{"id":21424,"date":"2025-10-30T12:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/?page_id=21424"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:42:05","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Celebrating 30 years of service<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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OGC began with just 8 members and has grown into a worldwide community of 400+ leaders advancing shared innovation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Three Decades of Open Standards. Endless Impact.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Our History<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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OGC unites organizations that might not typically work together to solve some of society\u2019s biggest challenges using geography, geospatial technology and data. From the very start, we have promoted open standards to ensure interoperability among heterogeneous geospatial systems.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We had 8 charter members when we started in 1994. Today, our more than 400 members include influential GIS vendors, technology integrators, governments, non-profits and data providers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Since our founding OGC has continued to make progress on interoperability, from the Standards Program\u2019s first approved implementation standard in 1997 to the first Interoperability Program testbed (Web Mapping Testbed) in 1999 to today\u2019s broad array of standards and initiatives.<\/p>

More than 150 approved OGC standards are now freely available to address the challenges that were identified at OGC\u2019s founding, and many others that have been identified since.<\/p>

The real measure of OGC\u2019s success is that these standards have been implemented in hundreds of commercial and open-source geoprocessing products and are being implemented in communities and organizations around the world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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OGC Through the Years<\/h2>\n

The OGC History Timeline showcases our journey of innovation, collaboration, and open standards that connect people, technology, and data to solve global geospatial challenges.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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1994<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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OGC was founded on September 25th with 8 charter members<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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1995<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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OGC reaches 20 members<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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1997<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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OGC\u2019s First Standard \u2013 Simple Features Approved<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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1999<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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First annual Gardels award<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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2000<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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First OGC Web Service Standard \u2013 Web Map Service, First OGC Encoding Standard \u2013 GML<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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First OGC data access service standard \u2013 Web Feature Service \u2013 WFS<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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2004<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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Open GIS Consortium Becomes Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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Web Map Service (WMS) Approved as International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Standard<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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2008<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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First OGC Standard for the Built Environment \u2013 CityGML. First commercial de-facto specification adopted as an OGC standard \u2013 KML<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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First standard for packaging heterogeneous data types by means of web services \u2013 GeoPackage<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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2014<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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OGC\u2019s 20th Anniversary<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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2017<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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GeoRSS becomes the first OGC Community Standard; Indexed 3D Scene Layers approved as first Community Standard from a commercial entity (Esri)<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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2018<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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First OGC code sprint: WFS3 (to become OGC API \u2013 Features)<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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2019<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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3D Tiles becomes a Community Standard (Cesium); first OGC API Standard published OGC API \u2013 Features \u2013 Part 1: Core<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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2024<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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OGC\u2019s 30th anniversary and 20th Testbed<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n <\/section>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrating 30 years of service OGC began with just 8 members and has grown into a worldwide community of 400+ leaders advancing shared innovation. Three Decades of Open Standards. Endless Impact. Our History OGC unites organizations that might not typically work together to solve some of society\u2019s biggest challenges using geography, geospatial technology and data. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21424","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21424"}],"version-history":[{"count":170,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25944,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21424\/revisions\/25944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}