A note to the world’s environmental community on the eve of the 140th anniversary of the Metre Convention
Blogs
Berlin 3D Portal provides CityGML data for 550,000 buildings
This OGC Blog Post is a reposting of a March 13, 2015 press release from the Berlin Partner for Business and Technology.
The Berlin city model available as Open Data Berlin plays a leading role throughout Europe in the digital economy – as of today a 3D city model of the German capital is available to the public as Open Data.
OGC standards enable a new collaborative business model for providing imagery and imaging services
For more than 20 years, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has been leaving its footprint on the rapidly-evolving Spatial Data Infrastructure market. OGC web services standards, derived from the needs of a large international community of geospatial practitioners, have become a catalyst for a new collaborative business model for delivering geospatial data and geoprocessing services.
Metropolitan Lyon makes its 3D Data Reference available
For the sixth Interoperability Day organized by the French forum of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in 2012, the Lyon metropolis created a first sample of CityGML data in order to test its integration within different market tools. The program of this experiment is described at: http://www.forumogcfrance.org/journee-interoperabilite/archives-2012/programme-77/
OGC Member Snowflake Discusses Benefits of Testbed Participation
On January 12, 2015, Richard Rombouts, Senior Technical Consultant and Training Lead at Snowflake Software, talked with Ron Exler, Senior Consultant at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) about Snowflake’s participation in the OGC and the OGC's Testbed 11, and how the company has benefited from participation.
Sharing rivers of data
Measuring freshwater resources in our rivers and catchments is tricky business. Even trying to get an idea of how much water is flowing past a point in a river raises many questions: how fast is the water moving, what is the shape of the river channel, are there weeds growing on the bank, how does the speed of the water vary across the river section? Field hydrologists spend their days measuring and updating all this information to
Bridging across bridges: engaging the geoscience research community in standards development (Part 3)
Bridging across bridges: engaging the geoscience research community in standards development (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of a multipart series. Click here for Part 1 or Part 3.
First, I’d like to mention some comments to Part 1, in which I posed a question: “A small but committed number of academic researchers are helping develop OGC standards, but the vast majority are not. Why do some get into it, and why don't more?”
Bridging across bridges: engaging the geoscience research community in standards development
Défi GéoHack 2014 "Geo Challenge-Hackathon" Tackles Real-world challenges in City of Québec
