2013 Abu Dhabi Member Votes and Motions

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Motions from the Abu Dhabi Technical and Motions from the Abu Dhabi Technical and Planning CommitteesPlanning Committees

84th OGC Meetings

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Carl Reed

20 March 2013

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Aviation Motion: Approve OWS-9 Summary ER Aviation Motion: Approve OWS-9 Summary ER

• The Members approved release of the “OWS-9 Summary ER” (OGC 13-011) as a public OGC Engineering Report.– Pending final edits and review by OGC staff– Motion: Technical Committee Chair– Second: – There was no objection to unanimous consent

• Abstract: This report summarizes the results of OGC Web Services Initiative, Phase 9 (OWS-9). The ten OWS-9 sponsors from the US, Canada and Europe who shared the costs and contributed the requirements have missions ranging from environmental management and civil government mapping to maintaining common operating pictures in disaster zones and battlefields. Working on specific interoperability problems detailed in the sponsors' use cases and scenarios, the 45 industry participants in OWS-9 have delivered extraordinary value in the following areas: Aviation, Service and Security Interoperability, Innovations, Cross-Community Interoperability, Compliance Testing.

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Business Value Motion: Form a MENA Forum Business Value Motion: Form a MENA Forum

• The Members approved the proposed Middle East/North Africa forum charter and approved the formation of a new Middle East-North Africa OGC Forum activity.– Moved:– Second:

• The charter is available here:– https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=52791&version=1

• The goal for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region Forum is to address OGC outreach and education needs of government, academic, research and industry organizations in the MENA Region.


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CityGML SWG Informative Motion

The CityGML SWG resolves to propose to the TC to publicise known ADEs on OGC network and to maintain this list by the SWG until the 3DIM registry sub working group is operational.

Note: the ADEs will not be checked by the SWG

• Moved by Carsten Rönsdorf• Seconded by Stefan Strobel

No objection to unanimous consent

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The CityGML SWG resolves to focus its efforts on the development of CityGML 3.0 in favour of version 2.x.

Additions to the CityGML 2.0 specification will be implemented through the ADE mechanism or corrigenda on version 2.0 or through the 3DIM registry sub working group.

Note: The aim is to focus the resources on the development of CityGML 3.0.

• Moved by Dimitri Sarafinof • Seconded by Marcel ReuversNo objection to unanimous consent

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The CityGML SWG resolves to co-host the CityGML workshop on 20/21 June 2013 in Munich and to hold a separate SWG meeting in conjunction with this event.

Note: We will aim to avoid an overlap between the SWG meeting and the virtual closing plenary.

Any possible motion that needs TC approval will be brought up at the Frascati TC in September 2103

• Moved by Tom Lydon• Seconded by Marcel Reuvers

No objection to unanimous consent

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Coverages DWG MotionCoverages DWG Motion

• The Members approved release of OGC 12-095 “OWS-9 OPeNDAP WCS 2.0 Engineering Report” as a public OGC Engineering Report.– Pending and final edits and review by OGC staff– Motion: Peter Baumann– Second: Stefan Strobel– Motion passes with unanimous consent

• Summary: This report documents implementation of WCS 2.0 on top of DAP 2.0 by the OPeNDAP group. Accessing a variety of coverage data types has been demonstrated.


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Coverages DWG MotionCoverages DWG Motion

• The Members approved release of OGC 12-155 “OWS-9 GMU LIDAR Engineering Report” as a public OGC Engineering Report.– Pending and final edits and review by OGC staff– Motion: Peter Baumann– Second: Stefan Strobel– Motion passes with unanimous consent

• Summary: This document represents the OWS-9 OWS Innovations WCS for LIDAR Engineering Report. WCS 2.0 there is serving LiDAR HRE data in NITF format supporting JPEG 2000 output with GMLJP2 metadata, as well as JPIP.


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MotionMotion

• The Members approved making the Coverages DWG a public OGC forum and opening up the Coverages DWG resources (mailing list, wiki) for public access.

• Pending TCC regulation of public access to the existing mailing list archive– Motion: Peter Baumann– Second: Ben Domenico– Motion passed with unanimous consent


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ESS Motion: Approve OWS-9 ESS Motion: Approve OWS-9 Data Quality and Web Data Quality and Web Mapping Engineering ReportMapping Engineering Report

• The Members approved release of the “OWS 9 Data Quality and Web Mapping Engineering Report” (12-160r1) as a public OGC Engineering Report.– Pending final edits and review by OGC staff– Motion: Ben Dominico– Second: Frederic Houbie– There was no objection to unanimous consent

• Abstract: This Engineering Report specifies conventions for conveying information about data quality through the OGC Web Map Service Standard (known hereafter as the “WMS-Q conventions”), OGC Web Map Tile Service Standard (known hereafter as the “WMTS-Q conventions”), OGC KML (known hereafter as the “KML-Q conventions”) and

OGC Augmented Reality Markup Language.


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Hydrology DWG MotionHydrology DWG Motion

• The Members approved release of “WaterML2.0 part 2: Ratings, Gaugings and Sections ” (OGC 13-021r1) as a public OGC Discussion Paper.– Pending final edits and review by OGC staff– Motion: Technical Committee Chair– Second: – There was no objection to unanimous consent

• Abstract:– This document describes a preliminary information model to describe hydrological

ratings and gaugings observations. Currently the information model does not cover river cross sections or related survey information -- this will be tackled in continuing work. This document describes the UML information model only; the XML Schema is not covered at this stage.


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SWE DWG Document Approval MotionSWE DWG Document Approval Motion

• The Members approved an electronic vote to release OGC 13-015 “OGC Best Practices for Sensor Web Enablement: Provision of Observations through an OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS)” including OGC 11-169r1 “OGC® Lightweight SOS Profile for Stationary In-Situ Sensors “ as an OGC Best Practices Document.

– Pending and final edits and review by OGC staff– Motion: Thomas Usländer– Second: Peter Chung– There was no objection to unanimous consent

• Abstract• This document focuses on one basic issue: the provision of observations in an OGC

SOS. This includes the definition of a lightweight profile of the OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS), an analysis of and contribution to the specification of the SOS 2.0 as well as an approach how the data used within Earth observation (EO) applications can be integrated more easily into SOS instances. It focuses on sensor data (observations) originating mainly from in-situ or mobile sensors providing measurements that may be mapped to a tabular format.

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Planning Committee and BoD ElectionPlanning Committee and BoD Election

• One of the privileges of PC Membership is the election of the OGC Board of Directors.

• The OGC Board discusses and agrees on a slate of nominations for new members of the Board.

• This slate is then presented to the Planning Committee. The PC discusses the slate of the nominees.

• A formal vote ensures. Votes can be sent to the OGC via email, fax, or letter.

• PC Members can abstain from the vote


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Slate of nominationsSlate of nominations

• Philippe Delclaux• Steve Hagan• Jeffrey Harris• Christopher Holmes• Mike Jackson• Michael Jones• Sanjay Kumar• Vanessa Lawrence• Jacqueline McGlade

• Jack Pellicci• Jeff Peters• Kevin Pomfret• Francois Robida• Walter Scott• Velu Sinha• Christopher Tucker• Rob van de Velde• Geoff Zeiss


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