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# Open Geospatial Consortium: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is a global community of experts from more than 400 companies, government agencies, research institutions, and universities working together to solve complex problems using location technologies.

OGC members collaborate to develop open standards, advance interoperability, and turn ideas into real-world solutions through working groups, testbeds, pilots, and code sprints.

By bringing together diverse sectors and disciplines, OGC helps ensure that systems, data, and technologies work together — enabling better decisions for governments, businesses, and communities worldwide.

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## Posts
- [Federated Maritime Spatial Data Infrastructure (FMSDI) Phase 6 Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/federated-maritime-spatial-data-infrastructure-fmsdi-phase-6-pilot/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Federated Maritime Spatial Data Infrastructure (FMSDI) Pilot is advancing the interoperability, accessibility, and operational use of marine geospatial information through open standards and collaborative innovation. Building on the outcomes of five previous pilot phases, FMSDI Phase 6 marks the next stage in this work by validating best practices for federated maritime data sharing in complex operational environments. The Pilot focuses on dynamic data exchange, multi-domain access, metadata and semantic interoperability, and decision-making in data-constrained environments, using the Arctic as a representative application context that concentrates many of the most demanding challenges facing the global maritime geospatial community.
- [Creating Standards-Based Metadata: The Second Challenge in Geospatial Integration](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/creating-standards-based-metadata-the-second-challenge-in-geospatial-integration/): Earlier in this series, I introduced four common challenges that I frequently encounter in geospatial integration projects. After exploring the importance of knowing your data in the previous post, I now turn to the second challenge: creating standards-based metadata.
- [Three Signals from OGC Testbed-21 That Point to the Future of Geospatial Intelligence](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/testbed-21-future-of-geospatial-intelligence/): That challenge was at the heart of OGC Testbed-21, a year-long collaborative initiative sponsored by NASA and NGA. Bringing together experts from government, industry, academia, and the open-source community, the Testbed explored how open standards and open-source technologies can advance geospatial interoperability across emerging technologies.
- [OGC London Code Sprint Advances GIMI, GeoSciML, and 3D Geospatial Workflows](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/ogc-london-code-sprint-gimi-geosciml-3d-workflows/): Significant progress on GIMI, GeoSciML, and emerging 3D geospatial workflows highlighted the OGC London Builder Days Code Sprint (11–13 May 2026), where developers, standards experts, researchers, and practitioners came together for three days of hands-on collaboration and implementation.
- [Know your Data: The First Challenge in Geospatial Integration](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/know-your-data-the-first-challenge-in-geospatial-integration/): Earlier in this series, I introduced four common challenges that I frequently encounter in geospatial integration projects. This post explores the first of those challenges: knowing your data.
- [OGC Welcomes Friso Penninga to Its Board of Directors](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/friso-penninga-ogc-board-of-directors/): Friso brings more than two decades of experience in geospatial information, standards development, and spatial data infrastructure. As Executive Director of Geonovum, the Netherlands’ National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) organization, he works to connect government, industry, academia, and the broader geospatial community around the development and adoption of shared standards and practices.
- [OGC Releases the Features and Geometries JSON (JSON-FG) Standard](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-releases-the-features-and-geometries-json-json-fg-standard/): The JSON-FG Standard specifies the following mandatory extensions to the GeoJSON format:
- [OGC Publishes openEO as a New Community Standard](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/openeo-api-ogc-community-standard/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces the publication of the openEO specification as a new OGC Community Standard.
- [From Research to Implementation: Building Shared Infrastructure for an Automated World](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/from-research-to-implementation-building-shared-infrastructure-for-an-automated-world/): For several years, OGC has been asking an important question: how must geospatial data and processing offerings — and the standards they rest on — change as the world moves from systems that rely on human intervention to systems that talk directly to one another?That work, carried out through the Rainbow research initiative with the support of the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme and strategic partners including ESA, NRCan, UKHO, and NGA, is now complete.
- [Common Challenges in Geospatial Integration](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/common-challenges-in-geospatial-integration/): Data integration is often where geospatial projects slow down. It is a critical step in building a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), and it is often where a great deal of time is spent. This is largely due to the chronic lack of adherence to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles in many data sources.
- [Testbed on Trusted Data & Systems](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/testbed-on-trusted-data-systems/): Programme Overview and Work Streams Open Geospatial Consortium – v2.0 / 2026-03-20
- [Real-World Challenges, Evolving Standards: The MUDDI Story](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/real-world-challenges-evolving-standards-muddi-story-individual-membership/): The result is the MUDDI Model (Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration), which treats utility networks as interconnected systems, capturing not only core infrastructure such as pipes and conduits, but also the surrounding context that supports and connects them.
- [Building Influence Through Standards](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/individual-membership-building-influence-through-standards/): Geospatial careers often begin with tools, data, and solving immediate problems. Over time, the focus expands to how systems connect, how data moves, and how work scales across organizations. Standards sit at the center of that shift, not as constraints, but as the foundation that makes that connection possible.
- [Turning Hidden Risk into Visible Data: Mapping Underground Infrastructure for Cities](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/underground-infrastructure-mapping-muddi-standard/): Inspired by lessons from New York City’s 9/11 recovery, the MUDDI standard developed through OGC collaboration is helping cities better map and manage underground infrastructure.
- [Five Signs You’re Ready to Play a Bigger Role in the Geospatial Community](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/individual-geospatial-professional-community/): Most geospatial professionals begin their careers focused on technology—learning tools, building applications, and solving technical problems. Over time, however, something begins to shift. The questions we ask become broader. Instead of focusing only on individual tools or datasets, we begin noticing how systems connect, how ideas move across communities, and how the broader geospatial ecosystem evolves.
- [OGC Individual Membership Is Now Live](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-individual-membership-is-now-live/): We’re pleased to share that OGC Individual Membership is officially live.
- [At the Philadelphia Member Meeting, We Opened the Door Wider](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/ogc-individual-membership-launch/): Today, at the Philadelphia Member Meeting, we officially launched OGC Individual Membership.
- [From chat to map: How DGGS + Agentic AI turn geodata into verifiable decision-making bases](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/from-chat-to-map-how-dggs-agentic-ai-turn-geodata-into-verifiable-decision-making-bases/): Results from the OGC AI-DGGS for disaster management pilot– and what we now need to standardize to make "GeoAI" scalable, auditable, and interoperable.
- [The World Runs on Location: Ed Parsons on Scale, Standards, and Seeing from a Distance](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/the-world-runs-on-location-ed-parsons-on-scale-standards-and-seeing-from-a-distance/): Ed Parsons has spent his career working where technology, geography, and real-world decision-making intersect, often behind the scenes of systems that operate on a global scale. Best known for his work across digital mapping platforms and for his long engagement with open geospatial standards, he brings a rare mix of platform experience and standards governance to his role as Chair of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Board of Directors. At a moment when geospatial data is increasingly entwined with AI, real-time systems, and climate risk, Parsons reflects on what it takes to build technology that works across cultures, institutions, and everyday life.
- [Tonya Wilkerson Joins the OGC Board of Directors](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/tonya-wilkerson-joins-the-ogc-board-of-directors/): Former Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency appointed to OGC Board.
- [Announcement Regarding OGC Japan Forum](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/announcement-regarding-ogc-japan-forum/): The Open Geospatial Consortium provides a formal clarification on the operational structure, governance, and status of the OGC Japan Forum.
- [OGC Code Sprint: GEOINT Imagery Media for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (GIMI) standard](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-code-sprint-geoint-imagery-media-for-intelligence-surveillance-and-reconnaissance-gimi-standard/): OGC announces a hybrid Code Sprint (Jan 27–29, 2026) supporting the GEOINT Imagery Media for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (GIMI) standard.
- [From Mathematics to National Mapping: Fernand Bale on Elevating Côte d’Ivoire’s Geospatial Future](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/from-mathematics-to-national-mapping-fernand-bale-on-elevating-cote-divoires-geospatial-future/): Fernand Bale reflects on leading Côte d’Ivoire’s geospatial transformation and how OGC collaboration is accelerating innovation across Africa.
- [From Rotterdam to Reality: Inside the OGC Code Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/from-rotterdam-to-reality-inside-the-ogc-code-sprint/): The geospatial world is changing fast. AI is reshaping how data is created and interpreted. New APIs are emerging across domains. And organizations everywhere are trying to modernize aging systems without breaking what already works.
- [SDI Modernization Gateway ](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/sdi-modernization-gateway/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), in partnership with the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and our members, is spearheading an ambitious effort to envision the future of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)—the systems that underpin how location-based data is collected, shared, and used. The initiative, showcased through the newly launched SDI Modernization Gateway, highlights how members of the OGC Community envision—and indeed, are already building—the SDI of the future.
- [OGC Honors Keith Ryden with 2025 Gardels Award](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-honors-keith-ryden-with-2025-gardels-award/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce that Keith Ryden, Software Development Director, Operations & Standards, at Esri, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Kenneth D. Gardels Award. The award recognizes his exemplary contributions to advancing open geospatial standards, his commitment to community collaboration, and his influential role in shaping the foundation of modern geospatial interoperability.
