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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Open_Geospatial_Consortium_logo.svg/220px-Open_Geospatial_Consortium_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Open_Geospatial_Consortium_logo.svg/330px-Open_Geospatial_Consortium_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Open_Geospatial_Consortium_logo.svg/440px-Open_Geospatial_Consortium_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="261" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Abbreviation</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">OGC</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data note">1994<span class="noprint">; 30 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1994</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Standards_organization" title="Standards organization">Standards organization</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Membership </div></th><td class="infobox-data">470+ member organizations<sup id="cite_ref-MembersList_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MembersList-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Chief Executive Officer</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Peter Rabley</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Chief Technology Innovation Officer</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Ingo Simonis</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Chief Standards Officer</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Scott Simmons</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Operational Chief Financial Officer</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Mitzi Osterhout</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Board_of_directors" title="Board of directors"><span class="wrap">Board of directors</span></a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">Prashant Shukle, Jeff Harris, Patty Mims, Kumar Navulur, Ed Parsons, Faraz Ravi, Velu Sinha, Eric Souléres, Frank Suykens, Javier de la Torre, Rob van de Velde, Steven Witt, Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse, Jen Ziemke</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><a href="/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">Subsidiaries</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><b>OGC</b>-<b>Europe</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.ogc.org">https://www.ogc.org</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Formerly called</div></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Open GIS Consortium</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Open Geospatial Consortium</b> (<b>OGC</b>) is an international voluntary consensus <a href="/wiki/Standards_organization" title="Standards organization">standards organization</a> that develops and maintains international standards for <a href="/wiki/Geospatial" class="mw-redirect" title="Geospatial">geospatial</a> content and <a href="/wiki/Location-based_services" class="mw-redirect" title="Location-based services">location-based services</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sensor_web" title="Sensor web">sensor web</a>, <a href="/wiki/Internet_of_Things" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet of Things">Internet of Things</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geographic_Information_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Geographic Information System">GIS</a> <a href="/wiki/Data_processing" title="Data processing">data processing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Data_sharing" title="Data sharing">data sharing</a>. The OGC was incorporated as a not for profit in 1994. At that time, the official name was the OpenGIS Consortium. Currently, commercial, government, nonprofit, universities, and research organizations participate in a consensus process encouraging development, maintenance, and implementation of open standards. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Open_Geospatial_Consortium&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A predecessor organization, OGF, the Open <a href="/wiki/GRASS_GIS" title="GRASS GIS">GRASS</a> Foundation, started in 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1994 to 2004 the organization used the name <b>OpenGIS Consortium</b>. </p><p>The OGC website gives a detailed history of the OGC.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Standards">Standards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Open_Geospatial_Consortium&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Standards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Most of the OGC Standards depend on a generalized architecture captured in a set of documents collectively called the <i>Abstract Specification</i>. The topic volumes in the Abstract Specification describe conceptual and logical models for representing <a href="/wiki/Geographic_feature" class="mw-redirect" title="Geographic feature">geographic features</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coverage_data" title="Coverage data">coverage data</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sensor" title="Sensor">sensors</a> and other geographic phenomena. Atop the Abstract Specification members have developed and continue to develop a growing number of <a href="/wiki/Standardization" title="Standardization"><i>standards</i></a> to serve specific needs for <a href="/wiki/Interoperability" title="Interoperability">interoperable</a> location and geospatial technology, including GIS. </p><p><br /> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GeoServer_GeoNetwork_with_web_app.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/GeoServer_GeoNetwork_with_web_app.svg/347px-GeoServer_GeoNetwork_with_web_app.svg.png" decoding="async" width="347" height="304" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/GeoServer_GeoNetwork_with_web_app.svg/521px-GeoServer_GeoNetwork_with_web_app.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/GeoServer_GeoNetwork_with_web_app.svg/694px-GeoServer_GeoNetwork_with_web_app.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="813" data-file-height="712" /></a><figcaption>Relationship between clients/servers and OGC protocols</figcaption></figure> <p>The OGC standards baseline comprises more than 80 Standards,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catalog_Service_for_the_Web" class="mw-redirect" title="Catalog Service for the Web">CSW</a> – Catalog Service for the Web: access to catalog information;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geography_Markup_Language" title="Geography Markup Language">GML</a> – Geography Markup Language: <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a>-format for geographical information;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GeoPackage" title="GeoPackage">GeoPackage</a> – An open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information;<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=GeoPose&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="GeoPose (page does not exist)">GeoPose</a> - An encoding standard describing the position and orientation/rotation of a 3d object (real or digital) in relation to the real world;<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GeoSPARQL" title="GeoSPARQL">GeoSPARQL</a> – Geographic SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language:<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> representation and querying of geospatial data for the <a href="/wiki/Semantic_Web" title="Semantic Web">Semantic Web</a>;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GeoXACML" title="GeoXACML">GeoXACML</a> – Geospatial eXtensible Access Control Markup Language;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keyhole_Markup_Language" title="Keyhole Markup Language">KML</a> – <a href="/wiki/Keyhole,_Inc" class="mw-redirect" title="Keyhole, Inc">Keyhole</a> Markup Language: <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a>-based language schema for expressing geographic annotation and visualization on existing (or future) Web-based, two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth browsers;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Observations_and_Measurements" title="Observations and Measurements">Observations and Measurements</a> (O&M)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ogc.org/publications/standard/ols/">Open Location Services (OpenLS)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OWS_Context&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OWS Context (page does not exist)">OGC Web Services Context Document</a> defines the application state of an OGC Integrated Client;</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Web_Service_Common&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Web