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November 7, 2011

OGC 3DIM honors 3D Pilot NL with OGC 3D award

During the well-attended OGC 3D Summit in Boulder, Colorado the first ever OGC 3DIM Award was given to the 3D Pilot NL, a unique network of over 65 private, public and scientific organizations who collaborated to push 3D developments in the Netherlands.With this award the 3D Pilot team is recognized for its significant accomplishments in aligning national and international standards for 3D content data sharing.The pilot project established the groundwork for one of the worlds most comprehensive national 3D geo-information programs.The mission of the OGC 3D Information Management (3DIM) Domain Working Group is to facilitate the definition and development of standards for sharing and accessing 3D geo-information.3D Pilot continuesThe next phase of the 3D Pilot NL started in October 2011.

July 26, 2011

The OGC Announces 3D Summit

26 July 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) 3D Information Management (3DIM) Working Group is hosting a second 3D Summit focused on the current impact and future opportunities for open standards to better enable 3D geospatial practices.Building on the success of the 2009 3D Summit hosted at MIT, this industry gathering is open to anyone interested in 3D applications and standards that enhance interoperability and integration.The 3D Summit is the best opportunity in 2011 to engage in 3D standards.All presentations will be posted to the new OGC 3D Summit YouTube Channel.Program organizers:Scott Simmons, CACI and OGC 3DIM ChairCarsten Roensdorf, Ordnance Survey, OGC CityGML Group Chair, OGC 3DIM co-Vice ChairBenjamin Hagedorn, Hasso Plattner Institut at the University of Potsdam, OGC 3DIM co-Vice ChairTim Case, Wright-Pierce and former OGC 3DIM ChairThe OGC is an international consortium of more than 415 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.

April 22, 2011

The OGC Seeks Participants for 3D Portrayal Interoperability Experiment

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is launching a 3D Portrayal Interoperability Experiment (IE) on 26 May 2011 to advance best practice for implementing standards for publishing and streaming 3D geospatial assets related to urban planning and landscape visualization.The 3D Portrayal IE will focus on the use of recently developed draft 3D portrayal service interface specifications within the context of the OGC standards baselines.These are the Web 3D Service (W3DS), which streams geospatial 3D models using interactive web formats, and the Web View Service (WVS), which generates images of projective views on massive, complex 3D worlds.The IE will clarify the specifics of 3D portrayal services; provide best practices and guidelines for their implementation, integration, and usage; and directly support current standardization efforts.An OGC Interoperability Experiment is a rapid, low-overhead, formally structured OGC-facilitated activity, where members achieve specific technical objectives that further the OGC Technical Baseline.

October 4, 2010

Ingo Simonis receives OGCs Gardels Award

On September 22, in Toulouse, France at the OGCs 12th annual Kenneth D. Gardels Award Ceremony, OGC director Philippe Delclaux of EADS/Astrium presented the Gardels Award to Ingo Simonis.The Gardels Award, a gold medallion, is awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to advance OGCs vision of geographic information fully integrated into the worlds information systems.The Gardels Award is given annually in memory of Kenneth Gardels, a founding director of OGC and OGCs former director of academic programs.The Gardels award has become the most prestigious award in the geospatial technology world.The community from which the selection is made comprises hundreds of the worlds leading geospatial information technology experts.

January 18, 2010

OGC Hosts Indoor Location and Floor Plan Standards Forum

Such standards are needed for applications such as emergency management (EM), outdoor/indoor navigation, and augmented reality.A major focus was the Open Floor Plan Display Project, which addresses firefighters urgent need for simple floor plans of burning buildings.Presenters and attendees explored the OGC CityGML Encoding Standard; IndoorML; indoor spatial awareness research; proposed Interior Location Extensions to the IETFs proposed PIDF-LO standard; and the Open Floor Plan Display Project of Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley and the Golden Gate Safety Network.About the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®)The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 385 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

May 19, 2008

OGC Interoperability Days, 3-4 June 2008 in Potsdam

OGC Technical Interoperability Day and Business Interoperability DayBonn, Germany, 19 May 2008: OGC Interoperability Days will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 3 and 4, 2008, in Potsdam, Germany.On Tuesday, Mark Reichardt, President of the OGC, will open the event with a keynote on the value of open standards and their potential to open new market segments.On Wednesday, Athina Trakas and Martin Klopfer of the OGC will open the Interoperability Day with a keynote on the value of open standards in creating geospatial portals.Representatives of German government agencies and local authorities will talk about their experiences in deploying OGC standards and take a look at the benefits of OGC Membership.The third topic to be addressed during the Wednesday interoperability day is managing Europes Growth, offering a European perspective on geospatial requirements and opportunities.

June 26, 2007

Building Information Models (BIM) Demonstrated in OGC Testbed

Wayland, MA, June 26, 2007 – On March 13, the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) Facility Information Council released the first version of the National Building Information Modeling StandardTM (NBIMS) [http://www.facilityinformationcouncil.org/bim/story_031307.php] for a two month industry review period.IFCs are an International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) International standard and a common component of Building Information Models.The demonstration used a variety of Web-based geospatial information systems to show evacuation management, find a building suitable to contain an emergency decontamination and hospital unit, and track victims.Building information models (BIM) were available for the area.The OWS-4 demonstration relied on CityGML – an emerging OGC standard – for sharing urban models.