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OGC Standards for making geospatial data, maps and charts findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable

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30th International Cartographic Conference 2023
Pre-conference workshop organized by the
ICA Commission on SDI and Standards and the Open Geospatial Consortium

Friday, 11 August 2023, Cape Town, South Africa
Colophon Room, SANBI, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town
Directions from the conference venue (take an Uber or taxi)

To attend, register here.
Please bring your own laptop. Lunch and refreshments in Kirstenbosch are for your own cost.

8:30 Arrival and registration
9:00 Welcome and introductions
Serena Coetzee, Chair: ICA Commission on SDI & Standards
9:10 Introduction to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and its standards
Gobe Hobona, Director of Product Management for Standards, OGC
9:30 Technical foundations of OGC standards
Franz-Josef Behr, Co-Chair: ICA Commission on SDI & Standards
10:30 Break
11:00 OGC API Standards
Gobe Hobona, Director of Product Management for Standards, OGC
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Make queryable Maps with OGC API – Features
Sverre Iversen, Geological Survey of Norway: Filtering (search) both human- and machine readable, navigation in the datasets and linked datasets, how to build chartography (symbolization)
14:15 Question and Answer Session
14:30 Further into OGC API Standards
Gobe Hobona, Director of Product Management for Standards, OGC
16:00 End


For more information, please contact Serena Coetzee or Franz-Josef Behr.

Invitation to the Business meeting of ICA Commission on SDI and Standards

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We now have the confirmation of the exact time and venue details for the next Business meeting of the ICA Commission on SDI and Standards. The full business meeting will take place in hybrid mode:

You are all invited and very welcome to join the Commission’s meetings and to share your input for our further programme.
Let us initiate further collaborative research on topics related to SDI and Standards as well potential activities in 2022 and 2023!

Sharing cartographic knowledge

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We are inviting you to a ICC 2021 pre-conference joint workshop by the ICA Commissions on SDI and Standards, Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization, Open Source Geospatial Technologies and Geospatial Semantics

Date: Monday, 13 December, 9:00 – 12:30 (CET) / 8:00 – 11:30 (UCT)
Format: hybrid
Register here

Venue for physical participation: Firenze, Via Laura, 48, Room A2.09
Virtual participation: zoom link will be emailed to registered participants

The International Cartographic Association (ICA) recently joined the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international consortium of more than 500 businesses, government agencies, research organizations, and universities. Their focus is on standardization towards the interoperability of geospatial data, applications and services “to make geospatial (location) information and services FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable”. Our Commissions, together with the Working Group on the Cartography Body of Knowledge, have started discussions on how the ICA could contribute to the OGC. Two potential topics emerged which will be explored further in this workshop. 

1. Standardization of terminology
Several multilingual dictionaries of cartographic terms have been published since the 1970s, however, new terms have emerged since then, e.g. map tile, pan and zoom. At the same time, these terms have not been defined in many languages, e.g. those spoken in Africa and Asia. We have started compiling a list of cartographic terms relevant today for using maps. Through this workshop we would like to further refine the list by involving workshop participants. 

2. Making cartographic knowledge accessible to software developers
Contemporary cartographic practice uses a range of computing technologies for creating maps. Many software tools for making maps are not built by cartographers, but rather by software engineers, some of whom have limited cartographic training or mapmaking experience. Researchers have tried to capture cartographic knowledge to support them, e.g. through expert systems, cartographic workflows, or cartographic ontologies. In this workshop we will present cartographic and technical perspectives on map making and discuss how to bridge the gap between these different viewpoints.

The full schedule is available here.

ICC 2021 pre-conference workshop: Sharing cartographic knowledge

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A joint workshop by the Commission on SDI and Standards, the Commission on Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization, the Commission on Open Source Geospatial  Technologies and the Commission on Geospatial Semantics is planned on the day before  the 30th International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2021), to be held in Florence, Italy, from 14 to 18 December 2021.

Monday, 13 December, 8:30 – 13:00
Format: hybrid
A program and link to the registration form will follow.

2021 March OGC Member Meeting summary available

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Last week the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) completed its 118th Member Meeting. A set of public slides (over 400 MB!) from the Closing Plenary reports is available for download here: https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=97133

As mentioned before ICA recently joined the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as an associate member. As an international consortium of more than 500 businesses, government agencies, research organizations, and universities, the OGC focuses on the interoperability of geospatial data, applications and services “to make geospatial (location) information and services FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable” (https://www.ogc.org/).

OGC membership makes it possible for ICA Commission Members to participate in standards development and gives them access to member-only content in the OGC portal. This includes attendance and participation in OGC meetings, voting rights in working groups, and insight into geospatial technology trends with recommendations for actions in the technology forecast report. Additional benefits are the awareness and promotion of the ICA and cartography to a broader public and further intensified contact with leading geospatial organisations.

Revised Dates for Papers and Abstracts for ICC2021

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The dates for the ICC2021 in Florence Italy have been moved from July to December 14-18, 2021 in response to the current effects of the pandemic. With this extended period, the ICC2021 Local Organizing Committee very recently revised the dates for submitting full papers and abstracts. The new dates are posted on the website and also are provided below:

Full Papers Submission Closing March 19, 2021
Abstracts Submission Closing May 28, 2021
Notification Of Acceptance For Full Papers July 2, 2021
Notification Of Acceptance For Abstracts July 2, 2021
Submission Of Final Manuscripts July 30, 2021

New venue for pre-ICC workshop SDI-Open 2019

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We are very glad the SDI-Open 2019, which is going to take place next Monday, is now easily to reach from the ICA conference hall.
The new location is Rooom Mars, Miraikan – National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (conference venue). More details can be found here and on OpenStreetMap.

Registration is still possible here.

Here is the updated and extended programme.

Invitation: 3rd International Workshop on Spatial Data Quality

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Valletta SkylineFollowing previous successful workshops in 2015 and 2018, EuroGeographics and EuroSDR, in conjunction with OGC, ISO and ICA, are pleased to announce a third workshop on spatial data quality, to be held in Valletta, Malta on the 28th and 29th January 2020. The announcement and more information about the workshop is available here.

Timelines:

  • 31st May 2019 Workshop Announcement and call for papers
  • 1st August 2019 Website opens for paper submission
  • 1st October 2019 Deadline for submission of content
  • 29th November 2019 Notification of acceptance / rejection of papers
  • 6th January 2020 Deadline for submission of final versions
  • 28th/29th January 2020 Conference in Malta

Announcement: SDI-Open 2019

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SDI-Open 2019, the pre-conference workshop on spatial data infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial will be held on 15 July 2019 in Tokyo, Japan, immediately before the 29th International Cartographic Conference. The workshop is jointly organized by our Commission on SDI and Standards, the Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies and the Commission on Map Production & Geoinformation Management.
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