Hello and welcome to the 4th issue of OGC Update for 2018. Our next Technical Committee meeting (our
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October 22 · Issue #4 · 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 4th issue of OGC Update for 2018. Our next Technical Committee meeting (our 109th and final for 2018) will be held in Charlotte, NC, USA from December 10-14. Have you registered to attend, yet? If not head to ogcmeet.org for all the details.
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After 7 years, an OGC Technical Committee (TC) meeting has again come to Germany, this time from the 10-13 September in Stuttgart - more or less the backyard I grew up in. More than 200 people attended our 108th TC Meeting, held at and hosted by the Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart (HfT Stuttgart). The meeting was sponsored by wetransform, virtualcitySYSTEMS, and Steinbeis-Transferzentrum. Stuttgart gave it’s best to welcome the OGC crowd, with the fantastic weather providing a week of summer temperatures. The week saw the usual blend of excellent meetings, an Ice Breaker in the Student’s Bar Block 4, a Pub Quiz where you could check your knowledge about German and Stuttgart culture, politics, and trivia, as well as the Geospatially Interoperable Games and Simulations (GIGS) Summit, the SensorThings API Summit, the kick-off of the Citizen Science Interoperability Experiment, and the annual OGC Gardel’s Award presentation - this year’s recipient being Joan Masó from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (CREAF).
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10 successful years of the Hydrology Domain Working Group
In September 2018, the OGC/WMO Hydrology Domain Working Group (HDWG) held its ninth annual workshop marking ten years of successful collaboration between the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and OGC in hydrology and informatics. The working group has generated interoperability experiments, engineering reports, discussion papers, best practice documents, and four approved OGC standards - part of the WaterML2 suite.
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Joan Masó receives OGC’s 2018 Gardels Award
Congratulations to Joan Masó from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (CREAF), awarded the 2018 Gardels Award for being ‘the hardest working OGC member out there.’
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PipelineML: update of the OGC standard
Merkator’s Jan Stuckens gives an overview of what OGC is, what Merkator do at OGC (including their work on PipelineML) and what all of this can mean for you.
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Ban on putting Shetland in a box on maps comes into force
New rules barring public bodies from putting Shetland in a box on official documents have come into force. Islands MSP Tavish Scott had sought to change the law to ban the “geographical mistake” which “irks” locals.
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GitHub's top languages: 'Kotlin for Android now fastest-growing programming language'
The top languages of GitHub have been outlined, with Kotlin - the Google-endorsed programming language for building Android apps - shown to have the fastest-growing population of contributors on GitHub.
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Driving geospatial innovation in Singapore and the United Kingdom between the Ordnance Survey and the Singapore Land Authority
At the Location Powers event in Singapore last month, a memorandum of understanding was inked between Ordnance Survey and the Singapore Land Authority to drive geospatial innovation in Singapore and the United Kingdom.
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Disasters Pilot: The pilot will prototype recommendations from the Concept Development Study about the best exchange technologies used in disaster planning, response, and recovery in the context of Spatial Data Infrastructures. Currently looking for sponsors.
Geospatial to the Edge Interoperability Plugfest: Thirteen organizations came together in a virtual plugfest to advance the interoperability of OGC services and GeoPackages based on OGC GEOINT profiles. The report has been submitted to pending documents and it is currently being reviewed by the OGC Defence and Intelligence Working Group.
Maritime Limits and Boundaries Pilot: GeoScience Australia, Natural Resource Canada and Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)’s Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) have confirmed sponsorship of the pilot. Expect the Call for Participation in early November.
Testbed 14: The initiative participants will be completing prototype testing and draft engineering reports (ERs) in October. These ERs will be submitted to selected OGC SWGs and DWGs for review and eventual publication later this year.
Testbed 15: The initiative has entered the Requirements Development phase, where initiative architect Ingo Simonis is working with sponsors to develop requirements and identify possible opportunities for synergy and collaboration. This phase also aligns sponsor requirements with technology trends and the OGC baseline.
Vector Tiles Pilot: Based on the successful work achieved so far, the initiative has been extended to Phase 2 and Phase 3. The pilot is expected to be completed by the end of February 2019.
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OGC seeks public input on Symbology Conceptual Core Model
The Symbology Conceptual Core Model is currently in early development and not yet a part of the OGC’s standards process. However, the authors are currently seeking early public input and feedback. SCCM aims to offer a consistent approach to specifying data portrayal and symbology rules that will increase consistency between maps.
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OGC adopts new revision to GML in JPEG 2000 (GMLJP2), allowing standardized markup for rectified and referenceable imagery
Version 2.1 transitions GMLJP2 from an imagery format restricted to rectified ‘map’ images to a more general format that supports unprocessed raw images used as ‘sensor model’ images.
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OGC and Khronos Form a Liaison to Improve Interoperability between the Geospatial and 3D Graphics Communities
New liaison will advance open geospatial standards related to augmented and virtual reality, distributed simulation, and 3D content services
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OGC requests comment on candidate standard: Geographic Information — Well Known Text Representation Of Coordinate Reference Systems
New edition is aligned with the coordinate reference systems described in ISO 19111:2018, including dynamic geodetic reference frames, three-dimensional projected coordinate reference systems, datum ensembles, and coordinate metadata
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OGC & SISO sign Memorandum of Understanding to Improve Interoperability within the Modeling and Simulation Community
New MoU will encourage each organization’s memberships to become involved in key working groups and activities of the other organization to coordinate on standards of common interest to the M&S community
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w3c Combined Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings Week 2018
October 22nd - October 26th, 2018 Cité Centre de Congrès de Lyon Lyon, France
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GeoBIM Europe
November 1st - November 2nd, 2018 Novotel Amsterdam City, The Netherlands
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Hacks and the City: A Smarter Safer City Hackathon - part of OGC's SCIRA (Smart Cities Interoperability Reference Architecture) Initiative
November 2nd - November 4th, 2018 T-Rex innovation Center St. Louis, MO, USA
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Research Data Alliance's 12th Plenary Meeting - part of International Data Week 2018
November 5th - November 8th, 2018 Gaborone, Botswana
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Latin American Geospatial Forum
November 6th - November 8th, 2018 Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel Mexico City, Mexico
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ISO/TC 211 47th Plenary Meeting Week
November 12th - November 16th, 2018 Wuhan, China
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Geography2050: Powering our Future Planet
November 15th - November 16th, 2018 Columbia University New York City, USA
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United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress
November 19th - November 21st, 2018 Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China
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2018 National Geospatial Preparedness Summit
December 3rd - December 4th, 2018 University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA
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AGU 2018 Fall Meeting
December 10th - December 14th, 2018 Walter E. Washington Convention Center Washington, D.C., USA
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OGC December '18 TC Meeting
December 10th - December 14th, 2018 EPRI Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
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GeoBuiz Annual Summit
January 14th - January 15th, 2019 Hotel Intercontinental San Francisco, CA, USA
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The following companies have certified, or renewed certification of, their offerings since the previous OGC Update:
- CmWorld
- Hexagon
- interactive instruments GmbH
- NETCAD YAZILIM A.S.
- rasdaman GmbH
- Rolta India, Ltd.
- Scanpoint Geomatics Ltd.
- US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- VizExperts India Pvt Ltd.
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Some parting wise words from Jean-Baptiste Henry at the Stuttgart TC
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