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January 18th, 2013 - The OGC requests comments on the OWS Context Conceptual Model and ATOM Extension candidate standards
January 14th, 2013 - The OGC announces Wide Area Motion Imagery Best Practices Document
January 8th, 2013 - The OGC Seeks Comments on Candidate GeoPackage Standard
January 8th, 2013 - Cloudant Joins the OGC to Promote Geospatial Standards and Location-Based Applications
January 7th, 2013 - OGC Announces Energy Mapping GovFuture Webinar
December 13th, 2012 - OGC Calls for Sponsors for 10th Major Interoperability Testbed
December 13th, 2012 - The OGC Invites Public to Final Demonstration of Major Testbed Activity
December 10th, 2012 - OGC WaterML Standard Recommended for Adoption as Joint WMO/ISO Standard
December 5th, 2012 - The OGC Forms 3D Portrayal Standards Working Group
December 4th, 2012 - OGC and CRCSI working together to make data widely available
November 29th, 2012 - The OGC Seeks Participants for Ground Water Interoperability Experiment
November 5th, 2012 - The OGC seeks comment on candidate SensorML 2.0 standard
November 2nd, 2012 - The OGC seeks comments on candidate Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML 2.0) standard
October 30th, 2012 - The OGC seeks comment on GML Coverages GeoTIFF extension and WCS 2.0 GeoTIFF extension standard
October 29th, 2012 - Denise McKenzie Joins OGC as Executive Director, Marketing and Communications
October 25th, 2012 - The OGC Forms GeoPackage Standards Working Group
September 24th, 2012 - OGC adopts netCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension Standard
September 20th, 2012 - The OGC adopts WaterML 2.0 Hydrologic Time Series Encoding Standard
September 19th, 2012 - OGC completes 3D Portrayal Interoperability Experiment
September 17th, 2012 - OGC Joins ITU, participates in Joint Coordination Activity on Internet of Things
September 13th, 2012 - OGC seeks comments on Land Information Domain Working Group charter
September 4th, 2012 - Trevor Taylor joins the OGC as Director, Services for the Americas
August 29th, 2012 - OGC Announces Health Mapping Webinar
August 22nd, 2012 - OGC seeks comments on Climate and Forecast (CF) extension to NetCDF Core data model standard
August 21st, 2012 - OGC hires Lew Leinenweber and Bart de Lathouwer to fill key technical positions
August 13th, 2012 - Attend the OGC North American Forum Open Standards Technology Exposition!
August 3rd, 2012 - OGC Calls for Participation in Climatology-Hydrology Information Sharing Pilot
July 19th, 2012 - OGC Seeks Comments on GeoServices REST API Candidate Standard
July 10th, 2012 - The OGC Forms “Sensor Web for IoT” Standards Working Group
July 9th, 2012 - OGC Australia & New Zealand Forum Announced
June 26th, 2012 - David Wesloh Receives OGC’s Gardels Award
June 1st, 2012 - OGC Energy & Utilities Group Invites Smart Grid Standards Presentations
June 1st, 2012 - OGC Seeks Comments on NetCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension Standard
April 25th, 2012 - OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Standard Version 2.0 Adopted
April 24th, 2012 - OGC City Geography Markup Language v 2.0 Adopted
April 5th, 2012 - OGC Web Services, Phase 9 (OWS-9) Testbed RFQ Announced
March 26th, 2012 - U.A.E Ministry of Interior/Abu Dhabi Police GIS Center for Security Joins the OGC as a Principal Member
March 8th, 2012 - GEO Announces Call for Participation in GEOSS Pilot with OGC Leadership
March 6th, 2012 - The OGC Names Dr. Jinsoo You Director of Asian Services
February 22nd, 2012 - OGC Calls for Participation in Major Interoperability Testbed
February 22nd, 2012 - Aviation Community Adoption of Open Geospatial Standards Progresses
February 21st, 2012 - OGC Announces 5th International Augmented Reality Standards Community Meeting
February 20th, 2012 - OGC Announces Smart Grid Location Standards Ad Hoc Meeting
January 30th, 2012 - OGC PUCK standard enables `plug and work` sensor networks
January 26th, 2012 - OGC Membership Approves Open GeoSMS Standard for Encoding Location in Short Message Service (SMS)
January 23rd, 2012 - PIXIA Becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium
January 20th, 2012 - The OGC Forms IndoorGML Indoor Location Standards Working Group
January 18th, 2012 - The OGC seeks comment on WaterML 2.0 Hydrologic Time Series Encoding Standard
January 16th, 2012 - Jeffrey K. Harris Elected Chairman of the OGC Board of Directors
December 7th, 2011 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Gazetteer Best Practices Document.
December 7th, 2011 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC GeoSynchronization Best Practices Document.
December 1st, 2011 - OGC Announces Webinar on CityGML—3D Encoding for Landscapes and Municipal Assets
December 1st, 2011 - Hurry! Win a high tech prize!
November 16th, 2011 - Take the ‘Business Value of OGC Standards’ Survey!
November 11th, 2011 - The OGC’s next meeting will be in Brussels 28 November - 2 December
November 4th, 2011 - OGC and USGIF Announce WhereCon 2012 to be held in Washington, DC
November 1st, 2011 - Take the ‘Business Value of OGC Standards’ Survey!