- [Keith Ryden on collaboration, interoperability, and the evolution of open geospatial standards](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/keith-ryden-on-collaboration-interoperability-and-the-evolution-of-open-geospatial-standards/): Recipient of the 2025 Kenneth D. Gardels Award, Keith Ryden has spent more than two decades helping shape many of OGC’s most widely used standards. In this conversation, he reflects on how collaboration across competitors laid the foundation for today’s interoperable geospatial ecosystem—and why open standards continue to matter.
- [OGC Announces Publication of the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog Community Standards](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-announces-publication-of-the-spatiotemporal-asset-catalog-community-standards/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce the publication of the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) Community Standards. The STAC family of specifications aims to standardize how geospatial asset metadata are structured and queried. A “spatiotemporal asset” refers to any file that represents information about the Earth at a specific place and time.
- [OGC Membership Approves OGC API – Discrete Global Grid Systems – Part 1: Core as an Official OGC Standard ](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-membership-approves-ogc-api-discrete-global-grid-systems-part-1-core-as-an-official-ogc-standard/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce that its Membership has approved OGC API - Discrete Global Grid Systems - Part 1: Core as an official OGC Standard. 
- [Ed Parsons Named Chair of OGC Board of Directors](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ed-parsons-named-chair-of-ogc-board-of-directors/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ed Parsons, former Geospatial Technologist at Google, as Chair of the OGC Board of Directors, and Prof. Dr. Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse, Vice President & Director, Advisory & Innovation (Geospatial), Woolpert, as Vice Chair.
- [OGC Publishes Best Practice for UML to JSON Encoding Rules](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-publishes-best-practice-for-uml-to-json-encoding-rules/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has published the Best Practice for UML to JSON Encoding Rules.
- [Breaking Data Silos: How GDI is Transforming Access to Geospatial Information in India](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/breaking-data-silos-how-gdi-is-transforming-access-to-geospatial-information-in-india/): By: Bryan Paul Robert, Lead Engineer, CDPG-FSID, IISc; Mahidhar Chellamani, Engineering Director, CDPG-FSID, IISc; and Jyotirmoy Dutta, Director and Principal Scientist, CDPG-FSID, IISc
- [OGC publishes IndoorGML 2.0 Part 1: Conceptual Model Standard](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-publishes-indoorgml-2-0-part-1-conceptual-model-standard/): A conceptual model that enables interoperable representation of indoor navigation networks and spatial relationships
- [How Cities Can Beat Extreme Heat: Mapping the Invisible Killer](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/how-cities-can-beat-extreme-heat-mapping-the-invisible-killer/): A data-driven approach to understanding, predicting, and preventing heat-related deaths in urban neighborhoods.
- [OGC, Khronos, and Geospatial Leaders Add 3D Gaussian Splats to the glTF Asset Standard](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/ogc-khronos-and-geospatial-leaders-add-3d-gaussian-splats-to-the-gltf-asset-standard/): OGC, Khronos, and the geospatial community are integrating 3D Gaussian Splats into glTF—unlocking compact, photorealistic, interoperable 3D.
- [OGC Announces Publication of OGC API – Connected Systems and Updates to Supporting Standards](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-announces-publication-of-ogc-api-connected-systems-and-updates-to-supporting-standards/): The new Standard integrates dynamic data from systems such as sensors, drones, and satellites into modern geospatial applications using RESTful APIs.
- [OGC Wins ‘Best Geospatial Enabler Award’ at FOSSEE National Geospatial Awards 2025](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-wins-best-geospatial-enabler-award-at-fossee-national-geospatial-awards-2025/): We are delighted to share that the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has been honored with the ‘Best Geospatial Enabler Award’ at the National Geospatial Awards 2025, organized by FOSSEE, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
- [OGC Membership approves OGC API – Records – Part 1: Core as an official OGC Standard](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-membership-approves-ogc-api-records-part-1-core-as-an-official-ogc-standard/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has officially approved OGC API – Records – Part 1: Core as a new standard. This modern, API-based specification enables seamless discovery, access, and search of geospatial metadata across federated systems. Supporting various catalog deployments, it bridges the gap between legacy CSW implementations and new open web technologies—paving the way for broader geospatial interoperability and innovation.
- [From Ground Zero to Global Change: Alan Leidner on the Power of Underground Data](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/from-ground-zero-to-global-change-alan-leidner-on-the-power-of-underground-data-2/): Alan Leidner shares how 9/11 revealed the need for better underground data—and how that insight led to the global MUDDI Standard for smarter, safer cities.
- [Clark University joins the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/clark-university-joins-the-open-geospatial-consortium-ogc/): Clark University has joined the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), reinforcing its legacy in GIS innovation and environmental sustainability through its Center for Geospatial Analytics.
- [The “All or Nothing” Myth of Interoperability.](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/the-all-or-nothing-myth-of-interoperability/): Interoperability isn’t about perfection—it’s about progress. Learn how incremental, machine-readable standards unlock real ROI and reduce integration costs.
- [The Shift That’s Reshaping Geospatial—and Why It Matters Now](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/the-shift-thats-reshaping-geospatial-and-why-it-matters-now/): Geospatial systems are rapidly evolving from isolated data silos into dynamic, interoperable ecosystems. This shift enhances resilience, decision-making, and national development. Learn how standards, semantics, and sovereignty are redefining geospatial infrastructure and why this matters now more than ever.
- [The Vital Role of Undersea Cable Infrastructure and the Importance of Geospatial Standards](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/the-vital-role-of-undersea-cable-infrastructure-and-the-importance-of-geospatial-standards/): Undersea cables are the invisible lifelines of the global internet, yet they face growing threats—from accidents to sabotage. This article explores how geospatial standards from OGC, including MUDDI, enhance the security, monitoring, and resilience of this vital infrastructure powering global communications and economies.
- [The OGC Simple Features Standard: The Silent Backbone of Modern Mapping](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/the-ogc-simple-features-standard-the-silent-backbone-of-modern-mapping-2/): The OGC Simple Features Standard powers seamless geospatial data exchange—enabling smart maps, disaster response, and real-time navigation across platforms worldwide.
- [What Lies Beneath: The Standard Making Underground Infrastructure Smarter and Safer](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/what-lies-beneath-the-standard-making-underground-infrastructure-smarter-and-safer/): Discover how the MUDDI standard is transforming underground infrastructure data to build safer, smarter, and more resilient cities from the ground down.
- [OGC GeoPose Outreach to W3C and Khronos Group](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/ogc-geopose-outreach-to-w3c-and-khronos-group-2/): OGC’s GeoPose team recently engaged with W3C and the Khronos Group to promote adoption of the GeoPose 1.0 standard. Through presentations at Google HQ and the 3D on the Web event, they demonstrated how GeoPose enables interoperable, spatially anchored digital content for XR and web platforms.
- [How Esri’s Adoption of 3D Tiles Accelerates the Open Geospatial Future ](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/how-esris-adoption-of-3d-tiles-accelerates-the-open-geospatial-future/): At its 2025 Partner Conference, Esri announced it will integrate Google’s Photorealistic 3D Tiles into the ArcGIS ecosystem. The move is more than a technical milestone. It’s a bold endorsement of open standards—and the latest example of a greater shift towards openness in tech.
- [From Wildfires to Water Scarcity: OGC’s Open Science Demonstrator Is Turning Research into Real-World Impact](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/from-wildfires-to-water-scarcity-ogcs-open-science-demonstrator-is-turning-research-into-real-world-impact/): OGC’s Open Science Persistent Demonstrator (OSPD): A living lab for reproducible scientific results and reusable research
- [From Data to Decisions: Aligning for the Space Economy  ](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/from-data-to-decisions-aligning-for-the-space-economy/): Space is no longer just a frontier—it’s a marketplace, a battleground, and a lifeline.
- [Navigating the Era of Synthetic Imagery: Why Trust in Geospatial Data Matters](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/navigating-synthetic-imagery-trust-geospatial-data/): Discover how OGC’s Integrity, Provenance, and Trust (IPT) framework ensures data reliability, transparency, and accuracy across industries.
- [Cassie Lee Joins OGC as Chief Innovation Officer](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/cassie-lee-joins-ogc-as-chief-innovation-officer/): As OGC’s Chief Innovation Officer, Cassie Lee will leverage her expertise in aerospace, emerging technology, and AI to drive innovation and expand the Consortium’s impact.
- [Enhancing Security and Efficiency in Cross-Border Infrastructure with OGC Standards](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/enhancing-security-and-efficiency-in-cross-border-infrastructure-with-ogc-standards/): Critical infrastructure faces growing security risks. OGC standards enable interoperability, real-time monitoring, and risk management for underground cables and power lines. Join our Testbed initiative to drive innovation and enhance security. Not a member? Apply Today!
- [Bhuvan: Transforming India’s Governance with Geospatial Insights](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/bhuvan-transforming-indias-governance-with-geospatial-insights/): The Bhuvan portal, developed by the Indian Space Research Organization’s National Remote Sensing Centre, is powered by OGC Standards and caters to 150,000 unique users per day, achieving an impressive 20 million hits daily.
- [OGC approves two new Abstract Specification Topics concerning Coverages](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/two-new-abstract-specification-topics-coverages/): The new Abstract Specification Topics define fundamental concepts and operations for Coverages, the digital representations of varying phenomena over a specific spatiotemporal extent.
