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January 24, 2023

OGC Announces new Geo for Metaverse Domain Working Group

New OGC DWG will help the Location communities collaborate and contribute expertise into building and growing the open Metaverse.

January 19, 2023

OGC Calls For Participation in its next Pilot to improve Disaster Management and Response

New Pilot will bridge technology and stakeholder engagement to reduce disaster preparation time and accelerate our ability to transform data from observation into decision.

January 18, 2023

Principled and Powerful: Geospatial data for ESG reporting at Location Powers 2022

There was a principled and powerful representation in attendance at OGC’s Location Powers event in London last November. Ordnance Survey hosted the event at the Geovation Hub with 23 speakers over…

January 10, 2023

OGC Compliance Certification Available for v1.0 of the OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the Executable Test Suite for version 1.0 of the OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval Standard has…

December 21, 2022

OGC Seeks Public Comment on adoption of new version of CityJSON as Community Standard

CityJSON is a web-friendly encoding of the CityGML data model, which is used in Digital Twins and other uses pertaining to built and natural environments. Public comment period ends 1, February 2023.

December 21, 2022

Building the Building Blocks for the Future of Location: The November 2022 OGC Web Mapping Code Sprint

The mechanisms through which maps are delivered across the Internet have evolved significantly over the past two decades. Advancement of such mechanisms has been driven…

December 19, 2022

OGC Seeks Public Comment on Creating new GeoDataCube Standards Working Group

New Standard Working Group will improve data interoperability of GeoDataCube for Analysis Ready Data. The public comment period for the GeoDataCubes SWG will end 19 January, 2023.

December 12, 2022

OGC seeking public comment on update to GeoSPARQL Standard

Update improves core standard, documentation, and exemplification. Comments should be submitted via the method outlined on the GeoSPARQL v1.1 Standard’s public comment request page. Comments due 13 February, 2023.

November 29, 2022

Public Comment Requested on Draft Charter for new OGC Analysis Ready Data Standards Working Group

New OGC Working Group will develop a multi-part Standard for geospatial Analysis Ready Data products, which can be integrated and analyzed with minimal user effort.