The OGC Blog Archive for the ‘Announcement’ CategoryOGC announces support of the Locus Charter and the ethical use of Geospatial InformationWednesday, July 28th, 2021OGC, alongside eight other high-profile geospatial organizations, have signed on to support the Locus Charter by EthicalGEO and Benchmark Initiative.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is proud to announce its support of The Locus Charter. The Locus Charter proposes that wider, shared understanding of risks and solutions relating to uses of location data can improve standards of practice, and help protect individuals and the public interest. OGC Seeking Sponsors for a new IDBE Pilot linking Geospatial and Building Information ModelsThursday, July 22nd, 2021The OGC Integrated Digital Built Environment Pilot seeks to understand the current level of interoperability between Geospatial and BIM and forge a path for better integrated solutions.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), together with buildingSMART International (bSI), invite organizations to express their interest in sponsoring the OGC Integrated Digital Built Environment Pilot. The Pilot will explore, through real-world use cases, the current state-of-the-art in geospatial and Building Information Model (BIM) data integration and forge a path for better integrated solutions. Responses are due September 30, 2021. New revision to OGC GeoPackage Gridded Tiled Coverage Extension: Public Comment SoughtFriday, July 16th, 2021The extension defines how to encode and store tiled regular gridded data – such as a digital elevation model – in a GeoPackage, and now supports additional data types and multiple channels.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on version 1.1 of the OGC GeoPackage Extension for Tiled Gridded Coverage Data (TGCE). Comments are due by August 15, 2021. TGCE defines how to encode and store tiled regular gridded data, such as a digital elevation model, in a GeoPackage. The tiles contain values, such as elevation, temperature or pressure, and the extension defines two encodings: PNG and TIFF. OGC invites Tenders for the Provision of Compliance Testing Software Engineering Consulting ServicesThursday, July 15th, 2021OGC is seeking the provision of consulting services in support of the Compliance Program’s TEAM Engine validator tool and related Executable Test Suites.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites organizations to bid for providing Software Engineering Consulting Services to the OGC Compliance Program. Interested organizations should respond to the Invitation To Tender (ITT). Responses close August 15th, 2021. Public Comment Requested on revision to OGC 3D streaming community standard, I3SThursday, June 17th, 2021New version of the I3S Community Standard, used for streaming large 3D datasets to desktop and mobile devices, improves performance and scalability with enhancements to 3D Object and Integrated Mesh layers
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on version 1.2 of the OGC Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) and Scene Layer Package (*.slpk) Format Community Standard. Comments are due by July 16, 2020. I3S enables the streaming and storage of arbitrarily large amounts of 3D geographic data. An I3S dataset, referred to as a Scene Layer, can consist of millions of discrete 3D objects with attributes, integrated surface meshes, symbolized points, or point cloud data covering vast geographic areas. Designed for performance and scalability, a scene layer enables the efficient encoding and transmission of geospatial content for an interactive visualization experience on web browsers, mobile, and desktop apps for both offline and online access. OGC Compliance Certification Available for v1.1 of the OGC GeoTIFF Encoding StandardWednesday, June 9th, 2021Implementers of GeoTIFF v1.1 are invited to validate their products using the new test suite.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the Executable Test Suite (ETS) for version 1.1 of the OGC GeoTIFF Standard has been approved by the OGC Membership. Products that implement the OGC GeoTIFF 1.1 Standard and pass the tests in the ETS can now be certified as OGC Compliant. Implementers are invited to validate their products using the new test suite, which is available on the OGC validator tool. Testing involves submitting an OGC GeoTIFF 1.1 file produced by the product being assessed. These tests typically take only 5-10 minutes to complete. Once a product has passed the test, the implementer can submit an application to OGC for use of the OGC Compliant trademark on their product. OGC CEO Dr Nadine Alameh Appointed to Board of UN-GGIM Private Sector NetworkFriday, May 14th, 2021The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management Private Sector Network provides a conduit for the private sector to work with UN Member States on global geospatial initiatives.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that OGC CEO, Dr. Nadine Alameh, has been appointed to the Board of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Private Sector Network (PSN). OGC appoints three new members to its Board of DirectorsTuesday, May 4th, 2021The new appointees’ diverse sets of experiences will inform the strategy of the Consortium and help instill innovation. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced the election of Patty Mims, Javier de la Torre, and Prashant Shukle to its Board of Directors.
The new appointments bring experience in defense & intelligence, homeland security, cloud-native GIS, data science, environmental data analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Earth Observation, and more. |
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OGC seeks public comment on draft Simple Features 2021 standard
Tuesday, July 27th, 2021Update to a fundamental OGC/ISO standard brings geometric calculations of distance and area, as well as support for web scripting languages with dynamic features.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on an update to the Simple Features Standard. Comments are due by August 26, 2021.
Simple Features, OGC’s earliest standard and jointly published with ISO, describes how a user can model the location of “features” (a geometric representation of anything of interest) in a 2-dimensional space representing the surface of a planet as a geoid and any globe or map derived through a projection.
In technical terms, Simple Features can model geometries which display geographic features of 1-dimension (curves) and 2-dimension (areas) defined by one-dimension boundary curves. If the application requires elevation, then the uses of latitude (φ), longitude (λ) and elevation (h) can be added.
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