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January 21, 2020

OGC seeks public comment on Core Tiling Conceptual and Logical Models Abstract Specification Topic

Candidate Abstract Specification Topic defines a conceptual model for tiling space of any number of dimensions, as well as a logical model for tiling 2D space.

January 16, 2020

OGC announces the creation of new ‘OGC API – Records’ Standards Working Group

The purpose of this Standards Working Group is to develop a new version of the OGC Catalogue Service standard for the World Wide Web.OGC Chief Operations Officer and Executive Director of OGC’s Standards Program, Scott Simmons, outlined the movement in a recent blog post entitled OGC APIs and the evolution of OGC standards.OGC members who can share their expertise regarding ‘OGC API – Records’ are invited to participate in the Working Group.Visit the ‘OGC API – Records’ Standards Working Group home page for more information on the group, including how to participate.Visit OGC’s Domain Working Group and Standards Working Group pages to learn about other standards activities happening in OGC.

January 16, 2020

OGC announces the creation of new ‘OGC API – Records’ Standards Working Group

SWG will work towards the next generation of OGC’s Catalogue service, which will align with the current architecture of the Web and the Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices

January 9, 2020

OGC announces the creation of new Environmental Data Retrieval API Standards Working Group

New Working Group will create stable, standardized, service APIs based on simple data retrieval patterns, which will improve access to environmental data and information.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) today announced the formation of the Environmental Data Retrieval API Standards Working Group (SWG).The Environmental Data Retrieval API SWG will standardize several APIs, defined using OpenAPI Version 3, to retrieve various common data patterns from a data store.A goal of the SWG is that these standardized APIs will be consistent with the strategic direction established by OGC members for OGC API standards, such as OGC API – Features and the emerging OGC API – Common.Visit OGC’s Domain Working Group and Standards Working Group pages to learn about other standards activities happening in OGC.

January 9, 2020

OGC announces the creation of new Environmental Data Retrieval API Standards Working Group

New Working Group will create stable, standardized, service APIs based on simple data retrieval patterns, which will improve access to environmental data and information.

January 8, 2020

Participate in OGC’s Testbed-16 and shape the future of location technologies

Testbed-16 provides a unique, funded opportunity to join the collaborative research at OGC. Boost your R&D, make contact with major geospatial players, and develop future business opportunities.

January 7, 2020

OGC announces the creation of new GeoPose Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces the formation of the GeoPose Standards Working Group (SWG).Participants in this new OGC SWG will focus on developing a standard for geographically-anchored poses (aka GeoPoses) with six degrees of freedom referenced to one or more standardized Coordinate Reference Systems.OGC members who can share their expertise regarding GeoPoses are invited to participate in the GeoPose Standards Working Group.Visit the OGC GeoPose SWG home page or contact info [at] ogc.org for more information on the group, including how to participate.Visit OGC’s Domain Working Group and Standards Working Group pages to learn about other standards activities happening in OGC.

January 7, 2020

OGC announces the creation of new GeoPose Standards Working Group

Members of the new GeoPose SWG will work towards a standard to provide an interoperable way to express, record, and share the location, position, and orientation of objects across diverse applications, users, devices, services, and platforms.

December 19, 2019

Participate in OGC’s Testbed-16 and shape the future of location technologies

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is calling for participation in its next major Innovation Initiative, Testbed-16.OGC Testbeds give room for research and new ideas, while also exploring the “fitness for use” of existing standards and solutions.OGC Testbed results, in the form of Engineering Reports, are provided to OGC’s Standards Program, where they are reviewed, revised, and potentially advanced as new international open standards.Each year, OGC Testbeds integrate requirements and ideas from a number of different sponsors.OGC’s member-driven consensus process creates royalty free, publicly available geospatial standards.