1. The Canada Forum on Geospatial Standards
107th OGC Technical Committee
Fort Collins, Colorado USA
Forum Convenors
6 June 2018
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Password: OGC_CSU2018
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Draft Agenda
Introduction
Q&A about the forum/ charter (expectations, contributions)
Forum Organization
Co-chair volunteers and appointment (important!)
Formal launch opportunities - CCOG Meeting, Yukon, August ?
In person forum meetings:  bi-annually (June and December)?  Remote meetings (monthly)?
Open Discussion
Next Steps
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4. What is an OGC Forum ?
Member led and managed, approved by the global OGC community
Open to non-members (including foreign organisations doing business in Canada)
Provides OGC infrastructure and staff support to support regional/country based activities
The goals and objectives of OGC's regional organizations vary based on regional/country based requirements
Examples;
Assist in capacity building in the region/country
Promote policies, cooperative business development initiatives and public/private partnerships that support the use of OGC standards.
Coordinate participation in the OGC,
Seek to promote OGC membership,
MSC data and products are geospatial
Public warnings and public forecasts
Numerical weather prediction models
Weather observations
Satellite imagery
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5. OGC Provided Resources
Approved, April 18th
Public Wiki
Plus OGC Staff Support of Forum Activities
OGC Portal Project
Sign up for the Forum Mailing list!

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Charter Members
Internal Services Department - Geographic Information Services (Province of Nova Scotia)
NewfoundView
Global Grid Systems (formerly PYXIS Innovation)
SensorUP
Teledyne CARIS
Tesera Systems Inc.
University of Calgary
AE Inc.
CAE
Computer Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM)
Compusult Ltd.
Cubewerx Inc.
Ecere Corp.
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
Esri Canada Ltd.
Fisheries and Marine Institute (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Mount Royal University
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
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7. OGC Forums Asia Australia and New Zealand Canada China Europe France
Iberian and Latin-American
India
Korea
Middle East and North Africa
Nordic
North American
UK & Ireland
WMO
The WMO Information System (WIS) is WMO’s modern strategy in managing and moving weather, water and climate information
Single global infrastructure for WMO data management functions
atop WMO Global Telecommunication System (GTS)
Integrated approach:
Collection and dissemination
Discovery, access and retrieval
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WMO:
WIS background: winners-wmo-information-system-comes-of-age

8. Example Activities – European Forum

9. Example Activities – ANZ Forum

10. Example Activities – China Forum
Next Meeting, September 2018

11. Canada - Mission Objectives/Key Activities
Provide a forum for the collaboration of geospatial solution providers and users on all key components ( people/expertise, standards, technologies, operational policies, and governance) of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) with a focus on the standards pillar.
Define a set of priority issues that will inform innovative development in Canada through a collective voice.
Increase awareness of the benefits of using geospatial standards across all sectors, especially new and emerging sectors and markets that require more outreach and education on the value of standards.
Define value chains in various thematic domains (e.g. Survey and Mapping, Environmental Monitoring, Agriculture, Maritime, Energy and Utilities) and explore means of better connecting multiple value chains to reduce duplications, increase efficiency and improve the return on investment,
Grow Canadian geomatics expertise and contribute to Canada’s future geospatial capacities,
Empower Canadian remote communities through online collaborations.

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Forum Organisation
Co-chair volunteers and appointment (important!)
Formal launch opportunities - CCOG Meeting, Yukon, August ?
In person forum meetings:  bi-annually (June and December)?  Remote meetings (monthly)?
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13. The OGC Canada Summit, June, 2017
Discussion Ideas
Work plan and Project ideas
Forum outreach to non traditional sectors
CGDI pilot
Disaster CDS and pilot
S-121 Maritime limits and boundary pilot/ Marine CDS
Catalogue integration (open data and geospatial data
Geodata interoperability and harmonization in transport: a case study of open transport net
Article on Geomatics Canada?
The OGC Canada Summit, June, 2017
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Next Steps
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