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A Message from Prashant Shukle on Behalf of the OGC Board of Directors

The Board of the OGC has started to develop a transparent, objective, merit-based process for the next Chief Executive Officer of the Open Geospatial Consortium.

Ordnance Survey GB and Next Generation OGC API Standards

Pairing Ordnance Survey's new, easier-to-use data with OGC's new easy-to-use OGC APIs, OS has launched the OS NGD API – Features product, which provides access...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on Creating new GeoDataCube Standards Working Group

New Standard Working Group will improve data interoperability of GeoDataCube for Analysis Ready Data. The public comment period for the GeoDataCubes SWG will end 19...

OGC seeking public comment on update to GeoSPARQL Standard

Update improves core standard, documentation, and exemplification. Comments should be submitted via the method outlined on the GeoSPARQL v1.1 Standard's public comment request page. Comments due 13 February,...

Public Comment Requested on Draft Charter for new OGC Analysis Ready Data Standards Working Group

New OGC Working Group will develop a multi-part Standard for geospatial Analysis Ready Data products, which can be integrated and analyzed with minimal user effort.

OGC Testbed-19 Call For Sponsors: Interoperability and Collaboration from Oceans to Space

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is currently preparing its next major Innovation Initiative, Testbed-19, which builds upon the success and outcomes of Testbed-17, Testbed-18, and...

OGC API – Tiles – Part 1: Core adopted as official OGC Standard

The release of OGC API - Tiles as an OGC Standard signals a new era in how tiled geospatial information is served over the Web.

OGC Seeks to Retire OGC Moving Features Encoding Extension – JSON Best Practice; Public Comment Sought

Superseded Best Practice Document will be retired to ensure consistency in implementation.

Developers Invited to OGC API Web Mapping Code Sprint

OGC’s next hybrid code sprint will highlight and advance the latest in modern web mapping

OGC Seeking Information Concerning Regional and International Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure

Survey will help shape the OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (FMSDI) Pilot and potential future FMSDI activities to better serve the Marine Communitys needs.Impact...

OGC Membership approves Version 2.0 of the OGC 2D Tile Matrix Set and Tile Set Metadata Specification as official OGC Standard

V2 supports “tile set metadata” that can be used to describe common properties of a tile set, the layers & styles used to produce the...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on CityGML 3.0 Part 2: GML Encoding Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) 3.0 Part 2: GML Encoding Standard.The CityGML 3.0 GML...

OGC Calls for Participation in Climate Resilience Pilot

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has released a Call for Participation (CFP) to solicit proposals for the OGC Climate Resilience Pilot, a collaborative activity recognizing...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on v1.1 of 3D Tiles Community Standard

3D Tiles enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and metaverse applications.Previously referred to as “3D...

OGC seeks public comment on Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) Candidate Standard, which aims to formalize, as an OGC Standard,...

SensorThings API Standards Working Group proposes work on new Citizen Science extension; public comment sought on updated charter

New STAplus extension will be based on the OGC Best Practice for using Sensor Things API with Citizen Science.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public...

OGC seeks public comment on CoverageJSON Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the candidate CoverageJSON Community Standard.Another simple use case is to put data values for each...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on adoption of new version of CityJSON as Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on an updated version (v1.1) of the CityJSON Community Standard.CityJSON v1.0 was accepted as an OGC Community...

Ivan DeLoatch receives OGC Lifetime Achievement Award

OGC recognizes and celebrates Ivan’s lifetime of service and his steadfast support of geospatial open standards as a component of improved efficiency, governance, and decision-making.The...

OGC elects Dr. Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse to its Board of Directors

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...

Developers invited to the 2022 Joint OGC & ISO/TC 211 Code Sprint: The Metadata Code Sprint

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Technical Committee 211 (TC 211) of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) invite software developers to the 2022 Joint...

OGC Welcomes new Principal Member, the Saudi Arabia General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information

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...

OGC Calling For Participation in its Water Quality Interoperability Experiment

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...

OGC joins new Metaverse Standards Forum as Founding Member

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...

OGC seeking Public Comment on Deprecation of v1.0 of the Geographic Information – Well Known Text Representation of Coordinate Reference Systems Standard

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...

OGC Compliance Certification Available for GeoRSS v1.0

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...

OGC invites developers to the Quansight Automated Data Science Developer Sprint

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...

Developers Invited to the July 2022 OGC API Vector Data Code Sprint

The July 2022 OGC API Virtual Code Sprint will further refine several OGC APIs as they move towards becoming official OGC Standards.The Open Geospatial Consortium...

OGC seeks Public Comment on charter for proposed Geo for Open Metaverse Domain Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft charter of the proposed OGC Geo for Open Metaverse Domain Working Group (Metaverse DWG).Much...

OGC and OSGeo, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, sign new Memorandum of Understanding

OGC and OSGeo have renewed their partnership in support of closer collaboration to advance Open Geospatial Standards and Open Source Geospatial Software.The Open Geospatial Consortium...

OGC Seeking Public Comment on GeoPackage WKT for Coordinate Reference Systems Extension Candidate Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) on the GeoPackage Well Known Text (WKT) for Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) Extension candidate standard.The candidate standard revises and replaces...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on the GeoPackage Conceptual Model Candidate Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the GeoPackage Conceptual Model Candidate Standard.The GeoPackage Conceptual Model Candidate Standard documents an OGC Conceptual and...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on update to 3D Tiles Community Standard

3D Tiles enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and metaverse applications.3D Tiles 1.1 promotes several...

Results of OGC’s biggest Innovation Initiative in 2021, Testbed-17, are now available

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has published the outcomes of 2021’s biggest research and development initiative, Testbed-17.The key outcomes, including detailed Engineering Reports, overview presentations,...

Developers Invited to the May 2022 OGC Space Partitions Code Sprint; Sponsorship Opportunities Available

The Sprint will focus on all parts of OGC API - Discrete Global Systems (DGGS), OGC API - Tiles, OGC API - Coverages, and OGC...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on new Routing API and Exchange Model Standards

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC API - Routes - Part 1: Core Standard and related candidate OGC Route...

OGC seeks public comment on candidate OGC API – Tiles – Part 1: Core Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC API - Tiles - Part 1: Core Standard.As with other OGC API Standards,...

OGC CEO Dr. Nadine Alameh appointed to US National Geospatial Advisory Committee

NGAC provides advice and recommendations to the US Federal Government on US national geospatial policy and management issues, the development of the US NSDI, and...

Revised Guide to the Role of Standards in Geospatial Information Management unveiled as an online resource for the global community

The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) endorsed this edition during their Eleventh Session in August 2021, in decision 11/111.The...

OGC Calls for Participation in Testbed-18, its Annual Major Innovation Testbed; Funding Available for Participants

OGC Testbed-18 will pave the way towards new levels of interoperability in areas as diverse as New Space, Machine Learning, Open Science, and Building Energy....

Developers are invited to the 2022 Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint

The 2nd Open Source Software and Open Standards Code Sprint will advance multiple ASF and OSGeo projects, supported by OGC Standards, including OGC API Standards.The...

OGC Publishes Best Practice for Earth Observation Application Packages

The new OGC Best Practice is a guide for developers that wish to package and deploy Earth Observation (EO) Applications for a selected Exploitation Platform.“OGC...

Call For Participation: OGC Geotech Interoperability Experiment

The Geotech IE will ensure that geotechnical engineering data can seamlessly move between GIS and BIM environments in support of engineering and infrastructure projects.The Open...

7 Key Takeaways from the OGC Climate Change Special Session

Article contributed by Steve Liang, SensorUp “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” The quote is originally from management consultant Peter Drucker and...

Prashant Shukle elected as Vice Chair of the OGC Board of Directors

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 Membership approves the OGC API – Processes – Part 1: Core specification as official OGC Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the OGC Membership has approved the OGC API - Processes - Part 1: Core specification...

Towards a Cloud-Native OGC

Article Contributed by Chris Holmes, OGC Visiting Fellow – About six months ago I started as the first ‘Visiting Fellow’ of the Open Geospatial Consortium. It’s been...

OGC Membership approves new version of 3D streaming Community Standard, I3S

A Scene Layer can be accessed in the form of a web service or Scene Layer Package (SLPK) – a file-based exchange format.The changes included...

Chris Little receives OGC’s 2021 Gardels Award

Congratulations to Chris Little, awarded the 2021 Gardels Award for leading impactful efforts in the meteorology and geospatial science communities, including his exemplary chairing of...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on OGC API – Common – Part 2: Geospatial Data

OGC API - Common - Part 2: Geospatial Data provides a common connection between the API landing page (defined by Part 1) and resource-specific details.The...

Towards a Cloud-Native Geospatial standards baseline

Article Contributed by Chris Holmes, OGC Visiting Fellow – In my previous post I laid out the vision for Cloud-Native Geospatial, but with this post, I...

UKHO becomes Strategic Member of Open Geospatial Consortium

By upgrading to Strategic Membership, UKHO will bring its expertise and leadership in accessing and utilising marine geospatial data in support of safe, secure and...

OGC Calling For Participation in the Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot

The OGC FMSDI Pilot will develop a federation of MPA datasets; assess current marine standards and data; and design a maturity model and roadmap for...

Esri’s ArcGIS enables thousands of datasets, maps, and apps for location

Article Contributed by Adam Martin, ESRI Open standards aren’t just about efficiency. They allow organizations across the globe to share information effectively and securely, and...

OGC seeks public comment on revision to the OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set and Tile Set Metadata Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is requesting public comment on a revision to the candidate Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set and Tile Set Metadata Standard.The...

Call For Participation in the OGC Routing Pilot Sprint

OGC Routing Pilot Sprint will help finalize the candidate standards for OGC API - Routes - Part 1: Core and the OGC Route Exchange ModelThe...

Invitation to Participate in the November 2021 Geospatial API Virtual Code Sprint

The next OGC Code Sprint will focus on developing and testing implementations of the joint OGC API - Features / ISO 19168-1:2020 Geospatial API for...

Seeking Participants for the OGC UxS Command and Control Interoperability Experiment

The OGC UxS Command and Control IE will test the suitability of a C&C data model for heterogeneous UxSs in a real-world environment.The Open Geospatial...

Paving the way forward for Building Energy Mapping and Analytics

This Article was Contributed by Eddie Oldfield, Senior Lead, Projects & Advisory Services, QUEST; Jessica Webster, Energy Planning Analyst, Natural Resources Canada; and Ryan Ahola,...

Dstl upgrades to Principal level of OGC Membership

As a Principal Member of OGC, Dstl will support the OGC’s innovation and standardisation activities to advance Geospatial interoperability and Open Standards for future defence...

OGC and T-REX partner to bring Geospatial Innovation and Standards to St. Louis

Under the MoU, OGC will connect with T-REX Geospatial startups to conduct GEOINT-focused research, development, training, and Innovation activities.T-REX operates the Geospatial Innovation Center (“Geosaurus”)...

Public Comment requested on new OGC GeoPose Candidate Standard, of use in 3D location applications

OGC GeoPose provides an interoperable way to express, record, and share the position and orientation of objects across diverse applications, users, devices, services, and platforms.

Compliance testing now available for ‘OGC API – Features – Part 2’ standard

Implementers are invited to validate their products using the OGC API - Features executable test suite, which is available on the OGC Validator tool.The OGC...

Major revision of the Geospatial Information Management Standards Guide endorsed by United Nations member nation

This article is contributed by Mark Reichardt – At the Eleventh Session of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Committee of Experts, member...

OGC Membership approves the CityGML v3.0 Conceptual Model as official OGC Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the OGC Membership has approved the CityGML v3.0 Conceptual Model for adoption as an official...

OGC and the National States Geographic Information Council sign Memorandum of Understanding

OGC and NSGIC partner to collaborate on promoting the uptake of location-based technology trends.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that it has...

Announcement: Invitation to Participate in the October 2021 OGC API Virtual Code Sprint

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites software developers to the October 2021 OGC API Virtual Code Sprint, to be held from October 26th to October...

OGC Testbed-18 Call For Sponsors: Collaborate and Innovate to Further Advance Location Technologies

OGC Testbeds provide a unique opportunity for sponsors to tackle location data and processing challenges together with the world’s leading geospatial IT experts.The OGC Innovation...

OGC announces support of the Locus Charter and the ethical use of Geospatial Information

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...

OGC seeks public comment on draft Simple Features 2021 standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on an update to the Simple Features Standard.In technical terms, Simple Features can model geometries which display...

OGC Seeking Sponsors for a new IDBE Pilot linking Geospatial and Building Information Models

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...

New revision to OGC GeoPackage Gridded Tiled Coverage Extension: Public Comment sought

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on version 1.1 of the OGC GeoPackage Extension for Tiled Gridded Coverage Data (TGCE).TGCE defines how to...

OGC invites Tenders for the Provision of Compliance Testing Software Engineering Consulting Services

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...

OGC to form new Planetary Domain Working Group; Public Comment sought on Draft Charter

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...

OGC Compliance Certification Available for v1.0 of the OGC CDB Standard

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...

OGC considering CoverageJSON as community standard; seeks public comment

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...