Service Common (page does not exist)">OWS</a> Common – OGC Web Service Common;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sensor_Observation_Service" title="Sensor Observation Service">SOS</a> – Sensor Observation Service;<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>SPS – Sensor Planning Service;<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SensorML" title="SensorML">SensorML</a> – Sensor Model Language;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SensorThings_API" title="SensorThings API">SensorThings API</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> - an open and unified framework to interconnect IoT devices, data, and applications over the Web. Currently a candidate standard waiting for votes;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simple_Features" title="Simple Features">SFS</a> – Simple Features – SQL;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Styled_Layer_Descriptor" title="Styled Layer Descriptor">SLD</a> - Styled Layer Descriptor;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WaterML" title="WaterML">WaterML</a> – Information model for the representation of hydrological observation data;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Web_Coverage_Service" title="Web Coverage Service">WCS</a> – Web Coverage Service: provides access, subsetting, and processing on <a href="/wiki/Coverage_data" title="Coverage data">coverage objects</a>;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Web_Coverage_Processing_Service" title="Web Coverage Processing Service">WCPS</a> – Web Coverage Processing Service: provides a raster query language for ad-hoc processing and filtering on raster <a href="/wiki/Coverage_data" title="Coverage data">coverages</a>;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Web_Feature_Service" title="Web Feature Service">WFS</a> – Web Feature Service: for retrieving or altering feature descriptions;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Web_Map_Service" title="Web Map Service">WMS</a> – Web Map Service: provides map images;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Web_Map_Tile_Service" title="Web Map Tile Service">WMTS</a> – Web Map Tile Service: provides map image tiles;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Web_Processing_Service" title="Web Processing Service">WPS</a> – Web Processing Service: remote processing service;</li></ul> <p>Simple Features Access, first approved in 1999, was the first full OGC Standard. Shortly after, a series of standards based on the <a href="/wiki/HTTP" title="HTTP">HTTP</a> web services <a href="/wiki/Paradigm" title="Paradigm">paradigm</a> for message-based interactions in web-based systems were developed and approved. These are known as the OGC Web Service Standards. These include the Web Map Service Interface Standard and the OGC Web Feature Service Interface Standard. More recently, considerable progress has been made in defining and approving a suite of Web API Standards, such as OGC <a href="/wiki/SensorThings_API" title="SensorThings API">SensorThings API</a> and the OGC API - Features Standard. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organization_structure">Organization structure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Open_Geospatial_Consortium&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Organization structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The OGC has several operational units: </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Standards_program_(SP)"><span id="Standards_program_.28SP.29"></span>Standards program (SP)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Open_Geospatial_Consortium&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Standards program (SP)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the OGC Standards Program the Technical Committee and Planning Committee<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> work in a formal consensus process to arrive at approved (or "adopted") OGC standards.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Learn about the standards that have been approved so far, and see the lists of products<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that implement these standards. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Compliance_Program_(CP)"><span id="Compliance_Program_.28CP.29"></span>Compliance Program (CP)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Open_Geospatial_Consortium&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Compliance Program (CP)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The OGC Compliance Program provides the resources, procedures, and policies for improving software implementations' compliance with OGC standards. The Compliance Program provides an online free testing facility,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a process<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for certification and branding of compliant products, and community coordination.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Compliance Program also runs plugfests, which are short term events for increasing interoperability among vendors' products. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Community_and_Outreach_Program_(COP)"><span id="Community_and_Outreach_Program_.28COP.29"></span>Community and Outreach Program (COP)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Open_Geospatial_Consortium&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Community and Outreach Program (COP)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The OGC and its members offer resources to help technology developers and users take advantage of the OGC's open standards. Technical documents, training materials, test suites, reference implementations and other interoperability resources developed in OGC Interoperability Initiatives are available on our resources page.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, the OGC and its members support publications, workshops, seminars and conferences<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to help technology developers, integrators and procurement managers introduce OGC capabilities into their architectures. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Membership">Membership</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Open_Geospatial_Consortium&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Membership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The OGC offers membership options for industry, government, academic, research and not-for-profit organizations.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Collaboration">Collaboration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Open_Geospatial_Consortium&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Collaboration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The OGC has a close relationship with <a href="/wiki/ISO/TC_211" class="mw-redirect" title="ISO/TC 211">ISO/TC 211</a> (Geographic Information/Geomatics). Volumes from the ISO 19100 series under development by this committee progressively replace the OGC abstract specification. Further, the OGC standards Web Map Service, GML, Web Feature Service, <a href="/wiki/Observations_and_Measurements" title="Observations and Measurements">Observations and Measurements</a>, and Simple Features Access have become ISO standards.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The OGC works with more than 20 international standards-bodies including <a href="/wiki/W3C" class="mw-redirect" title="W3C">W3C</a>, <a href="/wiki/OASIS_(organization)" title="OASIS (organization)">OASIS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Workflow_Management_Coalition" title="Workflow Management Coalition">WfMC</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/IETF" class="mw-redirect" title="IETF">IETF</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Open_Geospatial_Consortium&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/GeoTools" title="GeoTools">GeoTools</a> – implements OGC standards as OGC releases them</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation" title="Open Source Geospatial Foundation">Open Source Geospatial Foundation</a> (OSGeo)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_geographic_information_systems_software" class="mw-redirect" title="List of geographic information systems software">List of geographic information systems software</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_geographic_information_systems_software" title="Comparison of geographic information systems software">Comparison of geographic information systems software</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OpenLayers" title="OpenLayers">OpenLayers</a></li> <li><a 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