Open Geospatial Consortium

Overview and why we are adopting the standards

Thanks

Mark Reichardt, President and CEO of OGC for slides

The OGC VisionA world in which all people and institutions benefit

from spatial information resources and supporting technology services

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AeronauticalSkyView2 uses multiple OGC Standards

The OGC MissionTo serve as a global forum for the development, development,

promotion and harmonization of open and promotion and harmonization of open and freely available geospatial standards … freely available geospatial standards …

Geoportal of the Catalonia SDIGeoportal of the Catalonia SDI

Natural Resources Canada

OGC Snapshot• Founded in 1994.• Currently 348 members –

Industry, Government, Academia

• Twenty-five adopted standards

• Hundreds of product implementations

• Four OGC Standards are now also ISO Standards

Industry

Government

Not For Profit

Research

Academic

Enabling Interoperability Within and Between Communities of Use

Web Map Service (OGC & ISO) Style Layer Descriptor (OGC)Feature Model & GML (OGC & ISO) Web Feature Service (OGC & ISO)Web Coverage Service (OGC)Web Map Context (OGC)Catalogue (OGC )Metadata (ISO 19115 & OGC)Others…

Publish, discover, access, fuse and apply geospatial information from multiple sources across the web

Data related to Critical Infrastructure, Emergency Management, Weather, Climate, Homeland Security, Defense & Intelligence are geospatial can be managed through OGC web services in the enterprise.

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OGC Works Closely With Standards Organizations OGC Works Closely With Standards Organizations and Consortia in the Technology Communityand Consortia in the Technology Community

– Primary Alliances for standards coordination• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)• OASIS• International Organization for Standards (ISO)• National Emergency Number Association (NENA)• COMCARE• Digital Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG)• Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) • National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS)• IEEE Technical Committee 9 (Sensor Web)

– Secondary alliances• Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI)• Web3D• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)• Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization• International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) • IEEE GRSS and ICEO• Taxonomic Data Working Group (TDWG)

– Others

OGC Web Services (OWS)OGC Web Services (OWS)

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Web Map Service (WMS)

Web Feature Service (WFS)

Web Coverage Service (WCS)

Catalogue (CSW)

Geography Markup Language (GML)

Web Map Context (WMC)

OGC KML

Others…

Just as http:// is the dial tone of the World Wide Web, and html / xml are the standard encodings, the geospatial web is enabled by OGC standards:

Relevant to geospatial information applications: Critical Infrastructure, Emergency Management, Weather, Climate,

Homeland Security, Defense & Intelligence, Oceans Science, others

Web MapServer

Web CoverageServer

Web FeatureServer

Variety of Clients for OWSVariety of Clients for OWS

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OGC-based Policy Positions

• European Union INSPIRE Directive emphasizing ISO and OGC standards for improved interoperability

• UK Ordnance Survey distributes its MasterMap product using OGC standards.

• Canadian, Australian, US, Indian and other national Spatial Data programs recommend OGC standards as best practice for interoperability

• US CIA and DHS have adopted OGC as part of their Geospatial Enterprise Architectures.

Other OGC Based Policy Positions

• Defense and Intelligence Community

– National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

– NATO C3

• Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

OGC’s Approach for Advancing Interoperability

• Interoperability Program (IP) - a global, innovative, hands-on prototyping and testing program designed to accelerate interface development and validation, and bring interoperability to the market

• Specification Development Program –Consensus processes similar to other Industry consortia (World Wide Web Consortium, OMA, OMG, etc.).

• Outreach and Community Adoption Program – education and training, encourage take up of OGC specifications, business development, communications programs

Rapid InterfaceDevelopment

StandardsSetting

MarketAdoption

Why is SLIP using OGC?

• Do not wish to recreate the wheel

• Ability to influence International Standards

• Ability to be involved in International Collaborations

• Broad scale interoperability

OGC Public References

• Adopted Standards:– http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards

• Sensor Web Enablement:– http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/sensorweb

• OGC Reference Model:– http://www.opengeospatial.org/specs/?page=orm

• Compliance Testing and Certification– http://www.opengeospatial.org/compliance

• List of Registered Products using OGC Standards:– http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource

• OGC User – case studies of OGC implementations in the global community– http://ogcuser.opengeospatial.org/

A Few Community References • Geospatial Standards Return on Investment Study:

– http://gio.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ROI%20Study.pdf • Geospatial Profile of the Federal Enterprise Architecture

– http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GeoSpatialCommunityofPractice • Landgate (Western Australia) Shared Land Information Platform (SLIP)

Enabler– https://www2.landgate.wa.gov.au/slip/portal/about/about.html

• NATO C3 Technical Architecture– http://nc3ta.nc3a.nato.int/website/book.asp?

menuid=15&vs=3&page=rationale%2Fapb.html • GeoINT Standards: Enabling A Common Vision

– http://www.nga.mil/NGASiteContent/StaticFiles/OCR/ncgis-eb.pdf

A Few More Community References

• Global Spatial Data Infrastructure– http://www.gsdi.org

• North Carolina One Map– http://www.nconemap.com/

• National Forest System (Canada) Technical Overview– http://nfis.org/tech_overview/index_e.shtml