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November 8 · Issue #8 · View online
The quarterly update from OGC concerning the latest happenings from the organization and its members.
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Welcome to the third OGC Update for 2019. Plenty of exciting news in this edition: the first of our OGC APIs published; the wrap-up from our Banff TC Meeting; our upcoming TC/PC Meeting in Toulouse, France, which will include an Augmented Reality (AR) Summit, and a meeting of the Europe Forum; datum modernization; the Open Portrayal Framework; ‘apps to the data’ infrastructure; the spatial age of computing; and more!
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Banff in Alberta, Canada, provided a stunning backdrop for the meeting
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Another memorable Technical Committee (TC) Meeting (our 112th) was held in September, this time at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Canada. The setting was, to say the least, spectacular. The meeting saw 130 attendees with key standards leaders and regional experts from industry, academia, and government getting together to exchange ideas, share expertise, and, of course, get to know each other a little better. Special sessions were held for Sharing Data in Agriculture, the Canada Forum and the Business Value Committee. There was also a SensorThings and Internet of Things (IoT) Summit. Ad hoc meetings were held to consider creating Standards Working Groups (SWGs) for OGC API – Catalogue as well as an Environmental Data Pattern Retrieval API standard.
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Misaligned maps? High-accuracy data must become time-dependent
Current web-mapping implementations are compromising datum modernisation programs by introducing metre-level misalignments of data. It is the start of a suite of high-accuracy and time-dependent mapping challenges the world is about to face.
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Open Portrayal Framework: Sharing Styles and Updating Tiles for a New Generation of Maps
The Open Portrayal Framework in OGC Testbed 15 is developing a conceptual model for styles together with a series of new APIs for styles, images, maps and tiles handling.
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Successful Ninth session of the UN-GGIM
The 9th session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) was held at the UN headquarters in New York on the 7th-9th of August. ISO/TC 211, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) participate jointly as Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) supporting the Committee.
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OGC 'apps to the data' architecture successfully applied: The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) Compute Challenge
The T-14 ESGF extension demonstrated impressively how the ‘applications to the data’ architecture, developed in Testbed-13 and Testbed-14, is applicable to climate simulation data processing and analysis. The architecture builds on Web Processing Service profiles and metadata models to allow application developers to make their applications available to the community via Docker containers.
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A Cure for Global Health – Build an SDI
OGC Health Domain Working Group Chair, Ajay K Gupta, discusses the merits of a Health Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) ahead of the publication of OGC’s White Paper on the topic.
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Make it Real - the Convergence of GEOINT and M&S Tradecraft
Stuart Blundell from Presagis reflects on the state of the GEOINT community’s analytic tradecraft readiness in the context of the Fourth Generation of Intelligence.
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URBAN GEO BIG DATA project
Candan Eylül Kilsedar, PhD student and research fellow at Politecnico di Milano, discusses her “URBAN GEOmatics for Bulk Information Generation, Data Assessment and Technology Awareness” project: a 3D visualization project built on OGC Standards and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
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OGC in Action - Aviation Domain
The first in an ongoing series, ‘OGC in Action’, OGC CEO Nadine Alameh discusses our role in the aviation domain. “Did you know that OGC standards are incorporated in various elements of the information management workflow in the aviation domain? Indeed, EVERYTHING in the aviation domain is related to location: airport maps, weather forecasts, flight paths, airspace extents, obstacles, and - more recently - drones!”
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Uber and Cesium Team to Expand the 3D Tiles Ecosystem
OGC member and originator of the 3D Tiles Community Standard, Cesium, outline the standard’s inclusion in Uber’s 3D visualization tool, loaders.gl
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Building an interoperable smart city architecture
OGC’s Innovation Program is testing ways to increase public safety by sharing data that smart cities collect. The project, called the Smart City Interoperability Reference Architecture (SCIRA), is part of a long-running partnership with the Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate. The program aims to develop standards and practices to improve first responders’ awareness and communication by studying how shared data can drive decisions and make disaster response more effective.
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Interoperability, Sense and Sensibility: The Foundation of a Safe & Smart City
The “superglue” of safe and smart cities is also one mode of interoperability, or simply put, getting the Internet of Things to work together.
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OGC Member receives 'outstanding government platform' award
Congrats to Geoscience Australia for receiving the ‘outstanding government platform’ award at the Australian Digital Government Awards for its ‘Digital Earth Australia’ EO platform - which uses OGC standards!
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The Spatial Age of Computing: Some of my initial thoughts
Jason Fox, head of Spatial Computing at Hypergiant Sensory Sciences and Co-chair Spatial Mapping and Location at Open AR Cloud, discusses the coming spatial and AR future - including its potential benefits and pitfalls. Good ‘food for thought’ ahead of the AR Summit on Nov 20!
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3D IoT Platform for Smart Cities Pilot: The 3D IoT Platform for Smart Cities Pilot is underway and will continue through March. This initiative will advance the use of open standards such as CityGML, IndoorGML, and the SensorThings API to integrate environmental, building, and internet of things (IoT) data in smart cities. While the deadline for responses to the Call for Participation (CFP) has passed, offers of in-kind contributions will still be considered. Please direct inquiries to techdesk@opengeospatial.org.
