Open Geospatial Consortium
http://www.opengeospatial.org/
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What is the OGC?
• The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
– Not-for-profit, international standards development
consortium
– 365+ industry, government, and university members
• Specification Development Program (1994)
– Significant interaction with other standards consortia
– Class A liaison with ISO/TC211
• Interoperability Program (1999)
– A global, innovative, hands-on engineering and testing
program designed to accelerate interface development
and bring interoperability to the market
• Outreach Program (2002)
– Awareness raising, education and training,
encourage take up of OpenGIS® specifications,
business development
Mission
To advance the
development and
market adoption
of open standards
for geospatial
interoperability.
• Subsidiaries: OGC Europe, OGC Australia, …
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OGC Alliance Partnerships
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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
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OGC 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
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Approved OGC Standards
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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
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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
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Enabling a Geospatial “Dial Tone” Across the
Enterprise
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…
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…
Geospatial information (e.g., vector, raster, gridded, and metadata) can be
managed through OpenGIS web services in a Net Centric context.
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OGC Member Technology Focus Areas
• E-Commerce
• Open Location Services
• Sensor Web Enablement
Real time transaction services
• Multi-source Integration
Geospatial Digital Rights
Management
• Symbology and Style
Management
• Geo-Semantic Web
• Service Chaining / Decision
Support
• AEC / Geospatial / 3D
Integration
• Mass Market Geo
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• Compliance Testing /
Certification
• OGC Network
• Baseline Maturation
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OGC 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
Sensor Web
Enablement
GIS/CAD/BIM
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Geoprocessing
Workflow
Compliance
Testing
Information Communities
and Semantics
Agile Geography
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OGC Web Services-Phase 6 (OWS-6) Testbed
• http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/88
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Topics:
• Sensor Web Enablement (SWE)
• Geo Processing Workflow (GPW)
• Aeronautical Information Management (AIM)
• Decision Support Services (DSS)
• Compliance Testing (CITE)
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Dutch OGC members
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Intergraph
Mapinfo
Bentley
Autodesk
ESRI
Oracle
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TU Delft
WUR
ITC
TNO
RWS (DID)
Geonovum
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Teleatlas
Geodan
Shell
Logica
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