Developers Invited To The July 2021 OGC API Virtual Code Sprint

Next OGC API Code Sprint will further advance OGC API - Processes, - Coverages, and - Records.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites software developers to...

Public Comment Requested on revision to OGC 3D streaming community standard, I3S

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...

OGC Compliance Certification Available for v1.1 of the OGC GeoTIFF Encoding Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the Executable Test Suite (ETS) for version 1.1 of the OGC GeoTIFF Standard has been...

OGC Compliance Certification Available for v2.0 of the Sensor Model Language (SensorML): Model and Encoding Standard

Products that implement the SensorML 2.0 Standard and pass the tests in the ETS can now be certified as OGC Compliant.The OGC Compliance Program is...

OGC CEO Dr Nadine Alameh Appointed to Board of UN-GGIM Private Sector Network

The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management Private Sector Network provides a conduit for the private sector to work with UN...

Public Comment requested on OGC API – Common candidate standard, which outlines common elements for all OGC APIs

OGC API - Common - Part 1: Core serves as a solid foundation upon which all OGC APIs can be built.OGC has documented these common...

OGC and CRN partner to establish a Unique Geospatial Real Property Identifier

OGC and CRN will work together to develop a unique geospatial real property identifier that has applications in housing finance and beyond.The Open Geospatial Consortium...

OGC Seeking Participants in the 2021 Disaster Pilot

OGC Disaster Pilot 2021 will prototype and demonstrate end-to-end capabilities that integrate OGC standards, data, services, and state-of-the-art technologies to support decision makers and responders...

OGC seeks public comment on new Sample Markup Language for Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Standards Working Group Charter

A key component of ML techniques and processes is sample data – data with known provenance, consistent metadata, and quality measurements that can be used...

OGC seeks public comment on 3D GeoVolumes Standards Working Group Charter

New SWG will develop OGC API - 3D GeoVolumes, which will integrate various current approaches to accessing 3D geospatial content over the web into a...

Developers Invited to Participate in the May 2021 OGC API Virtual Code Sprint

The next OGC Sprint will focus on further refining the draft specifications for OGC API - Maps, - Tiles, and - Styles.The Open Geospatial Consortium...

US Army Geospatial Center Upgrades OGC Membership to Advance Open Systems

AGC’s new level of OGC membership supports advancing standards for cross-system interoperability and geospatial information sharing.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce that...

OGC seeking participants in the Second Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Sprint

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces its Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC Interoperable Simulation and Gaming (ISG) Year 2 Sprint.This, the Year 2...

OGC welcomes Chris Holmes as its inaugural Visiting Fellow

Chris Holmes will bring to OGC invaluable insight and perspective to the on-going development of the OGC API family of Standards.

OGC Compliance Certification Available for v2.0 of the Observations and Measurements XML Encoding Standard

Products that implement the O&M XML 2.0 Standard and pass the tests in the ETS can now be certified as OGC Compliant.The O&M XML 2.0...

OGC seeks sponsors for a cooperative OGC – IHO Federated Marine SDI Demonstration Pilot

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking sponsors for a cooperative OGC – IHO Federated Marine SDI Demonstration Pilot.The Federated Marine SDI Demonstration Pilot will...

OGC Introduces Visiting Fellow Program

OGC Visiting Fellow(s) will bring diversity to OGC's technical and market thought-leadership, keeping the Consortium responsive and proactive to our community's - and wider society's...

OGC Membership approves and publishes minor update to GeoPackage

V1.3 is a minor update to GeoPackage, the open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has...

OGC membership approves new Community Standard: Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has added Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) 1.0.0 to the OGC Standards Baseline as a Community Standard.Indoor Mapping Data...

Public Comment sought on new OGC API – Features – Part 3: Filtering and the Common Query Language

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC API - Features - Part 3: Filtering and the Common Query Language (CQL)...

Public comment sought on new work items for OGC API – Processes Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on a revision to the OGC API - Processes Standards Working Group (SWG) Charter, which introduces new...

Public comment sought on v1.1 of OGC Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension

CIS extension revision enables OGC imagery-related standards to more concisely represent remotely-sensed imageryThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on version 1.1 of the...

Developers are invited to the 2021 Joint ASF – OGC – OSGeo Code Sprint

Code sprint will advance multiple ASF, OSGeo projects, and OGC standards - including OGC API standards, the building blocks for location.

OGC GeoTIFF Standard Working Group updates work items; public comment sought on new charter

GeoTIFF SWG is planning on minor and major revisions to the popular standard used for sharing geographic image data.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public...

OGC Members propose update to work of Features API Standards Working Group; public comment sought

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the proposed updated charter for the Features API Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose of the Features...

OGC seeks public comment on proposal to revise Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the proposal for a revision to the OGC Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) Community Standard.A Scene...

Public comment sought on update to the work of the CDB Standards Working Group, providing location in modeling, simulation, and gaming

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft updated charter for the CDB Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose of the CDB SWG...

OGC seeks public comment on new CityJSON Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on its adoption of CityJSON as an OGC Community Standard.CityJSON 1.0 provides a directly implementable JSON encoding...

OGC Seeking Information Concerning The Capture And Use Of Spatial Data During Health Emergencies

RFI for the OGC Health SDI Concept Development Study will support the development of a Health Emergencies Data Model and the design of a Health...

Building an Interoperable Routing Engine (Part 2)

Article Contributed by Ignacio “Nacho” Correas, Chief Technology Innovation Officer at Skymantics – There are two trade-offs that need to be carefully balanced: accuracy vs....

OGC Members propose new Features and Geometries JSON Standards Working Group; public comment sought

New OGC Working Group will develop a JSON encoding for geospatial feature data to support additional concepts that are important for the wider geospatial community...

OGC seeking additional sponsors for Disaster Pilot 2021

OGC Disaster Pilot 2021 will prototype and demonstrate end-to-end capabilities that integrate OGC standards, data, services, and state-of-the-art technologies to support decision makers and responders...

OGC seeks Public Comment on revised Abstract Specification: Observations and Measurements

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on a revision to the joint ISO and OGC Standard, Observations and Measurements (O&M).The O&M Standard defines...

Public comment sought on CityGML 3.0 Conceptual Model for storage and exchange of 3D city models

A key goal for the development of the CityGML Conceptual Model is to provide a common definition of the basic entities, attributes, and relations of...

Charles Heazel receives OGC’s 2020 Gardels Award

Congratulations to Charles “Chuck” Heazel awarded the 2020 Gardels Award for their continued contributions to the creation and advancement of OGC StandardsAt the December Open...

OGC Calls for Participation in its Next Major Innovation Testbed (Testbed-17); Funding Available for Participants

Draft specifications developed in Testbeds eventually move into the OGC Standards Program, where they are reviewed, revised, and potentially approved as new international open standards...

OGC Welcomes AWS to the OGC Community as a Principal Member

AWS joins OGC as a Principal Member to help accelerate innovation by supporting OGC’s open and consensus-based process of standards development.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

OGC Community approves new OGC API standard: OGC API – Features – Part 2: Coordinate Reference Systems by Reference

OGC API - Features provides the fundamental API building blocks to create, modify, and query ‘features’ on the Web.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited...

OGC simplifies EO data access and analysis through novel, standards-based technique

As part of the Earth Observation Applications Pilot, OGC Members have matured an architecture that allows software developers to easily package and share their applications.Further...

OGC announces kickoff to the Geospatially Enabled Ecosystem for Europe (GeoE3) project

3 year EU-funded project will improve access, interoperability, and harmonization of data, and build a data ecosystem based on national platformsThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

OGC Geopackage Standards Working Group updates its Charter; public comment requested

The Geopackage Standards Working Group (SWG) provides a consensus forum for revisions to the GeoPackage Encoding Standard including approved extensions as well as the development...

OGC invites developers to a virtual Code Sprint to refine the upcoming OGC API – EDR standard

The OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) candidate standard enables end-users to easily identify and retrieve a subset of data from ‘big data’ storesThe...

OGC and NRCan invite you to the Modernizing SDI Workshop

Workshop will focus on Geospatial Data Interoperability for Cumulative Effects and examine novel, standards-based solutions that address the challenges of integrating disparate data.The Open Geospatial...

Open Geospatial Consortium considering Apple’s Indoor Mapping Data Format as Community Standard

IMDF targets indoor mapping and provides a mobile-friendly, compact, and human-readable data model for any indoor space, providing a basis for orientation, navigation, and discovery.The...

OGC membership approves new standard: Symbology Conceptual Model: Core Part

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the Symbology Conceptual Model: Core Part (SymCore) as a new OGC Standard.The Symbology Conceptual Core Model (SymCore)...

SensorML 1.0 and Sensor Web Enablement Common 2.0 Executable Test Suites released

Implementers are invited to validate their products using the new test suites, which are available on the OGC validator tool.Testing involves submitting a SensorML or...

New OGC API standard for geospatial processing across the web; public comment sought before approval

OGC API - Processes simplifies the task of making simple or complex computational geospatial processing services accessible via web services.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks...

OGC and ODA Announce Strategic Partnership

Partnership between OGC and the Open Design Alliance will promote cooperation on open geospatial standards and allow users to do more with BIM, CAD, and...

Prashant Shukle receives OGC Lifetime Achievement Award

OGC recognizes and celebrates Prashant’s lifetime of service and his steadfast support of open geospatial standards and the OGC mission.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is...

We Remember with fondness the incredible life and contributions of Lance McKee

The OGC family has lost a cherished friend and impassioned supporter of the use of location information and open standards for good. We recently learned...

OGC announces new Initiative to build the future of Health Spatial Data Infrastructure; Sponsorship opportunities available

The resulting Health SDI will aim to serve as a Pandemic Early Warning, Response & Recovery Platform.As leaders in the interoperability of location information, OGC...

OGC seeks public comment on new OGC API for Environmental Data Retrieval

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval Standard.The OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval (OGC...

OGC Welcomes Microsoft to the OGC Community as a Principal Member

As a Principal Member of OGC, Microsoft will help advance OGC APIs - the new generation of location standards for integrating location-aware information in any...

OGC and FAA invite participants to the SWIM Discovery Service (SDS) Technical Review Workshop

Workshop participants will be informed of a specification critical to the future of service discovery in a global SWIM environment.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and...

OGC updates OGC Abstract Spec Topic 21 – Discrete Global Grid Systems; public comment sought before approval

The update, developed jointly with ISO TC211, enables 4D DGGS, aligns itself with other ISO standards, and more.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has proposed...

OGC Members update two best practices for Defence profiles of WMS and WFS; public comment sought before approval

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on updates to two Best Practice documents concerning Defence Profiles: DGIWG 122 Defence Profile of OGC’s Web...

OGC invites you to its Earth Observation Applications-to-the-Data Architecture Presentation Webinar

Webinar will present experiences and lessons learned on how to best exploit Big EO data stores and how to enable externally developed applications as additional...

OGC Members propose update to GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group; public comment sought on draft charter

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft updated charter for the OGC GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group (SWG).Since the release of GeoSPARQL...

Developers invited to three OGC API Sprints in Q3 2020

A series of Sprints will build and test prototype implementations of four draft OGC API specifications to ensure that they are as developer-friendly, usable, and...

Developers are invited to the OGC Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Sprint

The draft specification aligns with OGC Web API Guidelines and supports multiple 3D geospatial standards from the OGC portfolio, including 3D Tiles, I3S, CDB, and...

Call for Sponsors of Testbed-17: Collaborate and Innovate to Advance the Power of Location

Testbeds boost research and development to make location data and information more FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable.Testbeds provide a unique opportunity for sponsors to...

Compliance testing is now available for implementations of the ‘OGC GML in JPEG 2000 (GMLJP2) Part 1: Core’ encoding standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the Executable Test Suite (ETS) for version 2.0 of the GML in JPEG 2000 (GMLJP2)...

OGC adopts and publishes Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core as an official OGC Standard.Hierarchical Data Format Version 5...

OGC Members propose new Routing Standards Working Group; public comment sought on draft charter

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft charter for the new OGC Routing Standards Working Group (SWG).The Routing SWG will develop...

OGC Members Revise IoT Standard SensorThings API Part 1 – Sensing; Public Comment Sought

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on Version 1.1 of the OGC SensorThings API, Part 1 - Sensing.The OGC SensorThings API provides an...

OGC adopts Extension to its Moving Features Standard, enabling JSON Encoding

New Moving Features Extension provides a JSON encoding as an alternative to XML or CSVThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the...

US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) upgrades to highest level of OGC Membership

FAA upgrades to OGC’s highest level of membership to help drive standards and shape development priorities relevant to aviationThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased...

OGC seeks public comment on Version 1.3 of GeoPackage Standard

V1.3 is a minor update to GeoPackage, the open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information.Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment...

OGC and W3C invite web developers to a joint workshop series on Maps for the Web

Workshops will bring together experts in browser development, Web standards, and Web mapping client tools & applications to explore the potential of standardized maps for...

OGC seeks public comment on Version 1.2 of CDB Standard for use in modeling & simulation

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate CDB version 1.2 standard.CDB version 1.2 contains two substantive changes that are not deemed...

