OGC Seeks Public Comment on adoption of new version of CityJSON as Community StandardAugust 10th, 2022 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
CityJSON is a web-friendly encoding of the CityGML data model, which is used in Digital Twins and other uses pertaining to built and natural environments. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on an updated version (v1.1) of the CityJSON Community Standard. The proposed update contains significant improvements over v1.0, including support for the OGC CityGML data model version 3.0 and support for handling large CityJSON files through streaming. Comments are due by September 9, 2022. OGC elects Dr. Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse to its Board of DirectorsJuly 27th, 2022 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
Zaffar brings rich and diverse board experience, a focus on Space and Spatial sector integration, and a passion to support the earth observation community. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced the election of Dr. Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse to its Board of Directors. “Aligning geospatial data innovation and utility across industry, academia and government is OGC’s calling,” said Jeffrey Harris, Chair of the OGC Board of Directors. “Zaffar is a geospatial rainmaker whose broad first-hand experience will bring important insights and marketplace understanding to the OGC Board. His expertise across a variety of use-cases will allow OGC to optimize our prioritization of consortium activities.” Read the rest of OGC elects Dr. Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse to its Board of Directors OGC Welcomes new Principal Member, the Saudi Arabia General Authority for Survey and Geospatial InformationJuly 22nd, 2022 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
GASGI joins OGC as a Principal Member to leverage the OGC’s collective geospatial expertise in building a healthy & competitive Geospatial Sector within KSA. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to welcome the Saudi Arabia General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information (GASGI) as a new OGC Principal Member. As a Principal Member of OGC, GASGI will participate across OGC activities and serve in OGC’s Planning Committee to explore market and technology trends relevant to OGC’s global mission to make location information more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). OGC Calling For Participation in its Water Quality Interoperability ExperimentJuly 22nd, 2022 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
Come advance the development of the WaterML 2.0 suite of standards in the area of water quality data, and help increase the effectiveness of related global development activities. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has released a Call for Participation (CFP) to solicit proposals for the OGC Water Quality Interoperability Experiment (WQ IE), which will advance the development of the WaterML 2.0 suite of standards in the area of water quality data. Proposal submissions are due by September 13, 2022. Read the rest of OGC Calling For Participation in its Water Quality Interoperability Experiment OGC seeking Public Comment on Deprecation of v1.0 of the Geographic Information – Well Known Text Representation of Coordinate Reference Systems StandardJuly 12th, 2022 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
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. OGC joins new Metaverse Standards Forum as Founding MemberJuly 12th, 2022 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
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. Read the rest of OGC joins new Metaverse Standards Forum as Founding Member OGC Compliance Certification Available for GeoRSS v1.0July 1st, 2022 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
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. Read the rest of OGC Compliance Certification Available for GeoRSS v1.0 OGC invites developers to the Quansight Automated Data Science Developer SprintJune 28th, 2022 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
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. Read the rest of OGC invites developers to the Quansight Automated Data Science Developer Sprint OGC Seeking Sponsors for its next Pilot to improve Disaster Management and ResponseJune 2nd, 2022 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
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. Read the rest of OGC Seeking Sponsors for its next Pilot to improve Disaster Management and Response |
OGC seeks public comment on CoverageJSON Community Standard
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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