OGC Staff will present, and be on-hand to answer questions, about our work on Open Standards, Open Data, FAIR Principles, and numerous Projects funded by the European Commission.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to attend and present at the upcoming European Geoscience Union General Assembly 2023 (EGU23), taking place next week, 23-28 April, in Vienna, Austria.

OGC staff will present in various sessions at EGU23, discussing our Members’ and Partners’ work – including several European Commission and Horizon 2020 projects – conducted under OGC’s Collaborative Solutions and Innovation (COSI) Program (formerly the Innovation Program).
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Request Open: April 19, 2023 9:00 am — May 19, 2023 11:59 pm (30 days left)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is requesting public comment on the candidate Deformation Model Functional Model Abstract Specification Topic and the Geodetic data Grid eXchange Format (GGXF) Standard. Comments are due by May 19, 2023.

These two Standards seek to improve the accuracy and exchange of coordinate references. The Deformation Model Functional Model is a conceptual model proposed as an OGC Abstract Specification Topic to standardize how deformation of the Earth’s surface can be consistently described. The Deformation Model Functional Model leverages the Geodetic data Grid eXchange Format (GGXF), a standardized means to describe regularly gridded geodetic information. GGXF also supports many other geodetic data types, particularly gridded data, supporting transformation of coordinates. Each of these candidate Standards are further described below.

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Online and in-person Code Sprint will support the development and maturation of Open Standards and Projects that use tiles to transfer and represent geospatial information.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites software developers to the OGC Tiling Interfaces Code Sprint, to be held online and in-person from June 12-14, 2023, at the Moonshot Labs of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Participation in the code sprint is free. Registration for in-person participation closes at 5pm EDT on May 10. Registration for remote participation will remain open throughout the code sprint.

An OGC Code Sprint is a collaborative and inclusive event to support the development of new applications and open standards, as well as to enable software developers to focus on projects that implement open geospatial standards.
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