Compliance testing is now available for implementations of the ‘OGC API – Features – Part 1: Core’ standard

Products that implement the OGC API - Features - Part 1: Core standard and pass the tests in the ETS can now be certified as...

OGC Members move to create new Standards Working Group for Underground Data; Public Comment sought on Draft Charter

New MUDDI (Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration) SWG seeks to create models, standards, and mappings to fully represent underground infrastructure in context with...

OGC and buildingSMART International publish discussion paper on the integration of BIM and GIS

The Discussion Paper, entitled Built environment data standards and their integration: an analysis of IFC, CityGML and LandInfra, is free to download from OGC’s Discussion...

OGC members create new ‘OGC API – Styles’ Standards Working Group

The purpose of the Standards Working Group is to develop and maintain an OGC API - Styles core standard as well as extensions to that...

Results of OGC’s biggest Innovation Initiative in 2019, Testbed-15, are now available

The key outcomes, including detailed Engineering Reports, overview presentations, and videos, are freely available on the Testbed-15 webpage.OGC Testbed results, documented in Engineering Reports, are...

OGC and Natural Resources Canada issue a Request For Information concerning the modernization of spatial data infrastructures

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), an OGC Strategic Member, are requesting information to support the Modernizing SDI: Enabling Data Interoperability...

OGC and Ordnance Survey Invite Developers to the OGC API – Tiles Sprint

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Ordnance Survey, an OGC Strategic Member, invites interested developers to the OGC API - Tiles Sprint, to be held...

OGC announces candidate OGC API – Features – Part 2 standard; public comment requested

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the OGC API - Features - Part 2: Coordinate Reference Systems candidate standard.The OGC API family...

OGC API – Common candidate standard outlines common elements for OGC APIs; public comment requested

OGC API - Common documents common elements to be used in the OGC API suite of standards.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment...

Open Geospatial Consortium to Consider Apple’s Indoor Mapping Data Format as Community Standard

IMDF targets indoor mapping and provides a mobile-friendly, compact, and human-readable data model for any indoor space, providing a basis for orientation, navigation, and discovery.The...

OGC Invites Developers to its Environmental Data Retrieval API Sprint

New OGC Sprint event will focus on emerging standards for a data-centric Environmental Data Retrieval API that will promote quick and easy access to environmental...

OGC seeks public comment on revision to TimeseriesML standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on version 1.3 of the TimeseriesML standard.Through the use of existing OGC standards, TimeseriesML provides an interoperable...

OGC considering CityJSON as community standard; seeks public comment for new Work Item

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is considering CityJSON for adoption as an official OGC Community Standard.A new Work Item justification to begin the Community Standard...

OGC Announces Publication of Open Routing API Pilot Results

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced publication of the Engineering Reports documenting the work of the Open Routing API Pilot, including implementations developed and...

New version of 3D streaming community standard, I3S, adopted and published by OGC

A Scene Layer can be accessed in the form of a web service or Scene Layer Package (SLPK) – a file-based exchange format.The changes included...

OGC seeks public comment on Core Tiling Conceptual and Logical Models Abstract Specification Topic

Candidate Abstract Specification Topic defines a conceptual model for tiling space of any number of dimensions, as well as a logical model for tiling 2D...

OGC announces the creation of new ‘OGC API – Records’ Standards Working Group

The purpose of this Standards Working Group is to develop a new version of the OGC Catalogue Service standard for the World Wide Web.OGC Chief...

OGC announces the creation of new GeoPose Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces the formation of the GeoPose Standards Working Group (SWG).Participants in this new OGC SWG will focus on developing a...

Participate in OGC’s Testbed-16 and shape the future of location technologies

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is calling for participation in its next major Innovation Initiative, Testbed-16.OGC Testbeds give room for research and new ideas, while...

OGC announces virtualcitySYSTEMS as the winner of the 2019 OGC CityGML Challenge

The Manchester 3D Data Viewer was developed by virtualcitySYSTEMS as the winning entry to the 2019 CityGML Challenge.OGC’s CityGML standard is an open data model...

Linda van den Brink receives OGC’s 2019 Gardels Award

Congratulations to Linda van den Brink, awarded the 2019 Gardels Award for being “an outstanding representative both internal to OGC and external.”Linda van den Brink...

ESIP and OGC invite you to the Coverage Processing and Analysis API Sprint

This will be a key event in the development of OGC APIs for geospatial resources and building blocks for community APIs.The Coverage Processing and Analysis...

OGC Renews Memorandum Of Understanding With FrontierSI

OGC and FrontierSI continue to work together to reach out, innovate, and educate at national, regional, and international levels.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces that...

OGC Pilot Initiative seeks to advance the state of the art in UML-to-GML Application Schema (UGAS) transformations and related technologies; funding available for participants

The OGC UML-to-GML Application Schema Pilot 2020 (UGAS-2020) will improve and enhance the present capabilities of the open source tool ShapeChange in order to meet...

First of new OGC APIs approved as an OGC standard: OGC API – Features – Part 1: Core

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the OGC Membership has approved the first in its suite of OGC API standards, OGC...

OGC adopts Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set standard

The OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set standard defines the rules and requirements for a two dimensional tile matrix set as a way to index...

OGC Pilot Initiative seeks to mature standards-based “Applications to the Data” architecture; funding available for participants

The objective of this workshop is to understand the exact requirements of application developers in terms of data discovery, data loading, data processing, and result...

OGC updates IndoorGML standard to v1.1; seeks public comment before approval

IndoorGML v1.1 is fully compatible with the previous version IndoorGML v1.0.The OGC IndoorGML Encoding Standard was developed to provide a common schema framework for interoperability...

OGC considering OpenFlight Scene Description Specification as an OGC Community Standard; public comment sought before approval

OpenFlight is a 3D scene description file format widely used in the aviation simulation industryThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is considering the OpenFlight Scene Description...

OGC invites responses to its 3D Data Container and Tiles API Pilot Call For Participation; funding available for participants

3D Data Container and Tiles API Pilot seeks to assess a data container model and API that will support smooth transitions between 3D and 2D...

OGC invites you to its Augmented Reality Summit in Toulouse, France

What partnerships or collaborative projects can OGC members establish or expand to inform and advance interoperable AR?How will OGC members benefit from their collaborative or...

OGC announces new JSON Encoding Extension to its Moving Features Standard; seeks public comment before approval

New Moving Features Extension provides a JSON encoding as an alternative to XML or Simple CSVThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on...

OGC 3D streaming Community Standard, I3S, receives update: public comment sought before approval

Latest version of I3S standard, used for streaming large 3D datasets, adds Point Cloud Scene Layer type, improved performance, and more.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

OGC announces exciting agenda for two-day Location Powers: Data Science summit

Location Powers: Data Science will be held 13-14 Nov at Google’s Crittenden Campus in Mountain View, CAThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced the agenda...

GeoTIFF v1.1 adopted as an OGC Standard

The GeoTIFF 1.1 standard formalizes the existing GeoTIFF specification version 1.0 by integrating it into OGC’s standardization process.Approval of this GeoTIFF 1.1 standard begins the...

CityGML-Urban Planning ADE Ideathon will be held in Japan

In October and February, the Ideathon will discuss expanding the applications of CityGML and Urban Planning ADE in Japan, as well as the demand for...

OGC Invites Participants to Help Advance Vector Tiles Interoperability

Vector Tiles Pilot, Phase 2 will advance interoperability for vector tiles using established OGC standards and the latest OGC APIs - and help geospatial enterprises...

OGC DGGS Standards Working Group seeks public comment on new tasks of work added to its charter

The Discrete Global Grid Systems SWG will work with relevant working groups as necessary to embed linkages between DGGS and other standards in the OGC...

OGC announces next Location Powers Summit, focused on Data Science

Location Powers: Data Science will be held 13-14 Nov at Google’s Crittenden Campus in Mountain View, CAThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites you to its...

The Industrial Internet Consortium and the Open Geospatial Consortium Announce Liaison

Organizations will work together to help further IoT industry market adoptionThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC™) announce they have agreed...

OGC hosts successful launch of Smart Cities Tech Pilot

Left to right: Nadine Alameh, OGC CEO; Norman Speicher, Program Manager / Computer Scientist at DHS S&T; and Mayor Lyda Krewson, Mayor of the City...

OGC seeks to modernize its Observations & Measurements standards: public comment is sought on new scope of work

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests public comment on the recharter of the OGC Observations and Measurements (O&M) Standards Working Group (SWG).The ISO 19156 revision...

OGC and SSSI Working Together to Enhance the Capacity of Spatial Professionals Across Australia

Mr Simon Callaghan, Dr Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse, Dr Nadine Alameh and Mr Mark Reichardt (left to right)

OGC seeks public comment on Geospatial Coverages Data Cube Community Practice Document

By documenting real-world community practices behind Geospatial Data Cubes the document aims to promote coordination and common terminology that could lead to federated Geospatial Data...

OGC seeks public comment on draft charter for new Geopose Standards Working Group

The Geopose SWG will work towards a standard that will provide an interoperable way to express, record, and share the location, position, and orientation of...

OGC requests public comment on draft charter for new ‘OGC API – Catalogues’ Standards Working Group

The purpose of this Standards Working Group is to develop a new version of the OGC Catalogue Service standard for the World Wide Web.OGC Chief...

OGC invites you to the Disasters Resilience Pilot Demonstration Event

Getting the Right Information to the Right Person at the Right TimeThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites anyone who provides and/or uses geospatial data or...

OGC seeks public comment on Symbology Conceptual Core Model (SymCore)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate Symbology Conceptual Core Model (SymCore).The Symbology Conceptual Core Model (SymCore) is the basis for...

OGC Calls for Participation in its 3D IoT Platform for Smart Cities Pilot

The Pilot will focus on two scenarios: real-time monitoring of indoor occupancy; and real-time monitoring of micro-dust air pollutants.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested...

OGC invites you to its CityGML Challenge

Help to create visualization tools that support CityGML 3 and you could land a £5,000 cash prizeThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Ordnance Survey (OS), and...

OGC and RTCA Announce Signing of Memorandum of Understanding

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and RTCA, Inc. are pleased to announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate in promoting the...

OGC’s Dr. Nadine Alameh receives GeoIgnite’s inaugural ‘Diversity in Leadership’ award

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OGC announces the creation of a new Domain Working Group for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies

New BDLT DWG will build understanding of the importance of, and requirements for, geospatial standardization within these revolutionary, disruptive technologiesThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces...

OGC seeks public comment on major revision to OGC Abstract Specification Topic 0 – Overview

Abstract Specification Topic 0 - Overview.

OGC seeks public comment on candidate Sensor Model Language (SensorML) v2.1 standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate Sensor Model Language (SensorML) v2.1 standard.Sensor model images are useful because they contain geospatial...

OGC seeks public comment on update to GeoTIFF standard

Minor revision to GeoTIFF enables the use of newer coordinate reference systems and aligns it with OGC’s standardization process.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public...

OGC publishes Engineering Reports and Videos documenting successful Vector Tiles Pilot

Vector Tiles are an efficient way to package geographic data into roughly-square shaped tiles with many benefits, including fast loading and flexible styling.The Open Geospatial...

OGC calls for Sponsors of a major Innovation Initiative, Testbed 16

OGC Testbeds work toward solving critical interoperability problems affecting location-based technologiesThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued a call for sponsors for its latest innovative...

OGC invites developers to participate in the CityGML Hackathon

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested developers to the OGC CityGML Hackathon, to be held in London on 11-12 June, 2019.In this hackathon, participants...

OGC publishes results from its Testbed-14 Innovation Initiative

They describe prototypes developed by Testbed-14’s participating technology providers, and provide a clear vision on potential new or enhanced OGC standards.As with all Testbeds, the...

OGC invites developers to the OGC API Hackathon

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested developers to the OGC API Hackathon, held in London on June 20 & 21, 2019.The template will be...

OGC Invites you to Participate in its combined Disasters Resilience 2019 & GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested members & non-members to solicit proposals and participate in the combined OGC Disaster Resilience Pilot (DRP-2019) & GEOSS...

OGC invites you to participate in its SCIRA Smart Cities Public Safety Interoperability Pilot

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested members & non-members to submit a proposal to participate in the SCIRA Public Safety Interoperability Pilot and receive...

OGC invites you to a rail-themed Integrated Digital Built Environment (IDBE) Workshop

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and buildingSMART International (bSI) invite you to the next IDBE workshop on Monday, 1st April, 2019 in Heerbrugg, Switzerland.IDBE (Integrated...

OGC invites you to participate in its Open Routing API Pilot 2019

The goal of the Open Routing API Pilot 2019 is to develop an API that allows requesting routes from different providers in a coherent, standardized...

OGC invites you to its ‘Mixed Reality to the Edge’ Workshop this April in Tampa, FL

Visionary experts from Defense, Utilities, First Responders, and more will lead panels concerning the automation of workflows that bring 3D/4D geospatial content to users at...

