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November 24, 2022

OGC Testbed-19 Call For Sponsors: Interoperability and Collaboration from Oceans to Space

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is currently preparing its next major Innovation Initiative, Testbed-19, which builds upon the success and outcomes of Testbed-17, Testbed-18, and other Collaborative Solution and Innovation (COSI) Program Initiatives (formerly the OGC Innovation Program).

November 22, 2022

OGC API – Tiles – Part 1: Core adopted as official OGC Standard

The release of OGC API – Tiles as an OGC Standard signals a new era in how tiled geospatial information is served over the Web.

November 4, 2022

OGC Forms Climate Resilience Domain Working Group; Schedules Q&A Session for Climate Resilience Pilot

The OGC Climate Resilience DWG will provide an open forum for the discussion and presentation of interoperability requirements, use cases, pilots, and implementations of OGC Standards in the context of cross-sector climate actions.

November 2, 2022

A recap of the 124th OGC Member Meeting, Singapore

From October 3-7 ‘22 (and a little bit beforehand), more than 100 experts from across industry, government, and academia converged on the Lifelong Learning Institute…

November 2, 2022

OGC Seeks to Retire OGC Moving Features Encoding Extension – JSON Best Practice; Public Comment Sought

Superseded Best Practice Document will be retired to ensure consistency in implementation.

October 20, 2022

Developers Invited to OGC API Web Mapping Code Sprint

OGC’s next hybrid code sprint will highlight and advance the latest in modern web mapping

October 17, 2022

Has the Edge Dissolved Itself Already? Or is the Edge the new Cloud?

With the growing number of systems and platforms, the number of platform-specific formats and interfaces increases – and interoperability suffers.

September 30, 2022

OGC Seeking Information Concerning Regional and International Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure

Survey will help shape the OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (FMSDI) Pilot and potential future FMSDI activities to better serve the Marine Communitys needs.Impact on OGC Standards – Lessons learned, gaps, and the need for changes to the OGC Standards Baseline will be summarized in an Engineering Report that will inform the OGC Standards Program.To learn about the benefits of sponsoring an OGC Innovation Program Initiative such as this, visit the OGC Innovation Program webpage, or watch this short video on how OGC’s Innovation Program can benefit your organization.More information on the FMSDI Pilot is available on the OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot webpage.For more detailed information on the current phase, there is also a dedicated OGC FMSDI Pilot Phase 3 page.

September 29, 2022

OGC Membership approves Version 2.0 of the OGC 2D Tile Matrix Set and Tile Set Metadata Specification as official OGC Standard

V2 supports “tile set metadata” that can be used to describe common properties of a tile set, the layers & styles used to produce the tile set, and the limits of the tile matrix.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the OGC Membership has approved Version 2.0 of the OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set and Tile Set Metadata Specification as an official OGC Standard.The OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set and Tile Set Metadata (2D TMS) Standard defines the rules and requirements for a tile matrix set as a way to index space based on a set of regular grids.The standard also supports the description of tile matrix set limits, links to the tile matrix set, details of the original data represented by the tile set, and a point of origin for the tile set.As with any OGC Standard, Version 2.0 of the OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set and Tile Set Metadata is free to download and implement.