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OGC History (abbreviated)

 

Early success of GIS led to a problem no vendor could solve alone

By the mid-1980s, geographic information system (GIS) software was heavily used in the natural resources and defense domains, especially within government agencies. Other market sectors, such as state and local government, civil engineering, transportation and business marketing were seriously exploring the technology. The future looked bright, but there were frustrations brewing among users.

Programs

The OGC has 4 core programs that enable us to innovate and deliver high quality standards for the geospatial community. These are:

Standards Program:

In the OGC Standards Program the Technical Committee and Planning Committee work in a formal consensus process to arrive at approved (or "adopted") OGC® standards. Learn about the standards that have been approved so far, and see the lists of products that implement these standards.

The OGC Process: How the Pieces Fit Together

From the outside the OGC may look like a whirlwind of activity. And, it is. But underlying all the committees, working groups, test beds and other OGC activities is a member-approved process that encourages collaboration among and between OGC members to define, document, and implement open standards that solve geospatial interoperability problems. The OGC exists to enable a fast, effective, inclusive, user-driven process to develop, test, demonstrate, and promote the use of geospatial information and services by using OGC® standards.

About OGC

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of more than 500 businesses, government agencies, research organizations, and universities driven to make geospatial (location) information and services FAIR - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

Geospatial Digital Rights Management Reference Model (GeoDRM RM): Request for Public Comments

Status: 
Please note: This Request is closed. The documents listed below have been adopted by the OGC Technical and Planning Committee. These specifications are under control of the specification Revision Working Group and will be released after the edits and revisions. For results of this effort please visit the GeoDRM Reference Model page or the GeoDRM Working Group page .
Description: 

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is contemplating adoption of a technology called Geospatial Digital Rights Management Reference Model (GeoDRM RM). OGC invites public comment on a candidate specification that will soon be presented for approval by OGC members as an OpenGIS(R) Abstract Specification. The purpose of this Request for Public Comment (RFPC) is to obtain comments on the proposal for technologies and needed interfaces required for Geospatial Digital Rights Management Reference Model (GeoDRM RM). Documentation of this draft specification can be downloaded here:

Candidate Submission: Wed, 2006-03-01 09:00
Close request period: Fri, 2006-03-10 09:00
TC and PC vote to issue request: Mon, 2006-04-03 09:00
Begin request period: Wed, 2006-05-03 09:00
 

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This document is a reference model for digital rights management (DRM) functionality for geospatial resources (GeoDRM). As such, it is connected to the general DRM market in that geospatial resources must be treated as nearly as possible like other digital resources, such as music, text, or services. It is not the intention here to reinvent a market that already exists and is thriving, but to make sure that a larger market has access to geospatial resources through a mechanism that it understands and that is similar to the ones already in use.
Comment: 
Comments can be submitted to a dedicated email reflector for a thirty day period ending on the "Close request date" listed above, Comments received will be consolidated and reviewed by OGC members for incorporation into the document. Please submit your comments using the following link: requests [at] opengeospatial.org (Click here to submit comments) The link provided above should include a standard template in the message body. If the preloaded message body does not work properly using your mail client, please refer to the following template for the message body: Comments Template.
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OpenGIS® Sensor Planning Service (SPS): Request for Public Comments

Status: 
Please note: This Request is closed. The documents listed below have been adopted by the OGC Technical and Planning Committee. These specifications are under control of the specification Revision Working Group and will be released after the edits and revisions. For the most current version please check our Standards Page.
Description: 

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is contemplating adoption of a technology called OpenGIS® Sensor Planning Service (SPS). OGC invites public comment on a candidate specification that will soon be presented for approval by OGC members as an OpenGIS(R) Implementation Specification. The purpose of this Request for Public Comment (RFPC) is to obtain comments on the proposal for technologies and needed interfaces required for OpenGIS® Sensor Planning Service (SPS). Documentation of this draft specification can be downloaded here:

Candidate Submission: Tue, 2006-02-21 16:00
Close request period: Fri, 2006-03-10 16:00
TC and PC vote to issue request: Wed, 2006-04-12 16:00
Begin request period: Fri, 2006-05-12 16:00

 

