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February 23, 2021

OGC membership approves new Community Standard: Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF)

IMDF enables anyone to create indoor map apps and services using the same highly accurate and detailed data on any app, website, or operating system.

February 16, 2021

Public Comment sought on new OGC API – Features – Part 3: Filtering and the Common Query Language

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC API – Features – Part 3: Filtering and the Common Query Language (CQL) standard, which extends the Core Part of OGC API – Features to support data filtering.OGC API – Features provides API building blocks to create, modify, and query features on the Web.Other OGC API standards like OGC API – Records or OGC API – Tiles will reuse the filtering building blocks to allow filtering on records in a catalog or features in vector tiles.The candidate OGC API – Features – Part 3: Filtering and the Common Query Language (CQL) standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by April 19, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the OGC API – Features – Part 3 Standard’s public comment request page.

February 16, 2021

Public Comment sought on new OGC API – Features – Part 3: Filtering and the Common Query Language

OGC API – Features Part 3 handles enhanced filtering: a fundamental operation performed on a collection of features in order to obtain the subset of the data that’s relevant to your workflow.

February 15, 2021

Public comment sought on new work items for OGC API – Processes Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on a revision to the OGC API – Processes Standards Working Group (SWG) Charter, which introduces new work items for the SWG.The OGC API – Processes SWG is the group within the OGC membership responsible for the development and maintenance of the OGC API – Processes core standard and its extensions, as well as for maintaining the WPS standard.Part 3: Workflows and ChainingThis extension will provide the ability to:chain nested processes,refer to external processes and collections accessible via OGC API standards, andtrigger execution of processes through OGC API data delivery specifications (such as OGC API – Features, Tiles, Maps and Coverages).The draft OGC API – Processes Standards Working Group Charter is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by March 8, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the OGC API – Processes SWG Charter public comment request page.

February 15, 2021

Public comment sought on new work items for OGC API – Processes Standards Working Group

New work items for the SWG include extensions to OGC API – Processes that will simplify the deployment and execution of “geospatial processing apps” and chained workflows.

February 1, 2021

Public comment sought on v1.1 of OGC Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension

CIS extension revision enables OGC imagery-related standards to more concisely represent remotely-sensed imageryThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on version 1.1 of the OGC Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension.The CIS ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension extends CIS (a supporting standard of the Web Coverage Service Standard) to provide a set of referenceable grid elements to enable an accurate determination of pixel locations in observed imagery.The Extension accomplishes this, in part, by allowing connections to OGC SensorML 2.0+ sensor models from OGC CIS 1.0+ coverages.The candidate OGC Coverage Implementation Schema – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension v1.1 is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by March 3, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the OGC Coverage Implementation Schema – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension v1.1 public comment request page.

February 1, 2021

Public comment sought on v1.1 of OGC Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension

CIS extension revision enables OGC imagery-related standards to more concisely represent remotely-sensed imagery

January 27, 2021

Developers are invited to the 2021 Joint ASF – OGC – OSGeo Code Sprint

Code sprint will advance multiple ASF, OSGeo projects, and OGC standards – including OGC API standards, the building blocks for location.

January 21, 2021

OGC GeoTIFF Standard Working Group updates work items; public comment sought on new charter

GeoTIFF SWG is planning on minor and major revisions to the popular standard used for sharing geographic image data.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft updated charter for the GeoTIFF Standard Working Group (SWG), which introduces several new tasks for the SWG.The resulting Standard, GeoTIFF v1.1 was adopted as an OGC Standard in 2019.The draft GeoTIFF SWG charter is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by February 11, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the GeoTIFF SWG re-charter public comment request page.