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June 23, 2023

The 2023 OGC Tiling Interfaces Code Sprint – How it went!

On June 12-14, 2023, OGC held its 2023 Tiling Interfaces Code Sprint at OGC Strategic Member NGA’s Moonshot Labs in St. Louis, Missouri. The code sprint focused on a select set of Application Programming Interface (API), database, and encoding standards related to map tiles.

June 22, 2023

OGC proud to create European Innovation Events and Open Knowledge

OGC to showcase many of its recent innovations, including advancements in Semantic Interoperability and the Location Innovation Academy, at upcoming European events.

June 14, 2023

OGC CEO Dr. Nadine Alameh receives 24th Annual Women in Technology Leadership Award

OGC CEO awarded for her “outstanding global leadership of the Open Geospatial Consortium and its 500 members through a period of profound change.”

June 8, 2023

Dr. Jeff de La Beaujardiere receives OGC Lifetime Achievement Award

Jeff’s support of open standards and OGC’s FAIR mission has improved access to Earth science information for countless users and decision-makers globally.

June 1, 2023

Natural Resources Canada receives inaugural OGC Community Impact Award

New award recognizes OGC members who, through exceptional leadership, volunteerism, collaboration, and investment, have positively impacted the geospatial community.

May 24, 2023

OGC SensorThings API for European Green Deal Data Spaces

This post outlines the SensorThings API Standard together with initial results from two Horizon Europe projects on Green Deal Data Spaces: All Data for Green Deal (AD4GD) and Urban Data Space for Green Deal (USAGE).

May 18, 2023

OGC Forms new GeoDCAT Standards Working Group

The GeoDCAT SWG will separate a general geospatial profile of DCAT, called GeoDCAT, out from the Europe-specific Application Profile, GeoDCAT-AP.

May 18, 2023

OGC Forms new GeoDataCube Standards Working Group

New SWG will develop datacube interoperability Standards that meet the needs of scientists, application developers, and API integrators.

May 18, 2023

OGC Forms new Agriculture Information Model Standards Working Group

New OGC Working Group will develop, publish, and maintain an Agriculture Information Model (AIM) to support interoperability of agriculture information.