- [Registrations Open for the next OGC Code Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/registrations-open-for-march-2025-ogc-code-sprint/): OGC invites developers and other contributors to the next Open Standards Code Sprint, to be held from March 25-27, 2025.
- [Overture Maps Foundation at OGC Events 2024: Championing Open Data and Interoperability](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/overture-maps-foundation-at-ogc-events-2024/): Last December, the OGC@30 Anniversary Celebration and OGC Innovation Days DC 2024 brought together geospatial experts under the theme Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Futures.
- [AfroLeadership Joins OGC to Support Advocacy for Transparency, Accountability, and Citizen Participation in Public Policies](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/afroleadership-joins-ogc/): The civil society organization AfroLeadership, based in Cameroon and serving a wide swath of sub-Saharan Africa, has become a member of OGC.
- [A Recap of the 130th OGC Member Meeting, Goyang, Korea](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/a-recap-of-the-130th-ogc-member-meeting-goyang-korea/): Themed 'AI for Geo,' the meeting provided members with insights into what’s happening at OGC and how interoperable technologies are critical for tackling global challenges.
- [Côte d’Ivoire’s BNETD, a Key Player in Economic Development, Joins the Open Geospatial Consortium’s Global Community of Experts](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/bnetd-joins-ogc-principal-member/): OGC’s newest Principal Member, BNETD, assists the Government of Côte d'Ivoire and other countries in eastern sub-Saharan Africa with major economic development projects.
- [OGC Honors Geospatial Leaders and Dedicated Contributors at OGC@30 Anniversary Event](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-honors-geospatial-leaders-and-dedicated-contributors-at-ogc30-anniversary-event/): The high-profile awards recognize outstanding individuals and organizations for their exceptional contributions to the community.
- [OGC Membership approves OGC API – Moving Features – Part 1: Core as an official OGC Standard](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-api-moving-features-part-1-approved/): OGC API – Moving Features provides a standard way to manage and interact with geospatial data representing phenomena and objects that move and change over time.
- [OGC Membership approves OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval – Part 2: Publish-Subscribe Workflow as an official OGC Standard](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-membership-approves-ogc-api-environmental-data-retrieval-part-2-publish-subscribe-workflow-as-an-official-ogc-standard/): OGC API – EDR – Part 2 defines a web interface for efficient event-driven data updates, employing a Publish-Subscribe Workflow for real-time notifications.
- [Building a Stronger Geospatial Community: Overture Maps Foundation Joins OGC](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/building-a-stronger-geospatial-community-overture-maps-foundation-joins-ogc/): Uniting expertise to create open, interoperable geospatial solutions.
- [OGC Membership approves OGC API – Maps – Part 1: Core as an official OGC Standard](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-membership-approves-ogc-api-maps-part-1-core-as-an-official-ogc-standard/): OGC API – Maps supports the ability to generate maps by combining and rendering data from one or more servers into a single view, ensuring fast and efficient cartographic portrayal.
- [OGC Membership approves OGC API – Features – Part 3: Filtering as an official OGC Standard](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-membership-approves-ogc-api-features-part-3-filtering-as-an-official-ogc-standard/): OGC API - Features defines a web interface for creating, modifying, and querying feature data. Part 3 supports advanced filtering functionality using the Common Query Language (CQL2).
- [Bentley Systems increases investment in OGC and reinforces commitment to Open Standards following Cesium acquisition](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/bentley-systems-increases-investment-in-ogc-and-reinforces-commitment-to-open-standards-following-cesium-acquisition/): Bentley’s increased investment in OGC, coupled with its acquisition of Cesium, signals their commitment to a future built around open standards, data, and infrastructure.
- [OGC Membership approves Common Query Language (CQL2) as an official OGC Standard](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-membership-approves-common-query-language-cql2-as-an-official-ogc-standard/): CQL2 is a filter grammar supporting both text and JSON encodings that can be easily integrated into software applications.
- [OGC Approves Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration as Official Standard](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-approves-model-for-underground-data-definition-and-integration-as-official-standard/): MUDDI serves as a framework to make different datasets for underground objects interoperable, exchangeable, and more easily manageable.
- [Public Services on the Map: A Decade of Success](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/public-services-on-the-map-a-decade-of-success/): The Netherlands’ Cadastre, Land Registry, and Mapping Agency (Kadaster) maintains the nation’s register of land and property rights, ships, aircraft, and telecom networks. It’s also responsible for national mapping and the maintenance of the nation’s reference coordinate system and serves as an advisory body on land-use issues and national spatial data infrastructures. In its public service role, Kadaster handles millions of transactions a day.
- [OGC announces Christy Monaco as new Chief Operating Officer](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-announces-christy-monaco-as-new-chief-operating-officer/): As OGC’s COO, Christy will use her experience with federal agencies, partnership-building, event management, and member success to help grow and shape the Consortium.
- [A recap of the 129th OGC Member Meeting, Montreal, Canada](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/a-recap-of-the-129th-ogc-member-meeting-montreal-canada/): Themed “Standards enabling collaboration for global challenges,” the meeting focused on discussing, aligning, supporting, and promoting geospatial solutions around climate change, disasters, marine, AI/ML, and beyond.
- [Andreas Matheus receives OGC’s 2024 Gardels Award](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/andreas-matheus-receives-ogcs-2024-gardels-award/): Congratulations to Andreas Matheus, awarded the 2024 Gardels Award for his work to ensure best practices in security and API design in OGC.
- [Standards Enabling Collaboration For Global Challenges](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/standards-enabling-collaboration-for-global-challenges/): A preview of the 129th Member Meeting, to be held June 17-21 in Montreal, Canada.
- [Registrations Open for OGC’s July 2024 Open Standards Code Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/registrations-open-for-ogcs-july-2024-open-standards-code-sprint/): While all OGC Standards are in scope, the Sprint will feature three special tracks on Data Quality & Artificial Intelligence, Validators, and Map Markup Language (MapML).
- [OGC announces Peter Rabley as new CEO](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-announces-peter-rabley-as-new-ceo/): Peter Rabley will build on OGC’s 30 year history while responding to the pressing need for the consortium to be agile at a time of rapid technological and societal change.
- [A recap of the 128th OGC Member Meeting, Delft, The Netherlands](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/a-recap-of-the-128th-ogc-member-meeting-delft-the-netherlands/): OGC’s 128th Member Meeting, themed ‘GeoBIM for the Built Environment,’ was our biggest ever, with over 300 attendees from industry, government and academia.
- [Ecere Corporation receives OGC Community Impact Award](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ecere-corporation-receives-ogc-community-impact-award/): The award recognizes OGC members who, through exceptional leadership, volunteerism, collaboration, and investment, have positively impacted the geospatial community.
- [Geo-BIM for the Built Environment](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/geo-bim-for-the-built-environment/): The meeting will include a Geo-BIM Summit, a Built Environment Joint Session, a Land Administration Special Session, a meeting of the OGC Europe Forum, sessions on Geospatial Reporting Indicators, Observational Data, and more.
- [Enterprise Products: A Collaborative Journey with OGC](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/enterprise-products-a-collaborative-journey-with-ogc/): Enterprise Products collaborated internationally to help develop the PipelineML Standard, supporting the wider industry while optimizing the management of their pipeline network.
- [Enhancing capabilities by adopting Standards for emerging technologies](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/enhancing-capabilities-by-adopting-standards-for-emerging-technologies/): Good, domain-driven Standards-definition is key to a FAIRer technology landscape and eases the integration of emerging technologies.
- [OGC forms new GeoZarr Standards Working Group to establish a Zarr encoding for geospatial data](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-forms-new-geozarr-standards-working-group-to-establish-a-zarr-encoding-for-geospatial-data/): SWG to develop a GeoZarr Standard that establishes flexible and inclusive conventions for the cloud-native Zarr format that meet the diverse requirements of the geospatial domain.
- [Insights from Innovation Days 2023](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/insights-from-innovation-days-2023/): At OGC Innovation Days 2023, members of the climate, disaster, and emergency resilience and response communities gathered to explore what OGC-enabled geospatial technologies have made possible and to answer the question: what does OGC need to do next?
- [Announcing the 2024 Joint OGC ASF OSGeo Code Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/announcing-the-2024-joint-ogc-asf-osgeo-code-sprint/): 4th annual joint sprint will advance support of open geospatial Standards within the developer community – while advancing the Standards themselves.
- [In Memory of Jeff Burnett](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/in-memory-of-jeff-burnett/): With great sadness, OGC announces the passing of our cherished colleague, Mr. Jeffrey Burnett of Littleton, Mass, on 28 November 2023, from cancer.
- [How OGC Contributes to FAIR Geospatial Data](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/how-ogc-contributes-to-fair-geospatial-data/): Standards are a key element of the FAIR Principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability. As such, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has been supporting the FAIR Principles for geospatial information since its formation 30 years ago. This blog post offers an overview of select OGC Standards and components that support FAIRness in geospatial data.
- [OGC India Forum 2023: Key Highlights from Hyderabad](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/ogc-india-forum-2023-key-highlights-from-hyderabad/): The OGC India Forum 2023 brought together geospatial experts to discuss and find opportunities to invest and collaborate on open geospatial standards.
