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November 17, 2020

OGC Community approves new OGC API standard: OGC API – Features – Part 2: Coordinate Reference Systems by Reference

OGC API – Features provides the fundamental API building blocks to create, modify, and query ‘features’ on the Web. Part 2 adds the ability to use different coordinate reference systems.

November 6, 2020

OGC simplifies EO data access and analysis through novel, standards-based technique

As part of the Earth Observation Applications Pilot, OGC Members have matured an architecture that allows software developers to easily package and share their applications.Further results are also available in video form on the OGC Earth Observation Applications-to-the-Data Architecture YouTube playlist.The seven OGC Earth Observation Applications PIlot Engineering Reports, including the OGC Earth Observation Applications Pilot: Summary Engineering Report, are available for free from the relevant section of the OGC Public Engineering Report Repository.The activities were performed within the EO science for society programme under supervision of the Data Applications Division.In this project, NRCan was represented by the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, specifically through the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing’s Earth Observation Data Management System and the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure’s GeoConnections program.

November 6, 2020

OGC simplifies EO data access and analysis through novel, standards-based technique

Fruitful collaboration between OGC Pilot Sponsors (NRCan and ESA) and Participants has supported the “application-to-the-data” principle by simplifying the development of apps for deployment on any cloud platform.

October 29, 2020

OGC announces kickoff to the Geospatially Enabled Ecosystem for Europe (GeoE3) project

3 year EU-funded project will improve access, interoperability, and harmonization of data, and build a data ecosystem based on national platformsThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces its participation in the EU-funded Geospatially Enabled Ecosystem for Europe (GeoE3) project.The three-year project, part of the Connecting Europe Facility, has the following goals:Better access and interoperability of Geospatial data and other data.Dynamic harmonisation of geospatial data based on use cases and new APIs, including the OGC APIs.To learn more about OGCs involvement in GeoE3 and other OGC news, including projects run by the OGC Innovation Program, sign up to the OGC newsletter here.About OGCThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of more than 500 businesses, government agencies, research organizations, and universities driven to make geospatial (location) information and services FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

October 29, 2020

OGC announces kickoff to the Geospatially Enabled Ecosystem for Europe (GeoE3) project

3 year EU-funded project will improve access, interoperability, and harmonization of data, and build a data ecosystem based on national platforms

October 28, 2020

OGC Geopackage Standards Working Group updates its Charter; public comment requested

The Geopackage Standards Working Group (SWG) provides a consensus forum for revisions to the GeoPackage Encoding Standard including approved extensions as well as the development of new GeoPackage extensions.Revise existing GeoPackage standards and extensions, namely the GeoPackage Encoding Standard 1.3.0, the GeoPackage Tiled Gridded Coverage Extension, and the GeoPackage Related Tables Extension.Revisions to the version 1.3.0 of the GeoPackage Encoding Standard will improve the interoperability, capability, and clarity of the Standard.The draft revised GeoPackage SWG charter is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by November 17, 2020, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the draft revised GeoPackage SWG charter’s public comment request page.

October 28, 2020

OGC Geopackage Standards Working Group updates its Charter; public comment requested

New purpose of SWG is to revise the GeoPackage Encoding Standard and revise existing, or produce new, extensions to improve and increase functionality

October 26, 2020

OGC invites developers to a virtual Code Sprint to refine the upcoming OGC API – EDR standard

The OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) candidate standard enables end-users to easily identify and retrieve a subset of data from ‘big data’ storesThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites developers to its next virtual Code Sprint, which will focus on refining the OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval candidate standard.The OGC API – EDR Sprint 2 virtual event will be held on November 9-10, 2020, from 9:00am 5:30pm US Eastern.Registration for the OGC API – EDR Sprint #2 and a pre-event Webinar is here.A major objective of this second OGC API – EDR Sprint is to enable full interoperability of all existing, and new, client and server implementations that support the OGC API – EDR candidate standard.Registration for the OGC API – EDR Sprint and its associated Pre-event Webinar is here.

October 26, 2020

OGC invites developers to a virtual Code Sprint to refine the upcoming OGC API – EDR standard

The OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) candidate standard enables end-users to easily identify and retrieve a subset of data from ‘big data’ stores