OGC invites you to participate in its Maritime Limits and Boundaries Pilot

Pilot will advance an implementation model, architecture, and prototypes for sharing Maritime Limits and Boundaries information.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested members & non-members...

OGC requests public comment on draft charter for new Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (BDLT) Domain Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft Charter for a proposed Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (BDLT) Domain Working Group (DWG).The...

OGC invites you to indulge in a SELFIE: the Second Environmental Linked Features Interoperability Experiment

SELFIE aims to create a standards-based method to publish and use linked data thats compatible with current web development/W3C best practicesThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

OGC requests public comment on draft charter for new Portrayal Domain Working Group

The Portrayal DWG is being established to maintain consistency in the portrayal of geospatial data across a host of new technologies, including 3D, gaming &...

OGC adopts 3D Tiles as Community Standard

3D Tiles Community Standard is designed for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets for visualizationThe membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has approved the...

OGC invites you to participate in its UML-to-GML Application Schema Initiative (UGAS-2019)

Initiative aims to enhance the automated conversion of UML models to OWLThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested members & non-members to participate in OGC’s...

OGC Announces Open Invitation to Tender for Testbed-15 ESA Threads

This part of the Testbed-15 solicitation allows interested and eligible parties to join those Testbed-15 activities that are sponsored by ESAThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

OGC Announces New Leadership

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) proudly announces new Consortium leadership, effective 1 March 2019.“The Board of Directors is excited to announce the OGC leadership”, said...

OGC Calls for Speakers for its Marine Summit in Singapore

Image copyright United Kingdom Hydrographic OfficeThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is calling for speakers for the 1-day OGC Marine Summit, which will be held in...

OGC announces a Request for Information on Implementation Feasibility of Guidance for First Responder Body-worn Sensors

RFI responses will be used to further advance the guidance provided by the DHS S&T Next Generation First Responder Handbook.OGC and DHS seek information on...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on GroundwaterML v2.3 Candidate Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on an updated version of the ‘OGC WaterML 2: Part 4 – GroundWaterML 2 (GWML2)’ candidate standard.The...

OGC Calls for Participation in Major Innovation Testbed (Testbed-15)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested organizations to respond to the Call for Participation (CFP) for OGC’s Testbed-15 Innovation Initiative.Participants’ prototype solutions will implement...

Request for Information: “Mixed Reality to the Edge” Concept Development Study

Study will explore the convergence of real world data with virtual 3d/4d environments for mobile and disconnected users.Standards enable governments, non-governmental organizations, private industry, and...

OGC Announces its 110th Technical and Planning Committee Meeting, to be held in Singapore

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites you to attend its 110th Technical and Planning Committee Meeting, which will be sponsored by the Singapore Land Authority...

OGC invites you to its CDB Vector Data in GeoPackage Interoperability Experiment

Participants in this IE will have the opportunity to explore one or more design alternatives using Geopackage to encode vector data in their own CDB...

OGC appoints Kumar Navulur and Frank Suykens to Board of Directors

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced the appointment of Kumar Navulur (left) and Frank Suykens (right) to its Board of Directors.Navulur and Dr. Suykens...

OGC and World Geospatial Industry Council sign Memorandum of Understanding to Promote the Power of Location-Based Technologies

At the InterGEO event in Frankfurt, Germany, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...

Mark Reichardt Receives Special Edition of OGC Gardels Award

Congratulations to outgoing President & CEO, Mark Reichardt, awarded a special edition of the Gardel’s Award in recognition of his years of commitment to, leadership...

OGC seeks public comment on PipelineML candidate standard, to support the interchange of data pertaining to oil and gas pipeline systems

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the candidate PipelineML Conceptual and Encoding Model Standard (PipelineML).The standard is a deliverable of the...

OGC calls for sponsors for a pilot to improve discovery, access and use of online disaster-related geographic information

Disasters Pilot will benefit all disaster stakeholders through improved access to the expanding sphere of online disaster-related geographic information.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking...

Announcing the OGC Energy & Utilities Summit, to be held as part of OGC’s December TC Meeting in Charlotte

2nd Energy & Utilities Summit will examine the role of OGC standards in support of Smart Energy Utilities, Smart Energy Communities, and Smart Energy Networks.The...

OGC seeks public comment on adoption of two jointly developed OGC/W3C standards

OGC/W3C Time Ontology in OWL (OWL-Time) and Semantic Sensor Network (SSN) Ontology standards were prepared by the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group and...

Open Geospatial Consortium announces HERE Technologies has joined OGC as a Principal Member

As Principal Member, HERE will help to explore market and technology trends to drive standards for the development of interoperable location servicesThe Open Geospatial Consortium...

OGC announces a Request for Information on Marine Concept Development Study

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is requesting information to help shape the Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Concept Development Study (MSDI- CDS), which will assess the...

Open Geospatial Consortium and Natural Resources Canada partner on Geospatial Innovation

Additionally, NRCan will now participate in final approval decisions for all OGC standards and nominations to the Board of Directors.www.nrcan.gc.caNRCan has been a key proponent...

OGC seeks public comment on Symbology Conceptual Core Model

SCCM aims to offer a consistent approach to specifying data portrayal and symbology rules that will increase consistency between mapsThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks...

OGC adopts new revision to GML in JPEG 2000 (GMLJP2), allowing standardized markup for rectified and referenceable imagery

Sensor model images are useful because they contain geospatial information that is lost upon processing into rectified ‘map’ images.The 2.1 revision adds support for referenceable...

OGC and Khronos Form a Liaison to Improve Interoperability between the Geospatial and 3D Graphics Communities

Further, OGC will adopt published Khronos standards as part of the OGC Standards Baseline where it believes their inclusion to be appropriate, or where Khronos...

OGC requests comment on candidate standard: Geographic Information — Well Known Text Representation Of Coordinate Reference Systems

New edition is aligned with the coordinate reference systems described in ISO 19111:2018, including dynamic geodetic reference frames, three-dimensional projected coordinate reference systems, datum ensembles,...

OGC seeks public comment on Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core Standard.Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) is...

Joan Masó receives OGC’s 2018 Gardels Award

Congratulations to Joan Masó from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (CREAF), awarded the 2018 Gardels Award for being ‘the hardest working OGC member out there.’Joan Masó...

OGC invites you to the Marine SDI (MDSI) Concept Development Study Workshop in Washington, DC

Workshop will shape and inform the Study as well as future OGC activities regarding Marine Spatial Data Infrastructures.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites you to...

OGC seeks public comment on draft charter for Artificial Intelligence in Geoinformatics Domain Working Group

New DWG will aim to improve interoperability of geospatial data in Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning applicationsThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public...

OGC Seeks public comment on GeoPackage Related Tables Extension

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the GeoPackage Related Tables Extension.The GeoPackage Related Tables Extension (RTE) defines the rules and requirements for...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on MetOcean profile and extensions to WCS 2.1

Extension to and Profile for WCS 2.1 will enable MetOcean community to efficiently query and access required data contained in datacubes.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

OGC & SISO sign Memorandum of Understanding to Improve Interoperability within the Modeling and Simulation Community

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote collaboration in the Modeling...

OGC announces the creation of a new Domain Working Group for Interoperable Simulation and Gaming

New OGC Working Group has the goal of evaluating how standards will enable the modeling, simulation, and gaming communities to mutually benefit from ongoing technological...

OGC Calls for Participation in Vector Tiles Pilot

OGC Vector Tiles Pilot will create extensions for use in OGC Web Services, GeoPackage, and supply a conceptual abstract model that can be used across...

OGC seeks public comment on proposed Statistical Domain Working Group

New OGC DWG seeks to identify how geospatial and statistical standards can support the integration of geospatial information into the statistical system.The Open Geospatial Consortium...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on new version of OpenSearch for Earth Observation Suite of Standards

Revision to OpenSearch extension for Earth Observation related searches includes two new encodings of the extension model using GeoJSON and JSON-LD.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on WFS 3.0 Candidate Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the latest version of the Web Feature Service standard: WFS 3.0.An OGC Web Feature Service (WFS)...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on 3D Tiles Candidate Community Standard

3D Tiles Community Standard is designed for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets for visualizationThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the 3D...

OGC seeks public comment on Part 1 of the Features and Geometries Candidate Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on Part 1 of the Features and Geometry candidate standard.The Features and Geometries candidate standard provides the...

OGC seeks public comment on Tile Matrix Set Candidate Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the Tile Matrix Set candidate standard.A Tile Matrix Set defines a tile indexing pyramidal system to...

OGC calls for participation its Borehole & Associated Data Interoperability Experiment

The Borehole IE will define a domain-neutral semantic for a general concept of boreholeThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested members & non-members alike to...

OGC calls for participation in its first Citizen Science Interoperability Experiment

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces a Call for Participation in its first Citizen Science Interoperability Experiment (CitSciIE).Further, the number of citizen science projects is...

OGC Calls for Participation in its Indoor Mapping and Navigation Pilot

The Indoor Mapping and Navigation Pilot will create and advance solutions to complex geospatial challenges related to indoor mapping and navigation for first responders.The Open...

OGC Invites you to the Disasters CDS Workshop at the NOAA Auditorium, Silver Spring, MD

Workshop will shape future activities to be led by OGC regarding disaster preparedness & response, and will inform potential Disaster Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI).The Open...

OGC calls for participation in its Underground Infrastructure Pilot Project MUDDI ETL-Plugfest

ETL-Plugfest will test and improve the Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration (MUDDI) using real-world data and integration scenarios as part of OGC’s Underground...

OGC announces creation of regional Canada Forum on Geospatial Standards

Members of the Canadian geomatics community have chartered the ‘Canada Forum on Geospatial Standards’ as a venue for collaboration on geospatial standardisation activitiesThe Open Geospatial...

OGC seeks public comment on new Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Domain Working Group

New OGC Working Group has the goal of defining a standards-based framework for cloud-based access to and analysis of EO data.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

OGC seeks public comment on new Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Domain Working Group

New OGC Working Group has the goal of evaluating how standards will enable the modeling, simulation, and gaming communities to mutually benefit from ongoing technological...

OGC announced as official partner of Earth Challenge 2020, a Citizen Science Initiative

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is proud to announce that is an official partner of Earth Challenge 2020, a citizen science initiative that will mark...

OGC calls for Sponsors of a major Innovation Initiative, Testbed 15

OGC’s 15th Testbed will use current technology trends to improve the way geospatial information is accessed and sharedThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued a...

OGC Calls for Sponsors for Maritime Limits and Boundaries Pilot

Pilot will further an implementation model, architecture, and prototypes for sharing Maritime Limits and Boundaries information.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued a call for...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on update to Abstract Specification Topic 2: Referencing By Coordinates

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the third edition of the Abstract Specification Topic 2: Referencing By Coordinates.The document was prepared by...

OGC invites you to the Disasters CDS Workshop at NASA Ames

Workshop will shape future activities to be led by OGC regarding disaster preparedness & response, and to inform potential Disaster Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI).The Open...

Open Geospatial Consortium announces the European Space Agency’s upgrade to Strategic Membership

ESA will also participate in final approval decisions for all OGC standards and nominations to the Board of Directors.Earth Observation information is vital to decision...

OGC seeks public comment on version 1.1 of CDB standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks comments on the candidate CDB version 1.1 standard.CDB version 1.1 is a minor revision and is fully backwards compatible...

OGC announces retirement of board members Michael Jackson and Jack Pellicci, appointment of Kristin Tolle

Two longest-serving OGC board members have announced their retirement; new appointment brings expertise in AI, machine learning, and other relevant technologiesThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

OGC requests responses to a survey regarding potential Professional Certification program

OGC is considering implementing a certification program to confirm individual’s competency in OGC standardsThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is considering developing a Professional Certification program.The...

OGC announces Part 3 of the WaterML 2 suite of standards, to aid in consistent identification of hydrologic features between systems

‘WaterML 2: Part 3 - Surface Hydrology Features’ standard forms the third part of the OGC WaterML 2 suite of standards that groups water-related OGC...

Open Geospatial Standards track at ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium 2018

The call for papers for the 2018 Symposium, including the Open Geospatial Standards track, is now openThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce...

OGC publishes Testbed 13 Engineering Reports

Engineering Reports document the outcomes of Testbed 13, including new interoperability prototypes and potential OGC standards.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has released 24 Engineering Reports,...

OGC joins ApacheCon as Community Partner and Geospatial Track lead

Call for papers for presentations outlining Apache projects that include geospatial data and processing closes 30th MarchThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has become an ApacheCon...

OGC seeks public comment on Web Services Security Candidate Standard

Security Standard allows the hosting of OGC Web Services (OWS) over HTTPS as well as the implementation of Information AssuranceThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks...

OGC requests information to guide Disasters Interoperability Concept Development Study

RFI aims to gain understanding of the potential of a Disaster SDI in serving local, national, regional, and international stakeholders.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests...