- [CLIMOS and a FAIR data-to-information value chain](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/climos-and-a-fair-data-to-information-value-chain/): The “raw data to information” value chain underpinning Climate Resilience Information Systems (CRIS) is only made possible when the FAIR data principles are respected – that they are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
- [A recap of the 127th OGC Member Meeting, Singapore](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/a-recap-of-the-127th-ogc-member-meeting-singapore/): Attendees spent the week discussing the latest geospatial innovations in areas such as GeoAI, Digital Twins, Data Quality, Intelligent Transport, connecting land & sea, and more.
- [Making The Data Count, Not Just Counting The Data](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/making-the-data-count-not-just-counting-the-data/): The UKHO’s Dr. Gerald J Wong explains how using the IGIF-(M)SDI Maturity Roadmap enables governments to better harness geospatial data that supports their nations’ socio-economic development.
- [European Innovation, Global Impact](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/european-innovation-global-impact/): OGC's ongoing contributions to European research topics, driven by projects co-funded by the European Commission (EC), cover areas such as data spaces, climate, digital building permits, agriculture, digital twins for the oceans, knowledge generation, and beyond. These topics are high on the European research agenda while having global impact.
- [A Message from Prashant Shukle on Behalf of the OGC Board of Directors](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/ogc-ceo-search/): 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.
- [A recap of the 126th OGC Member Meeting, Huntsville, AL, USA](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/a-recap-of-the-126th-ogc-member-meeting-huntsville-al-usa/): Attendees spent the week discussing the latest geospatial innovations in areas such as Climate, Space, Open Science, Defense & Intelligence, Connected Systems, and more.
- [The 2023 OGC Tiling Interfaces Code Sprint – How it went!](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/the-2023-ogc-tiling-interfaces-code-sprint-how-it-went/): On June 12-14, 2023, OGC held its 2023 Tiling Interfaces Code Sprint at OGC Strategic Member NGA’s Moonshot Labs in St. Louis, Missouri. The code sprint focused on a select set of Application Programming Interface (API), database, and encoding standards related to map tiles.
- [OGC SensorThings API for European Green Deal Data Spaces](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/ogc-sensorthings-api-for-european-green-deal-data-spaces/): This post outlines the SensorThings API Standard together with initial results from two Horizon Europe projects on Green Deal Data Spaces: All Data for Green Deal (AD4GD) and Urban Data Space for Green Deal (USAGE).
- [A recap of the 125th OGC Member Meeting, Frascati, Italy](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/a-recap-of-the-125th-ogc-member-meeting-frascati-italy/): With a theme of "Geospatial in Space" OGC's 125th Member Meeting saw 200+ experts converge on th ESA Centre for Earth Observation (ESRIN) in Frascati, Italy, to shape the future of geospatial.
- [OGC SensorThings API and OGC API – Features: Good Practice for European Spatial Information](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/ogc-sensorthings-api-and-ogc-api-features-good-practice-for-european-spatial-information/): OGC API - Features and OGC SensorThings API Standards are recognised as INSPIRE good practice for the provision of INSPIRE data.
- [The new v5.5 of TEAM Engine on the OGC Validator](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/the-new-v5-5-of-team-engine-on-the-ogc-validator/): TEAM Engine is the open source software used for validating compliance to OGC Standards. Version 5.5 of TEAM Engine brings some exciting improvements.
- [Ordnance Survey GB and Next Generation OGC API Standards](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/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 to daily-updated, next-gen data, with powerful filtering capabilities.
- [Principled and Powerful: Geospatial data for ESG reporting at Location Powers 2022](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/principled-and-powerful-geospatial-data-for-esg-reporting-at-location-powers-2022/): There was a principled and powerful representation in attendance at OGC’s Location Powers event in London last November. Ordnance Survey hosted the event at the Geovation Hub with 23 speakers over two days. Representatives from across finance, transport/logistics, and construction/maintenance markets described their organizations’ approach to Environmental, Social, and (corporate) Governance (ESG) reporting and how it benefits from geospatial technologies. The event highlighted the need for sharing location information easily to many stakeholders.
- [Building the Building Blocks for the Future of Location: The November 2022 OGC Web Mapping Code Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/building-the-building-blocks-for-the-future-of-location-the-november-2022-ogc-web-mapping-code-sprint/): The mechanisms through which maps are delivered across the Internet have evolved significantly over the past two decades. Advancement of such mechanisms has been driven by a combination of factors. New data formats have emerged, the SWaP-C (size, weight, power, and cost) of devices has improved, and the capabilities of web browsers have been enhanced by improvements brought by HTML5. This means that some of the functionality that web mapping applications could not implement in a standardized way, are now becoming increasingly common.
- [A recap of the 124th OGC Member Meeting, Singapore](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/a-recap-of-the-124th-ogc-member-meeting-singapore/): From October 3-7 ‘22 (and a little bit beforehand), more than 100 experts from across industry, government, and academia converged on the Lifelong Learning Institute in Singapore (with 150 more joining virtually) to strengthen global collaboration and attend OGC’s 124th Member Meeting. A big “thank you” goes out to our dedicated members that either attended in-person, or juggled lives across multiple timezones to attend virtually.
- [Has the Edge Dissolved Itself Already? Or is the Edge the new Cloud?](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/has-the-edge-dissolved-itself-already-or-is-the-edge-the-new-cloud/): With the growing number of systems and platforms, the number of platform-specific formats and interfaces increases – and interoperability suffers.
- [Reflections on the 2022 Joint OGC & ISO Code Sprint – The Metadata Code Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/reflections-on-the-2022-joint-ogc-iso-code-sprint-the-metadata-code-sprint/): Over the past two decades, standards such as ISO 19115:2003 and the OGC Catalog Services for the Web (CSW) have been integrated into several Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) initiatives at national and international levels. These standards leveraged the Extensible Markup Language (XML) which, at the time, was the primary encoding for data exchange in IT. In recent times, however, the uptake of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and Web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) has necessitated the modernization of existing metadata and catalog approaches.
- [Bringing the Heat in Madrid: a recap of our 123rd Member Meeting](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/bringing-the-heat-in-madrid-a-recap-of-our-123rd-member-meeting/): OGC’s 123rd Member Meeting – our long awaited return to in-person(!) – was held in Madrid, Spain, from June 13-16, 2022. And even with the heatwave temperatures approaching 40°C (104°F), it was truly wonderful to be there among our members and broader community once again. We’re all grateful for the connections that teleconferencing and video calls were able to maintain during the pandemic lockdowns, but I don’t think I’m alone when I say that they’re no substitute for seeing people in real life.
- [The Latest on Cloud-Native Geospatial Standards in OGC](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/the-latest-on-cloud-native-geospatial-standards-in-ogc/): OGC Chief Standards Officer, Scott Simmons, digs into the elements of the cloud ecosystem that OGC is addressing: interfaces, applications, encodings, and operations.
- [The 2022 Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint – How it went!](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/the-2022-joint-ogc-osgeo-asf-code-sprint-how-it-went/): Back in February 2021, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) held their first joint Open Source Software and Open Standards Code Sprint (for full technical outcomes, see the Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint 2021 Summary Engineering Report). 
- [The Metaverse is Geospatial](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/the-metaverse-is-geospatial/): With momentum and interest once again building around the ‘metaverse’, OGC hosted a ‘Metaverse Ad-Hoc Session’ at its virtual 121st Member Meeting in December 2021. But before we get too far, what even is the metaverse? And how does it relate to Geospatial?
- [Building a cloud-native future at OGC](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/building-a-cloud-native-future-at-ogc/): March 2022 marked my 3-year anniversary at OGC! As I look back at those 3 years – 2 of which occurred during the tumultuous COVID-19 pandemic – I feel proud of the accomplishments and changes that we have made during this time:
- [A Strong Foundation for GeoAI Innovation](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/a-strong-foundation-for-geoai-innovation/): New AI capabilities have reoriented and transformed GIS and Remote Sensing, providing new solutions and greatly increasing efficiency.
- [Lowering the barrier of entry for OGC Web APIs](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/lowering-the-barrier-of-entry-for-ogc-web-apis/): A version of this article originally appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of GeoConnexion Magazine under the title ‘Lowering The Barrier To Entry.’
- [7 Key Takeaways from the OGC Climate Change Special Session](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/7-key-takeaways-from-the-ogc-climate-change-special-session/): Article contributed by Steve Liang, SensorUp
- [Towards a Cloud-Native OGC](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/towards-a-cloud-native-ogc/): The open-ended scope of the fellowship was amazing, but I realized that I’d quickly have to focus if I was to actually make an impact while working a half day a week for six months. The theme that emerged I call ‘Cloud-Native OGC’, exploring the fundamental components that enable geospatial standards on the cloud, at a level ‘below’ APIs.
- [How it Went! The November 2021 Geospatial API Virtual Code Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/how-it-went-the-november-2021-geospatial-api-virtual-code-sprint/): From November 15-17, 2021, OGC and ISO/TC 211 jointly hosted the November 2021 Geospatial API Virtual Code Sprint. The code sprint focused on the refinement of the OGC API - Features Standard and its ISO version, ISO 19168.
