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August 31, 2021

Sponsorship Opportunities for the OGC Climate Change Services 2022 Pilot

New OGC Pilot will accelerate our collective readiness for accessing, fusing, and analyzing climate and non-climate data to contribute to the global push for achieving climate resilience.

August 12, 2021

How’s the weather up there?

One of Canada’s oldest government institutions, MSC, is also one to keep up with the times by using the latest technologies in its quest to help Canadians make informed decisions about their health and safety and economic prosperity.

August 5, 2021

OGC Testbed-18 Call For Sponsors: Collaborate and Innovate to Further Advance Location Technologies

OGC Testbeds provide a unique opportunity for sponsors to tackle location data and processing challenges together with the world’s leading geospatial IT experts.The OGC Innovation Program team, together with the sponsors, will then select the most qualified organizations to join Testbed-18,

August 5, 2021

OGC Testbed-18 Call For Sponsors: Collaborate and Innovate to Further Advance Location Technologies

OGC Testbeds provide a unique opportunity for sponsors to tackle location data and processing challenges together with the world’s leading geospatial IT experts.

August 4, 2021

Reflecting on the May 2021 OGC API Code Sprint

APIs have proven to be a popular and very effective enabler of rapid software development. This is more so in web mapping, where a combination…

July 30, 2021

Evolving Geospatial Technologies Through OGC’s Testbed-17

Decades in the Making: The Challenges of Evolving Technologies and Standards When it comes to evolving a technology or standard over multiple decades, the struggle…

July 28, 2021

OGC announces support of the Locus Charter and the ethical use of Geospatial Information

OGC, alongside eight other high-profile geospatial organizations, have signed on to support the Locus Charter by EthicalGEO and Benchmark Initiative.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is proud to announce its support of The Locus Charter.Locus Charter supporting organizations have pledged to promote responsible practice in the use of location data across all sectors, including public, private, educational, and not-for-profit contexts.All organizations working to advance the responsible and ethical use of location data are welcome to sign on to support the Locus Charter.Learn more and read the Locus Charter at ethicalgeo.org/locus-charter.

July 28, 2021

OGC announces support of the Locus Charter and the ethical use of Geospatial Information

OGC, alongside eight other high-profile geospatial organizations, have signed on to support the Locus Charter by EthicalGEO and Benchmark Initiative.

July 27, 2021

OGC seeks public comment on draft Simple Features 2021 standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on an update to the Simple Features Standard.In technical terms, Simple Features can model geometries which display geographic features of 1-dimension (curves) and 2-dimension (areas) defined by one-dimension boundary curves.Update of the Simple Features Standard will ultimately result in a multi-part Standard that references the OGC Features and Geometries Abstract Specification (Topic 1) and supports both static and dynamic data models.The candidate Simple Features 2021 standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by August 26, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the Simple Features 2021 Standard’s public comment request page.