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OGC announces support of the Locus Charter and the ethical use of Geospatial InformationJuly 28th, 2021 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
OGC, 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 ModelsJuly 22nd, 2021 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
The 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 SoughtJuly 16th, 2021 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
The 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 ServicesJuly 15th, 2021 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
OGC 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. OGC to form new Planetary Domain Working Group; Public Comment sought on Draft CharterJuly 15th, 2021 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
New OGC DWG will identify requirements to revise or extend OGC standards for use with data concerning celestial bodies other than the Earth.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft charter for a new Planetary Domain Working Group (DWG). Comments are due by August 4, 2021. The objective of the Planetary DWG is to identify requirements to revise or extend OGC standards for celestial bodies other than the Earth. Such bodies include planets, satellites, asteroids, and comets. The overall mission of the Planetary DWG is to ensure that OGC standards remain current with the scientific requirements for celestial bodies established by the planetary science community. Geospatial data has been successfully standardized for Earth Observation for many years across various disciplines such as geosciences, the environment, energy, pollution, forestry, or marine sciences. This has allowed scientists to cross-reference data from various themes to broaden their research and understanding in a wider context. OGC Compliance Certification Available for v1.0 of the OGC CDB StandardJuly 8th, 2021 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
Implementers of OGC CDB v1.0 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 1.0 of the OGC CDB Standard has been approved by the OGC Membership. Products that implement the OGC CDB 1.0 Standard and pass the tests in the ETS can now be certified as OGC Compliant. Read the rest of OGC Compliance Certification Available for v1.0 of the OGC CDB Standard Public Comment sought on draft Zarr Storage Specification 2.0 OGC Community StandardJune 29th, 2021 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
Zarr can represent very large array datasets in a simple, scalable way, and is compatible with cloud object storage – making it ideal for analysis-ready geospatial data.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft Zarr Storage Specification 2.0 Community Standard. Comments are due by July 29, 2021. Zarr is an open-source specification for the storage of multi-dimensional arrays of data (also known as data cubes, N-dimensional arrays, ND-arrays, or tensors). Such arrays are ubiquitous in scientific research and engineering. OGC considering CoverageJSON as community standard; seeks public commentJune 25th, 2021 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
CoverageJSON has been demonstrated to be an effective, efficient format, friendly to web and application developers.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is considering CoverageJSON for adoption as an official OGC Community Standard. A new Work Item Justification to begin the Community Standard endorsement process is available for public comment. Comments are due by July 25, 2021. CoverageJSON is a simple, human- and machine-readable format for publishing spatio-temporal data to the Web. It is used for encoding coverage data such as multi-dimensional grids, time series, and vertical profiles, distinguished by the geometry of their spatio-temporal domain. The CoverageJSON format supports the efficient download of useful quantities of data from datastores to lightweight clients, such as browsers and mobile applications. It allows local manipulation of the data in a format familiar to, and popular with, web developers, and that is readily usable by e.g. science researchers. It uses linked-data (JSON-LD) to reduce data payload volumes. Read the rest of OGC considering CoverageJSON as community standard; seeks public comment Public Comment Requested on revision to OGC 3D streaming community standard, I3SJune 17th, 2021 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
New 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. Read the rest of Public Comment Requested on revision to OGC 3D streaming community standard, I3S |
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OGC seeks public comment on draft Simple Features 2021 standard
Update 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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