OGC seeks public comment on GML in JPEG 2000 (GMLJP2) v2.1 Candidate Encoding Standard

New revision of encoding standard allows geospatial content (GML) to be added to JPEG 2000 images and other gridded coverage data.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

OGC seeks public comment on ‘SensorThings API Part 2 – Tasking Core’ Candidate Standard for use in the Internet of Things

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the OGC SensorThings API, Part 2 - Tasking Core Candidate Standard.The OGC SensorThings API is a...

OGC seeks public comment on Web Coverage Service (WCS) 2.1 Candidate Standard

Updated WCS 2.1 Standard will simplify access to spatio-temporal ‘big datacubes’The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the Web Coverage Service (WCS) 2.1...

OGC Announces Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Hackathon 2018

Hackathon will test the readiness of new, interoperable cloud-deployment architectures for processing of Earth Observation dataThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is calling for participation in...

OGC Requesting Responses to its Portrayal Concept Development Study

This new OGC CDS is the first step in improving the way that geospatial data is visually represented in web mapsThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

OGC Announces Disasters Interoperability Concept Development Study

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced the Disasters Interoperability Concept Development Study (CDS).The OGC is inviting anyone who provides and/or uses geospatial data or...

OGC Announces European Space Agency Invitation to Tender for Testbed 14 Thematic Exploitation Platforms

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites interested organizations to respond to Part 2 of the OGC Testbed 14 Call for Participation.Part 2 concerns the European...

OGC is seeking sponsors for Phase 2 of its Future Cities Pilot Project

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking interested Sponsors to define the challenges for Phase 2 of the successful Future Cities Pilot Project.About the OGC...

OGC Calls for Participation in Major Innovation Testbed (Testbed 14)

OGC’s 14th Testbed aims to explore new levels of interoperable geospatial data processing using core Web principlesThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested organizations to...

Data Model Development led by Fund for the City of New York advances OGC’s Underground Pilot Project

The utility data models that are being developed through the OGC Innovation Program include water, sewer, gas, electric, telecommunications, district heating, and transit.This effort is...

OGC seeks public comment on CDB Multi-spectral Imagery Extension

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on its candidate CDB Multi-spectral Imagery Extension standard.The Multi-Spectral Imagery extension defines how to encode and...

OGC Calls for Sponsors for Augmented Reality Pilot Project

Joint OGC and W3C Pilot project will propose standards to unite Augmented Reality, Web, and Geospatial technologies.(Image from Wikitude)The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and the...

OGCs 105th Technical & Planning Committee Meeting: Environment and Agritech focus

New Zealand’s first OGC TC/PC meeting will follow the ISO/TC 211 meeting in Wellington and be bookended by environmental data and agricultural data summits.Open Geospatial...

OGC Calls for Participation in its ‘Geospatial to the Edge’ Interoperability Plugfest

OGC Plugfest will advance, test, and validate the interoperability of geospatial software that implements specific profiles of open standards.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is calling...

OGC invites you to its Testbed 13 Demonstration Event

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites members and the public to attend the OGC Testbed 13 demonstration of the outcomes of its latest Innovation Program...

OGC seeks public comment on TimeseriesML 1.2 Candidate Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the TimeseriesML 1.2 Candidate Standard.Through the use of existing OGC standards, TimeseriesML 1.2 aims at being...

OGC supports American Geographical Society’s 2017 Fall Symposium, Geography 2050

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and symposium partners the American Geographical Society (AGS), GEO, and USGIF will present the AGS Fall Symposium, Geography 2050: The...

OGC announces a new standard that improves the way information is referenced to the earth

The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) as OGC Abstract Specification - Topic 21 [OGC 15-104r5].The...

OGC Announces New 3D Portrayal Service Standard

The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the 3D Portrayal Service (3DPS) 1.0 standard.Viewing 3D geospatial content from diverse sources has just...

Marie-Françoise Voidrot receives OGC’s Gardels Award

At the September meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Technical Committee in Southampton, UK, Marie-Françoise Voidrot received the OGC’s prestigious Kenneth D. Gardels Award.The...

OGC approves Community Standard for streaming 3D Content

The standard is referred to as the OGC Indexed 3D Scene Layer (I3S) and the Scene Layer Package Format (SLPK) Specification.These standards are released as...

OGC seeks public comment on proposed Geocoding API Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is requesting comments on the draft charter for an OGC Geocoding API Standards Working Group (SWG).The Geocoding API SWG aims...

OGC seeks sponsors for its Underground Infrastructure Pilot Project, releases Underground Infrastructure Concept Study Engineering Report

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling for sponsors of a pilot project that will implement and demonstrate the sharing of information concerning underground infrastructure.The...

OGC recognizes the IJIS Institute with Distinguished Member Award

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that the IJIS Institute has been awarded OGC’s Distinguished Member Award, and Steve Ambrosini a Lifetime...

OGC is seeking participants for its GeoPackage (GPKG) Related Tables Extension Interoperability Experiment

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces a Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Related Tables Extension Interoperability Experiment (GPKG-RTE IE).Compusult has proposed...

OGC seeks public comment on candidate ‘GeoPackage Extension for Tiled Gridded Coverage Data’ standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate GeoPackage Extension for Tiled Gridded Coverage Data standard.‘GeoPackage Extension for Tiled Gridded Coverage Data’...

OGC Invites you to participate in a Simulated Exercise at the Disaster Risk Reduction (DDR) Across the Americas Summit

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces a Call for Participation in a simulated disaster response exercise that will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina on...

Open Geospatial Consortium announces Leidos’ upgrade to Principal Membership

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Leidos has raised its membership level from Technical to Principal Level.Leidos will also participate in...

OGC publishes results of international Arctic Spatial Data Pilot

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce the publication of results from the Arctic Spatial Data Pilot (Arctic SDP).The Arctic SDP, an 18...

Open Geospatial Consortium announces Geoscience Australia as its newest Principal Member

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Geoscience Australia has raised its membership level from Technical to Principal Level.Geoscience Australia has been...

Open Geospatial Consortium announces Dassault Systèmes has joined OGC as a Principal Member

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Dassault Systèmes has joined the OGC as a Principal Member.Principal Members also participate in final...

OGC is calling for sponsors for an innovative interoperability initiative, Testbed 14

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a call for sponsors for an innovative interoperability initiative, Testbed 14.The OGC Innovation Program provides a venue to...

OGC invites you to its Environmental Linked Feature Interoperability Experiment: ELFIE

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites interested members & non-members alike to participate in the OGC Environmental Linked Feature Interoperability Experiment (ELFIE).In recent years, environmental...

OGC seeks public comment on candidate OGC Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard – Earth Observation Application Profile 1.1

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking public comment on its Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard - Earth Observation Application Profile 1.1.This OGC WCS...

OGC seeks comment on candidate InfraGML Part 7 Land Division Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking public comment on the candidate InfraGML 1.0: Part 7 – LandInfra Land Division - Encoding Standard.The candidate OGC...

OGC seeks comment on proposed GeoScience Domain Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comments on the draft charter of a proposed GeoScience Domain Working Group (DWG).The GeoScience Domain Working Group aims to...

OGC appoints Dr. Luis Bermudez to head OGC Innovation Program

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces Dr Luis Bermudez as the new Executive Director of its Innovation Program.Continuing OGC’s leadership in advancing geospatial information, OGC...

OGC seeks public comment on ‘GML Application Schema – Coverages, GRIB2 Coverage Encoding Profile’ Candidate Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking public comment on the candidate standard GRIB2 Coverage, an Encoding Profile of the OGC Coverage Implementation Schema.The candidate...

OGC requests public comment on proposed GeoRSS Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is requesting public comment on the proposed GeoRSS Community Standard.GeoRSS is the first OGC Community Standard to be released for...

OGC requests public comment on proposed Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is requesting public comment on the proposed Indexed 3D Scene Layers Community Standard.Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) was submitted by...

OGC approves new standard for geological science data

The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved GeoSciML as an OGC Standard.The OGC GeoSciML Standard defines a model and encoding for geological...

OGC announces kickoff of major innovation testbed – Testbed 13

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has announced that the Kickoff Event for the Testbed 13 Innovation Initiative will be held on 4-6 April at USGS’...

OGC publishes Moving Features Access specification as a standard for rapid and advanced utilization of location data for moving features

Moving Features Access defines location data access operations so that big data from moving features, such as people and vehicles, can be processed and analyzed...

OGC seeks public comment on proposed Unmanned Systems Domain Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comments on the draft charter of a proposed Unmanned Systems Domain Working Group (UXS DWG).The UXS DWG is chartered...

OGC calls for public review of proposed Common Object Model Container Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Common Object Model Container (COMC) Standards Working Group (SWG).The core philosophy...

OGC is seeking information on Geospatial APIs

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is looking for information on the existence of mapping and geospatial Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) as part of an OGC...

OGC seeks public comment on new Abstract Specification Topic for Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is requesting public comment on its Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) Abstract Specification Topic.The OGC DGGS Abstract Specification supports the...

OGC invites you to the Arctic Spatial Data Pilot demonstration

23 February 2017: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites members and the public to attend the OGC Arctic Spatial Data Pilot demonstration online or in-person...

OGC is seeking data and services for Testbed 13’s mass migration scenario

OGC Testbed 13 participants will implement services, access data, and demonstrate capabilities using the services and data identified during this RFI.The overarching theme for Testbed...

OGC invites expertise on underground maps and models

Any organization with an interest in underground infrastructure is invited to respond to the RFI before 15 March 2017.We have embarked on the formulation of...

OGC to initiate Phase 1 Development of Interoperability Standards for Underground Infrastructure Data

These funds, along with contributions from Ordnance Survey Great Britain and other contributors, will enable OGC to initiate the first of a three-phase project to...

OGC Calls for Participation in Testbed 13 Part 2 ESA Threads – Exploitation Platform, and invites all interested Testbed 13 participants to Q&A webinar

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites interested organizations to respond to Part 2 - ESA Thematic Exploitation Platform.The overall Testbed 13 Call for Participation (CFP)...

OGC seeks public comment on candidate GeoPackage 1.2 standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on its candidate GeoPackage 1.2 standard.Over the course of 2016, the GeoPackage Standards Working Group (SWG) made...

OGC Calls for Participation in Major Innovation Testbed (Testbed 13)

For the most up to date details on the OGC Testbed 13 CFP please see the CFP page http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/154 **The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites...

OGC seeks public comment on OGC WaterML 2 – Part 3, Surface Hydrology Features Conceptual Model

The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on its WaterML 2 - Part 3, Surface Hydrology Features Conceptual Model.The OGC WaterML...

OGC seeks public comment on candidate InfraGML encoding standards

The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on its candidate InfraGML standards.The candidate OGC InfraGML Encoding standards define the implementation-dependent, GML...

OGC Calls for Participation in its Indian Interoperability Plugfest

26 December 2016: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling to vendors doing business in India for participation in its latest Interoperability Plugfest.The Department of...

OGC requests public comment on its Coverage Implementation Schema – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the OGC Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) - ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension.This OGC Extension provides a set of native...

OGC invites participation in Electromagnetic Spectrum Domain Working Group

28 November 2016 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling for participation in its newly established Electromagnetic Spectrum Domain Working Group (EM Spectrum DWG).After...

OGC invites you to its Testbed 12 demonstration and exposition

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is inviting members and the public to attend the OGC Testbed 12 demonstration and exposition of the technology developed during...

OGC seeks public comment on a proposed work item for Indexed 3D Scene Layers as a Community standard work item

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is considering start of a new work item for a Community Standard: Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S).The Indexed 3D Scene...

OGC Requests comments on proposed Quality of Service and Experience DWG

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) requests comments on the charter for a proposed Quality of Service and Experience (QoSE) Domain Working Group (DWG).Spatial data now...

OGC approves Standard for use in the Modeling and Simulation World

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved CDB as an OGC standard.The OGC CDB standard is based on and derived from an industry developed...

OGC supports American Geographical Society’s 2016 Fall Symposium, Geography 2050

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and symposium partners the American Geographical Society (AGS), the Earth Institute, GEO, and USGIF will present the 2016 AGS Fall...

Stan Tillman receives OGC’s Gardels Award

At the September meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Technical Committee in Orlando, Florida, USA, Stan Tillman received the OGC’s prestigious Kenneth D. Gardels...

OGC requests participation in its Land Administration DWG

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling for public participation in its newly-established Land Administration Domain Working Group (Land Admin DWG).Worldwide, effective and efficient land...

OGC publishes Testbed 12 Aviation Thread Engineering Reports

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) recently approved the release of 7 draft public OGC Engineering Reports, products of the recently completed OGC Interoperability...

OGC seeks public comment for candidate Moving Features Access Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on its candidate Moving Features Access Standard.The OGC currently maintains two Moving Features Encoding Standards for capturing...

OGC is considering a proposed work item for 3D Tiles as a Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is considering start of a new work item for a Community Standard: 3D Tiles.3D Tiles is a publicly available open...

OGCs 100th Technical and Planning Committee Meetings to be held September 19-23 2016 in Orlando, Florida

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites you to attend its 100th Technical and Planning Committee Meeting, which will be sponsored by CAE and held at...

