Ordnance Survey renews Open Geospatial Consortium strategic membership and expands partnership through Geovation
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OS has long played an important role in the OGC community, contributing expertise to working groups, standards development, innovation initiatives, and collaborative events. As a strategic member, OS helps shape OGC’s direction and supports the community’s work to make geospatial data and technologies more interoperable and useful.
One example of that collaboration is the OGC Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration (MUDDI), which has helped inform the development of the UK’s National Underground Asset Register (NUAR). OS’s Carsten Rönsdorf has been a key contributor to MUDDI and serves as co-chair of the OGC MUDDI Standards Working Group. The work demonstrates how collaboration through OGC can move from shared requirements and standards development to implementation at national scale.
"Ordnance Survey and OGC have worked together for many years, and continuing our strategic membership reflects the importance we place on that relationship. Open standards and collaboration are fundamental to making data more useful across our ever-growing ecosystem of customers and partners, and in growing the impact of our data across a vast range of use cases, especially when data interoperability is essential. Recently we’ve seen the value of that work firsthand through initiatives such as MUDDI and NUAR and we’re delighted to build on this through our Geovation community and to create more opportunities to work with wider OGC partners."
The expanded partnership will build on OGC’s relationship with Geovation, OS’s innovation initiative and London hub, in association with HM Land Registry. Geovation has hosted OGC Code Sprints and other collaborative events, bringing developers, standards experts, start-ups, government, industry, and other members of the geospatial community together to build, test, and share new approaches.
“Geovation is built around the idea that the best solutions come from empowering people with deep understanding of a problem. We connect those domain experts with entrepreneurial experience, technical expertise, tools and data so they can see and solve problems in new ways,” said Gareth Sumner, Head of Geovation. “We’re pleased to welcome the OGC community back to London and provide a space where people can collaborate, build, test ideas, and move practical geospatial solutions forward.”
"Ordnance Survey has been an important part of the OGC community for many years. From Ordnance Survey’s leadership on MUDDI and its application in NUAR to the Code Sprints and other events we’ve held at Geovation, this is a relationship built around people doing real work together. We’re delighted that OS has renewed its strategic membership and excited to expand our partnership through Geovation, creating even more opportunities for our community to come together, build, test, and learn."
Through the renewed strategic membership and expanded Geovation partnership, OGC and OS will create more opportunities for the community to collaborate through technical work, events, standards development, and hands-on experimentation with emerging geospatial technologies.
The partnership builds on a long history of collaboration between the two organisations and reflects a shared commitment to bringing government, industry, developers, researchers, and other experts together to solve common problems and advance the use of open geospatial standards.
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