As the geospatial community now relies upon CRSs that cannot be adequately defined using WKT CRS 1.0, the CRS Standards Working Group have recommended its deprecation.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the Deprecation of v1.0 of the Geographic Information – Well Known Text Representation of Coordinate Reference Systems Standard. Comments are due by September 5, 2022.

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New Metaverse Standards Forum aims to foster the development of Open Standards for the metaverse through collaboration between Standards bodies, Industry, and Academia.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce that it is a founding member of the newly launched Metaverse Standards Forum.

The Metaverse Standards Forum, hosted by Khronos Group, brings together leading standards organizations and companies for industry-wide cooperation on interoperability standards needed to build the open metaverse. The Forum will explore where the lack of interoperability is holding back metaverse deployment and how the work of Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) defining and evolving needed standards may be coordinated and accelerated.

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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 (ETS) for version 1.0 of the OGC GeoRSS Encoding Standard has been approved by the OGC Membership.

1 July 2022: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the Executable Test Suite (ETS) for version 1.0 of the OGC GeoRSS Encoding Standard has been approved by the OGC Membership.

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The Sprint, part of OGC’s Disaster Pilot initiative, will showcase Quansight’s Nebari (formerly QHub) as a new approach to automating cloud deployment of analytical processing workflows.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Quansight, building upon the Disaster Pilot initiatives and a successful webinar in June, will run a virtual DevOps Sprint this July 7-8. Using a combination of webconference and chat tools, the Sprint will bring participants up to speed and support them in trying out Quansight’s Nebari (formerly QHub) as a new approach to automating cloud deployment of analytical processing workflows. Registration closes July 6, 2022.

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The OGC Disaster Pilot 2022 will use spatial data standards with Web and Cloud technologies so that stakeholders can collaborate across any distance, using disparate data, to manage every phase and scale of disasters.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), building on the success and outcomes of the Disaster Resilience Pilot, Disaster Pilot 2021, and subsequent preparatory tasks, is now seeking Sponsors to support the Disaster Pilot 2022. Submissions close June 30, 2022.

The vision of the Disaster Pilot 2022 is to use spatial data sharing standards together with Web technologies and cloud computing to enable stakeholders to work together wherever they are located, use relevant data wherever it is stored, and manage every phase of a disaster at any scale and wherever it threatens.

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netCDF-LD provides the encoding standard for encoding linked data semantics into netCDF files and interpreting netCDF files as RDF graphs, enhancing data findability and re-use.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Encoding Linked Data Graphs in netCDF Files Standard (netCDF-LD). NetCDF-LD is an approach for constructing Linked Data descriptions using the metadata and structures found in netCDF files. Comments are due by June 24, 2022.

NetCDF is a format for encoding array-oriented scientific data, particularly in many Earth & Space Science domains. It is common practice to aid interoperability of netCDF files in the Earth sciences by using the Climate and Forecasting (CF) convention and also the Attribute Convention for Data Discovery (ACDD). Several communities are defining additional netCDF conventions for describing the semantics relating to their different domains. As the concurrent use of multiple – and possibly clashing or conflicting – netCDF conventions spreads, the problem of finding a common mechanism to validate and interpret metadata embedded inside netCDF files grows. The candidate netCDF-LD Standard offers a solution to that problem.

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FMSDI-22 aims to better integrate geospatial data to measure, analyze, predict, and visualize the impacts of Climate Change in the Arctic.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested organizations to respond to a Call for Participation for Phase 3 of the Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot (FMSDI-22). Funding is available. The deadline for responses is 19 June, 2022.

Building on previous work, the FMSDI-22 Pilot aims to examine challenges and potential opportunities for coastal communities, ecosystems, and economic activities in the Arctic. Climate Change plays an important role in this context: as conditions change, so do the available data and services.

Together with sponsoring organizations and international bodies IHO and UN-GGIM, selected Pilot Participants will receive funding to explore the current status of distributed land and marine data services for marine and coastal environments in the Arctic.

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The publicly available reports document the latest advances in Sensor Integration, Moving Features, Data-centric Security, Geospatial Cloud-Native Formats, and Interoperability Through APIs.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has published the outcomes of 2021’s biggest research and development initiative, Testbed-17. The key outcomes, including detailed Engineering Reports, overview presentations, and videos, are freely available on the Testbed-17 webpage.

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3D Tiles enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and metaverse applications.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on a proposed update to the 3D Tiles Community Standard, which is used for sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile – and now metaverse – applications. Comments are due by 25 May, 2022.

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