H2020 CYBELE: Kick-off meeting occurred in January in Barcelona.
H2020 DEMETER: Project started on 1st September and the Kick-off meeting took place in Waterford, Ireland.
H2020 DataBio: DataBio is in its final phase and we are busy developing a book chapter that describes the applications-to-the-data architecture for Earth observation image processing developed over the last three years.
H2020 NextGEOSS: NextGEOSS is working on its sustainability after the end of the project in June 2020. The NextGEOSS partners are supporting Opensearch as a good option for API for GEOSS. NextGEOSS and E-SHAPE are co-organizing a webinar to raise awareness on the compliance tools as good means to get all the benefits from standards implementations.
H2020 E-SHAPE: the 4-year E-SHAPE project began in May, 2019. The goal is not to build a new platform but to develop 27 pilots leveraging previous European investments including Copernicus and existing platforms and improving user uptake of the data and GEO assets. The project will produce some best practices based on lessons learned.
Maritime Limits and Boundaries Pilot: The pilot sponsored by Geoscience Australia, the Canadian Hydrographic Service, Natural Resources Canada, and the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office is going into Phase 2. Interim results such as a GML application schema for S-121 was advanced. Phase 2 will focus on extensions of the S-121, tools to adhere to the United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea, and integration to Spatial Data Infrastructures.
Routing API Pilot: The Routing API Pilot has completed. Seven participants worked feverishly on different types of routes and data sets to complete the Pilot by the September deadline. The final video results can be found on the OGC YouTube Channel.
Smart City Interoperability Reference Architecture (SCIRA): The SCIRA Pilot is underway and will continue through the end of the year. This initiative is being sponsored by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science & Technology (S&T). The purpose is to advance smart-city standards and develop open, interoperable designs for incorporating Internet of Things (IoT) sensors into city services. The City of St. Louis, Missouri will host several of the Pilot activities, which are being performed by eight OGC member participants. An Engineering Report is expected to be published in 1st Quarter 2020.
Testbed 15: Initiative execution is underway and will continue through December.
Testbed-16: The OGC annual Testbed 2020, is closed for requirements. Expect call for participation later this year.
UGAS-2019: UGAS has completed most specification work and is now busy implementing the enhanced model conversion and transformation rules. Keep your eyes peeled for the UGAS-2020 Call For Participation coming soon.
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First of new OGC APIs approved as an OGC standard: OGC API - Features - Part 1: Core
OGC APIs usher in a new age for location information on the web, enabling a much simpler way to share and access location information that is consistent with the architecture of the Web. This API, the first of many, specifies the fundamental API building blocks for interacting with geospatial features.
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GeoTIFF v1.1 adopted as an OGC Standard
GeoTIFF is used throughout the geospatial and earth science communities to share geographic image data. V1.1 formalizes the existing GeoTIFF specification by integrating it into OGC’s standardization process.
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OGC adopts Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set standard
The Tile Matrix Set concept, initially developed in WMTS 1.0, is now provided as an independent standard that can be referenced by other standards.
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OGC Pilot Initiative seeks to mature standards-based “Applications to the Data” architecture; funding available for participants
The Earth Observations Applications Pilot will evaluate the maturity of specifications developed to achieve a paradigm shift in Earth Observation - from “bringing the data to the user” to “bringing the user to the data.”
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OGC invites responses to its 3D Data Container and Tiles API Pilot Call For Participation; funding available for participants
3D Data Container and Tiles API Pilot seeks to assess a data container model and API that will support smooth transitions between 3D and 2D data environments; allow applications working with 2D tiles to get 3D tiles; and more.
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OGC invites you to its Augmented Reality Summit in Toulouse, France
OGC’s November 2019 AR Summit will bring together experts to discuss how to standardize access to AR related data and services, and encourage AR’s proliferation.
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Location Powers: Data Science
Wednesday, 13 November - Thursday, 14 November, 2019 Google’s Crittenden Campus Mountain View, CA, USA
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November '19 OGC TC/PC Meetings - Toulouse, France
Monday, 18 November - Friday, 22 November, 2019 Pierre Baudis Convention Centre Toulouse, France
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OGC November 2019 AR Summit
Wednesday, 20 November, 2019 Pierre Baudis Convention Centre Toulouse, France
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OGC UK & Ireland Forum
Tuesday, 10 December, 2019 Geovation London, UK
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March 2020 Technical and Planning Committee Meetings - Asia
Monday, 2 March - Friday, 6 March, 2020 Details TBA.
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The following companies have had one or more products (re)certified compliant with OGC standards since the August issue of OGC Update:
- ASTER S.p.A.
- CmWorld co., Ltd.
- CubeWerx
- Demis BV
- eSpatial
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
- interactive instruments GmbH
- JUNGDO UIT
- rasdaman GmbH
- SAP SE
- SEESUNIT
- SHINYOUNG ESD
- VizExperts
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Click for the full-size infographic outlining our recent Banff TC!
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