The OGC API – EDR Standard makes it easier to efficiently access a wide range of geospatial or spatiotemporal data through a uniform, well-defined, simple Web interface.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate Version 1.1 of the OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) Standard. Comments are due by February 27, 2023.

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GeoParquet adds geospatial types to Apache Parquet to serve as an efficient cloud-native vector data format.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is in the process of forming a new GeoParquet Standards Working Group (SWG). Public comment is sought on its draft charter. Comments are due by 15 February, 2023.

The OGC GeoParquet SWG will work to advance the GeoParquet encoding format to an OGC Encoding Standard for cloud-native vector data. GeoParquet adds geospatial types to Apache Parquet, described by Apache as “an open source, column-oriented data file format designed for efficient data storage and retrieval. It provides efficient data compression and encoding schemes with enhanced performance to handle complex data in bulk.” For an introduction to the GeoParquet format, see this blog post.

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New OGC DWG will help the Location communities collaborate and contribute expertise into building and growing the open Metaverse.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce the formation of the OGC Geo For Metaverse Domain Working Group (DWG), which will serve as a forum for the collective geospatial expertise of the OGC community to gather to help build and grow the open Metaverse. The group is open to OGC Members and non-members alike.

The Metaverse is perhaps the ultimate distributed digital twin of the world. It has the potential to represent everything in the world alongside imagined spaces. The challenges to Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), technologists, artists, and society are huge, but the payoff is believed to be equally tremendous. The Metaverse is not a single thing but, like the internet, is a collection of platforms and technologies: a world of objects that can be navigated and interacted with.

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New Pilot will bridge technology and stakeholder engagement to reduce disaster preparation time and accelerate our ability to transform data from observation into decision.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is Calling For Participants in the OGC Disaster Pilot 2023. Funding is available. Responses are due by February 17, 2023.

The goal of the Disaster Pilot 2023 is to further improve the ability of key decision makers and responders to discover, manage, access, qualify, share, and exploit location-based information in support of disaster preparedness & response as well as the full cycle of multi-hazard disaster management.

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