Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international industry consortium. That is the short version of Open Geospatial Consortium. The job it does: managing your IT, from help desk to infrastructure, as an outside partner.

Who is it for? Mostly small and mid-sized companies. Alongside the main category they mention Association, Information Services and Non Profit. As a large company team themselves (501 to 1,000 people), they tend to serve customers of a similar scale best. At that size expect formal onboarding, documentation and a longer sales cycle.

Open Geospatial Consortium is based in Wayland, Massachusetts and around since 1994. More on opengeospatial.org.

Things worth asking about: response SLAs, onboarding, and what is billed per hour. Get the renewal terms in writing before the first invoice.

If you have worked with Open Geospatial Consortium, tell the next buyer what you paid and what surprised you. That is the part of this page we cannot write.