Open Geospatial Consortium Europe

Open Geospatial Consortium Europe

Organisation type: 
Network / partnership
Country: 
United Kingdom
Short name: 
OGCE
Description: 

The Open Geospatial Consortium (Europe), London, United Kingdom, is a subsidiary of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The Open Geospatial Consortium is an international industry consortium of 535 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface standards. OGC® Standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services and mainstream IT. The standards empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.

OGC-Europe was formed in 2001 as a non-profit with the purpose to conduct business in Europe on behalf of the OGC’s mission. Focus is on awareness, adoption and outreach around OGC standards to cover:
• Promoting the development and use of advanced open systems standards and techniques to enable the full integration of spatial data and geoprocessing resources into mainstream computing and widespread use of interoperable, commercial geoprocessing software throughout the global information infrastructure; and representing OGC member organizations in Europe with similar vision and mission to that of the OGC, including agencies, collaborators and affiliates of the European Commission.
• By tapping the expertise from the processes and procedures of OGC’s Standards Program, Interoperability Program, and Marketing & Communications Program, OGCE will provide a standards-based context for the engineering analysis, technical and consensus process to be considered so that the project delivers sustainable results with a lasting impact.

The OGC has liaisons and memorandum of understandings in place with several other standardization organizations, such as W3C, IETF…