OGC 21 February 2017 Doha, Qatar

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UN-GGIM Arab States Meeting
Welcome Address
Denise McKenzie
Open Geospatial Consortium
21 February 2017
Doha, Qatar

2. OGC
®
Not-for-profit, international voluntary consensus standards organization;
leading development of geospatial standards
• 500+ industry, government, academic,
research and NGO members worldwide
• Social and technical forum to align interests
in standards and best practices
• 40+ freely available standards
• Supporting best practices
• Thousands of product implementations
• Broad user community
implementation worldwide
• Alliances and collaborative activities with
many SDOs and professional associations
• Established in 1994
Commercial
41%
Government
18%
NGO
10%
Research
7%
University
24%
The Open Geospatial Consortium
Europe
39%
N.
America
36%
Asia
Pacific
17%
Middle
East
6%
South
America
1%
Africa
1%

3. OGC
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Example OGC Commercial Members

4. OGC
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Example Government Members
– DSTL (UK) - DLR (Germany) - DIGO (Australia) - NGA (USA)
– NOAA (USA) - NASA (USA) - USGS (USA) - USACE / AGC
– DISA (US) - DGIWG (NATO) - EUSC (Europe) - USAF Weather Agency
– NR Canada - DHS (US) - BRGM (France) - Norkart
– European Satellite Centre - Naval MET and Oceanography Command
– Abu Dhabi Systems & Information Centre - Ordnance Survey (UK)
– Geonovum (Netherlands) - Land Information New Zealand
– Norwegian Building Authority - Dubai Municipality (UAE)
– Dept Science & Tech. (India) - European Space Agency
– National Centre for Statistics and Information (Oman)
– Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Korea)
– United Nations
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/members

5. OGC
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OGC Members in the Arab States
• Survey & Land Registration Bureau (Bahrain)
• National Centre for Statistics & Information (Oman)
• Ideal Solutions (Qatar)
• General Commission for Survey (Saudi Arabia)
• Dubai Municipality (UAE)
• Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre (UAE) (24
entities)

6. OGC
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What is ‘Open’ all about?
• Linux in the 1990s
• Wikipedia
• Firefox
• Android
• http
• OGC – WMS, WFS, WMTS
• Open Government Partnership
The open movement may be viewed as a culture,
an ideology, and potentially, a better way for
humans to work together on shared pursuits
Alec Valintino Couros

7. OGC
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‘Open’ Confusion
• Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data are all different
• Open Source refers to Software – with unrestricted sharing access to
the source code, many are also Open Standard compliant, but it is not
a requirement
• Open Data is the idea that some data should be freely available to
everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from
copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.
• Open Standard refers to rules, guidelines, frameworks for creating
interoperability between servers, sensors, computers, etc both
proprietary and open source software can use Open Standards and
both open data and restricted data can use Open Standards.

8. OGC
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Why are Standards important?
• A light bulb fits a socket
• Individuals can withdraw money from their bank accounts through any ATM anywhere in
the world
• Mobile phones work across multiple countries around the world
• Latitude and Longitude provide a standard reference system for the Earth
• GPS coordinates are always provided in the same format
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED_lamp

9. OGC
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Open standards create a World Wide Web of Data
Discover, assess, access, aggregate, combine, pass from system to system, etc.

10. OGC
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Unobstructed flow of
environmental data
Data stovepipes
Consensus standards are essential!
Sciences
Professions
Industry
Government
Consensus within
and among:

11. OGC
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Features of an OGC standard
• Agreed through formal consensus
• Data neutral
• Freely and publicly available
• No license fees
• Non discriminatory
• Vendor neutral
Open standards is the concept of people working together
openly to collaboratively develop solutions for addressing
common requirements and goals.
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12. OGC
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OGC Web Services Standards
A comprehensive Geospatial Interoperability Framework
• Catalogue (CSW)
• Web Map Service (WMS)
• Web Map Tile Service (WMTS)
• Web Feature Service (WFS)
• Web Coverage Service (WCS)
• Web Map Context (WMC)
• Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD)
• Symbology Encoding (SE)
• Geography Markup Language (GML)
• KML
• OWS Context
• Web Processing Service (WPS)
• Others
Complete OGC Standards List: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards

13. OGC
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OGC Standards Consensus Program
Active Domain Working Groups in the OGC
• Hydrology
• Meteorology
• Oceanography
• Aviation
• Energy and Utilities
• Emergency & Disaster
Management
• Defense & Intelligence
• Earth Systems Science
• Security
• Data Quality
• Big Data
• 3D Information Mgt
• Mass Market
• Public Safety & Law
Enforcement
• Geosemantics
• Health
• Agriculture
• Urban Planning
• Land Administration
• Mobile Location Services
• Point Cloud
• Smart Cities
Bonn, Germany, March 2011
Mountain View CA, USA
December 2009
http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/wg

14. OGC
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Key to Success: Geospatial Standards Policy
© 2012, Open Geospatial Consortium

15. OGC
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Compliance – Software Acquisition

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17. OGC
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Data is more valuable as
a shared resource
Standards make this
sharing possible

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Please keep in touch!
www.opengeospatial.org
Denise McKenzie
dmckenzie@opengeospatial.org
@spatialred
@opengeospatial
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
http://www.youtube.com/user/ogcvideo