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OGC is a consortium of experts committed to improving access to geospatial, or location information. We connect people, communities, and technology to solve global challenges and address everyday needs.

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We represent over 500 businesses, government agencies, research organizations, and universities united with a desire to make location information FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

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OGC is the home of geospatial innovation, collaboration, and standards. We are an international membership organisation that supports a diverse community of 500+ businesses, government agencies, research organizations, and universities, all working together to make location information FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

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OGC by the Numbers: Building an Engaged Membership

Our membership is driven, open, diverse, inclusive, accessible, and made up of fortune 500 organizations, governments, academic hubs for innovation, startups that are changing the location of landscape, and more.

530+

Total Members

84

New Members

17

Principal Members

9

Strategic Members

Featured initiatives

OGC manages an agile and collaborative research and development process — the OGC Collaborative Solutions and Innovation Program – that anticipates and solves real-world geospatial challenges experienced by our members.

Federated Marine SDI 2023

The fourth phase of the Federated Marine SDI Demonstration Pilot focuses on Digital Twins and the land-sea interface. It will be divided into three parts for testing in three different areas, namely Singapore, Canada and the Caribbean.

OGC Testbed-19

OGC Testbeds are OGC’s largest Collaborative Solution and Innovation (COSI) Program initiatives The COSI Program is formerly known as the Innovation Program. Testbeds boost research and development to make location data and information more FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-Usable. Additionally, testbeds provide a unique opportunity for sponsors to tackle location data and processing challenges together with the world’s leading geospatial IT experts.

USAGE

The Horizon Europe USAGE project (Urban Data Space for Green Deal) aims at providing solutions and mechanisms for making city-level environmental and climate data available to everyone based on FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable data). USAGE will support the implementation of the European strategy for data and various European Green Deal priority actions at the level where climate change is mostly felt: urban areas.

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Ensure that standards represent diverse perspectives and utilize the best in current technology by providing feedback on a potential standard or working group.

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Upcoming events

IN-PERSON MEETING

April 17 – April 18, 2023

INTERPRAEVENT 2023 International Symposium

INTERPRAEVENT 2023 International Symposium will be held in 17-18 April 2023 in Taichung,Taiwan. The main topic of the symposium “Natural Disasters Occurrence, Reduction, and Restoration in Mountain Regions” is focused on natural hazards from the aspects of investigating the phenomena, monitoring occurrences, analyzing risks, strengthening governance, increasing resilience, mitigating disasters, restoring impacted communities and enhancing preparedness.

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HYBRID MEETING

April 23 – April 28, 2023

EGU General Assembly 2023

The EGU General Assembly 2023 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.

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SPRINT (HYBRID)

April 25 – April 27, 2023

Open Standards and Open Source Software

2023 Joint OGC-ASF-OSGeo Code A Code Sprint is an event where dozens of developers from around the world come together to code and share their ideas. The main goals of this code sprint are to support the development of open standards for geospatial information and to support the development of free and open source software which implements those standards, as well as creating awareness about the standards and software projects. This code sprint will take place at Camptocamp\’s offices (near Lausanne, Switzerland) and on the OGC\’s Discord events server. It is organised by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and it is hosted by Camptocamp. You can find more details about the code sprint on the event\’s wiki page .

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Latest news

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March 30, 2023

OGC SensorThings API and OGC API – Features: Good Practice for European Spatial Information

OGC API – Features and OGC SensorThings API Standards are recognised as INSPIRE good practice for the provision of INSPIRE data.

Launching the Location Innovation Academy

March 27, 2023

Announcing the Launch of the Location Innovation Academy

New Location Innovation Academy empowers users to improve the accessibility, interoperability, and integration of their geospatial data and services, for free.

March 14, 2023

The new v5.5 of TEAM Engine on the OGC Validator

TEAM Engine is the open source software used for validating compliance to OGC Standards. Version 5.5 of TEAM Engine brings some exciting improvements.

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