® The importance of international standards for data exchange Denise McKenzie Executive Director, Communications & Outreach Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) World Bank Land & Poverty Conference 27 March 2014 © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® You know when you don’t have it! INTEROPERABILITY © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Interoperability: information integration Location data Value of open standards “We need to share maps on the Web, across devices or platforms.” “We don't have a common language to speak about our geospatial data or our services.” “We need to find and pull together data from our automated sensors.” “We have security issues relating to geospatial data exchange.” ”We need to deliver data to different systems.” © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® The Importance of OGC Standards  Location Interoperability  Defined as the ability of diverse data sources, systems and organizations to work together (inter- operate). Saves time, reduces cost, increases market choice, protects assets and lives 4 Ease information sharing Promote information reuse Reduce duplication of effort Flexibility to add new capabilities Vendor neutral © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Addressing the Interoperability Challenge Cross-Boundary and Cross Domain Information Sharing Source: David Rydevik, Thailand Tsunami, 2004 Ability to access, fuse and apply diverse content when and where needed is critical to situational awareness and disaster planning/ response Source: © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® OGC Standards Enable Location Integration Within and Across Domains OGC standards provide the ability to rapidly incorporate location information from many sources for enhanced situational awareness and improved decision making Geospatial InformationSensor Observations Complex Processing

OGC ® NSDI - India GeoPortal Map Viewer OGC Standards Enable Location Integration Within and Across Domains 7 Source: Geoportal of the Catalonia SDI Source: onegeology.org Slide Source: DigitalGlobe Before / After Tsunami OGC Standards Underpin Spatial Data Infrastructures © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® OGC Standards Enable Location Integration Within and Across Domains Emergency / Disaster Management Aviation Flight Information / Safety Meteorology, Hydrology, Ocean Monitoring Mobile Location Services Real Time Traffic Alerts

OGC ® Who are we? 470+ member organizations and growing 40 standards freely available Hundreds of product implementations Emphasis on collaborative testing, prototyping with user community and industry Alliances and collaborative activities with ISO and many other SDOs 9 © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® OGC Alliance Partners A Critical Resource for Advancing Standards … and others © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Working together © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Governance Strengthened by Standards Policy © 2012, Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Importance of Data Standards and Encodings Community Data Sharing CityGML ( –Common information model for the representation of 3D urban objects. It defines the classes and relations for the most relevant topographic objects in cities and regional models with respect to their geometrical, topological, semantic and appearance properties. GeoSciML ( –GeoSciML accommodates the goal of representing geoscience information associated with geologic maps and observations, as well as being extensible in the long-term to other geoscience data.GeoSciML WaterML ( ( –encoding standard for the representation of in-situ hydrological observations data Emerging standards –Agriculture –CarbonML –SoilML –PipelineML –SensorML Weather Information XML (WXXM) © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Breaking down barriers between: Nations, languages and cultures Disciplines, professions and industries Industry, government, academia and the public Local, regional and national government Teams, departments, organisations Different technologies and vendor products Legacy systems and new components/solutions Interoperability: information sharing Human Interoperability © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Enabling a Common Picture of Reality “What the OGC is doing is facilitating a common picture of reality for different organizations which have different views of the reality, the disaster, the catastrophe, that they all have to deal with collectively” David Schell OGC Founder OGC Interoperability Testbed, Phase 4, New York City, 2006 © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® 16 Summary OGC standards promote interoperability for improved situational awareness and decision making within and across organizations and jurisdictions OGC standards requirements have been influenced heavily by pubic safety, critical infrastructure protection, EM/ER, Homeland Security and Defense & Intelligence communities Procurement and technology policy language favorable to open standards like OGC will further improve market adoption and choice OGC standards, processes and membership can be an asset to any organization who needs to share their location data, either within their own organization or with others © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Helping us to understand and care for the world © 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium17

® Thank you for listening Please keep in touch! Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Denise McKenzie, Executive Director + 44 (07)