- [Towards a Cloud-Native Geospatial standards baseline](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/towards-a-cloud-native-geospatial-standards-baseline/): Article Contributed by Chris Holmes, OGC Visiting Fellow -
- [Hexagon on the value of collaboration, Standards, and OGC Membership](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/hexagon-on-the-value-of-collaboration-standards-and-ogc-membership/): Hexagon’s long-time support of OGC and our Standards, including our family of OGC APIs, has enabled the Company to learn from, collaborate with, and support the broader geospatial community, while also improving their product offering and being one of the first to market with support for the latest generation of geospatial standards.
- [INSPIRE and OGC APIs – Modernizing INSPIRE](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/inspire-and-ogc-apis-modernizing-inspire/): Within the broader context of the European Strategy for Data, the Joint Research Centre (the European Commission’s science and knowledge service) is collaborating with the EU Member States on modernising the technological stack for INSPIRE. As part of this modernisation, there is now an effort to use data standards “as is” rather than developing INSPIRE-specific extensions to them, thus facilitating the use of “off the shelf” software for the delivery of INSPIRE data. This desire for modern, simple, understandable standards has resulted in OGC API - Features this year joining OGC’s SensorThings API as another INSPIRE Good Practice  - and other OGC APIs are likely to follow.
- [Esri’s ArcGIS enables thousands of datasets, maps, and apps for location](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/esri-arcgis-ogc-api/): Article Contributed by Adam Martin, ESRI
- [Paving the way forward for Building Energy Mapping and Analytics](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/paving-the-way-forward-for-building-energy-mapping-and-analytics/): The Building Energy Mapping and Analytics Concept Development Study (BEMA-CDS) addressed the challenge posed by this situation by:
- [A User-centric Approach to Data Cubes](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/a-user-centric-approach-to-data-cubes/): A recent OGC workshop led to the development of a new definition of data cube and underscored the need for a user-centric approach.
- [Major revision of the Geospatial Information Management Standards Guide endorsed by United Nations member nation](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/major-revision-of-the-geospatial-information-management-standards-guide-endorsed-by-united-nations-member-nation/): This article is contributed by Mark Reichardt -
- [How’s the weather up there?](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/ogc-apis-deliver-real-time-and-archived-weather-climate-and-water-datasets-for-canada/): One of Canada's oldest government institutions, MSC, is also one to keep up with the times by using the latest technologies in its quest to help Canadians make informed decisions about their health and safety and economic prosperity.
- [Reflecting on the May 2021 OGC API Code Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/reflecting-on-the-may-2021-ogc-api-code-sprint/): APIs have proven to be a popular and very effective enabler of rapid software development. This is more so in web mapping, where a combination of cartographic and software development skills is often needed to create maps for a global user base. As part of OGC’s on-going development of the OGC API suite of standards, OGC has been holding a series of Code Sprints. As part of this series, the May 2021 OGC API Virtual Code Sprint was conducted May 26–28, 2021. 
- [Evolving Geospatial Technologies Through OGC’s Testbed-17](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/evolving-geospatial-technologies-through-ogcs-testbed-17/): Decades in the Making: The Challenges of Evolving Technologies and Standards
- [OGC Startups: Disrupting, Growing, Evolving Location](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/ogc-startups-disrupting-growing-evolving-location/): Join OGC and our thriving startup community today and learn why it is such a quickly growing consortium of industry leaders, influencers, and more.
- [The US Geospatial Data Act – Evolving Beyond Committees, Processes, and Tools](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/the-us-geospatial-data-act-evolving-beyond-committees-processes-and-tools/): Cowritten by co-written by Molly Schar, NSGIC Executive Director, and Nadine Alahmeh, OGC CEO -
- [Vijay Krishnan from Intel Geospatial on AI, the Cloud, and the future of data integration, visualization, and analysis](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/vijay-krishnan-from-intel-geospatial-on-ai-the-cloud-and-the-future-of-data-integration-visualization-and-analysis/): Using OGC standards, the Intel Geospatial platform is providing simple access to a wide range of high-quality 2D and 3D geospatial data and analytic applications for asset owners and service provider businesses that collect geospatial imagery using drones, planes, vehicles, and more.
- [Innovation at OGC: Data-driven Decision Making](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/innovation-at-ogc-data-driven-decision-making/): Data-driven decision making is fundamental to all aspects of society,
- [Evolving Spatial Data Infrastructure](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/evolving-spatial-data-infrastructure/): Spatial Data is distributed across users, tools, and regions for a variety of purposes via Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), but there are additional economic and societal benefits that can be unlocked.
- [Fair Climate Services](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/fair-climate-services/): Producing and providing reliable information for climate services requires huge volumes of data to come together and process from different scientific eco-systems - requiring standards and collaboration to support evidence-based decision making. The OGC membership has already decades of experience in providing expertise, innovation, standards and operational best practices in various sectors.
- [Five Things Location Tech Can Do Before the Next Pandemic](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/five-things-location-tech-can-do-before-the-next-pandemic/): Article contributed by Jessie Abbate, PhD, Infectious Disease Ecologist, Epidemiologist, and Geospatial Data Scientist at Geomatys -
- [The 2021 Joint OGC – OSGeo – ASF Code Sprint – How it went!](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/the-2021-joint-ogc-osgeo-asf-code-sprint-how-it-went/): Participants of the code sprint made several recommendations for future innovation work items and things SWGs should consider supporting. The recommendations are listed in the Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint 2021 Summary Engineering Report now available from ogc.org. OGC appreciates the collaboration with OSGeo and ASF, as well as the participation of everyone that took part in the code sprint.
- [OGC Disaster Pilots work to address floods, fires, landslides, and epidemics with better information sharing.](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/ogc-disaster-pilots-work-to-address-floods-fires-landslides-and-epidemics-with-better-information-sharing/): The last three years have been unprecedented when it comes to disasters. In 2019 alone there was billions of dollars’ worth of damage, and thousands of fatalities were caused by hundreds of catastrophes ranging from earthquakes to wildfires. 
- [Four Location-Focused Themes at the 118th OGC Member Meeting](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/four-location-focused-themes-at-the-118th-ogc-member-meeting/): OGC’s Member Meeting is the center of all things for location information. Happening for almost three decades, the meetings focus on everything from evolving core standards that change the way information is shared, to providing key updates about the OGC Innovation Program, a forum for OGC members to solve the latest and hardest geospatial challenges via a collaborative and agile process. 
- [Urban Digital Twins – Planning the Cities of Tomorrow](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/urban-digital-twins-planning-the-cities-of-tomorrow/): Urban digital twins are not a “solved problem.” Along with increased investment in research and development, the vision demands agreed-upon methodologies and standards, new commitments to data-sharing, -privacy & -ethics, forward-looking regulations, and the development of a robust global community that is as devoted to tradecraft as it is to technology.
- [Bringing STAC into OGC](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/bringing-stac-into-ogc/): Over three years ago, a small group of OGC members working on the next version of the venerable Web Feature Service (WFS) standard started the next major evolution of our standards baseline. What has since become known as the OGC API family of standards aims to apply the best practices of the web to geospatial while also shifting from monolithic services to a set of ‘building block’ components that can add spatial capabilities to any modern API, well before STAC. 
- [Building an Interoperable Routing Engine (Part 2)](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/building-an-interoperable-routing-engine-part-2/): Article Contributed by Ignacio "Nacho" Correas, Chief Technology Innovation Officer at Skymantics -
- [We Remember with fondness the incredible life and contributions of Lance McKee](https://www.ogc.org/blog-article/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 of Lance McKee’s passing from his daughter Caitlin. He died peacefully at the age of 72 from a chronic illness. His intellect, kindness, and compassion for the OGC vision and mission, and the use of location information to improve our society and environment, has left a deep imprint on the OGC and each of us who had the privilege of knowing him. 
- [OGC Receives GIS Development Professional Service to Geospatial Community Award](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-receives-gis-development-professional-service-to-geospatial-community-award/): At the recent Map World Forum trade show and conference in Hyderabad, India, Indias GIS Development communication network awarded the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) GIS Developments Professional Service to Geospatial Community Award.OGC president and CEO Mark Reichardt accepted the award on behalf of OGC members, staff and Board of Directors.Reichardt and OGC Director Bob Moses held an OGC Global Advisory Council fact finding session with 15 prominent industry and government leaders.A Steering Committee under the Global Advisory Council will be formed to help Indian OGC members create an OGC India Forum and to help with outreach to the Indian user community.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 370 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.
- [OGC(R) Requests Comments on Candidate Specification Model Standard](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-requests-comments-on-candidate-specification-model-standard/): OGC invites comments on the Candidate Specification Model Standard to standardize modular specification writing and implementation.
- [OGC Seeks Participants for Ocean Science Interoperability Experiment Phase II](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-seeks-participants-for-ocean-science-interoperability-experiment-phase-ii/): Wayland, MA, March 5, 2009 - The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC(R)) will launch the second phase of an Interoperability Experiment on ocean science interoperability at a meeting (http://www.oostethys.org/oceansie2) on March 20, 2009.The initiators of the experiment seek participation by other organizations interested in interoperability among information systems used in ocean research.In December 2006 OGC members started Oceans Science Interoperability Experiment Phase I (Oceans IE Phase I) to investigate use of services implementing the OpenGIS(TM) Web Feature Services (WFS) and Sensor Observation Services (SOS) Interface Standards for representing and exchanging point data records from fixed in-situ marine platforms.Potentially, the participants will submit to the OGC Technical Committee change requests for existing OGC standards to influence evolution of these standards.The Interoperability Experiment is not expected to result in new OGC standards.
