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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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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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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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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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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First of its kind initiative seeks participants for an ongoing series of activities involving climate data geospatial services analytical functions, capabilities, use cases, and more.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has released a Call for Participation (CFP) to solicit proposals for the OGC Climate Resilience Pilot, a collaborative activity recognizing geospatial climate information use cases, services and visualization capabilities available, and important next steps. Selected participants will be provided funding for their time and effort through OGC’s own Strategic Members. The call for participants ends on November 18, 2022, and is available here.

The pilot will be the first phase of multiple long term climate activities aiming to evolve geospatial data, technologies, and other capabilities into valuable information for decision makers, scientists, policy makers, data providers, software developers, and service providers so we can make valuable, informed decisions to improve climate action. The goal is to help the location community develop more powerful visualization and communication tools to accurately address ongoing climate threats such as heat, drought, floods, fires as well as supporting the national determined contributions for greenhouse gas emission reduction. Climate resilience is often considered the use case of our lifetime, and the OGC community is uniquely positioned to accelerate solutions through collective problem solving with this initiative.

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Version 1.3 of the I3S Community Standard, used for streaming large 3D datasets to desktop and mobile devices, adds support for building models derived from BIM or other 3D building data.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on version 1.3 of the OGC Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) and Scene Layer Package Format Community Standard. Version 1.3 adds support for Building Scene Layers. Building Scene Layers are derived from Building Information Models (BIM) and/or other 3D building data. Comments are due by September 18, 2022.

I3S is designed to enable 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 small to extensive geographic areas. Designed for performance and scalability, a scene layer enables the efficient encoding and transmission of 3D geospatial content for an interactive visualization experience on web browsers, mobile, and desktop apps for both offline and online access.

I3S is web and cloud friendly and is rooted in modern standards and technological advancements in the areas of 3D graphics, data structuring, and mesh and texture compression.

Version 1.3 of the OGC I3S Community Standard adds support for Building Scene Layers (BSL). A Building Scene Layer is a 3D representation of a building model. A building model may be derived from 3D construction content, such as BIM data, or from a relational database model that contains 3D spatial information. The I3S BSL capability is designed to model the organization of construction data by grouping content into standard engineering disciplines. Content in a BSL may represent a partial building, an individual building, or multiple buildings on a campus.

An I3S Building Scene Layer also encapsulates the semantic structure of the information in the building model while capturing geometry and attributes that can be used in an application. A BSL captures standard Architectural Engineering and Construction (AEC) disciplines such as Mechanical, Architectural, Piping, Electrical, and Structural. Within each discipline, a BSL groups category layers containing 3D objects representing assets of the building such as doors, windows, pipes and walls. The assets can contain attributes that directly reflect standard and user defined metadata that are stored in the source BIM content or other 3D data source.

The candidate OGC Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) and Scene Layer Package (*.slpk) Format v1.3 Community Standard, as well as relevant release notes, are available for review and comment on the OGC Portal. Comments are due by September 18, 2022, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the OGC Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) Version 1.3 Community Standard public comment request page.

COG files enable the extraction of convenient parts of the data at the needed resolution for efficient visualization or analysis purposes over the web.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) Candidate Standard, which aims to formalize, as an OGC Standard, existing practices already implemented by the community, such as the GDAL library or the COG explorer and other implementations. Comments are due by 17 September, 2022.

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CoverageJSON simplifies the publishing of spatiotemporal data to the web, enabling interactive websites that can display and manipulate environmental data.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the candidate CoverageJSON Community Standard. CoverageJSON is a format for publishing multi-dimensional data to the Web. Comments are due by September 10, 2022.

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