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September 28, 2022

Reflections on the 2022 Joint OGC & ISO Code Sprint – The Metadata Code Sprint

Over the past two decades, standards such as ISO 19115:2003 and the OGC Catalog Services for the Web (CSW) have been integrated into several Spatial…

September 28, 2022

OGC Seeks Public Comment on CityGML 3.0 Part 2: GML Encoding Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) 3.0 Part 2: GML Encoding Standard.The CityGML 3.0 GML Encoding Standard presents the GML encoding of the concepts defined by the CityGML 3.0 Part 1: Conceptual Model (CM) Standard, which was approved as an OGC Standard in 2021.The GML encoding is compliant to GML versions 3.2 and 3.3, which is defined by ISO 19136.A collection of example data sets for the CityGML 3.0 GML Encoding is available from the OGC CityGML-3.0 Encodings Public GitHub Repository.The candidate OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) 3.0 Part 2: GML Encoding Standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.

September 19, 2022

OGC Calls for Participation in Climate Resilience Pilot

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has released a Call for Participation (CFP) to solicit proposals for the OGC Climate Resilience Pilot, a collaborative activity recognizing geospatial climate information use cases, services and visualization capabilities available, and important next steps.The OGC Climate Resilience Community has a vision to support climate actions and enable international partnerships (SDG 17), and move towards global interoperable open digital infrastructures providing climate resilience information on users demand.This pilot will contribute to establishing an OGC climate resilience concept store for the community where all appropriate climate information to build climate resilience information systems as open infrastructures can be found in one place.Together, the use cases will allow us to better understand and equip future Climate Resilience Information Systems (CRIS) and resilience frameworks.Further information about the multi-year Pilot, including the Call For Participation, is available on the OGC Climate Resilience Pilot webpage.

August 24, 2022

OGC Seeks Public Comment on v1.1 of 3D Tiles Community Standard

3D Tiles enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and metaverse applications.Previously referred to as “3D Tiles Next,” Version 1.1 of the 3D Tiles Community Standard is designed for streaming high-resolution, semantically-rich 3D geospatial data to the metaverse.3D Tiles 1.1 promotes several 3D Tiles 1.0 extensions to ‘core’ and introduces new glTF™ extensions for fine-grained metadata storage.The candidate OGC Community Standard is identical to the Cesium release of version 1.1 of the 3D Tiles specification.The candidate 3D Tiles v1.1 Community Standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.

August 19, 2022

Public Comment Requested on revision to OGC 3D streaming community standard, I3S

Version 1.3 of the I3S Community Standard, used for streaming large 3D datasets to desktop and mobile devices, adds support for building models derived from BIM or other 3D building data.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on version 1.3 of the OGC Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) and Scene Layer Package Format Community Standard.Building Scene Layers are derived from Building Information Models (BIM) and/or other 3D building data.Version 1.3 of the OGC I3S Community Standard adds support for Building Scene Layers (BSL).The candidate OGC Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) and Scene Layer Package (*.slpk) Format v1.3 Community Standard, as well as relevant release notes, are available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.

August 18, 2022

OGC seeks public comment on Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) Candidate Standard, which aims to formalize, as an OGC Standard, existing practices already implemented by the community, such as the GDAL library or the COG explorer and other implementations.This candidate Standard depends on the TIFF specification and the OGC GeoTIFF Standard.OGC Members interested in staying up to date on the progress of this standard, or contributing to its development, are encouraged to join the GeoTIFF Standards Working Group (SWG) via the OGC Portal.The candidate Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) Standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by 17 September, 2022, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the candidate Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) Standard’s public comment request page or by submitting an issue to the OGC COG GitHub public repository.

August 12, 2022

SensorThings API Standards Working Group proposes work on new Citizen Science extension; public comment sought on updated charter

New STAplus extension will be based on the OGC Best Practice for using Sensor Things API with Citizen Science.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft updated charter for the OGC SensorThings API Standards Working Group (SWG).The draft SensorThings API Standards Working Group re-charter is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by September 2, 2022, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the SensorThings API Standards Working Group re-charter public comment request page.OGC Members interested in staying up to date on the progress of the SensorThings API standard, or contributing to its development, are encouraged to join the SensorThings API SWG via the OGC Portal.

August 11, 2022

OGC seeks public comment on CoverageJSON Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the candidate CoverageJSON Community Standard.Another simple use case is to put data values for each variable (parameter) in separate array objects in separate CoverageJSON documents which are linked from a parent CoverageJSON object.A sophisticated use case is to use tiling objects, where the data values are partitioned spatially and temporally, so that a single variable’s data values would be split among several documents.The candidate CoverageJSON Community Standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by September 10, 2022, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the CoverageJSON Community Standard’s public comment request page.

August 10, 2022

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

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on an updated version (v1.1) of the CityJSON Community Standard.CityJSON v1.0 was accepted as an OGC Community standard in August 2021.CityJSON version 1.0 is a JSON-based encoding for a subset of the OGC CityGML data model version 2.0.0.The CityJSON v1.1 Community Standard Justification Document outlining the many changes is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by September 9, 2022, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the CityJSON v1.1 Community Standard’s public comment request page.