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January 7, 2021

OGC seeks public comment on new CityJSON Community Standard

CityJSON offers an easy-to-use alternative to the GML encoding of CityGML 2.0 for the storage and exchange of 3D city models.

January 6, 2021

OGC Seeking Information Concerning The Capture And Use Of Spatial Data During Health Emergencies

RFI for the OGC Health SDI Concept Development Study will support the development of a Health Emergencies Data Model and the design of a Health Spatial Data Infrastructure.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks, in support of the OGC Health SDI Concept Development Study (CDS), to gather information concerning capturing, mapping, analyzing, modeling, and sharing spatial data to deal with major health emergencies.The Health SDI CDS will support the development of a Health Emergencies Data Model and the design of a Health Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).The OGC Health SDI Request For Information (RFI) addresses four major health data categories:Data relating to critical supply chains; Data concerning populations tested, infected, and treated; Data describing the healthcare delivery infrastructure, including hospitals, hospital resources, and hospital staff; and Data comprising useful spatial framework layers for health specific data.For more information, visit the OGC Health SDI CDS webpage.

January 6, 2021

OGC Seeking Information Concerning The Capture And Use Of Spatial Data During Health Emergencies

RFI for the OGC Health SDI Concept Development Study will support the development of a Health Emergencies Data Model and the design of a Health Spatial Data Infrastructure.

December 21, 2020

Building an Interoperable Routing Engine (Part 2)

Article Contributed by Ignacio “Nacho” Correas, Chief Technology Innovation Officer at Skymantics – There are two trade-offs that need to be carefully balanced: accuracy vs….

December 21, 2020

OGC Members propose new Features and Geometries JSON Standards Working Group; public comment sought

New OGC Working Group will develop a JSON encoding for geospatial feature data to support additional concepts that are important for the wider geospatial community and the OGC API standards.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft charter for the new OGC Features and Geometries JSON Standards Working Group (SWG).The OGC Features and Geometries JSON SWG is chartered to develop a JSON encoding for geospatial feature data.Given the popularity of GeoJSON, the SWG will ensure that OGC Features and Geometries JSON will be specified as a superset of GeoJSON so that valid GeoJSON is also valid OGC Features and Geometries JSON.The draft charter for the Features and Geometries JSON Standards Working Group is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.

December 21, 2020

OGC Members propose new Features and Geometries JSON Standards Working Group; public comment sought

New OGC Working Group will develop a JSON encoding for geospatial feature data to support additional concepts that are important for the wider geospatial community and the OGC API standards.

December 18, 2020

OGC seeking additional sponsors for Disaster Pilot 2021

OGC Disaster Pilot 2021 will prototype and demonstrate end-to-end capabilities that integrate OGC standards, data, services, and state-of-the-art technologies to support decision makers and responders in times of crisisThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking additional sponsors for the OGC Disaster Pilot 2021, building on the past year’s very successful Disaster Resilience Pilot.Further details of the Pilot scope and vision can be found in Prospectus, while the OGC website provides current Pilot news and information.Pilot sponsors will have the opportunity to provide additional inputs into the design of the Disaster Pilot 2021 that address their particular concerns, requirements, and objectives.If you are interested in joining USGS, NASA, AWS, and AmeriGEO as sponsors and supporters of this critical opportunity to shape collaborative disaster management capabilities, please download the OGC Disaster Pilot Call For Sponsors or contact OGC via the OGC Innovation Program contact form.OGC members together form a global forum of experts and communities that use location to connect people with technology and improve decision-making at all levels.

December 18, 2020

OGC seeking additional sponsors for Disaster Pilot 2021

OGC Disaster Pilot 2021 will prototype and demonstrate end-to-end capabilities that integrate OGC standards, data, services, and state-of-the-art technologies to support decision makers and responders in times of crisis

December 17, 2020

OGC seeks Public Comment on revised Abstract Specification: Observations and Measurements

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on a revision to the joint ISO and OGC Standard, Observations and Measurements (O&M).The O&M Standard defines a conceptual schema for observations, including for features involved in the observation process, and for features involved in sampling when making observations.O&M now forms the foundation for a number of other OGC Standards, such as TimeseriesML and GroundwaterML.The candidate ‘Abstract Specification: Geographic information – Observations and Measurements’ standard is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by the 18th of January, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the Observations & Measurements Standard’s public comment request page.