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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/TC 211 • 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 Open. GIS® specifications, business development Mission To advance the development and market adoption of open standards for geospatial interoperability. • Subsidiaries: OGC Europe, OGC Australia, … OGC Copyright 2008, OGC 2

OGC Alliance Partnerships • • • • OGC World Wide Web Consortium (W 3 C) 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) Web 3 D Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) IEEE Technical Committee 9 (Sensor Web) Spatial Data Infrastructure organizations (National, Regional, Global) Others Copyright 2008, OGC 3

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 OGC Copyright 2008, OGC 4

Approved OGC Standards (Implementation Specifications) • • • Catalogue Service Coordinate Transformation Filter Encoding Geographic Objects Geography Markup Language GML in JPEG 2000 Grid Coverage Service Location Services (Open. LS) Simple Feature Access 1 Simple Feature Access 2 OGC • • • 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 Copyright 2008, OGC 5

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 Open. GIS web services in a Net Centric context. OGC Copyright 2008, OGC 6

OGC Member Technology Focus Areas • E-Commerce • Open Location Services • Sensor Web Enablement Ø Real time transaction services • Multi-source Integration Ø Geospatial Digital Rights Management • Symbology and Style Management • Geo-Semantic Web • Service Chaining / Decision Support • Compliance Testing / Certification • AEC / Geospatial / 3 D Integration • OGC Network • Mass Market Geo • Baseline Maturation OGC Copyright 2008, OGC 7

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 OGC Geoprocessing Workflow Compliance Testing Information Communities and Semantics Agile Geography Copyright 2008, OGC 8

OGC Web Services-Phase 6 (OWS-6) Testbed • http: //www. opengeospatial. org/pressroom/pressreleases/88 9 , start in 2008 Topics: • Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) • Geo Processing Workflow (GPW) • Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) • Decision Support Services (DSS) • Compliance Testing (CITE) OGC Copyright 2008, OGC 9

Dutch OGC members • Global (hoofdvestiging niet in Nederland) – – – Intergraph Mapinfo Bentley Autodesk ESRI Oracle • Nationale leden – – – TU Delft WUR ITC TNO RWS (DID) Geonovum • Global (hoofdvestiging in Nederland) – – Teleatlas Geodan Shell Logica OGC Copyright 2008, OGC 10