Community standards

A Community standard is an official position of the OGC endorsing a specification or standard developed external to the OGC. A Community standard is considered to be a normative standard by OGC membership and part of the OGC Standards Baseline. The key consideration for a Community standard is that there must be strong evidence of implementation. OGC does not take over the maintenance of the work, rather a Community standard is a “snapshot” of a mature standard for which the originator has either shared the Intellectual Property Rights with the OGC or granted unlimited free use of the Intellectual Property to all implementers.

Community standards can serve two purposes:

  1. to bring de facto standards from the larger geospatial community to be a stable reference point that can normatively referenced by governments and other organizations; and
  2. to bring new, but implemented, standards to the OGC to form the basis for further refinement and development of interoperability between other OGC standards.
Document Title (click to view/download) OGC Doc.# Editor Publication Date
CityJSON Community Standard 2.020-072r5Hugo Ledoux, Balázs Dukai2023-10-20
CityJSON is a data exchange format for digital 3D models of cities and landscapes. It aims at being easy-to-use (for reading, proc...Click to continue reading
OGC CoverageJSON Community Standard21-069r2Chris Little, Jon Blower, Maik Riechert 2023-08-22
Based on JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), CoverageJSON is a format for publishing spatiotemporal data to the Web. The primary de...Click to continue reading
3D Tiles Specification22-025r4Patrick Cozzi, Sean Lilley2023-01-12
This document describes the specification for 3D Tiles, an open standard for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets.
OGC Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) and Scene Layer Package (*.slpk) Format Community Standard Version 1.317-014r9Carl Reed, Tamrat Belayneh2023-01-11
The Indexed 3D Scene Layer (I3S) format is an open 3D content delivery format used to rapidly stream and distribute large volumes ...Click to continue reading
Zarr Storage Specification 2.0 Community Standard21-050r1Zarr Developers2022-06-30
This Community Standard refers to the Zarr V2 Specification. The Zarr V2 Specification is hosted on the Zarr website at https://zarr.readthe...Click to continue reading
OGC Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) and Scene Layer Package (*.slpk) Format Community Standard Version 1.217-014r8Carl Reed, Tamrat Belayneh2021-12-15
The Indexed 3D Scene Layer (I3S) format is an open 3D content delivery format used to rapidly stream and distribute large volumes ...Click to continue reading
OGC CityJSON Community Standard 1.020-072r2Hugo Ledoux2021-08-13
CityJSON is a JSON-based encoding for a well-documented subset of the OGC CityGML data model (version 2.0.0). CityJSON defines how...Click to continue reading
Indoor Mapping Data Format20-094Apple Inc.2021-02-18
Indoor Mapping Data Format (referenced throughout this document as IMDF) provides a generalized, yet comprehensive model for any indoor...Click to continue reading
OGC OpenFlight Scene Description Database Specification 16.0 Community Standard19-065Steve Thompson 2020-07-09
This document describes the OpenFlight Scene Description Database Specification, commonly referred to as simply “OpenFlight”. Op...Click to continue reading
OGC Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) and Scene Layer Package Format Specification17-014r7Carl Reed, Tamrat Belayneh2020-02-08
A single I3S data set, referred to as a Scene Layer, is a container for arbitrarily large amounts of heterogeneously distributed 3...Click to continue reading
OGC 3D Tiles Specification 1.018-053r2Patrick Cozzi, Sean Lilley, Gabby Getz2019-01-31
3D Tiles is designed for streaming and rendering massive 3D geospatial content such as Photogrammetry, 3D Buildings, BIM/CAD, Inst...Click to continue reading
LAS Specification 1.4 OGC Community Standard17-030r1ASPRS2018-03-01
The LAS file is intended to contain LIDAR (or other) point cloud data records. The data will generally be put into this format f...Click to continue reading
OGC GeoRSS Encoding Standard17-002r1Carl Reed2017-08-18
GeoRSS is designed as a lightweight, community driven way to extend existing RSS feeds with simple geographic information. The Geo...Click to continue reading
OGC Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) and Scene Layer Package Format Specification17-014r5Carl Reed, Tamrat Belayneh2017-09-05
A single I3S data set, referred to as a Scene Layer, is a container for arbitrarily large amounts of heterogeneously distributed 3...Click to continue reading

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