OGC requests comment on charter for environmental electromagnetic field data model Domain Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the draft OGC Spectrum Model Language Domain Working Group (SpectrumML DWG) Charter.The OGC SpectrumML Domain Working...

Location Powers Workshop to advance Geospatial applications of Big Data

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has announced its Location Powers: Big Data workshop, occurring on Tuesday 20th September in Orlando, Florida.The Location Powers: Big Data...

OGC releases CityGML Quality Interoperability Experiment Engineering Report

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has released the results of the CityGML Quality Interoperability Experiment (QIE) as a public Engineering Report.Carried out as a joint...

OGC adopts SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing as an official standard.The OGC SensorThings API provides an open, geospatially enabled way...

OGC requests participation in its Citizen Science DWG

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling for public participation in its newly-established Citizen Science Domain Working Group (Citizen Science DWG).As many citizen science projects...

OGC requests participation in its Marine DWG

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling for public participation in its newly-established Marine Domain Working Group (Marine DWG).The Marine DWG was established to address...

OGC announces v3.0 of its Catalogue Services (CAT) Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the release of version 3.0 of the OGC Catalogue Services standard.Catalogue services support the ability to publish and search...

OGC and SIBA sign Memorandum of Understanding

Further, SIBA will assist with local promotion and education regarding OGC standards in the Asia Pacific region, including advocating the use of OGC standards by...

OGC requests comment on revision of its GWML2 specification

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is requesting comments on the WaterML 2: Part 4 - GroundWaterML 2 (GWML2) candidate standard.The GWML2 standard is motivated by...

OGCs 99th Technical and Planning Committee Meetings to be held 20-24 June in Dublin, Ireland

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites you to join us for our 99th Technical & Planning Committee (TC/PC) Meetings - to be hosted by University...

OGC adopts WaterML2.0 Part 2 – Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Standard

The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the WaterML2.0 Part 2 - Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Standard as an official OGC standard.The...

OGC requests comment on charter for Land Administration Domain Working Group

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Land Administration Domain Working Group (DWG).Worldwide, effective and efficient...

OGC requests comment on charter for Coordinate Reference System Standards Working Group

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Coordinate Reference System (CRS) Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose...

OGC seeks public comment on CDB Candidate Standard

This OGC Candidate Standard specifies an open format and encoding for the storage, access and modification of a representation of the natural and built environment...

OGC seeks public comment on update of OGC® Abstract Specification Topic 11: Metadata from ISO 19115:2003 to ISO 19115:2014

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) requests public comment on the update of OGC Abstract Specification Topic 11: Metadata from ISO 19115:2003 to ISO 19115:2014.The OGC...

ASTM International and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) to Jointly Develop Standards and More through MOU

ASTM International and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) will collaborate on developing and disseminating standards, best practices, and other tools that support the growing geospatial...

OGC announces successful completion of Incident Management Information Sharing IoT Pilot

8 March 2016: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has announced the recent successful completion of the OGC Incident Management Information Sharing Internet of Things Pilot...

Harris Corporation becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that long-time member Harris Corporation has raised its membership from Technical to Principal level.Further, in this...

OGC seeks public comment on candidate OGC® Coverage Collection Extension

4 March 2016 - The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC® Coverage Collection Extension Standard.The candidate OGC®...

OGC announces Oil Spill Response Common Operating Picture recommended practice

As stated in the report, Responding to an oil spill requires access to and understanding of many types of information.Recent oil spills have provided lessons...

OGC requests information to guide Arctic Spatial Data Pilot

24 February 2016 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) requests information to help advance the “Arctic Spatial Data Pilot”.The Arctic Spatial Data Pilot is an...

OGC® announces kickoff of major interoperability testbed – Testbed 12

At the March 2-4 Kickoff Event, Testbed 12 Sponsors and OGC Staff will present the interoperability requirements and objectives for the six Testbed 12 threads...

OGC invites input to guide Point Cloud standards work

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Point Cloud Domain Working Group (Point Cloud DWG) formed late last year to assess the current state of standards and...

OGC® calls for Proposals for a Future City Pilot Phase 1 project

By demonstrating capabilities employed in a holistic urban planning scenario, the Future Cities Pilot will show how cities can begin to reap the benefits.The BIM...

OGC seeks public comment on candidate OGC® Land and Infrastructure Conceptual Model Standard (LandInfra)

01 February 2016 - The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC® Land and Infrastructure Conceptual Model Standard...

OGC announces simplified web mapping standard

25 January 2016 – The OGC announces that the OGC membership has adopted the The OGC® WMTS Simple Profile, which defines a simplified profile of...

OGC, InLocation Alliance and i-locate Project seek input on use cases and benefits of indoor positioning

21 January 2016 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®), the Inlocation Alliance (ILA) and the i-locate Project invite you to contribute to a survey on...

OGC seeks public comment on OGC Emergency and Disaster Management Information Framework Discussion Paper

20 January 2016 - The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the OGC Emergency and Disaster Management Information Framework Discussion...

W3C and OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group publishes First Public Working Draft of its Best Practices

19 January 2016 – The W3C and OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of its Best...

OGC seeks public comment on candidate Geospatial User Feedback Conceptual Model and XML encoding Standard

18 January 2016 - The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the following two candidate standards: OGC Geospatial User Feedback...

OGC® seeks public comment on a candidate standard that may replace legacy coordinate systems

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests public comment on the OGC candidate Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) Core Standard.The OGC DGGS candidate standard defines a...

OGC announces new Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure Project

4 January 2016 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces a new OGC Interoperability Program project called the Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure Standards and Communication...

OGC® announces new deadline for submissions to participate in Major Interoperability Testbed (Testbed 12)

16 November 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that there will be two separate submission deadlines and kickoff dates for “threads” of the...

OGC® seeks participants for international GeoPackage Elevation Data Interoperability Experiment

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces a Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Elevation Extension Interoperability Experiment (GPKG-EE IE).The OGC GeoPackage Standards...

OGC publishes Testbed 11 Aviation Information Management Engineering Reports

4 November 2015 – The OGC Members recently approved release of 26 public OGC Engineering Reports, products of the recently completed OGC Interoperability Testbed 11.While...

OGC and ASPRS to collaborate on geospatial standards, invite participation in Point Cloud work

2 November 2015 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) have agreed to work together more...

OGC® Calls for Participation in Major Interoperability Testbed (Testbed 12)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) in the OGC Testbed 12 Interoperability Testbed.Testbed 12 sponsors have documented...

OGC® seeks comment on the OGC OWS Context GeoJSON Encoding Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the OGC OWS Context GeoJSON Encoding candidate standard.The OGC Web Services Context Document standard (OWS Context)...

The OGC requests comment on the OGC® OpenSearch Extension for Earth Observation Standard

7 October 2015 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the OGC OpenSearch Extension for Earth Observation, a candidate OGC standard.This OpenSearch...

OGC requests comment on Publish/Subscribe standards for geospatial data

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the candidate OGC Publish/Subscribe Core (PSC) 1.0 Interface Standard and the OGC Publish/Subscribe SOAP Binding...

OGC requests participation in Point Cloud Domain Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is calling for public participation in its newly-established Point Cloud Domain Working Group (Point Cloud DWG).The purpose of the Point...

OGC requests comment on charter for spatial services security standards working group

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Open Web Services (OWS) Common Security Standards Working Group...

OGC requests comment on Discussion Papers extending access to 4D weather data collections

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on a proposed OGC Discussion Paper A MetOcean Metadata Profile for WCS 2.0 and the supporting...

OGC requests comment on standard model and encoding for timeseries data

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on proposed OGC standards for the representation of observations as timeseries, that is, a sequence of...

NRCan becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has raised its membership level from Technical level to Principal level.Led...

OGC announces Common DataBase Best Practice

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership announces OGC’s approval of the OGC Common DataBase specification as an OGC Best Practice.This OGC Best Practice specifies an...

OGC seeks input on GeoPackage extensions

23 July 2015 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) GeoPackage Standards Working Group (SWG) seeks public input to guide their development and prioritization of new...

OGC seeks sponsors for FutureCities Pilot

The FutureCities Pilot will bring together visionary sponsors to help define activities that meet cities spatial information requirements.Ordnance Survey, a Strategic Member of the OGC,...

OGC® invites organizations to co-sponsor a major spatial interoperability testbed

The encodings and interfaces often become candidate OGC standards that are vetted, voted on and then adopted by the OGC membership as open international standards.The...

OGC requests comment on extension that integrates OGC Web Coverage Service Standard with JPEG 2000 and JPIP

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the OGC® Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard – JPEG2000/JPIP Coverage Encoding Extension – abbreviated...

OGC seeks public comment on OGC Web Coverage Service – Transaction operation extension

The OGC membership seeks public comment on the candidate OGC® Web Coverage Service (WCS) - Transaction operation extension, version 2.0.The OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS)...

OGC® adopts WPS 2.0 standard interface for accessing computational services via the Web

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) Version 2 Interface Standard.The OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) Version 2...

OGC requests comment on draft charter for Hydrologic Features Standards Working Group

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Hydrologic Features (HY_Features) Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose of...

OGC seeks public comment on SensorThings API standard for Internet of Things

The OGC® membership seeks public comment on the candidate OGC SensorThings API Standard, Part 1.The OGC SensorThings API is a free and non-proprietary lightweight interface...

OGC® adopts updated KML Earth browser standard – KML 2.3

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that the OGC membership has approved the OGC KML 2.3 Standard.In early 2007, Google submitted KML to the Open...

OGC requests comment on charter for Point Cloud Domain Working Group

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Point Cloud Domain Working Group (DWG).The Point Cloud DWG...

Paul Scarponcini receives OGC’s Gardels Award

At the June meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) Technical Committee in Boulder, Colorado, USA, Paul Scarponcini, PE, PhD received the OGCs prestigious Kenneth...

Ordnance Survey becomes a Strategic Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

The OGC is pleased to announce that Ordnance Survey (OS) has raised its Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership level to become the first Strategic Member...

OGC announces Geospatial/BIM/Indoor Location Workshop

18 May 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces a Geospatial/BIM/Indoor Location (“GIS BIM”) Workshop to be held at the UCAR/NCAR Center Green in...

OGC announces Water Data Summit

15 May 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces a Water Data Summit to be held at the UCAR/NCAR Center Green in Boulder, Colorado...

OGC issues GeoPackage corrigendum

12 May 2015 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a corrigendum to correct minor flaws in the OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Encoding Standard.GeoPackage was...

OGC announces standard for concise description of Earth coordinate reference systems

5 May 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted the OGC Well-known Text (WKT) Representation of Coordinate Reference Systems Encoding Standard.The newly...

OGC calls for participation in GeoSemantics Summit

30 April 2015 – On 3 June 2015, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) GeoSemantics Domain Working Group will host a summit, GeoSemantics: Standards Intersect Ontologies.Well...

OGC Calls for participation in major sensor IoT interoperability pilot project

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) in the OGC Incident Management Information Sharing Internet of Things Pilot...

OGC® Compliance Overview – Guide for Software Acquisition white paper available

The OGC membership has approved “OGC Compliance Overview - Guide for Software Acquisition” as an official OGC white paper.This white paper provides an overview of...

OGC seeks public comment on the OGC WaterML2.0: part 2 – Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Standard

9 April 2015 - The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate WaterML2.0 - part 2: Ratings, Gaugings and...

OGC and ILA to Collaborate on Indoor Positioning

11 March 2015 – Two global organizations, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the InLocation Alliance (ILA), have begun working together to advance indoor positioning...

OGC Information Technology Standards for Sustainable Development white paper announced

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the OGC® Information Technology Standards for Sustainable Development white paper.This important document for environmental science, business and...

OGC requests comment on charter for group developing a terrain modeling standard

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Common DataBase Standards Working Group.The proposed OGC Common DataBase...

OGC® Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework white paper announced

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the OGC® Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework white paper.This paper addresses an open information technology standards framework...

OGC® adopts ARML 2.0, new open standard encoding for sharing Augmented Reality data

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the OGC® Augmented Reality Markup Language 2.0 Interface Standard (ARML 2.0).Augmented Reality (AR) content encoded in ARML...

OGC adopts Moving Feature Encoding standard

17 February 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the OGC Moving Feature Encoding Model and Encoding as an official OGC standard.Many...

OGC and OMA to Exhibit Together at Mobile World Congress 2015

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) today announced they will cooperate at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, March 2-5,...

Carl Reed to retire as OGCs CTO and Executive Director Standards Program

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that on January 31 Carl Reed retired from his position as CTO and Executive Director Standards Program at the...

GEO Announces Call for Participation in 8th GEOSS Pilot with OGC Leadership

30 January 2015 – The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the 8th phase of the Global Earth...

OGC announces Unified Geo Data Reference Model For Law Enforcement and Public Safety – an OGC Best Practice

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that it has adopted the OGC Unified Geo Data Reference Model For Law Enforcement and Public Safety as an...

OGC seeks public comment on candidate 3D Portrayal Service Standard

28 January 2015 - The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC 3D Portrayal Service (3DPS) Standard.Based on...