- [OGC(R) Requests Comments on Candidate Web Map Tiling Standard](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-requests-comments-on-candidate-web-map-tiling-standard/): OGC invites public comment on the Candidate Web Map Tiling Standard to advance interoperable map tiling services.
- [The OGC forms a Spatial Law and Policy Committee](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/the-ogc-forms-a-spatial-law-and-policy-committee/): OGC establishes a Spatial Law and Policy Committee to address legal and policy issues affecting geospatial standards development.
- [The OGC Elects Directors](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/the-ogc-elects-directors/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) recently held its biennial election of directors.Of the 21 elected members of the consortiums 2009-2010 Board of Directors, 16 serving members were returned and four new members have been seated.The new OGC board members are Jeffery Peters, Kevin Pomfret, François Robida and Rob van de Velde.David Schell, OGC CEO and Chairman, said, The OGC community is extremely fortunate that these extraordinary individuals have agreed to serve on the Consortiums board.These standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
- [OGC(R) Requests Comments on GeoLinking Service Standard](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-requests-comments-on-geolinking-service-standard/): OGC invites comments on the GeoLinking Service Standard, enabling linking of geographic features across data sources.
- [OGC(R) Requests Comments on Earth Observation Extension of ebRIM Profile of OGC Catalog Standard](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-requests-comments-on-earth-observation-extension-of-ebrim-profile-of-ogc-catalog-standard/): - The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have submitted a Request for Comments (RFC) on version 0.2.2 of the Earth Observation (EO) Products Extension Package for ebRIM (ISO/TS 15000-3) Profile of CSW 2.0 (OGC document 06-131).CSW (Catalog Services - Web) is an OGC standard that specifies a catalogue application profile based on ISO19115:2003/ISO19119:2005 metadata with support for XML encoding per ISO/CD TS 19139 and HTTP protocol binding.)The EO Products Extension Package for ebRIM Profile of CSW 2.0 draft standard is an OGC Best Practice.It specifies an Application Profile of CSW 2.0 that is based on the OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard Application Schema for EO Products.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
- [Final Reminder: Please Complete the Business Benefits of Using OGC Standards Survey!](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/final-reminder-please-complete-the-business-benefits-of-using-ogc-standards-survey/): Last call to complete the OGC survey on business benefits of using open geospatial standards for strategy and impact.
- [OGC and OSGeo Sign Memorandum of Understanding](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-and-osgeo-sign-memorandum-of-understanding/): Wayland, Mass., January 7, 2009 - In Valencia, Spain, at the December Technical Committee meetings of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), the OGC and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to coordinate in advancing open geospatial standards (OGCs mission) and open source geospatial software and data (OSGeos mission).Vendors of proprietary software have found that todays more open and complex business ecosystem, which includes both open source software and open standards, is good for their businesses.Open source software is software that has been designed and developed in an open, community process.The OSGeo is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial technologies and data.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
- [Successful OGC Interoperability Day Held in Orleans, France](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/successful-ogc-interoperability-day-held-in-orleans-france/): OGC members showcased Sensor Web interoperability demonstrations at an ocean science conference to advance sensor standards use.
- [GeoVirtual Takes Strategic Membership in the OGC](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/geovirtual-takes-strategic-membership-in-the-ogc/): GeoVirtual joins OGC as a Strategic Member, strengthening leadership in open geospatial standards.
- [OGC Members Demo Sensor Web Interoperability at Oceans Conference](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/ogc-members-demo-sensor-web-interoperability-at-oceans-conference/): OGC members showcased Sensor Web interoperability demos at an ocean science conference, advancing open sensor standards.
- [GeoConnections Releases CGDI Interoperability Pilot Demo Video](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/geoconnections-releases-cgdi-interoperability-pilot-demo-video/): Video released documenting the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Interoperability Pilot demonstration outcomes.
- [The OGC(R) Announces Updated OGC Reference Model](https://www.ogc.org/announcement/the-ogc-announces-updated-ogc-reference-model/): OGC announces the release of Version 2.0 of its Reference Model, guiding the geospatial standards framework.

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- [OGC RAINBOW](https://www.ogc.org/ogc-rainbow/)
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- [Our People](https://www.ogc.org/about/our-team/): OGC’s leaders and experts drive our mission with vision and passion, advancing the geospatial community and empowering our members to thrive.
- [David Schell Lifetime Achievement Award](https://www.ogc.org/about/awards/david-schell-lifetime-achievement/): With the David Schell Lifetime Achievement Award, OGC recognizes and celebrates an individual’s lifetime of service, and their steadfast support of interoperability, open standards, and the OGC mission as a component of effective governance and improved decision making. David Schell Lifetime Achievement Awards are given to recipients on an ad-hoc basis, and at the behest of the consortium’s Board of Directors.
- [The OGC Gardels Award](https://www.ogc.org/about/awards/gardels/): The Kenneth D. Gardels Award is a gold medallion presented each year by the OGC Board of Directors to an individual who has made exemplary contributions to OGC’s consensus standards process. Award nominations are made by members – the prior Gardels Award winners – and approved by the Board of Directors. The Gardels Award was conceived to memorialize the spirit of a man who dreamt passionately of making the world a better place through open communication and the use of information technology to improve the quality of human life.
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- [Our Awards – Community Impact Award](https://www.ogc.org/about/awards/community-impact/): The Community Impact Award award is given to a team, organization, or group of organizations that has made an impact in the OGC Community over the course of the previous calendar year. OGC Community Impact awards highlight the importance of collaboration, volunteering time and energy, advancing technologies and standards, and raising awareness of and solving issues over a relatively short period of time.
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- [Our History](https://www.ogc.org/about/history/): The OGC History Timeline showcases our journey of innovation, collaboration, and open standards that connect people, technology, and data to solve global geospatial challenges.
- [Subcommittees](https://www.ogc.org/subcommittees/): Through member-led and staff-supported committees, OGC members shape our direction, strengthen collaboration, and advance the adoption of open standards.
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- [Our Committees](https://www.ogc.org/our-committees/): Through member-led and staff-supported committees, OGC members shape our direction, strengthen collaboration, and advance the adoption of open standards.
- [The Benefits of Our Standards Program](https://www.ogc.org/benefits-of-our-standards-program/): Through OGC’s Standards Program, members and communities work together to identify, develop, and refine open geospatial standards — ensuring seamless data sharing and interoperability worldwide.
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- [Standards Roadmap](https://www.ogc.org/roadmap/): The OGC Standards Roadmap is a strategic guide that highlights the current, emerging, and future priorities of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Standards Program. It provides an at-a-glance view of standards that are:
- [Standards – How the Standards program works](https://www.ogc.org/how-our-standards-program-works/): Every OGC Standard is built through a collaborative and rigorous process, where working groups identify interoperability needs and develop them into standards for global adoption.
- [Standards in Action](https://www.ogc.org/standards-overview/standards-in-action/): Standards make a difference and their impact is measurable.
- [Standards Overview](https://www.ogc.org/standards-overview/): OGC Standards make geospatial data easier to describe, share, and use—powering smarter solutions through modern APIs.
- [Compliance – Register Your Product](https://www.ogc.org/compliance/register-your-product/): Register and manage your implementation listings in the OGC Implementation Database, and reference certification where applicable
- [Compliance – Test your Implementations](https://www.ogc.org/compliance/test-your-implementations/): Implementers can evaluate alignment with OGC Standards using community-developed, open-source testing resources such as the TEAM Engine.
- [Compliance – OGC Compliance Roadmap](https://www.ogc.org/compliance/ogc-compliance-roadmap/): Track the journey from abstract tests to approved Executable Test Suites, supporting trusted and interoperable implementations of OGC Standards
- [Compliance – Implementations by Standard](https://www.ogc.org/compliance/implementations-by-standard/): Explore implementations that align with OGC Standards and their associated specifications.
- [Compliance – OGC Uncertified Compliant](https://www.ogc.org/compliance/ogc-uncertified-compliance/): Browse implementations declared by their providers that align with OGC Standards but have not been officially certified through OGC’s Compliance Program.
- [Compliance – OGC Certified Compliant](https://www.ogc.org/compliance/ogc-certified-compliance/): Supporting interoperability through alignment with open geospatial standards.
- [Research – Engineering Reports](https://www.ogc.org/technical-papers/): Access public documents open for community review, feedback, and discussion — not official OGC positions or standards.
- [Research – Policies & Procedures](https://www.ogc.org/about/policies/cosipp/): The Research Program Policies & Procedures define the structure, roles, and processes for all initiative types, aligning them with the TRL scale to support consistent and effective collaboration.
- [Research – Learn how our Research Program works](https://www.ogc.org/research/how-our-research-program-works/): The Research Program drives collaborative R&D to tackle global challenges like climate change and disaster resilience, uniting diverse stakeholders across sectors.
