As the geospatial community now relies upon CRSs that cannot be adequately defined using WKT CRS 1.0, the CRS Standards Working Group have recommended its deprecation.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the Deprecation of v1.0 of the Geographic Information – Well Known Text Representation of Coordinate Reference Systems Standard. Comments are due by September 5, 2022.

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New Metaverse Standards Forum aims to foster the development of Open Standards for the metaverse through collaboration between Standards bodies, Industry, and Academia.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce that it is a founding member of the newly launched Metaverse Standards Forum.

The Metaverse Standards Forum, hosted by Khronos Group, brings together leading standards organizations and companies for industry-wide cooperation on interoperability standards needed to build the open metaverse. The Forum will explore where the lack of interoperability is holding back metaverse deployment and how the work of Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) defining and evolving needed standards may be coordinated and accelerated.

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