OGC requests comment on LandInfra Conceptual Model

22 January 2015 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) membership has issued a Request for Comments on the OGC LandInfra Conceptual Model.This document, the first...

Scott Simmons to lead OGCs Standards Program

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces that Scott Simmons will assume the role of Executive Director, Standards Program as Carl Reed leaves that position at...

OGC requests scenarios for Crisis Management ICT Workshop

21 January 2015 - The OGC and Fraunhofer IOSB have organized the Geospatial ICT Support for Crisis Management and Response workshop at ISCRAM 2015.Risk and...

OGC® adopts IndoorGML standard for encoding indoor navigation data

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the OGC IndoorGML Encoding Standard.This OGC standard specifies an open abstract data model and XML schema for...

Scott Serich appointed OGC Director, Interoperability Programs

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that it has appointed Dr. Scott Serich as Director, Interoperability Programs.Dr. Serich will support OGC’s participation in the Project...

OGC approves WaterML 2.0 Water Quality Best Practice

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the OGC WaterML 2.0 Water Quality (WaterML-WQ) document for publication as an OGC Best Practice.This OGC Best...

W3C and OGC to Collaborate to Integrate Spatial Data on the Web

6 January 2015 — The W3C and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced today a new collaboration to improve interoperability and integration of spatial data...

OGC seeks public comment on KML 2.3 standard

19 December 2014 - The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC KML 2.3 Standard.KML is an XML...

Trimble becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Trimble has raised its membership level from Technical Committee level to Principal level.As a Principal...

OGC seeks comment on new working group focused on disseminating lightweight “datacubes”

20 November 2014 – The OGC seeks comment on the charter for a new OGC Standards Working Group (SWG) being formed to develop an OGC...

The OGC adopts GML in JPEG 2000 (“GMLJP2”) Encoding Standard Version 2

19 November 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted the OGC GML in JPEG 2000 Encoding Standard (Part 1 - Core) (GMLJP2) version...

OGC Supports European Data Modelling Workshop

National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies and other spatial data infrastructure (SDI) content providers are facing increasing demand for making well documented data in known data...

OGC seeks public comment on the Earth Observation Metadata profile of the OGC Observations & Measurements Standard

17 November 2014 - The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate Earth Observation Metadata Profile of the OGC...

OGC and GEO announce joint session on GEOSS in Asia: The Next 10 years

November 13, 2014 - Join the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and invited speakers at a special joint session scheduled...

OGC announces KML 2.2 Test Suite

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has announced that the OGC Members approved the KML 2.2 validator as part of the official OGC Compliance Testing Facility.The...

OGC adopts OGC Sensor Observation Service 2.0 Hydrology Profile Best Practice

The OGC membership has adopted the OGC Sensor Observation Service 2.0 Hydrology Profile as an OGC Best Practice.The OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) 2.0 Interface...

OGC helps develop UN’s geospatial standards guide for UN Member States

The Committee recognized the important work done by three international standards development organisations: the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Technical Committee 211 of the International Organization...

OGC hires Dr. Ingo Simonis to lead geomatic sciences initiatives

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that it has appointed Dr. Ingo Simonis to the position of Director, Interoperability Programs and Science.As Director, Interoperability Programs...

OGC President Mark Reichardt to Deliver Geospatial Keynote at GEO-Energy Summit

The Open Geospatial Consortium – Mark Reichardt, president of the Open Geospatial Consortium, will deliver the geospatial keynote address at the GEO-Energy Summit and Educational...

OGC appoints Dr. Terry Idol as Executive Director, Interoperability Program

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that it has appointed Dr. Terry Idol as Executive Director, Interoperability Program.Continuing OGC’s leadership in advancing geospatial information, OGC...

The OGC seeks comments on candidate OGC Web Processing Service 2.0 Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGCⓇ) membership seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) Version 2.0 Interface Standard.The OGC Web Processing Service...

The OGC approves best practice for RESTful encoding of OGC Sensor Planning Service for Earth Observation Satellite Tasking

22 August 2014 – The Technical and Planning Committees have approved release of RESTful encoding of OGC® Sensor Planning Service for Earth Observation Satellite Tasking...

OGC announces new Urban Planning Domain Working Group

An OGC Urban Planning Domain Working Group (SWG) has been chartered to define the role for OGC standards and related activities within the Urban Planning...

OGC announces Big Data Domain Working Group

13 August 2014 – At the recent OGC meetings in Geneva, members of the OGC formed an OGC Big Data Domain Working Group.This OGC domain...

OGC publishes Testbed 10 Open Mobility location standards Engineering Reports

19 public Engineering Reports resulted from the Open Geospatial Consortiums (OGC®) OGC Testbed 10, the most recent in the OGCs yearly series of major geospatial...

OGC calls for comment on candidate Moving Feature Encoding standard

24 July 2014 – The OGC seeks public comment on a candidate OGC® Moving Feature Encoding Standard.Part I of this candidate standard provides a standard...

OGC publishes Testbed 10 Cross-Community Interoperability Engineering Reports

23 July 2014 – 24 public Engineering Reports resulted from the Open Geospatial Consortiums (OGC®) recently completed OGC Interoperability Testbed 10 (OWS-10), the most recent...

OGC calls for public comment on candidate standard for encoding coverages in JPEG2000

21 July 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership seeks public comment on the candidate OGC GML Application Schema - Coverages – JPEG2000 Coverage...

OGC announces new Geospatial User Feedback Standards Working Group

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) have formed an OGC Geospatial User Feedback Standards Working Group (SWG).The OGC Geospatial User Feedback SWG charter can...

OGC’s final call for sponsors of major location information interoperability testbed

The OGC is now planning OGC Testbed 11.The next Sponsors Planning meeting for OGC Testbed 11 is planned for 1100 EDT US on 16 July...

OGC seeks comment on charter for new Urban Planning Domain Working Group

An OGC Urban Planning Domain Working Group (SWG) is being chartered to define the role for OGC standards and related activities within the Urban Planning...

The OGC adopts Open Modelling Interface (OpenMI) Standard

1 July 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the Open Modelling Interface Standard Version 2 (OpenMI) as an OGC standard.By publishing...

OGC publishes Testbed 10 Aviation Information Management Engineering Reports

This information may be useful to implementors of OGC standards, but OGC Engineering Reports do not represent official OGC positions.The OGC Public Engineering Reports web...

The OGC calls for participation in a CityGML Data Quality Interoperability Experiment

The OGC calls for participation in an interoperability experiment to define data quality requirements for virtual 3D city models encoded in CityGML.An increasing range of...

OGC 3DIM honors Gerhard Gröger with OGC 3D award

During the 3rd OGC™ 3D Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, the second OGC 3DIM Award was given to Gerhard Gröger from the University of Bonn, Germany.He...

The OGC seeks comments on candidate OGC Web Map Tile Service Simple Profile

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC™) membership seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Web Map Tile Service Simple Profile of the OGC Web Map Tile...

OGC and ECCMA announce agreement to work together on standards for the identification and description of real property

The mission of the workgroup is real property data content standardization and seeks to foster the adoption of standards published by the organizations.Quality data as...

The OGC seeks comment on charter for GeoTIFF Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comments on the charter for a new GeoTIFF Standards Working Group (SWG).The OGC GeoTIFF SWG formation and process are...

New OGC Domain Working Group for Mobile Location Services

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has formed the Mobile Location Services Domain Working Group (DWG).The kick-off meeting of the new Mobile Location Services DWG...

The OGC seeks comment on Unified Geo-Data Reference Model for Law Enforcement and Public Safety (LEAPS) Services

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership seeks public comment on the Unified Geo-Data Reference Model for Law Enforcement and Public Safety (LEAPS) Services, with the...

US Intelligence Foundation promotes value of OGC standards at international conference

The Virginia-based United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) recognized industry innovation and employment of OGC standards to nearly 4,000 international attendees at the 2014 GEOINT...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on Catalogue Service Version 3.0 candidate standard

22 May 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Membership seeks public comment on a new version of the OGC Catalogue Service interface standard.Therefore, the...

OGC encourages attendance at AGILE & COBWEB Workshop – Citizen Science, Quality and Standards

The AGILE & COBWEB Workshop - Citizen Science, Quality and Standards will be held June 3, 2014 in Castellón, Spain in conjunction with the AGILE...

The OGC calls for presentations and invites public to the Third OGC 3D Summit

The primary topic for this year’s 3D Summit is State of the Art in 3D, with particular focus on the following aspects:1.This 3D Summit will...

The OGC® seeks public participation in Development of CityGML 3.0

In 2008 it was adopted by the OGC membership as an international OGC standard.Active participation in the CityGML 3.0 development process does not require OGC...

The OGC seeks comments on charter for PipelineML Working Group

16 May 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comments on the charter for a new OGC PipelineML Standards Working Group (DWG).The initiators encourage...

Pitney Bowes becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Pitney Bowes Inc. has raised its membership level from Technical Committee level to Principal level.Pitney...

The OGC adopts I15 standard providing ebRIM extension to OGC Catalog Services Interface Standard

12 May 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership as adopted the OGC standard, OGC I15 (ISO19115 Metadata) Extension Package of CS-W ebRIM Profile...

Register for the OGC Testbed 10 Webinars!

5 May 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites software developers, location service providers, spatial analytics experts, system architects and information system managers to...

The OGC seeks comments on charter for Big Data Domain Working Group

24 April 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comments on the charter for a new OGC Big Data Domain Working Group (DWG).The widespread...

OGC calls for participation in USGS Interoperability Assessment Virtual Exercise

USGS data services get over 1 million hits per day.As part of the USGS Interoperability Assessment Initiative, the OGC and its members are evaluating the...

The OGC® adopts OGC Geo and Time Extensions Standard for OpenSearch

24 April 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Members approved OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions as an OGC standard.OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time...

OGC Requests Host for Compliance Tools Infrastructure

To support the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Compliance Program, the OGC is accepting proposals from organizations that are able to host the OGC Compliance Tools...

Ordnance Survey becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

24 March 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Ordnance Survey has raised its membership level from Technical Committee level...

OGC announces new Discrete Global Grid Systems Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the formation of a new OGC Technical Committee Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose of this SWG will be to...

OGC invites research papers for OGC Academic Summit 2014 and ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI)

OGC PRESS RELEASEContact: info [at] opengeospatial.org4 March 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Academic Summit 2014 will be held 15-16 September 2014 at the...

OGC invites government information system managers to a GeoPackage Webinar

25 February 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Directions Media invite government information system managers to attend a free webinar on the new...

The OGC approves SensorML 2.0, advanced standard for Internet of Things

24 February 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the OGC Sensor Model Language (SensorML) 2.0 Encoding Standard.SensorML 2.0 provides a standard encoding...

The OGC invites comments on the candidate IndoorGML navigation standard

19 February 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) IndoorGML Standards Working Group seeks public comments on the candidate OGC IndoorGML Encoding Standard.The candidate OGC...

OGC invites Mobile World Congress attendees to GeoPackage and IndoorGML workshops and an Augmented Reality interoperability demo

18 February 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites Mobile World Congress attendees to attend workshops on the new OGC GeoPackage Service Interface Standard,...

The OGC seeks comment on revised GML in JPEG 2000 Encoding Standard

17 February 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comment on the candidate GML in JPEG 2000 Encoding Standard version 2.This geospatial data encoding...

OGC adopts important GeoPackage Standard for Mobile

13 February 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted the OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Encoding Standard.The GeoPackage standard will make it much easier to...

OGC, Layar, Metaio and Wikitude invite Mobile World Congress attendees to AR Interoperability Demo

Layar, Metaio and Wikitude, the largest AR platform providers, have cooperated to make it easy for AR content to be shared across their technology platforms.The...

The Open Geospatial Consortium and the Small Cell Forum Co-Operate to Develop Support for Indoor Location Based Services

Small cells can be used to support location services in a range of indoor locations including: navigation in airports, retail unit location in shopping centers...

OGC Announces Winners of OGC Student App Challenge, sponsored by Google

For his WalkYourPlace app, Mr. Poorazizi has won a Nexus Tablet donated by Google.Also, Mr. Poorazizi’s university, University of Calgary, will receive a two-year free...

The OGC forms working group to draft Point of Interest (POI) encoding standard

This group will develop a candidate POI encoding specification for possible adoption by the OGC membership as an OGC Standard.Considering the ubiquitous need for POI...

OGC announces new Compliance Fee Schedule

5 December 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced a new, simplified compliance fee schedule.The new fee schedule will take effect 1 March 2014.The...

OGC and USGIF invite I/ITSEC attendees to see how open standards integrate geospatial services with Modeling and Simulation

The USGIF M&S Working Group Demo is part of the I/ITSEC 2013 Modeling, Simulation & Training Conference, to be held this year in Orlando, Florida.The...

OGC and PODS Association plan to enhance PODS pipeline management standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium and the PODS Association, Inc. (“PODS”), have signed a liaison agreement to provide value for the members of each organization.Janet Sinclair,...

The OGC publishes new conformance tests for existing OGC standards

The OGC Compliance Program provides an online free testing facility to check for proper implementation of the standards, and a process for certification of products...