- [Compliance – Overview](https://www.ogc.org/how-our-compliance-program-works/): The OGC Compliance Program offers a conformance process through which implementers demonstrate alignment with OGC standards and interoperability practices.
- [Completed Research Initiatives](https://www.ogc.org/research/completed-initiatives/): We have completed more than 100 initiatives, delivered tens of millions of project dollars and shown the value of standards and interoperable technology time and time again.
- [Research](https://www.ogc.org/research/): OGC Research is our collaborative lab where members experiment, test,and innovate to advance open, trusted, and interoperable geospatial systems.
- [Our Programs](https://www.ogc.org/programs/): OGC is the home of open geospatial standards—and more. We run an agile R&D lab, certify OGC-compliant solutions, and offer expert advisory services.
- [Home](https://www.ogc.org/): OGC is the global home for open geospatial standards, and more.We convene a worldwide community to drive interoperability through standards, code sprints,innovation testbeds, pilots, and real‑world deployments.

## Active Initiatives
- [Towards Greater Interoperability: OGC Testbed-21 initiative](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ogc-testbed-21/): OGC Testbed-21 prototypes geospatial solutions, tackles interoperability, and advances open standards through collaboration.
- [Shaping the Future of SDI: A Note of Thanks](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/shaping-the-future-of-sdi-a-note-of-thanks/): We extend sincere thanks to everyone who responded to our most recent Call for Contributions, sharing real-world, next-generation examples of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). Your input will inform a new online resource designed to highlight emerging SDI approaches and capabilities from around the globe.
- [OGC Space Pilot: The Moon](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ogc-space-pilot-the-moon/): OGC Space Pilot: The Moon advances lunar PNT, interoperable data exchange, and digital twins for future lunar missions and exploration.
- [SEADOTs: Bridging Socio-Ecological Data with Innovative Digital Solutions for Sustainable Ocean Management](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/seadots-bridging-socio-ecological-data-with-innovative-digital-solutions-for-sustainable-ocean-management/): OGC SEADOTs integrates socio-ecological data with Digital Ocean Twins to support sustainable ocean management and marine planning.
- [FOCAL: Efficient Exploration of Climate Data Locally](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/focal-efficient-exploration-of-climate-data-locally/): OGC FOCAL provides hyper-local climate data and AI tools that help cities and forests adapt, plan, and build climate resilience.
- [The challenge for Côte d’Ivoire to keep pace with the EU deforestation regulation](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/the-challenge-for-cote-divoire-to-keep-pace-with-the-eu-deforestation-regulation/): To mitigate the challenges posed by the EU deforestation regulation, Ivory Coast could pursue a multi-faceted strategy that...
- [Organizing the World in Grid Cells: The AI-DGGS Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ai-dggs-pilot/): OGC AI-DGGS Pilot advances AI-enhanced grid systems for disaster management, data integration, and interoperable geospatial analysis.
- [Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot: Data Integration at the Land-Sea Interface](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/federated-marine-spatial-data-infrastructure-pilot-data-integration-at-the-land-sea-interface/): The OGC FMSDI Pilot advances land–sea interoperability by defining best practices and demonstrating dynamic cross-boundary data integration.
- [National Spatial Data Infrastructure Modernization Project](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/national-spatial-data-infrastructure-modernization-project/): OGC’s NSDI Modernization Project advances a modern, interoperable national spatial data infrastructure to empower U.S. agencies and citizens.
- [OGC Testbed-20](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ogc-testbed-20/): OGC Testbed-20 drives geospatial innovation by advancing interoperability, data integrity, and next-generation standards and technologies.
- [Releasable Basemap Tiles GeoPackage Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/releasable-basemap-tiles-geopackage-sprint/): The OGC GeoPackage Sprint tests Basemap Tile Packages and vector tile interoperability to support future US Army geospatial requirements.
- [Federated Marine SDI Phase 5 (2024)](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/fmsdi5/): FMSDI 2024 strengthens land–sea data interoperability through pilots on digital twins, marine cadastre, and ocean science integration.
- [Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot Phases 1 & 2](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/climate-and-disaster/): OGC’s Climate & Disaster Resilience Pilot enhances FAIR climate data, ARD workflows, and AI-driven tools to improve disaster readiness.
- [Open Science Demonstrator 2025](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/open-science/): Advancing open science with standardized, reusable workflows that boost transparency, interoperability, and reproducible research.
- [OGC Testbed-17](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/t17/): OGC Testbed-17 advances geospatial R&D with new work on sensors, cloud data models, APIs, and interoperability standards.
- [Health Spatial Data Infrastructure](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/health-sdi/): The Health Spatial Data Infrastructure builds a FAIR, standards-based framework to improve pandemic response and health data sharing.
- [Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Year 2](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/isg-sprint-yr2/): Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Year 2 accelerates 3D geospatial interoperability using glTF, CDB, and game engines for simulation and training.
- [Federated Marine SDI](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/fmsdi/): The Federated Marine SDI pilot enhances interoperable land–sea data, FAIR marine services, and MSDI maturity across Arctic, coastal, and global use cases.
- [Climate Resilience Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/crp/): The Climate Resilience Pilot enhances climate-risk decision making with interoperable data, FAIR climate services and powerful visualization tools.
- [OGC Testbed-18](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/testbed-18/): OGC Testbed-18 enhances location interoperability with advances in 3D+ data, ML datasets, moving features, open science and spatial energy data.
- [Routing Pilot Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/rps/): The OGC Routing Pilot Sprint tests and refines the Route Exchange Model to advance open, interoperable geospatial routing standards.
- [Disaster Pilot 2023](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ogcdp23/): OGC Disaster Pilot 2023 unifies geospatial data, ARD workflows, and standards to strengthen global disaster readiness and response.
- [Water Quality Interoperability Experiment](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/waterqualityie/): OGC’s Water Quality IE enhances WaterML 2.0 to improve global water data interoperability across agencies and monitoring systems.
- [Federated Marine SDI Phase 3](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/fmsdi3/): Phase 3 improves Arctic land–sea data integration using OGC and IHO standards to support faster, informed maritime emergency decisions.
- [OGC Testbed-19](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/t-19/): OGC Testbed-19 delivers breakthroughs in geospatial interoperability, ML, ARD, GeoDataCubes, and next-generation standards.
- [Federated Marine SDI Phase 4](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/fmsdi4/): Phase 4 expands land–sea data interoperability with OGC standards, enabling coastal digital twins and climate-ready marine insights.
- [CLINT – Climate Intelligence](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/clint/): CLINT Climate Intelligence applies AI to large climate datasets to predict extreme events and strengthen early-warning and climate-risk decision tools.
- [Ocean Science Interoperability Experiment II](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/oceansie-ii/): The Oceans Science Interoperability Experiment will consolidate a portion of the Ocean-Observing community on its understanding of various OGC specifications, solidify demonstrations for Ocean Science application areas, harden software implementations, and produce a candidate OGC Best Practices document that can be used to inform the broader ocean-observing community. To achieve these goals, the Oceans IE will engage the OGC membership to assure that any community recommendations coming from the Oceans group will properly leverage the OGC specifications. Potentially, Change Requests on OGC Specification will be provided to the OGC Technical Committee to influence the underlying specifications. It is not anticipated that this IE will develop any new specifications.
- [AECOO-1 Testbed](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/aecoo-1/): Effective design, construction and management of buildings and other capital facilities requires information exchange among all disciplines and professions that have a stake in the design, construction and operation of those facilities. The AECOO-1 Testbed looks at streamlining communications between parties in the conceptual design phase to get an early understanding of the tradeoffs between construction cost and energy efficiency. To that end, the project developed Information Delivery Manuals (IDMs) for quantity takeoffs and energy analysis needs, and used these to define subsets of Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs) needed in these analyses.
- [Earth Observation and ENVironmental modelling for the mitigation of HEAlth risks](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/eo2heaven/): OGC is a member of the EO2HEAVEN team that is executing a Collaborative Project of the European Commission 7th Framework Program.
- [Authentication IE](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/auth-ie/): Results of the Auth IE are presented in this Engineering Report document and serve as guidance to both implementers and organizations deploying solutions that involve basic authentication. It is the belief of the Auth IE participants that if such a document is made available to the community more OGC implementing products will natively support authentication.
- [OGC Web Services, Phase 7](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ows-7/): The OWS-7 sponsors are organizations seeking open standards for their interoperability requirements. After analyzing their requirements, the OGC Interoperability Team recommended to the sponsors that the content of the OWS-7 initiative be organized around the following threads:
- [HDWG Groundwater IE](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/gw-ie/): The GW IE was designed to: (1) test the use of both WaterML 2 and Groundwater ML (GWML) with the SOS and WFS OGC web services, respectively, (2) test compatibility with industry software clients, and (3) to facilitate sharing of massive volumes of sensor-based water level observations and related water-well features across the Canada and USA border.
- [Fusion Standards Study, Part 2: Decision Fusion](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/fusion-2/): This study is now complete.  The results are contained in 
- [HDWG Surface Water IE](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/sw-ie/): This interoperability experiment will advance the development of WaterML 2.0, test its use with various OGC service standards (SOS, WFS, WMS and CSW). It will also contribute to the development of a hydrology domain feature model and vocabularies, which are essential for interoperability in the hydrology domain.
