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August 12, 2021

How’s the weather up there?

One of Canada’s oldest government institutions, MSC, is also one to keep up with the times by using the latest technologies in its quest to help Canadians make informed decisions about their health and safety and economic prosperity.

August 4, 2021

Reflecting on the May 2021 OGC API Code Sprint

APIs have proven to be a popular and very effective enabler of rapid software development. This is more so in web mapping, where a combination…

July 30, 2021

Evolving Geospatial Technologies Through OGC’s Testbed-17

Decades in the Making: The Challenges of Evolving Technologies and Standards When it comes to evolving a technology or standard over multiple decades, the struggle…

July 21, 2021

OGC Startups: Disrupting, Growing, Evolving Location

Join OGC and our thriving startup community today and learn why it is such a quickly growing consortium of industry leaders, influencers, and more. Over the course…

June 24, 2021

The US Geospatial Data Act – Evolving Beyond Committees, Processes, and Tools

Cowritten by co-written by Molly Schar, NSGIC Executive Director, and Nadine Alahmeh, OGC CEO – It’s no secret, geospatial is mainstream, and it is everywhere. As…

June 23, 2021

Vijay Krishnan from Intel Geospatial on AI, the Cloud, and the future of data integration, visualization, and analysis

Using OGC standards, the Intel Geospatial platform is providing simple access to a wide range of high-quality 2D and 3D geospatial data and analytic applications for asset owners and service provider businesses that collect geospatial imagery using drones, planes, vehicles, and more.

June 2, 2021

Innovation at OGC: Data-driven Decision Making

Data-driven decision making is fundamental to all aspects of society, In almost all cases, location data is involved. For decades, OGC has driven toward open…

June 1, 2021

Evolving Spatial Data Infrastructure

Spatial Data is distributed across users, tools, and regions for a variety of purposes via Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), but there are additional economic and…

May 10, 2021

Fair Climate Services

Producing and providing reliable information for climate services requires huge volumes of data to come together and process from different scientific eco-systems – requiring standards…