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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.

January 20, 2021

Bringing STAC into OGC

Over three years ago, a small group of OGC members working on the next version of the venerable Web Feature Service (WFS) standard started the…

January 15, 2021

OGC Members propose update to work of Features API Standards Working Group; public comment sought

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the proposed updated charter for the Features API Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose of the Features API SWG is to: develop new and maintain existing parts of the OGC API – Features multipart standard; develop corrigenda for the related WFS 2.0 and FES 2.0 standards; and review draft Engineering Reports from the OGC Innovation Program related to OGC API – Features.The OGC API family of standards defines modular API building blocks to spatially enable Web APIs in a consistent way.The draft Features API Standards Working Group re-charter is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by February 5, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the Features API Standards Working Group re-charter public comment request page.

January 15, 2021

OGC Members propose update to work of Features API Standards Working Group; public comment sought

Recharter of Features API SWG adds new work items for the group to continue the evolution of this important building block for location.

January 14, 2021

OGC seeks public comment on proposal to revise Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the proposal for a revision to the OGC Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) Community Standard.A Scene Layer can be accessed in the form of a web service or Scene Layer Package (SLPK) – a file-based exchange format.OGC I3S v1.2 is backwards compatible with OGC I3S v1.1.The work item proposal for the Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) v1.2 Community Standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by February 15, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) v1.2 Community Standard’s public comment request page.

January 14, 2021

OGC seeks public comment on proposal to revise Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) Community Standard

I3S is used to stream 3D geospatial content of any size to mobile, web and desktop clients.

January 12, 2021

Public comment sought on update to the work of the CDB Standards Working Group, providing location in modeling, simulation, and gaming

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft updated charter for the CDB Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose of the CDB SWG is to maintain and improve the OGC CDB Standard and Best Practices documents.The modeling & simulation end-user community increasingly requires “plug and play” synthetic environment database re-use and a common synthetic environment local representation to enhance realism and “fair fight” concepts in military simulation.Continued development of CDB X, a major revision to the OGC CDB Standard.Comments are due by the 2nd of February, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the CDB SWG re-charter public comment request page.

January 12, 2021

Public comment sought on update to the work of the CDB Standards Working Group, providing location in modeling, simulation, and gaming

The CDB SWG plans minor and major revisions to the CDB standard used for storage, access, and modification of synthetic environment databases by the modeling & simulation and gaming communities.

January 7, 2021

OGC seeks public comment on new CityJSON Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on its adoption of CityJSON as an OGC Community Standard.CityJSON 1.0 provides a directly implementable JSON encoding based on the CityGML 2.0 data model, an OGC standard since 2012.An OGC Community Standard is an official Standard of OGC that is considered to be a widely used, mature specification, but was developed outside of OGC’s standards development process.The candidate CityJSON Community Standard 1.0 is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by February 7, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the CityJSON Community Standard 1.0’s public comment request page.