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December 20 · Issue #9 · View online
The quarterly update from OGC concerning the latest happenings from the organization and its members.
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Hi everyone, As I look back at 2019, I can’t help but be impressed by how much our OGC community has done to advance our mission of making Location Information more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). I can’t help but be humbled by how enthusiastic our members are about connecting and partnering to solve interoperability issues that have direct impact in more domains than I can list! And I remain in awe with how our amazing staff can do all the juggling they do to keep our members happy (and focused!) while driving thought leadership, standards development, and innovation on a global scale. Thank you to everyone for an amazing year. To give you a hint of our upcoming Year in Review (to be published in the new year), in 2019, we:
- welcomed 60 new members to our community;
- approved 18 standards (including the first OGC API for Features!);
- kicked off a few new domain working groups including the AI and Blockchain ones;
- pushed out new compliance tests including for GeoPackage and CDB;
- published quarterly Tech Trends to help you get a pulse on the Trends impacting location;
- held 4 member meetings, 5 summits, 6 regional forum meetings and supported countless member, alliance partner, and outreach events; and
- engaged in a diverse mix of Innovation Program activities, supported by our generous and forward-looking sponsors, from our annual Testbed (number 15!), to multiple pilot projects, to a CityGML challenge.
The best part is, and you know as well as I do, that together we will make 2020 an even more productive and impactful year. Stay tuned for a new OGC website, for more energy towards the OGC APIs, new events building on the success of Location Powers, new alliance partners, as well as world-class member meetings – connecting people, communities, technology, and decision making for the greater good. Thank you for being part of our community, and Happy Holidays. Nadine Alameh, OGC CEO
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Capitole de Toulouse: location of the TC Dinner and Gardels Award Ceremony.
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Athina Trakas offers her summary of the November 2019 Technical Committee meetings, held in the beautiful city of Toulouse, France. Special sessions were held for the Europe Forum, an Augmented Reality Summit, an ad hoc meeting with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on transportation topics, an “OGC Value” working session, meetings of the joint OGC-W3C Spatial Data on the Web Subcommittee, as well as the joint OGC-ISO/TC 211 work on Observations and Measurements. Finally, there was also the presentation of the CityGML v3 visualization tool developed by the winners of the 2019 CityGML Challenge, Claus Nagel and Thomas Adolphi of virtualcitySYSTEMS.
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OGC's Tech Trends Mindmap
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Back in August OGC CTO George Percivall published a Q2 2019 update on OGC’s Tech Trends status. This post serves to update what’s changed in the months since its publication. For the 4th quarter of 2019, these emerging trends were the focus of more attention: Commodity remote sensing and Smallsats; 3D Model Creation; Precise Positioning, and; Spatial Analytics in Python & R.
Read on to find out how these trends (and more) are impacting the geospatial industry, and how OGC is handling their emergence: opengeospatial.org/blog/3123
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Luis Bermudez, our Executive Director of the Innovation Program, will be leaving OGC staff on December 31, 2019. After 10 years of fantastic service to the company, our members, and the wider geospatial community, Luis is moving to a leadership role with a respected OGC member.
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About the OGC Definitions Server
The OGC Definitions Server is a Web accessible source of information about things (“Concepts”) the OGC defines or that communities ask the OGC to host on their behalf. It applies FAIR principles to the key concepts that underpin interoperability in systems using OGC specifications.
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Join the GEOINT 2020 Innovative Tradecraft Competition!
USGIF and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) bring you the inaugural GEOINT 2020 Innovative Tradecraft Competition, an opportunity to demonstrate best practices in data discovery and alignment addressing mission problems through visualization, discovering needles in needle stacks, data sharing, and interoperability.
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More developer friendly and agile geospatial standards — exciting developments from the 113th OGC Technical Committee meeting in Toulouse, France
Steve Liang covers some of his favorite happenings from our recent Toulouse TC Meeting.
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Technical Specification D3.2 - SensorThings API - Sensing
Did you hear that OGC’s SensorThings API has been published as an ITU-T Technical Specification?
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The many meanings of ‘Open’: Open Data, Open Source, and Open Standards
Over the past decade, much has been said about open data, open source software, and open standards. So much, in fact, that many people have begun to use the terms interchangeably. But open data, open source, and open standards are not synonymous and should not be conflated.
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OGC Calls for Participation in its Next Major Innovation Testbed (Testbed-16); Funding Available for Participants
Testbed-16 will provide funding for participants to undertake R&D to further advance the Earth Observation Cloud Architecture, Data Integration & Analytics, and Modeling & Packaging. NOTE: CFP opens December 23rd, 2019.
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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.”
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OGC announces virtualcitySYSTEMS as the winner of the 2019 OGC CityGML Challenge
The winning spot was awarded for creating the CityGML 3 visualization tool with the most comprehensive data integration environment, 3D analysis tools, and integration of other standards.
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ESIP and OGC invite you to the Coverage Processing and Analysis API Sprint
Agile development sprint will advance APIs for analytics on coverages, arrays, and gridded data.
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OGC Renews Memorandum Of Understanding With FrontierSI
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces that it has re-signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Australian geospatial not-for-profit, FrontierSI.
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ESIP and OGC Coverage Processing and Analysis Sprint
Monday, 6 January - Tuesday, 7 January, 2020 Bethesda North Marriott Rockville, MD, USA
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GeoBuiz Summit
Monday, 13 January - Tuesday, 14 January, 2020 Monterey Conference Center Monterey Bay, California
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DGI 2020
Monday, 20 January - Wednesday, 22 January, 2020 Royal Lancaster London, UK
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Esri Federal GIS Conference 2020
Tuesday, 11 February - Wednesday, 12 February, 2020 Walter E. Washington Convention Center Washington, DC, USA
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March 2020 TC/PC Meetings - Hong Kong
Monday, 2 March - Friday, 6 March, 2020 Le Méridien Cyberport Hong Kong
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Oceanology International 2020
Tuesday, 17 March - Thursday, 19 March, 2020 ExCel London UK
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Click for the full-size infographic outlining our recent Toulouse TC!
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OGC members at the Reception Hall "Les Illustres" at the Capitole de Toulouse
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From all the staff at OGC, thank you for reading and subscribing - and all the best for 2020! 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 contact editor@opengeospatial.org. If you’d like to learn more about becoming a member of OGC, visit www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/benefits
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