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December 21 · Issue #1 · View online
The quarterly update from OGC concerning the latest happenings from the organization and its members.
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Welcome to the re-launched OGC update, where I, Simon Chester, will fill you in on the latest happenings in OGC, as well as show you some interesting member stories, relevant news, and information from around the web. |
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2017 was an exciting year for OGC, welcoming our first Community Standards, as well as successful initiatives related to some of the geospatial industry’s biggest growth areas. OGC’s President and CEO, Mark Reichardt, has penned a blog post outlining the year’s highlights, as well as a look toward what 2018 may hold in store.
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OGC’s Testbed 13 Demonstration overview
I attended OGC’s Testbed 13 Demonstration event last week, and have written up an overview of the event and some of the new technologies demonstrated.
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OGC's Innovation Program in 2017
A word from the Innovation Program’s Executive Director, Dr. Luis Bermudez: In 2017, OGC’s Innovation Program officially changed its name from the Interoperability Program and crossed the ‘100th initiative’ milestone. In this time, I also came on as its new Executive Director.
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The advent of I3S
The future of mapping is coming — or is it here already? With the advent of Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) as a community standard, everyone stands to benefit.
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Our newest OGC staff member: Gobe Hobona
It is an exciting time to be joining OGC as Director of Knowledge Management (DKM). One of the reasons why I am very excited about this is that geospatial interoperability standards are increasingly seen as the key ingredient for allowing much in society to be better understood.
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OGC GeoPackage: Expanding the Realm of Geospatial Capabilities
An OGC GeoPackage is a portable database that may contain raster maps and imagery, vector features, and elevation data. GeoPackages are optimized for sharing and displaying these types of geospatial data on mobile mapping systems, and GeoPackage extensions may be developed to support additional types of geospatial data such as routing networks.
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Advancing standards for marine data
The OGC has long maintained standards that are used in the marine domain. These standards have been applied to studies of bathymetry, ocean science, navigation, logistics, and more. However, only a small subset of the diverse disciplines that work in the marine environment have representatives in OGC’s membership. Thus, in 2016, the Marine DWG was established to provide a forum for discussion across marine topics and to link the OGC with other organizations in the field.
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Nobody Knows What Lies Beneath New York City
Subterranean cartographers are bringing to light the dark, tangled truths buried under the streets.
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Open Source or Open Standards? (Yes!) The Future has Arrived
Recently, many people (especially OSS developers) have begun referring to the software they develop as “a standard.” So, what’s going on here? And is it a good thing?
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A Fascinating Foreign Service Map Ranking Language Difficulty by Time Required to Learn
The US State Department’s School of Language Studies has put together a fascinating map that shows the time needed for an English speaker to learn specific languages, each ranked and categorized by difficulty.
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Supreme Court considers if your privacy rights include location data
At issue is whether the Fourth Amendment covers location data wireless carriers collect from your phone.
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The Mirai Botnet Was Part of a College Student Minecraft Scheme
The DDoS attack that crippled the internet last fall wasn’t the work of a nation-state. It was three college kids working a Minecraft hustle.
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Geomatics Web Services Used in Recent Quebec Floods
In Spring 2017, a major flood occurred in Eastern Canada, centered around south west Quebec. During this time, the decision was made to openly offer relevant mapping products through public URLs as standard Web OGC services.
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OGC is seeking sponsors for Phase 2 of its Future Cities Pilot Project
Phase 2 of OGC’s Future City Pilot aims to improve the automation of the flow of data between GIS and BIM systems, as well as address a number of related interoperability challenges.
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OGC Calls for Participation in Major Innovation Testbed (Testbed 14)
OGC’s 14th Testbed aims to explore new levels of interoperable geospatial data processing using core Web principles.
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OGC Calls for Sponsors for Augmented Reality Pilot Project
Joint OGC and W3C Pilot project will propose standards to unite Augmented Reality, Web, and Geospatial technologies.
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OGC Calls for Participation in its ‘Geospatial to the Edge’ Interoperability Plugfest
OGC Plugfest will advance, test, and validate the interoperability of geospatial software that implements specific profiles of open standards.
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OGC announces a new standard that improves the way information is referenced to the earth
The goal of DGGS is to enable rapid assembly of spatial data without the difficulties of working with projected coordinate reference systems.
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ESIP Winter Meeting
Tuesday 9 January - Thursday 11 January 2018 Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
North Bethesda, Maryland, USA Note that a short demonstration of the outcomes of Testbed 13 will take place on the Tuesday at this meeting.
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Geospatial World Forum
Monday 15 January - Friday 19 January 2018 HICC
Hyderabad, India
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The 2nd Smart Cities International Symposium & Exhibition
Wednesday 17 January - Thursday 18 January 2018 Conference Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Defence Geospatial Intelligence
Monday 22 January - Wednesday 24 January 2018 Royal Lancaster
London, UK
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International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF)
Monday 5 February - Wednesday 7 February 2018 Hyatt Regency
Denver, Colorado, USA
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March '18 OGC TC/PC Meetings - Orléans, France
Monday 19 March - Friday 23 March 2018 Orléans Conference Center
Orléans, France
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OGC staff at our recent staff face-to-face meeting in Indiana, USA.
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From all the staff at OGC, thank you for reading, and stay tuned for the next issue, coming April 2018. If you have an OGC-related story that you want featured in the next OGC Update (or on our blog), or have any feedback on this issue, please get in contact with editor@opengeospatial.org.
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