UNGGIM Arab States Meeting Welcome Address Denise Mc

® UN-GGIM Arab States Meeting Welcome Address Denise Mc. Kenzie Open Geospatial Consortium 21 February 2017 Doha, Qatar

The Open Geospatial Consortium Not-for-profit, international voluntary consensus standards organization; leading development of geospatial standards Middle East 6% • 500+ industry, government, academic, research and NGO members worldwide South America 1% Africa Asia 1% Pacific 17% • Social and technical forum to align interests in standards and best practices Europe 39% • 40+ freely available standards • Supporting best practices N. America 36% • Thousands of product implementations University 24% Research 7% NGO 9% OGC ® Commer cial 41% Government 18% • Broad user community implementation worldwide • Alliances and collaborative activities with many SDOs and professional associations • Established in 1994

Example OGC Commercial Members OGC ®

Example Government Members – DSTL (UK) - DLR (Germany) - DIGO (Australia) - NGA (USA) – NOAA (USA) - NASA (USA) - USGS (USA) - USACE / AGC – DISA (US) - EUSC (Europe) - USAF Weather Agency – NR Canada - DHS (US) - BRGM (France) - Norkart – European Satellite Centre - Naval MET and Oceanography Command - DGIWG (NATO) – 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 OGC ® http: //www. opengeospatial. org/ogc/members

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) OGC ®

What is ‘Open’ all about? 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 • • Linux in the 1990 s Wikipedia Firefox Android http OGC – WMS, WFS, WMTS Open Government Partnership OGC ®

‘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. OGC ®

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 OGC ®

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

Consensus standards are essential! Unobstructed flow of environmental data Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) Consensus within and among: Sciences Professions Data stovepipes OGC ® Industry Government

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. OGC • ®

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 OGC ® Complete OGC Standards List: http: //www. opengeospatial. org/standards

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

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

Compliance – Software Acquisition OGC ®

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

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