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February 28, 2020

OGC announces candidate OGC API – Features – Part 2 standard; public comment requested

extends the core capabilities of Part 1 with the ability to use coordinate reference systems other than WGS 84.

February 27, 2020

OGC API – Common candidate standard outlines common elements for OGC APIs; public comment requested

OGC API – Common documents common elements to be used in the OGC API suite of standards.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the candidate OGC API – Common standard.In the course of developing OGC’s new suite of OGC API standards, some elements proved to be common across all OGC API standards.OGC has documented these common elements in the form of the OGC API – Common candidate standard.Since OGC API – Common is the foundation for OGC API standards, a stable baseline is required prior to developing those standards.

February 27, 2020

OGC API – Common candidate standard outlines common elements for OGC APIs; public comment requested

documents common elements to be used in the OGC API suite of standards.

February 26, 2020

OGC and NRCan request information for a study concerning Building Energy Mapping and Analytics

New Concept Development Study aims to characterize the state of energy mapping and analytics, and propose practices and standards to improve efficiency and consistency.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) are requesting information to support the Building Energy Mapping and Analytics Concept Development Study (CDS).The Building Energy Mapping and Analytics CDS is addressing this challenge by first characterizing the state of development of energy mapping and analytics for building stock broadly; and then using this knowledge to inform and propose IT architectural practices and standards that enable consistent mapping and analytics of residential energy use and efficiency.The information being sought by the Building Energy Mapping and Analytics CDS includes who undertakes building energy mapping & analysis work, what data they use, what building archetypes they make use of, how they develop and/or operate their models, and how the resulting analyses, maps, and applications could be, or are being, applied.For more information on the Building Energy Mapping and Analytics Concept Development Study, including how to submit a response to the Request For Information [HTML], visit the project’s page on the OGC website.

February 26, 2020

OGC and NRCan request information for a study concerning Building Energy Mapping and Analytics

New Concept Development Study aims to characterize the state of energy mapping and analytics, and propose practices and standards to improve efficiency and consistency.

February 25, 2020

Open Geospatial Consortium to Consider Apple’s Indoor Mapping Data Format as Community Standard

IMDF targets indoor mapping and provides a mobile-friendly, compact, and human-readable data model for any indoor space, providing a basis for orientation, navigation, and discovery.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is in the process of ratifying Apple’s Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) as a Community Standard.IMDF enables many use cases such as multi-level indoor mapping, indoor way-finding, indoor routing, hyper-local search, and indoor positioning.About OGC Community StandardsAn OGC Community Standard is an official standard of OGC that was already available as a widely used, mature specification, but was developed outside of OGC’s standards development and approval process.The Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) Community Standard Work Item Justification is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.

February 25, 2020

Open Geospatial Consortium to Consider Apple’s Indoor Mapping Data Format as Community Standard

IMDF targets indoor mapping and provides a mobile-friendly, compact, and human-readable data model for any indoor space, providing a basis for orientation, navigation, and discovery.

February 21, 2020

OGC Invites Developers to its Environmental Data Retrieval API Sprint

New OGC Sprint event will focus on emerging standards for a data-centric Environmental Data Retrieval API that will promote quick and easy access to environmental data.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites developers to participate in the Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) API Sprint, held from 18-20 March, 2020, at the NOAA/NWS facilities in Silver Spring, MD, USA.The EDR API Sprint is a follow-up to the successful MetOcean Weather and Oceans APIs Hack, and will focus on emerging standards for a data-centric Environmental Data Retrieval API.The EDR API SWG and MetOcean DWG have been developing a set of stable data APIs, defined with OpenAPI, to retrieve common data patterns from a relatively persistent data store.For more information on the Sprint, including details concerning registration and attendance, visit the Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) API Sprint page on the OGC website.

February 21, 2020

OGC Invites Developers to its Environmental Data Retrieval API Sprint

New OGC Sprint event will focus on emerging standards for a data-centric Environmental Data Retrieval API that will promote quick and easy access to environmental data.