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This OpenGIS® document specifies interfaces for requesting information describing the capabilities of a Sensor Planning Service, for determining the feasibility of an intended sensor planning request, for submitting such a request, for inquiring about the status of such a request, for updating or cancelling such a request, and for requesting information about further OGC Web services that provide access to the data collected by the requested task.
Comment: 
Comments can be submitted to a dedicated email reflector for a thirty day period ending on the "Close request date" listed above, Comments received will be consolidated and reviewed by OGC members for incorporation into the document. Please submit your comments using the following link: requests [at] opengeospatial.org (Click here to submit comments) The link provided above should include a standard template in the message body. If the preloaded message body does not work properly using your mail client, please refer to the following template for the message body: Comments Template.
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OpenGIS® Transducer Markup Language (TML): Request for Public Comments

Status: 
Please note: This Request is closed. The documents listed below have been adopted by the OGC Technical and Planning Committee. These specifications are under control of the specification Revision Working Group and will be released after the edits and revisions. For the most current version please check our Standards Page.
Description: 

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is contemplating adoption of a technology called OpenGIS® Transducer Markup Language (TML). OGC invites public comment on a candidate specification that will soon be presented for approval by OGC members as an OpenGIS(R) Implementation Specification. The purpose of this Request for Public Comment (RFPC) is to obtain comments on the proposal for technologies and needed encodings required for OpenGIS® Transducer Markup Language (TML). Documentation of this draft specification can be downloaded here:

Candidate Submission: Fri, 2006-02-03 16:00
Close request period: Fri, 2006-03-10 16:00
TC and PC vote to issue request: Wed, 2006-04-05 16:00
Begin request period: Fri, 2006-05-05 16:00
 

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This document describes TML and how it captures necessary information to both understand and process transducer data. Descriptions of how TML captures the actual data and also descriptions of necessary information such as system calibration, transducer behavior, conditions of operation and data collection parameters critical to logical data structure model are all captured within TML. This document specifically describes the TML transducer behavior models and TML data models. It does not describe a service for delivering TML-structured data, but there is a brief discussion of SOA and streaming platform considerations.
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Comments can be submitted to a dedicated email reflector for a thirty day period ending on the "Close request date" listed above, Comments received will be consolidated and reviewed by OGC members for incorporation into the document. Please submit your comments using the following link: requests [at] opengeospatial.org (Click here to submit comments) The link provided above should include a standard template in the message body. If the preloaded message body does not work properly using your mail client, please refer to the following template for the message body: Comments Template.
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OpenGIS® Sensor Observation Service (SOS): Request for Public Comments

Status: 
Please note: This Request is closed. The documents listed below have been adopted by the OGC Technical and Planning Committee. These specifications are under control of the specification Revision Working Group and will be released after the edits and revisions. For the most current version please check our Standards Page.
Description: 

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is contemplating adoption of a technology called OpenGIS® Sensor Observation Service (SOS). OGC invites public comment on a candidate specification that will soon be presented for approval by OGC members as an OpenGIS(R) Implementation Specification. The purpose of this Request for Public Comment (RFPC) is to obtain comments on the proposal for technologies and needed interfaces required for OpenGIS® Sensor Observation Service (SOS). Documentation of this draft specification can be downloaded here:

Candidate Submission: Thu, 2006-02-02 16:00
Close request period: Fri, 2006-03-10 16:00
TC and PC vote to issue request: Wed, 2006-04-05 16:00
Begin request period: Fri, 2006-05-05 16:00
 

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This document specifies Sensor Observation Service. A Sensor Observation Service provides an API for managing deployed sensors and retrieving sensor data and specifically "observation" data. Whether from in-situ sensors (e.g., water monitoring) or dynamic sensors (e.g., satellite imaging), measurements made from sensor systems contribute most of the geospatial data by volume used in geospatial systems today
Comment: 
Comments can be submitted to a dedicated email reflector for a thirty day period ending on the "Close request date" listed above, Comments received will be consolidated and reviewed by OGC members for incorporation into the document. Please submit your comments using the following link: requests [at] opengeospatial.org (Click here to submit comments) The link provided above should include a standard template in the message body. If the preloaded message body does not work properly using your mail client, please refer to the following template for the message body: Comments Template.
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