Hello and welcome to the first issue of OGC Update for 2019 - the year of OGC's 25th anniversary! In
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March 29 · Issue #6 · 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 first issue of OGC Update for 2019 - the year of OGC’s 25th anniversary! In this issue you’ll hear about our new CEO and leadership team, our successful TC Meeting in Singapore, as well as the Marine Summit and subsequent Marine-themed meetings, our Vector Tiles Pilot, the joy of standards (of course), NextGEOSS, our liaison with the 3D industry and the 3D Tiles standard - and so much more! Our next Technical Committee meeting will be held in Leuven, Belgium, from 24-28 June. Have you registered to attend, yet? If not, head to ogcmeet.org for all the details.
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First of all, thank you for subscribing to our OGC Update newsletter! Before we start, would you do me a favor and share the link with a colleague, friend, or family member who’s not familiar with OGC? I have had some of the most fascinating conversations talking “OGC” with folks outside of our tight geospatial software/applications circles. Let’s spread the word about the power of location! Indeed, spreading the word about OGC and growing a more diverse yet connected global community of enthusiasts is one of the reasons I took on my new job as the CEO of OGC. I won’t use this blog to bore you with the details of my educational background and professional experience (you can find those easily on LinkedIn), instead let’s focus on a few things, starting with ‘Kicking off the next 25 years of OGC.’
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OGC’s 110th Technical Committee Meeting: Onwards, Standards!
Trevor Taylor, Director, Member Services - Asia & the Americas, takes readers through all the exciting happenings from the recent OGC TC Meetings held in Singapore. The meeting was hosted by NUS, sponsored by the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) and the Maritime and Ports Authority of Singapore (MPA), and included a special Monday evening reception sponsored by the UK Ordnance Survey. In addition to the many Working Group meetings, this TC Meeting featured OGC’s First Marine Summit and an Integrated Digital Built Environment (IDBE) Summit, as well as a meeting of the OGC Asia Forum.
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The famous Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.
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OGC’s Marine Summit, Singapore: exploring the uses, challenges, and cutting-edge applications for geospatial data in the marine domain
During the recent OGC TC Meetings in Singapore, the OGC Marine Domain Working Group, in close cooperation with the International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO) and Singapore’s Maritime and Ports Authority of Singapore (MPA), organised the first OGC Marine Summit. The purpose of the Summit was to: promote the value of interoperability and discoverability of marine spatial data (and MSDI); create awareness of data standards and applications applicable to marine data acquisition and use; explore the uses, challenges, and cutting-edge applications for geospatial data in the marine domain; and further the development of marine standards in both hydrographic and broader, non-hydrographic fields (e.g. ecology, energy, tourism, geology).
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Trevor Taylor opening the First OGC Marine Summit.
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OGC Tech Trends Update from OGC CTO, George Percivall
OGC’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is responsible for developing OGC’s Technology Strategy and coordinating the strategy across all programs of the Consortium. Currently the main activities of the strategy relate to the OGC Architecture Board (OAB), OGC Technology Forecasting, and the evolution of the OGC Baseline. This column provides an update on those and related activities from the past three months.
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OGC’s Testbed-14 conclusion and demo event at ESA/ESRIN
Ingo Simonis, Testbed-14 Chief Architect, provides an overview of the final demonstration of Testbed-14 - the biggest Innovation Program initiative executed by OGC in 2018. The demonstration event was held in December at ESA/ESRIN in Frascati, Italy, and focused on a set of selected results with a strong emphasis on the Enterprise Exploitation Platform task.
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Providing OGC Services for Canadian Climate Data
Derek Van Der Kamp, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and Tom Kralidis, Meteorological Service of Canada, provide an overview of the Canadian Centre for Climate Services’ use of OGC Web Services to provide 9 climate datasets from Environment and Climate Change Canada. An important factor of success in supplying this data is the use of international standards, which ensure the interoperability of information and data access across a wide range of networked data processing systems.
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GeoPackage & The Vector Tiles Pilot
For the last six months, OGC has been sponsoring the Vector Tiles Pilot (VTP). The purpose of the VTP was to investigate how vector tiles (or tiled feature data, if you will) in the Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVT) and GeoJSON formats can be supported through the OGC standards baseline, particularly Web Feature Server (WFS), Web Map Tile Server (WMTS), and GeoPackage (GPKG). The initial effort concluded late last year and culminated in some videos and newly released Engineering Reports (ERs).
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Public Release of NextGEOSS Platform helps transform Earth observations to actionable information for the UN SDGs
The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its associated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can only be met through the use of data and information based on Earth observations. Although this type of data and information already supports the SDGs, its full potential has yet to be exploited.
The newly-launched NextGEOSS data hub and platform will facilitate the fast and scalable transformation of Earth observation data into actionable information and knowledge across all 17 SDGs.
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Unlocking the Benefits of Interoperable Standards: OGC's second Energy & Utilities Summit
The second Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Energy & Utilities Summit brought together world-class researchers to demonstrate the benefits of implementing interoperable geospatial standards within the energy and utility sector. The December 2018 event, titled “Smart Energy Utilities, Communities, and Networks,” aimed to ensure that all electric energy stakeholders have access to technical solutions and data to address specific issues that arise from advances in smart energy technology.
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Liaison between Khronos and Open Geospatial Consortium Leads to 3D Tiles Community Standard Built on glTF for Streaming Massive Models
To jointly advance accessibility of 3D geospatial content, The Khronos Group recently formalized a liaison with OGC. One of the first victories of this collaboration between the computer graphics and geospatial communities is a new OGC Community Standard addressing massive scale 3D, pioneered by longtime Khronos contributors, the Cesium team.
