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Open Geospatial ConsortiumOpen Geospatial Consortium

http://www.opengeospatial.org/

http://www.opengeospatial.org/

OGC Copyright 2008, OGC2

What is the OGC?What is the OGC?

• The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) – Not-for-profit, international standards development Not-for-profit, international standards development

consortiumconsortium

– 365+ industry, government, and university members 365+ industry, government, and university members

• Specification Development Program (1994)Specification Development Program (1994)– Significant interaction with other standards consortiaSignificant interaction with other standards consortia

– Class A liaison with ISO/TC211Class A liaison with ISO/TC211

• Interoperability Program (1999)Interoperability Program (1999)– A global, innovative, hands-on engineering and testing A global, innovative, hands-on engineering and testing

program designed to accelerate interface development program designed to accelerate interface development and bring interoperability to the marketand bring interoperability to the market

• Outreach Program (2002)Outreach Program (2002)– Awareness raising, education and training,Awareness raising, education and training,

encourage take up of OpenGIS® specifications,encourage take up of OpenGIS® specifications,business developmentbusiness development

• Subsidiaries: Subsidiaries: OGC Europe, , OGC Australia, …, …

MissionMissionTo advance

the development and market adoption of

open standards

for geospatial

interoperability.


OGC Alliance PartnershipsOGC Alliance Partnerships

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

• Digital Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG)

• International Organization for Standards (ISO)

• OASIS

• Object Management Group (OMG)

• Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)

• Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA)

• Web3D

• Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO)

• International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI)

• IEEE Technical Committee 9 (Sensor Web)

• Spatial Data Infrastructure organizations (National, Regional, Global)

• Others


OGC Document HierarchyOGC Document Hierarchy

• Abstract Specification– Records the basic rules – What is a feature?– Forms foundation for all that we do – many shared with ISO TC 211

• Discussion Paper– Early form of Implementation Specification

• Best Practices Paper– Mid stage form of Implementation Specification

• Implementation Specification– Programmer level instructions

• Profiles– Proper subset of Implementation or Encoding Specifications


Approved OGC Standards Approved OGC Standards (Implementation Specifications)(Implementation Specifications)

• Simple Features CORBA• Simple Features OLE/COM• Styled Layer Descriptor• Symbology Encoding• Web Coverage Service• Web Feature Service• Web Map Context• Web Map Service• Web Service Common

• Catalogue Service• Coordinate Transformation• Filter Encoding• Geographic Objects• Geography Markup Language• GML in JPEG 2000• Grid Coverage Service• Location Services (OpenLS)

• Simple Feature Access 1• Simple Feature Access 2


Enabling a Geospatial “Dial Tone” Across the Enabling a Geospatial “Dial Tone” Across the EnterpriseEnterprise

Web Map Service (OGC & ISO) Style Layer Descriptor (OGC)Feature Model & GML (OGC & ISO) Web Feature Service (OGC)Web Coverage Service (OGC)Web Map Context (OGC)Catalogue (OGC)Metadata (ISO & OGC)Others…

Just as http:// is the dial tone of the World Wide Web, and html / xml are the standard encodings, the spatial web is enabled by OGC standards, such as…

Geospatial information (e.g., vector, raster, gridded, and metadata) can be managed through OpenGIS web services in a Net Centric context.


OGC Member Technology Focus AreasOGC Member Technology Focus Areas

• Open Location Services

• Sensor Web Enablement

• Multi-source Integration

• Symbology and Style Management

• Service Chaining / Decision Support

• AEC / Geospatial / 3D Integration

• Mass Market Geo

• E-Commerce

Real time transaction services

Geospatial Digital Rights Management

• Geo-Semantic Web

• Compliance Testing / Certification

• OGC Network

• Baseline Maturation


Geoprocessing Workflow

ComplianceTesting

GIS/CAD/BIM Agile Geography

Information Communitiesand Semantics

Sensor Web Enablement

OGC Web Services-Phase 5 (OWS-5) TestbedOGC Web Services-Phase 5 (OWS-5) Testbed

• Objective: Collaboratively extend and demonstrate OGC baseline for interoperable, multi-source decision support

• July 2007 to February 2008


OGC Web Services-Phase 6 (OWS-6) TestbedOGC Web Services-Phase 6 (OWS-6) Testbed

• http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/889 , start in 2008

Topics:

• Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) • Geo Processing Workflow (GPW) • Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) • Decision Support Services (DSS) • Compliance Testing (CITE)


Dutch OGC membersDutch OGC members

• Global (hoofdvestiging niet in Nederland)

– Intergraph– Mapinfo– Bentley– Autodesk– ESRI– Oracle

• Global (hoofdvestiging in Nederland)

– Teleatlas– Geodan– Shell– Logica

• Nationale leden– TU Delft– WUR– ITC– TNO– RWS (DID)– Geonovum

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