Hello and welcome to the 2nd issue of OGC Update for 2018. We're just days away from our 107th Techn
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June 1 · Issue #2 · 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 2nd issue of OGC Update for 2018. We’re just days away from our 107th Technical Committee meeting, to be held in Fort Collins, Colorado. Have you registered to attend, yet? If not head to ogcmeet.org for all the details.
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OGC’s Orléans TC Meeting: "Things coming together"
OGC’s ‘Director Regional Services, Europe, Central Asia & Africa,’ Athina Trakas, offers a synopsis of all that happened at OGC’s March TC meeting in Orléans, France.
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Testbed 14: The Most Complex OGC Testbed Ever?
OGC’s Lead Architect for Testbed Initiatives, Dr Ingo Simons, offers his insight on our latest: On 10-12 April, 2018, the OGC kicked-off its most complex testbed ever (Testbed-14, or T14 for short), at least that’s what I think - although I am still in debate about this fact with our CTO, George Percivall. In any case, I think we have an exciting eight months ahead of us.
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London’s #WomenInGeospatial Breakfast
As part of the global celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, OGC along with AGI & Geovation, coordinated a ‘Women in Geospatial’ breakfast at London’s Geovation Hub. Read a rundown by OGC’s Executive Director of Communication & Outreach, Denise McKenzie.
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Enabling Federal Digital Mapping Through GeoPackage Extensions
The core GeoPackage provides a base set of tables to store geographic, raster, feature, and attribute data. While maps contain the same information, more is expected from the output to make it consumable. For GeoPackage, this can be enabled through extensions. By David Wilson, Strategic Alliance Consulting, Inc
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Map Markup Language (MapML) and the GeoWeb in the OGC Innovation Program
Peter Rushforth from the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation discusses the development of proposed new standards for spatial information, ones that leverage the architectural style of the Web.
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OGC advances the Web Feature Service standard through a public hackathon
OGC’s Executive Director of the Standards Program, Scott Simmons, discusses the WFS3 Hackathon held in March.
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Technology Implementation Guides for Smarter Cities
OGC is currently leading a process to create a Smart City Interoperability Reference Architecture (SCIRA) that will provide free deployment guides and reusable patterns that municipalities can use to plan, acquire, and implement standards-based, cost-effective, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof smart city IT systems and networks using technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Sensor Webs, and Geospatial Information.
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Most Maps of the New Ebola Outbreak Are Wrong
Villages, and sometimes whole regions of the Congo, are misplaced—but the ministry of health and a team of cartographers are racing to get better data.
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Enabling the rest of us to find actionable information in huge volumes of satellite data
At this year’s FOSS4GNA get together in St Louis, Chris Holmes of Planet Labs gave an insightful overview of the application of deep learning to geospatial data, identifying opportunities for the open source community to lead in the application of this data and technology to addressing the challenge of automatically finding objects such as ships, trees, buildings etc in the vast amounts of sat imagery - and to track changes to them over time.
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Crypto-spatial Coordinate standard at the OGC Technical Committee
FOAM was invited to present its proposal for location-specific smart contracts — the Crypto-spatial Coordinate standard — for discussion at this year’s OGC Technical Meeting in Orleans, France.
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The 105th OGC TC/PC in New Zealand
The December 2017 TC/PC Meeting was held in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Prof. Jimmy and Dr. How from Feng Chia University attended the event, and have written a blog post outlining it.
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Moving Borders: A cartographic and political inquiry
How natural borders—apparently unquestionable and self-evident—are in fact exposed to the complexity of long-term ecological processes, unveiling the problem of territorial representation and its political implications.
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The Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities
Plans for more wired, networked, connected urban areas face challenges if they fail to account for existing, local, non-digital elements such as government and socioeconomic conditions
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Additionally, the following initiatives are calling for sponsors: If your organization is facing a technological challenge within the above fields, please get in touch to see how sponsoring an OGC Initiative can provide a solution.
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OGC announces creation of regional Canada Forum on Geospatial Standards
Members of the Canadian geomatics community have chartered the ‘Canada Forum on Geospatial Standards’ as a venue for collaboration on geospatial standardisation activities
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OGC announced as official partner of Earth Challenge 2020, a Citizen Science Initiative
Largest ever coordinated citizen science data collection campaign will collect one billion data points on air and water quality, pollution, human health, and other research topics by April 2020.
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Calling for Sponsors of Testbed 15
Sponsors wanted for our next major Innovation Initiative, Testbed 15. Topics could include: Smart Cities, Data Cubes, Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS), GeoPackage, Blockchain, UAV / UxS, Big Data Analytics, GeoSemantics / Linked Data, Cloud Workflows, Containers, Vector Tiles, etc.
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Calling for Sponsors for Maritime Limits and Boundaries Pilot
Pilot will further an implementation model, architecture, and prototypes for sharing Maritime Limits and Boundaries information.
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OGC announces the European Space Agency’s upgrade to Strategic Membership
European Space Agency upgrades to OGC’s highest level of membership to help drive standards and shape development priorities relevant to Earth Observation
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June '18 - OGC TC/PC Meetings - Fort Collins, CO, USA
Monday 4 June - Friday 8 June 2018
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SPAR 3D Expo & Conference (co-located with the AEC Next Technology Expo + Conference)
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September '18 OGC TC/PC Meetings - Stuttgart, Germany
Monday 10 September - Friday 14 September 2018 Stuttgart, Germany Further details TBA
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The following companies have certified, or renewed certifications of, their offerings since the previous OGC Update:
- AllforLand Co.Ltd.
- Belsis Ltd.
- Carmenta AB
- Compusult Limited
- EGIS CO., LTD.
- Esri
- Florence Research Association
- G-Inno Systems Inc.
- GE Smallworld
- Genesys International Corporation Ltd
- Geodan Holding BV
- GEOMEX SOFT Co., Ltd.
- Geotwo Co., Ltd.
- GIS Consult GmbH
- Global Energy Consulting Engineers
- Hexagon
- ICTWAY
- IIC Technologies Limited
- KEPCO
- KING ICT d.o.o
- lat/lon GmbH
- Luciad
- Open Source Geospatial Foundation
- Oracle USA
- PiriReis Bilisim Teknolojileri
- Politerm OOO
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Attendees of the March TC/PC in Orléans, France
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