The OGC adopts OWS Context Conceptual Model and ATOM Encoding Standards

18 November 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted the OGC OWS Context Conceptual Model and the associated OGC OWS Context ATOM...

The OGC Seeks Participants in a WaterML 2.0 Ratings, Gaugings and Cross-Sections Interoperability Experiment

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites participation in the Ratings, Gaugings and Cross-Sections Interoperability Experiment (RGSIE), which will further develop and test the current OGC...

The OGC requests comment on the candidate standard, OGC® OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions

13 November 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate standard, OGC® OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions.This document extends the...

The OGC forms working group to advance spatial standards in health domain

4 November 2013 – At the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Technical Committee plenary meeting on 26 September, the Technical Committee approved the charter for a...

The OGC requests comment on the candidate I15 standard providing ebRIM extension to OGC Catalog Services Interface Standard

31 October 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate OGC standard, OGC I15 (ISO19115 Metadata) Extension Package of the...

The OGC Seeks Comments on Candidate GeoPackage Encoding Standard

30 October 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks final “last-call” public comments on the current draft of the candidate OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Encoding...

The OGC requests comment on proposal to update ISO 19107:2003 Geographic information – Spatial

The OGC requests comment on proposal to update ISO 19107:2003 Geographic information – Spatial29 October 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments...

The Open Geospatial Consortium and TM Forum agree to jointly address location information issues in the telecommunications industry

Mark Reichardt, president and CEO of the Open Geospatial Consortium, explained, Location and the communications infrastructure are linked in emergency management, cyber security, Building Information...

OGC partners with TECTERRA in hosting geospatial investment event

10 October 2013 - The OGC and TECTERRA invite resource industry professionals to the Opening Doors, Connecting Business event, Tuesday, 5 November 2013.TECTERRA, along with...

DigitalGlobe becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that DigitalGlobe has raised its membership level from Technical Committee level to Principal level.“The work the...

The OGC requests comment on the candidate standard Geographic Information – Well Known Text for coordinate reference systems

2 October 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate OGC standard, Geographic Information – Well Known Text (WKT) for...

Jeff de La Beaujardière Receives OGC’s Gardels Award

At the September meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) in Frascati, Italy, Jeff de La Beaujardière, PhD, received the OGCs prestigious Kenneth D. Gardels...

OGC and USGIF invite public to see how open standards integrate geospatial services with Modeling and Simulation

26 September 2013 – Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Working Group...

OGC Calls for input on Aircraft Access to SWIM (AAtS) Standards Harmonization

RFI Information:The RFI is available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/111.The FAA’s Aircraft Access to SWIM (AAtS) initiative is in a preliminary stage of requirements development and standards identification.The...

OGC and Ordnance Survey Call for Participation in UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest Leadership Event

The purpose of UKIAP 2013 is to advance the interoperability of geospatial products and services based on OGC standards within the UK geospatial information (GI)...

The OGC invites review of location data standards in energy and utility worlds

12 Sep 2013 – The OGC Energy & Utilities Domain Working Group (E&U DWG) invites you to attend presentations on Location Communication in Energy and...

OGC Geo4NIEM Webinar will demonstrate enhanced use of geospatial capabilities with the US National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)

The sponsors of the OGC Geo4NIEM Initiative:Program Manager – Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE)National Information Exchange Model – Program Management Office (NIEM PMO)and the Open Geospatial...

The OGC requests comment on the Interpolation Extension to the OGC Web Coverage Service Interface Standard

22 August, 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard Interpolation Extension.The OGC...

The OGC requests comment on the Scaling Extension to the OGC Web Coverage Service Interface Standard

20 August 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard Scaling Extension.The OGC...

The OGC requests comment on the Range Subsetting Extension to the OGC Web Coverage Service Interface Standard

8 August 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard Range Subsetting Extension.The...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Location Based Marketing Association (LBMA) to jointly address location information issues

The Location Based Marketing Association (The LBMA) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) recently signed a liaison agreement.Mark Reichardt, president and CEO of the Open...

The OGC requests comment on the Processing Extension to the OGC Web Coverage Service Interface Standard

23 July 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard Processing Extension.The OGC...

The OGC requests comments on proposed working group to develop Earth Observation extension to OpenSearch

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the charter [ available at: https://portal.ogc.org/files/54744 ] for a proposed OGC Standards Working Group (SWG).The new...

OGC Calls for Participation in Major Interoperability Testbed

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) to solicit proposals in response to requirements for the OGC Testbed...

The OGC requests comments on the OWS Context Encoding Standard

9 July 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate OGC OWS Context Encoding Standard.This standard is comprised of three...

The OGC requests comment on OGC WaterML 2.0 – Part 2: Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Discussion Paper

For Immediate Release27 June 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced a call for public comment on the OGC WaterML 2.0 – part 2:...

The OGC seeks public input on charter for proposed working group to draft a Point of Interest (POI) encoding standard

30 May 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public input on the draft charter of a proposed Standards Working Group (SWG) that will...

OGC , SIG 3D, and TUM announce workshop to gather CityGML requirements

29 May 2013 - The OGC CityGML SWG, the SIG 3D, and Technische Universität München will host a joint international workshop to gather requirements to...

The OGC calls for comments on the Open Modelling Interface (OpenMI) standard

2 May 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the OpenMI Association (OA) have announced a call for public comment on the Open Modelling...

OGC Announces Student Map App Challenge, sponsored by Google

10 April 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the OGC Student Map App Challenge, sponsored by Google, an OGC Principal Member.The Student Map...

The OGC requests comment on Coordinate Reference System Extension to Web Coverage Service Interface Standard

5 April 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced a call for public comment on the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Coordinate Reference System...

OGC announces creation of Middle East and North Africa Forum

In response to the growing interest and use of OGC standards throughout the region, the Ministry of the Interior hosted the OGC TC PC meetings...

OGC requests implementations for compliance testing, offers free licenses

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests implementations of the following OGC standards to be used in validating beta compliance tests:Specification Version OGC Geography Markup Language...

The OGC announces Best Practices Document for Earth Observation Product, Service and Sensor Discovery

20 March 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted as an official OGC Best Practice a document titled, OGC EO Product Collection, Service...

OGC  and buildingSMART International host Civil & Land Development Summit 2013

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Land Development Domain Working Group in partnership with buildingSMART International http://www.buildingsmart.org/ will host the inaugural Civil Summit as part of...

The OGC invites comment on GeoSciML 4.0 Standards Working Group charter

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of a new OGC Technical Committee Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose of this SWG is to progress...

The SI Organization, Inc. becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that The SI Organization, Inc. (the SI) has raised its membership level from Technical Committee level...

The OGC Approves Semantic annotations in OGC standards Best Practice Document

25 February 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted Semantic annotations in OGC standards as an OGC Best Practice.OGC standards provide standard ways...

GEO Announces Call for Participation in 6th GEOSS Pilot with OGC Leadership

20 February 2013 - The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the 6th phase of the Global Earth...

The OGC Forms Moving Features Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of the Moving Features Standards Working Group (Moving Features SWG).This group is chartered to develop a candidate...

OGC Approves Climate and Forecast (CF) extension to NetCDF Core data model standard

14 February 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted the OGC CF-netCDF Data Model extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data...

OGC Calls for Participation in Geo4NIEM Initiative to enhance geospatial capabilities for the the US National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) to solicit proposals in response to requirements for the OGC Geo4NIEM...

The OGC announces Call for Participation in MilOps Geospatial Interoperability Experiment

31 January 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC MilOps Geospatial Interoperability Experiment (MOGIE).The purpose...

The OGC requests comments on the OWS Context Conceptual Model and ATOM Extension candidate standards

18 January 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the OGC OWS Context Conceptual Model and the associated ATOM Extension document...

Lockheed Martin awarded the OGC’s Distinguished Member Award

At the January meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) in Redlands, California, Lockheed Martin, a global security and aerospace company, was awarded the Open...

The OGC announces Wide Area Motion Imagery Best Practices Document

14 January 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted the OGC Wide Area Motion Imagery Best Practices Document (WAMI BP) as an official...

The OGC Seeks Comments on Candidate GeoPackage Standard

8 January 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comments on the current draft of the candidate OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Standard.The GPKG Standards...

OGC Calls for Sponsors for 10th Major Interoperability Testbed

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a call for sponsors of the 10th annual OGC Web Services Testbed (OWS-10) (http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/ows-10).Sponsors of OGC testbeds provide...

The OGC Invites Public to Final Demonstration of Major Testbed Activity

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites interested organizations to attend the January 15 OWS-9 Testbed Demonstration and Exhibition.OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments are...

The OGC Forms 3D Portrayal Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of the 3D Portrayal Standards Working group (3D Portrayal SWG).This group is chartered to progress the Candidate...

OGC WaterML Standard Recommended for Adoption as Joint WMO/ISO Standard

10 December 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) reports an important milestone in efforts to have the OGC WaterML 2.0 Encoding Standard adopted by...

OGC and CRCSI working together to make data widely available

The Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information (CRCSI) has joined forces with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) through the signing of a memorandum of...

The OGC Seeks Participants for Ground Water Interoperability Experiment

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites participation in a Groundwater Interoperability Experiment (GWIE2).Participants will then prepare an engineering report with the intent to develop it...

The OGC seeks comments on candidate Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML 2.0) standard

2 November 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML) 2.0 Encoding Standard.ARML 2.0...

The OGC seeks comment on candidate SensorML 2.0 standard

5 November 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC SensorML 2.0 Encoding Standard.In addition, SensorML 2.0 includes the...

The OGC seeks comment on GML Coverages GeoTIFF extension and WCS 2.0 GeoTIFF extension standard

30 October 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comment on a GeoTIFF extension to the OGC GML Coverages (GMLCOV) 1.0 Standard and on...

Denise McKenzie Joins OGC as Executive Director, Marketing and Communications

29 October 2012The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that it has appointed Denise McKenzie as Executive Director, Marketing and Communications.Working with OGC staff, board, membership...

OGC Seeks Comments on NIL Extension to Geography Markup Language (GML)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate GML-NIL profile of the OGC Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding standard.The candidate OGC GML-NIL...

The OGC Forms GeoPackage Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of a new OGC® Technical Committee Standards Working Group (SWG) to advance the candidate OGC GeoPackage (GPKG)...

OGC completes 3D Portrayal Interoperability Experiment

19 September 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has completed the 3D Portrayal Interoperability Experiment (3DPIE).The 3DPIE was designed to test and demonstrate different...

OGC Joins ITU, participates in Joint Coordination Activity on Internet of Things

The OGC has previously participated in the ITU Joint Coordination Activity on Internet of Things (JCA-IoT).In the future, the OGC will consider participation in the...

OGC seeks comments on Land Information Domain Working Group charter

13 September 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the formation of a new OGC Land Information Domain Working Group (Land Info DWG) to...

Trevor Taylor joins the OGC as Director, Services for the Americas

Trevor Taylor joins the OGC as Director, Services for the Americas4 September 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has appointed Trevor Taylor to the...

OGC hires Lew Leinenweber and Bart de Lathouwer to fill key technical positions

21 August 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has appointed both Lew Leinenweber and Bart de Lathouwer to the position of Director, Interoperability Programs.These...

The OGC forms Energy & Utilities Domain Working Group

20 August 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of a new OGC Energy & Utilities Domain Working Group (E&U DWG) to...

Attend the OGC North American Forum Open Standards Technology Exposition!

Attend the OGC North American Forum Open Standards Technology Exposition!13 August 2012The North American Forum (NAF) of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is organizing the...

OGC Calls for Participation in Climatology-Hydrology Information Sharing Pilot

3 August 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) to solicit proposals in response to requirements...

OGC Seeks Comments on GeoServices REST API Candidate Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC GeoServices REST API standard.The GeoServices REST Application Programming Interface (API) provides a standard...

The OGC Forms Sensor Web for IoT Standards Working Group

The OGC members invite the public to comment on the Sensor Web for IoT SWG charter (https://portal.ogc.org/files/49608) and will consider comments received before 10 August...

OGC Requests Web Map Service Clients (WMS) Reference Implementations

5 July 2012 - To support compliance testing, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests reference implementations for client software that implements the OGC Web Map...

David Wesloh Receives OGC’s Gardels Award

David Wesloh Receives OGC’s Gardels AwardWayland, MA, USA, 26 June 2012.At the June meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) in Exeter, England, David Wesloh...

OGC and AGI host Interoperability Day 2012 – Open Government and Open Standards

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Association of Geographic Information (AGI) have joined forces to offer European organizations the chance to learn more about...

OGC Seeks Comments on NetCDF Enhanced Data Model Extension Standard

June 1, 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership seeks comments on an OGC candidate standard, the Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) NetCDF Enhanced...

OGC Energy & Utilities Group Invites Smart Grid Standards Presentations

This meeting, focused on Smart Grid standards, will be part of the upcoming OGC Technical Committee meeting to be held June 18-21 in Exeter.This group...