October 28th, 2011 - OGC Team Produces Winning ‘Single European Sky’ Aviation Proposal
October 19th, 2011 - Josh Lieberman Receives OGC’s Gardels Award
October 18th, 2011 - The OGC to co-host 2011 OGC Korea Interoperability Day
October 17th, 2011 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a call for sponsors of the OGC Web Services, Phase 9 (OWS-9) Testbed
September 28th, 2011 - OGC and EuroGeographics cooperate to advance European Spatial Data Infrastructure
September 14th, 2011 - The OGC Forms International Augmented Reality Standards Working Group
September 9th, 2011 - The OGC and CEN/TC 287 announce Smart Grid location interoperability workshop
August 25th, 2011 - The OGC and OpenMI Association to advance computer modelling standards
August 24th, 2011 - The OGC Seeks Participants for Hydrologic Forecasting Interoperability Experiment
August 15th, 2011 - The OGC seeks comment on City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) V1.1
August 1st, 2011 - OGC completes Water Information Concept Development Study
July 27th, 2011 - The OGC Announces GML 4.0 (Geography Markup Language) Workshop
July 26th, 2011 - The OGC Announces 3D Summit
July 25th, 2011 - The OGC Announces Oceans/Meteorology/Hydrology Water Cycle Summit
July 22nd, 2011 - OGC Requests Sensor Planning Server (SPS) 2.0 Reference Implementations
July 21st, 2011 - OGC seeks comment on candidate Earth Observation profile of coverage standard
July 7th, 2011 - OGC Seeks Comment on candidate GeoSPARQL standard
July 5th, 2011 - OGC Seeks Comment on Geography Markup Language 3.3 Standard
June 30th, 2011 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced successful completion of the Special Activity Airspace (SAA) Dissemination Pilot
June 27th, 2011 - The OGC elects Jacqueline McGlade to board of directors
June 23rd, 2011 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC PUCK Protocol Encoding Standard.
June 23rd, 2011 - The OGC elects Sanjay Kumar to board of directors
June 21st, 2011 - The OGC Appoints Industry Leaders to Board of Directors
June 13th, 2011 - OGC Seeks Comment on Earth Observation Metadata profile of Observations & Measurements Standard
June 7th, 2011 - OGC Technical Meetings and International Augmented Reality Standards Meeting to be held June 2011 in Taiwan
June 2nd, 2011 - OGC Requests Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) Reference Implementations
May 18th, 2011 - OGC Reduces Membership Fees for Developing Nations
May 17th, 2011 - OGC GovFuture Webinar Invitation
April 28th, 2011 - OGC Technical Meetings and International Augmented Reality Standards Meeting to be held June 2011 in Taiwan
April 27th, 2011 - OGC Announces XML Encoding Standard for Observations and Measurements
April 26th, 2011 - OGC Releases Java(R) Interface Standard for Geospatial Software
April 25th, 2011 - OGC Announces SWE Common Standards to Simplify Sensor Web Development
April 22nd, 2011 - The OGC Seeks Participants for 3D Portrayal Interoperability Experiment
April 20th, 2011 - OGC Web Feature Service Standard accepted as ISO Standard
April 19th, 2011 - OGC announces netCDF Standard for Communicating Multidimensional Data
April 11th, 2011 - OGC announces Indoor Navigation Discussion Paper
April 8th, 2011 - OGC and SIG 3D Advance Standards for 3D Digital Cities
April 7th, 2011 - GEO Announces Call for Participation in GEOSS Pilot with OGC Leadership
April 5th, 2011 - OGC Announces International Earth Observation Satellite Tasking Standard
March 31st, 2011 - OGC and OSCRE Work Together to Advance Real Estate Standards across the Globe
March 30th, 2011 - GE Energy Invests as Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium
March 28th, 2011 - OGC Forms International Water Information Standards Working Group
March 25th, 2011 - OGC Seeks Comments on Open GeoSMS – Candidate Standard for Location in Short Message Service
Journal News Removes Interactive Gun Permit Map
The Lower Hudson Journal News has been under fire for publishing a map of gun permit holders in two counties in New York State before Christma. (APB coverage 1, 2, podcast). On Friday January 18 the paper removed the interactive map. Why? Publisher Janet Hasson gave answers in a media statement and in a letter to readers.
In a statement in response to The Poynter Institute (a journalism school) she argued:
With the passage this week of the NYSAFE gun law, which allows permit holders to request their names and addresses be removed from the public record, we decided to remove the gun permit data from lohud.com at 5 pm today. While the new law does not require us to remove the data, we believe that doing so complies with its spirit. For the past four weeks, there has been vigorous debate over our publication of the permit data, which has been viewed nearly 1.2 million times by readers. One of our core missions as a newspaper is to empower our readers with as much information as possible on the critical issues they face, and guns have certainly become a top issue since the massacre in nearby Newtown, Conn. Sharing as much public information as possible provides our readers with the ability to contribute to the discussion, in any way they wish, on how to make their communities safer. We remain committed to our mission of providing the critical public service of championing free speech and open records.
In a letter to readers published on Friday she wrote:
So intense was the opposition to our publication of the names and addresses that legislation passed earlier this week in Albany included a provision allowing permit holders to request confidentiality and imposing a 120-day moratorium on the release of permit holder data.
She goes on to say that during the 27 days the map was online any one interested would have seen it and that the data would eventually be out of date. She also noted that the paper does not endorse the way the state chose to limit availability of the data.
The original map/article still includes a graphic - but it's a snapshot, a raster image, with no interactivity. Says Hasson in the letter to readers:
And we will keep a snapshot of our map — with all its red dots — on our website to remind the community that guns are a fact of life we should never forget.
I continue to applaud the paper for requesting the data via a Freedom on Informat request, mapping it, keeping the map up despite threats and criticism and now responding to state law. I think the paper did a service to the state, to citizens and to journalism.
- via reader Jim and Poynter
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