Open Geospatial Consortium

Open Geospatial Consortium

Abbreviation	OGC
Formation	1994; 31 years ago (1994)
Type	Standards organization
Membership	470+ member organizations[1]
Chief Executive Officer	Peter Rabley
Chief Operating Officer	Christy Monaco
Chief Standards Officer	Scott Simmons
Chief Technology Officer	Ingo Simonis
Board of directors	Prashant Shukle (Chair), Ed Parsons (Vice Chair), Deb Davis, Jeff Harris, Patty Mims, Zaffar Mohamed-Gouse, Kumar Navulur, Faraz Ravi, Velu Sinha, Frank Suykens, Javier de la Torre, Rob van de Velde
Subsidiaries	OGC-Europe
Website	https://www.ogc.org
Formerly called	Open GIS Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international voluntary consensus standards organization that develops and maintains international standards for geospatial content and location-based services, sensor web, Internet of Things, GIS data processing and data sharing. The OGC was incorporated as a not for profit in 1994. At that time, the official name was the OpenGIS Consortium. It is a U.S.-registered 501c(6) non-profit with offices in Belgium and the U.K. Commercial, government, nonprofit, universities, and research organizations from around the world participate in a consensus process encouraging development, maintenance, and implementation of open standards.