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Friday, January 20th, 2023
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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Thursday, January 19th, 2023
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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Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
OGC compliance provides confidence that a product will seamlessly integrate with other compliant solutions, regardless of the vendor that created them.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the Executable Test Suite for version 1.0 of the OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval Standard has been approved by the OGC Membership. Products that implement the Standard and pass the tests in the ETS can now be certified as OGC Compliant.
Implementers of the Standard are invited to validate their products using the new test suite, available on the OGC validator tool.
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Monday, December 19th, 2022
The Open Geospatial Consortium is seeking public comment on the creation of a GeoDataCube Standards Working Group (SWG). The GeoDataCube SWG will enhance the interoperability between existing datacube solutions, simplify the interaction with different datacubes, and facilitate the integration of data from multiple datacube sources. By following a user-centric approach, the SWG will develop solutions that meet the needs of scientists, application developers, and API integrators.
The goal of the OGC GeoDataCube SWG is to create a new API specifically to serve the core functionalities of GeoDataCubes such as access and processing and to define exchange format recommendations, profiles, and a metadata model. The SWG also aims to analyze usability of already existing Standards and identify use cases.
Similar to other OGC APIs, the GeoDataCube SWG will create this new standard from existing building blocks such as existing geospatial Standards, previous OGC innovation initiatives, and other developer resources in a very use-case driven approach, i.e., with a small core and possible extensions. This will allow for interoperability across future OGC Standards.
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
New OGC Working Group will develop a multi-part Standard for geospatial Analysis Ready Data products, which can be integrated and analyzed with minimal user effort.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft charter for a new Analysis Ready Data Standard Working Group (ARD SWG). Comments are due by December 21, 2022. Born from work undertaken in the OGC Disaster Pilot 2021 and Testbed-16, the Analysis Ready Data (ARD) SWG will develop a multi-part Standard for geospatial Analysis Ready Data in partnership with ISO/TC 211.
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
OGC Testbeds provide a unique opportunity for sponsors, together with the world’s leading geospatial IT experts, to tackle location data and processing challenges.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is currently preparing its next major Innovation Initiative, Testbed-19, which builds upon the success and outcomes of Testbed-17, Testbed-18, and other Collaborative Solution and Innovation (COSI) Program Initiatives (formerly the OGC Innovation Program). Testbeds provide a unique opportunity for sponsors to work with the world’s leading geospatial IT experts to tackle location data & processing challenges together. OGC is now inviting any potential sponsor organizations to bring forward their technology integration and other technological challenges. Responses are due by December 31, 2022.
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Monday, November 28th, 2022
The release of OGC API – Tiles as an OGC Standard signals a new era in how tiled geospatial information is served over the Web.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the OGC Membership has approved Version 1.0 of the OGC API – Tiles – Part 1: Core specification as an official OGC Standard, signaling the beginning of a new era in how tiled geospatial information is served over the Web. Example API definition files and associated schemas are available now to better support developers looking to quickly implement the new standard.
The multi-part OGC API - Tiles Standard defines building blocks for creating Web APIs that support the retrieval of geospatial information as tiles. Different forms of geospatial information are supported, such as tiles of vector features (“vector tiles”), maps, imagery, coverages, and other types of geospatial information. The OGC API - Tiles building blocks can also be combined with other building-block OGC API Standards and draft specifications for additional capabilities or to increase the interoperability of specific types of data.
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Friday, November 4th, 2022
New OGC Working Group will provide an open forum for the discussion and presentation of ongoing OGC efforts supporting global Climate Action.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce the formation of a new Climate Resilience Domain Working Group (DWG).
OGC has also announced a Q&A Session for the OGC Climate Resilience Pilot ‘22 on November 8 (see end of release for how to join).
The OGC Climate Resilience DWG will provide an open forum for the discussion and presentation of interoperability requirements, use cases, pilots, and implementations of OGC Standards in the context of cross-sector climate actions.
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022
Superseded Best Practice Document will be retired to ensure consistency in implementation.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Moving Features Standards Working Group (SWG) has recommended that the OGC Best Practice OGC Moving Features Encoding Extension – JSON (16-140r1) document be retired. The document has been superseded by the OGC Moving Features Encoding Extension – JSON Standard (19-045r3). Public Comment on the retirement is sought. Comments are due by January 2, 2023.
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Thursday, October 20th, 2022
OGC’s next hybrid code sprint will highlight and advance the latest in modern web mapping
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites software developers to the November 2022 OGC API Code Sprint, aka The Web Mapping Code Sprint. The hybrid virtual and in-person event will be held on November 29 – December 1, 2022. Participation is free.
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OGC Compliance Certification Available for v1.0 of the OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval Standard
Tuesday, January 10th, 2023OGC compliance provides confidence that a product will seamlessly integrate with other compliant solutions, regardless of the vendor that created them.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the Executable Test Suite for version 1.0 of the OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval Standard has been approved by the OGC Membership. Products that implement the Standard and pass the tests in the ETS can now be certified as OGC Compliant.
Implementers of the Standard are invited to validate their products using the new test suite, available on the OGC validator tool.
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