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Championing Geospatial Data
Executive Director Ivan DeLoatch on the changing role of the Federal Geographic Data Committee.
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Smart cities could be lousy to live in if you have a disability
Cities sometimes fail to make sure the technologies they adopt are accessible to everyone. Activists and startups are working to change that.
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The Joy of Standards
Life is a lot easier when you can plug in to any socket.
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How the word "tea" spread over land and sea
An interesting map + story showing the spread of tea across the world, and how the two major distribution routes defined if a language refers to the leaf as (a variant of) ‘tea’ or ‘cha’.
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This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task
Depending on how paranoid you are, this research from Stanford and Google will be either terrifying or fascinating. A machine learning agent intended to transform aerial images into street maps and back was found to be cheating by hiding information it would need later in “a nearly imperceptible, high-frequency signal.” Clever girl!
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The world's watersheds, mapped in gorgeous detail
Beautiful maps of watersheds from across the world.
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H2020 CYBELE: Kick-off meeting occurred in January in Barcelona.
H2020 DataBio: Conference session planned at the Living Planet Symposium in Milan this May.
H2020 NextGEOSS: Pilots coming soon: Marine, Agriculture, Disasters, AIP-10, and others.
Indoor Mapping and Navigation Pilot: Continues to develop prototype implementations to support a preplanning scenario. Offers of in-kind contributions will be welcomed for the duration of the project. OGC member representatives wishing to become Pilot Observers may join the Portal Project by clicking through the Indoor Pilot Observer Agreement.
Maritime Limits and Boundaries Pilot: Geoscience Australia, the Canadian Hydrographic Service, Natural Resources Canada, and the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office have confirmed sponsorship of the pilot. Call for Participation is closed. Kickoff will occur mid May in Ottawa, Canada.
Mixed Reality to the Edge Concept Development Study: RFI was released in January 2019 to gather information on the current state of the geospatial infrastructure(s) for automated 3D related activities with the goal of reducing human intervention (i.e. mouse clicks). A workshop will take place in April in Tampa, Florida.
Routing Pilot: The Call for Participation was released on February 27 and is due April 10, 2019.
Testbed 15: Kickoff Workshop scheduled for April 2-4 at USGS Headquarters in Reston, VA.
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OGC invites you to participate in its SCIRA Smart Cities Public Safety Interoperability Pilot
Pilot will leverage OGC standards, IoT sensors, geospatial framework data, and SCIRA design patterns to design and prototype interoperable Smart City services in support of public safety incident management and resilience.
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OGC invites you to participate in its Open Routing API Pilot 2019
The goal of the Open Routing API Pilot 2019 is to develop an API that allows requesting routes from different providers in a coherent, standardized way via Web protocols.
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OGC invites you to its ‘Mixed Reality to the Edge’ Workshop this April in Tampa, FL
Visionary experts from Defense, Utilities, First Responders, and more will lead panels concerning the automation of workflows that bring 3D/4D geospatial content to users at ‘the edge’.
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OGC invites you to participate in its Maritime Limits and Boundaries Pilot
Pilot will advance an implementation model, architecture, and prototypes for sharing Maritime Limits and Boundaries information.
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OGC invites you to indulge in a SELFIE: the Second Environmental Linked Features Interoperability Experiment
SELFIE aims to create a standards-based method to publish and use linked data that’s compatible with current web development/W3C best practices.
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Geospatial World Forum
Tuesday April 2nd - Thursday April 4th Taets Art & Event Park Amsterdam, Netherlands
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European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2019
Sunday April 7th - Friday April 12th Austria Center Vienna Vienna, Austria
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Locate19 Conference
Monday April 8th - Wednesday April 10th Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC) Melbourne, Australia
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RetailLoco
Wednesday April 24th - Thursday April 25th Moz Seattle, Washington, USA
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Mixed Reality to the Edge Workshop
Tuesday April 30th SOFWERX Tampa, FL, USA
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18th International 3D-Forum
Tuesday May 7th - Wednesday May 8th Kongresszentrum “Inselhalle” Lindau, Germany
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GEO Business and GeoDATA Forum 2019
Tuesday May 21st - Wednesday May 22nd Business Design Centre London, UK
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GEOINT Symposium
Sunday June 2nd - Wednesday June 5th Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center San Antonio, Texas, USA
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OGC API Hackathon
Thursday June 20th - Friday June 21st Geovation Hub London, UK
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June '19 OGC TC/PC Meetings
Monday June 24th - Friday June 28th The House Of The Province Of Flemish Brabant Leuven, Belgium
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The following companies have had one or more products certified compliant with OGC standards since the December issue of OGC Update:
- Rolta India, Ltd.
- IIC Technologies Limited
- Open Source Geospatial Foundation
- Politerm OOO
- Florence Research Association
- Geodan Holding BV
- Genesys International Co, Ltd
- Geotwo Co, Ltd
- RSI Softech India Pvt Ltd
- G-Inno Systems Inc
- Pitney Bowes Software
- PiriReis Bilisim Teknolojileri
- US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
- Compusult Limited
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Attendees of OGC's #WomenInGeospatial Breakfast for #IWD2019
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From all the staff at OGC, thank you for reading and subscribing - and we hope that 2019 has had as good a start for you as it has for OGC. 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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