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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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. 

Indoor Mapping and Navigation Pilot: The Kickoff Workshop was held at the NIST Gaithersburg facility on October 16-17.


Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Phase 1 - CDS: Workshop will be held Oct 23 to guide the focus of the Study. Sign up! Details and Directions on the PR and MSDI CDS Web Page.

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.

Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination Concept Development Study: A workshop will take place in early 2019 to identify gaps to advance automated interoperability for Geospatial Intelligence PED to support edge processing, and civil-military wargaming requirements.

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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