1. © OGC, 2008. All Rights Reserved Open Geospatial Consortium http://www.opengeospatial.orghttp://www.opengeospatial.org/

2. OGC Copyright 2008, OGC 2 What is the OGC? The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) –Not-for-profit, international standards development consortium –365+ industry, government, and university members Specification Development Program (1994)Specification Development Program (1994) –Significant interaction with other standards consortia –Class A liaison with ISO/TC211 Interoperability Program (1999)Interoperability Program (1999) –A global, innovative, hands-on engineering and testing program designed to accelerate interface development and bring interoperability to the market Outreach Program (2002)Outreach Program (2002) –Awareness raising, education and training, encourage take up of OpenGIS® specifications, business development Subsidiaries:,, …Subsidiaries: OGC Europe, OGC Australia, … Mission To advance the development and market adoption of open standards for geospatial interoperability.

3. OGC Copyright 2008, OGC 3 OGC Alliance Partnerships World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Digital Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG) International Organization for Standards (ISO) OASIS Object Management Group (OMG) Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) Web3D Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) IEEE Technical Committee 9 (Sensor Web) Spatial Data Infrastructure organizations (National, Regional, Global) Others

4. OGC Copyright 2008, OGC 4 OGC Document Hierarchy Abstract Specification –Records the basic rules – What is a feature? –Forms foundation for all that we do – many shared with ISO TC 211 Discussion Paper –Early form of Implementation Specification Best Practices Paper –Mid stage form of Implementation Specification Implementation Specification –Programmer level instructions Profiles –Proper subset of Implementation or Encoding Specifications

5. OGC Copyright 2008, OGC 5 Approved OGC Standards (Implementation Specifications) Simple Features CORBA Simple Features OLE/COM Styled Layer Descriptor Symbology Encoding Web Coverage Service Web Feature Service Web Map Context Web Map Service Web Service Common Catalogue Service Coordinate Transformation Filter Encoding Geographic Objects Geography Markup Language GML in JPEG 2000 Grid Coverage Service Location Services (OpenLS) Simple Feature Access 1 Simple Feature Access 2

6. OGC Copyright 2008, OGC 6 Enabling a Geospatial “Dial Tone” Across the Enterprise Web Map Service (OGC & ISO) Style Layer Descriptor (OGC) Feature Model & GML (OGC & ISO) Web Feature Service (OGC) Web Coverage Service (OGC) Web Map Context (OGC) Catalogue (OGC) Metadata (ISO & OGC) Others… Just as http:// is the dial tone of the World Wide Web, and html / xml are the standard encodings, the spatial web is enabled by OGC standards, such as… Geospatial information (e.g., vector, raster, gridded, and metadata) can be managed through OpenGIS web services in a Net Centric context.

7. OGC Copyright 2008, OGC 7 OGC Member Technology Focus Areas Open Location Services Sensor Web Enablement Multi-source Integration Symbology and Style Management Service Chaining / Decision Support AEC / Geospatial / 3D Integration Mass Market Geo E-Commerce  Real time transaction services  Geospatial Digital Rights Management Geo-Semantic Web Compliance Testing / Certification OGC Network Baseline Maturation

8. OGC Copyright 2008, OGC 8 Geoprocessing Workflow Compliance Testing GIS/CAD/BIM Agile Geography Information Communities and Semantics Sensor Web Enablement OGC Web Services-Phase 5 (OWS-5) Testbed Objective: Collaboratively extend and demonstrate OGC baseline for interoperable, multi-source decision support July 2007 to February 2008

9. OGC Copyright 2008, OGC 9 OGC Web Services-Phase 6 (OWS-6) Testbed http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/88 9, start in 2008http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/88 9 Topics: Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Geo Processing Workflow (GPW) Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) Decision Support Services (DSS) Compliance Testing (CITE)

10. OGC Copyright 2008, OGC 10 Dutch OGC members Global (hoofdvestiging niet in Nederland) –Intergraph –Mapinfo –Bentley –Autodesk –ESRI –Oracle Global (hoofdvestiging in Nederland) –Teleatlas –Geodan –Shell –Logica Nationale leden –TU Delft –WUR –ITC –TNO –RWS (DID) –Geonovum