GeoPose is a Standard for expressing and sharing geographically-anchored poses of objects in six degrees of freedom and referenced to a CRS.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the evidence of implementation of GeoPose 1.0 specification and whether the Standard is ready to be uplifted from Draft to Adopted status. Comments are due by May 25, 2023. 

OGC Standards are approved at a Draft status until evidence of implementation is provided. The GeoPose Standard was initially approved on 20 June, 2022, and there are now three independent implementations. The public is requested to review this evidence and comment, as needed.

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Congratulations to Steve Liang, awarded the 2022 Gardels Award for his work in sensor technologies for geospatial and pioneering web standards for publishing spatial data.

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The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on STAplus 1.0. STAplus is an extension to the OGC SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing Version 1.1 (STA) Standard data model that is based on requirements from the Citizen Science community. Comments are due by March 23, 2023.

STAplus (SensorThings API extension PLUS) defines a SensorThings data model extension that improves FAIR data principles when exchanging sensor data by including licensing and ownership information.

The dominant use for the OGC SensorThings API (STA) data model (and API) can be thought of as “a single authority provides sensor readings to consumers.” However, in Citizen Science there are many contributors (citizens) whose observations together form the “big picture.”

The STAplus extension is designed to support a model in which observations are owned by (different) users that may express a license for re-use.

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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 version 1.1 of 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 September 23, 2022.

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Prashant Shukle brings to the role an understanding of OGC’s international operations & partnerships that will benefit the Consortium’s governance and strategy.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Board of Directors announces that it has elected Prashant Shukle as its new Vice Chair.

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