Open Geospatial Consortium

Open Geospatial Consortium

Abbreviation	OGC
Formation	1994; 30 years ago (1994)
Type	Standards organization
Membership	500+ member organizations[1]
Chief Executive Officer	Peter Rabley
Chief Technology Innovation Officer	Ingo Simonis
Chief Standards Officer	Scott Simmons
Operational Chief Financial Officer	Mitzi Osterhout
Board of directors	Prashant Shukle, Jeff Harris, Patty Mims, Kumar Navulur, Ed Parsons, Faraz Ravi, Velu Sinha, Eric Souléres, Frank Suykens, Javier de la Torre, Rob van de Velde, Steven Witt, Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse, Jen Ziemke
Subsidiaries	OGC-Europe
Website	https://www.ogc.org
Formerly called	Open GIS Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international voluntary consensus standards organization for geospatial content and location-based services, sensor web and Internet of Things, GIS data processing and data sharing. It originated in 1994 and involves more than 500 commercial, governmental, nonprofit and research organizations in a consensus process encouraging development and implementation of open standards.