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April 22, 2022

Results of OGC’s biggest Innovation Initiative in 2021, Testbed-17, are now available

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has published the outcomes of 2021’s biggest research and development initiative, Testbed-17.The key outcomes, including detailed Engineering Reports, overview presentations, and videos, are freely available on the Testbed-17 webpage.In total, Participants developed sixteen Engineering Reports, which are now published and freely available to the public.OGC is grateful for these OGC Members’ industry leadership as displayed by their sponsorship of this OGC Innovation Initiative.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.

April 22, 2022

Results of OGC’s biggest Innovation Initiative in 2021, Testbed-17, are now available

The publicly available reports document the latest advances in Sensor Integration, Moving Features, Data-centric Security, Geospatial Cloud-Native Formats, and Interoperability Through APIs.

April 20, 2022

Public Comment Requested on Draft Charter for new OGC Climate Resilience Domain Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft charter of the proposed OGC Climate Resilience Domain Working Group (DWG).This requires agreements on metadata aspects for discovery, application programming interfaces (APIs), and resource models for interaction with the climate resilience information system.The OGC Climate Resilience DWG should work in line with the United Nations climate policy frames.The Draft Climate Resilience Domain Working Group Charter is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by May 11, 2022, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the OGC Climate Resilience Domain Working Group Draft Charter’s public comment request page.

April 20, 2022

Public Comment Requested on Draft Charter for new OGC Climate Resilience Domain Working Group

The Climate Resilience DWG will support the development of a reliable, interoperable foundation for science services to access, fuse, and analyze data for use in climate change actions.

April 13, 2022

Building a cloud-native future at OGC

March 2022 marked my 3-year anniversary at OGC! As I look back at those 3 years – 2 of which occurred during the tumultuous COVID-19…

April 8, 2022

Developers Invited to the May 2022 OGC Space Partitions Code Sprint; Sponsorship Opportunities Available

The Sprint will focus on all parts of OGC API – Discrete Global Systems (DGGS), OGC API – Tiles, OGC API – Coverages, and OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR).For OGC API – DGGS it’s a hierarchical tessellation of cells; for OGC API – Tiles it’s a pyramid of tiles; for OGC API – Coverages it’s an homogeneous space/time collection; and for OGC API – EDR it’s a sample-able collection of environmental resources.Registration for the May 2022 Space Partitions Code Sprint and its associated Pre-event Webinar is available here.More information about the May 2022 OGC Space Partitions Code Sprint is available on the sprint’s website and wiki.To learn more about future and previous OGC code sprints, visit the OGC Code Sprints webpage.

April 8, 2022

Developers Invited to the May 2022 OGC Space Partitions Code Sprint; Sponsorship Opportunities Available

The latest OGC Code Sprint will focus on a set of OGC APIs that each provide a web interface for a partitioning of space: OGC API – DGGS, – Tiles, – Coverages, and – EDR.

April 7, 2022

OGC Seeks Public Comment on new Routing API and Exchange Model Standards

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC API – Routes – Part 1: Core Standard and related candidate OGC Route Exchange Model Standard.The candidate OGC API – Routes Standard specifies the fundamental API building blocks for interacting with on-road route resources, and uses the Route Exchange Model to represent routes.OGC API Standards are developed in a modular way, meaning that their functionality can be added to existing web APIs as desired.Work on the OGC API – Routes Standard began in the OGC Open Routing Pilot.The candidate OGC API – Routes – Part 1: Core Standard and candidate OGC Route Exchange Model Standard are available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.

April 7, 2022

OGC Seeks Public Comment on new Routing API and Exchange Model Standards

Latest OGC API Standard enables Web APIs to query any number of routing and/or data providers, present the resulting routes in a single place, and share them with others.