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July 8, 2020

Developers are invited to the OGC Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Sprint

This OGC Sprint will test a draft API that provides a simple method to retrieve 3D tiled resources in a manner independent of the underlying data store.

June 29, 2020

Call for Sponsors of Testbed-17: Collaborate and Innovate to Advance the Power of Location

Testbeds boost research and development to make location data and information more FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable.Testbeds provide a unique opportunity for sponsors to tackle location data and processing challenges together with the world’s leading geospatial IT experts.Solutions developed in OGC Testbeds have gone on to form standards and technologies that now play critical roles in numerous domains across the world.The technical scope of Testbed-17 is determined in a collaborative process between OGC staff and OGC sponsor organizations.If you are interested in sponsoring Testbed-17, OGC staff will help you develop detailed requirements, and will identify cross-sponsor synergies for you.

June 29, 2020

Call for Sponsors of Testbed-17: Collaborate and Innovate to Advance the Power of Location

Join with geospatial experts to solve your organization’s technology challenges and shape the future of location technologies

June 19, 2020

Compliance testing is now available for implementations of the ‘OGC GML in JPEG 2000 (GMLJP2) Part 1: Core’ encoding standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the Executable Test Suite (ETS) for version 2.0 of the GML in JPEG 2000 (GMLJP2) Part 1: Core encoding standard has been approved by the OGC Membership.The GMLJP2 standard defines the means by which the Geography Markup Language (GML) is used within JPEG 2000 images for geographic imagery.GMLJP2 also provides packaging mechanisms for including GML within JPEG 2000 data files and specific GML application schemas to support the encoding of images within JPEG 2000 data files.JPEG 2000 is a wavelet-based image compression standard that provides the ability to include Extensible Markup Language (XML) data for description of an image within the JPEG 2000 data file.Implementers of the GMLJP2 encoding standard – or other OGC standards – can validate their products using the OGC validator tool.

June 19, 2020

Compliance testing is now available for implementations of the ‘OGC GML in JPEG 2000 (GMLJP2) Part 1: Core’ encoding standard

Products that implement the GMLJP2 standard can now be tested and certified as OGC Compliant.

June 15, 2020

OGC adopts and publishes Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core as an official OGC Standard.Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) is a data model, a programming interface, and a storage model for keeping and managing data.By working with the HDF Group to define the OGC HDF5 Core standard, OGC has created a rigorous, unambiguous, definition of what HDF5 is.HDF5 is already in use by the OGC community: OGC’s NetCDF Enhanced Data Model (OGC 11-038r2) can be fully described by the HDF5 data model because its storage format is also HDF5.As with any OGC standard, the open Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core standard is free to download and implement.

June 15, 2020

OGC adopts and publishes Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core Standard

HDF5 provides a flexible, extensible, and efficient data model, programming interface, and storage model for keeping and managing spatial data.

June 11, 2020

OGC Members propose new Routing Standards Working Group; public comment sought on draft charter

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft charter for the new OGC Routing Standards Working Group (SWG).The Routing SWG will develop and maintain an OGC API – Routes core standard and extensions, plus a related route exchange model for sharing routes.Draft specifications for a routing API and route exchange model were successfully demonstrated in the OGC Open Routing API Pilot, the OGC Smart City Interoperability Reference Architecture (SCIRA) Pilot, and other efforts.The draft charter for the OGC Routing Standards Working Group is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by the 2nd of July, 2020, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the OGC Routing Standards Working Group Draft Charter public comment request page.

June 11, 2020

OGC Members propose new Routing Standards Working Group; public comment sought on draft charter

New OGC Working Group will develop an API to request, retrieve, and share routes, regardless of the underlying data, routing engine software, and algorithms.