Development Study (Marine SDI CDS): beginning in August. This initiative will be looking at different marine spatial data infrastructures. Keep a look out for a workshop to discuss marine spatial data in October!
DataBio: OGC, a partner in the Horizon2020 project DataBio, which focuses on Big Data in the bioeconomy, organized two highly successful sessions at IGARSS2018 (see blog post, above).
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OGC announces the creation of a new Domain Working Group for Interoperable Simulation and Gaming
New OGC Working Group has the goal of evaluating how standards will enable the modeling, simulation, and gaming communities to mutually benefit from ongoing technological developments.
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OGC Calls for Participation in Vector Tiles Pilot
OGC Vector Tiles Pilot will create extensions for use in OGC Web Services, GeoPackage, and supply a conceptual abstract model that can be used across OGC standards.
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OGC Seeks Public Comment on new version of OpenSearch for Earth Observation Suite of Standards
Revision to OpenSearch extension for Earth Observation related searches includes two new encodings of the extension model using GeoJSON and JSON-LD.
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OGC Seeks Public Comment on WFS 3.0 Candidate Standard
Latest version of Web Feature Service standard aligns with the current architecture of the Web and the joint OGC-W3C Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices.
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OGC calls for participation its Borehole & Associated Data Interoperability Experiment
The Borehole IE will define a domain-neutral semantic for a general concept of borehole.
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OGC calls for participation in its first Citizen Science Interoperability Experiment
CitSciIE will demonstrate how current ICT-based tools can better enable citizens to participate in Citizen Science projects, as well as improve the reusability of gathered data.
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OGC announces an Urban themed Location Powers event, calls for speakers and participants
Location Powers: ‘Data, Interoperability and our Urban World’ will occur in Singapore 25-26 September 2018.
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September '18 OGC TC/PC Meetings - Stuttgart, Germany
Monday, 10 September - Friday, 14 September 2018 Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart (HFT Stuttgart) Stuttgart, Germany
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2018 International Workshop on Big Geospatial Data and Data Science (BGDDS 2018)
Saturday, 22 September - Sunday, 23 September 2018 Wuhan University Wuhan, China
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ApacheCon 2018 - Geospatial Track
Monday, 24 September - Thursday, 27 September 2018 Montréal Marriott Chateau Champlain Montréal, Canada.
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Location Powers: ‘Data, Interoperability and our Urban World’
Tuesday, 25 September - Wednesday, 26 September, 2018 GeoWorks Singapore
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Geo Delft Conference 2018 - including Open Geospatial Standards track at ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium 2018
Monday, 1 October - Friday, 5 October 2018 Delft University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands
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The Year In Infrastructure 2018 Conference
Monday, 15 October - Thursday, 18 October 2018 Hilton London Metropole London, United Kingdom
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Geography2050: Powering our Future Planet
Thursday, 15 November - Friday, 16 November 2018 Columbia University New York City, USA
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Inaugural United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress
Monday, 19 November - Wednesday, 21 November 2018 Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China
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December '18 OGC TC/PC Meetings - Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Monday, 10 December - Friday, 14 December, 2018 EPRI Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Further details TBA
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The following companies have certified, or renewed certifications of, their offerings since the previous OGC Update:
- Esri
- GE Smallworld
- Hexagon
- Scanpoint Geomatics Limited
- SEDATU
- SensorUp Inc.
- Skyline Software Systems, Inc.
- SuperMap Software Co., Ltd.
- Tuxuri Sdn Bhd
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W3C Spatial Data on the Web Interest Group at the Fort Collins TC meeting
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