- [GeoMobile and Internet of Things](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/geomobilecd/): Access to the Internet will predominantly be from mobile devices including smart phones and machine-to-machine interactions.  Most information exchanged in mobile internet will include spatial components.  
- [Aviation SAA Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/saa-pilot/): The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) SAA Dissemination OGC Pilot demonstrated the feasibility of automating the dissemination and portrayal of Special Activity Airspace (SAA) information (including updates) to National Airspace System (NAS) stakeholders and other external users via OGC Web Services.
- [OWS Shibboleth IE](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/shibboleth-ie/): The OGC Web Services Shibboleth Interoperability Experiment advanced best practices for implementing standards on federated security in transactions involving geospatial data and services.
- [OGC Web Services, Phase 8](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ows-8/): The OWS-8 sponsors are organizations seeking open standards for their interoperability requirements. After analyzing their requirements, the OGC Interoperability Team recommend to the sponsors that the content of the OWS-8 initiative be organized around the following threads:
- [OGC Water Information Services Concept Development](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ogc-water-is-cd/): The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) has conducted significant, extensive research and development addressing these challenges within the United States since 2004, with support from the National Science Foundation.
- [3D Portrayal IE](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/3dpie/): The 3D Portrayal Interoperability Experiment (IE) successfully tested and demonstrated different mechanisms for the portrayal, delivery, and exploitation of 3D geodata based on open standards-based formats and services. The IE intended to identify, test, and further develop technologies and workflows that may be the foundation of spatial data infrastructures with a requirement for rapid visualization of extremely large and complex 3D geodata. Main focus of the IE was on draft candidate standards for Web 3D Service and Web View Service. The IE included digital landscape models, city models, and interior models, e.g., in the CityGML data format, as well as different client configurations. The IE clarified the specifics of 3D portrayal services and provided best practices and guidelines for their implementation, integration, and usage. Additionally, the activities and findings of the IE participants will directly support and influence further standardization efforts in service-based 3D portrayal.
- [OGC Web Services, Phase 9](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ows-9/): OWS testbeds are part of OGC's Interoperability Program, a global, hands-on and collaborative prototyping program designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven candidate specifications into OGC's Specification Program, where they are formalized for public release. In OGC's Interoperability Initiatives, international teams of technology providers work together to solve specific geoprocessing interoperability problems posed by the Initiative's sponsoring organizations. OGC Interoperability Initiatives include test beds, pilot projects, interoperability experiments and interoperability support services - all designed to encourage rapid development, testing, validation and adoption of OGC standards.
- [HDWG Forecasting IE](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/forecastie/): This interoperability experiment will advance the development of WaterML 2.0 and test its use in a forecasting context with various OGC service standards (SOS, SES, WFS, WMS and WCS). It will also contribute to a co-operation with the Met-Ocean domain working group. Where relevant to the forecasting context, it will contribute to the development and evaluation of a hydrology domain feature model and vocabularies, which are essential for interoperability in the hydrology domain, although these are not the main focus for the IE.
- [Climatology-Hydrology Information Sharing Pilot, Phase 1](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/chisp-1/): OGC’s Climatology-Hydrology Information Sharing Pilot, Phase 1 (CHISP-1) project was conducted as a Pilot initiative, a collaborative effort that applies technology elements from the OGC Technical Baseline and other (non-OGC) technologies to address Sponsor requirements and scenarios.
- [Citizen Observatory Web (COBWEB)](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/cobweb/): COBWEB will leverage the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR). Concentrating initially on the Welsh Dyfi Biosphere Reserve, we will develop a citizens’ observatory framework, and then validate the work within the context of the UK National Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and internationally, within the WNBR; specifically, within Greek and German Reserves. The infrastructure we develop will exploit technological developments in ubiquitous mobile devices, crowd-sourcing of geographic information and the operationalising of standards based SDI such as the UK Location Information Infrastructure. It will enable citizens living within Biosphere Reserves to collect environmental information on a range of parameters including species distribution, flooding and land cover/use. A main driver will be the opportunity to participate in environmental governance.Data quality issues will be addressed by using networks of “people as sensors” and by analysing observations and measurements in real-time combination with authoritative models and datasets. The citizen’s observatory framework will integrate with evolving INSPIRE compliant national SDI’s and allow the fusion of citizen sourced data with reference data from public authorities in support of policy objectives. To maximise impact, COBWEB will work within the processes of the standards defining organisations. Specifically, we will aim to improve the usability of Sensor Web Enablement standards with mobile devices, develop widespread acceptance of the data quality measures we develop and maximise the commercial appeal of COBWEB outputs. The end result we are aiming for is a toolkit and a set of models that demonstrably works in different European countries and which is accepted as a core information system component of the WNBR. Implementations of COBWEB will act as models for how technology may be used to empower citizens associations in environmental decision making.
- [European Location Framework](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/e-l-f/): The goal of this project is to deliver the European Location Framework (ELF) required to provide up-to-date, authoritative, interoperable, cross-border, reference geo-information for use by the European public and private sectors.This versatile cloud-based and cascade-supporting architecture provides a platform of INSPIRE compliant geo-information, harmonised at a cross-border and pan-European level.
- [HDWG Groundwater 2 IE](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/gw2ie/): This groundwater interoperability experiment (GW2IE) developed and tested the GroundWater Markup Language 2, by harmonizing and advancing existing modeling initiatives such as: GWML1, relevant EU-INSPIRE models (Geology-hydrogeology, Environmental monitoring facilities), GeoSciML, and others. It produced an engineering report in preparation for movement to an OGC data specification subsequent to the GW2IE.
- [OGC Testbed 10](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ows-10/): Table of Contents
- [MilOps Geospatial Interoperability Experiment (MOGIE)](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/mogie/): MilOps Geospatial Interoperability Experiment (MOGIE)
- [Geospatial Enhancement for the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) (Geo4NIEM)](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/geo4niem/): The Geo4NIEM Project was organized to address specific functional requirements to meet the following objectives:
- [SWE Maturity Request for Information](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/swe-rfi/): This project is now complete.  Results of the project are in the OGC SWE Implementation Maturity Engineering Report
- [AAtS Harmonization Project](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/aats/): Contact Josh Lieberman for information on how to get involved.
- [MOSIA Lot 1 Project](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/mosia-lot-1/): The MOSIA consortium group (MOdeling Support with standards for Information and Architecture models applied to ATM) is a consortium of organisations with a background in Information management and Information, Service and Architecture modeling from a set of standardisaton organisations, in particular OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium), ISO/TC211, INSPIRE and OMG (Object Management Group).  The MOSIA group is led by SINTEF and consist of the following partners:
- [OS Plugfest (UKIAP)](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ukiap/): Ordnance Survey UK Interoperability Assesment Plugfest 
- [IMIS – Virtual USA](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/vusa/): Virtual USA becomes the de facto national standard for sharing emergency management information across levels of government and the private sector, allowing all users and organizations to use their own systems to share information securely with all others, anywhere in the United States and across international borders, controlling what information is shared, with whom, for how long.
- [USGS Interoperability Assessment](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/usgs-ia/): The rigorous testing of USGS web services performed in the Interoperability Assessment Project helped us identify and correct shortcomings of our implementation of OGC standards, and highlighted areas in which to improve the user experience with our web services.  As a result of the project, our users can include the improved USGS services more easily in their decisions making and operational activities.
- [CityGML Quality IE](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/citygmlqie/): The aim of the CityGML QIE is to:
- [OGC Testbed 11](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/testbed-11/): The results of this major interoperability testbed, which began in 2015, were demonstrated on 4 June 2015 during the OGC Technical Committee meeting held in Boulder, CO. The results will contribute to development and refinement of international standards that are critical for the communication and integration of geospatial information. Results from this testbed and previous OGC testbeds provide a foundation for the next OGC testbed, Testbed 12, which will begin in September 2015. If you want to learn more about the Testbed 12 Call for Sponsors, please contact Terry Idol, Executive Director, Interoperability Program, (tidolopengeospatial.org).
- [OGC Testbed 12](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ogc-testbed-12/): The full set of Testbed 12 videos can be found on the OGC Testbed 12 YouTube page.
- [IMIS IoT Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/imis-iot/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the successful completion of the OGC Incident Management Information Sharing Internet of Things Pilot Project (IMIS IoT Pilot) on 8 March 2016. The IMIS IoT Pilot was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the IJIS Institute. The project was launched on 22 April 2015 with the public release of the Call for Participation to demonstrate open system sensor integration for emergency and disaster response. The OGC reviewed and selected participants from a set of industry-submitted proposals and conducted a project Kickoff on 9-10 July 2015.
- [Soil Data IE](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/soildataie/): Download the OGC Soil Data IE Summary 
- [Arctic Spatial Data Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/arcticsdp/): Organized by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the Pilot is sponsored by US Geological Survey and Natural Resources Canada. The Pilot supports US and Canada domestic priorities around open standards and interoperability. The Pilot supports the strategic goals of the Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure (Arctic SDI), a voluntary, multilateral cooperation between the 8 Arctic Countries' National Mapping Agencies (including USGS and NRCan).
- [Future City Pilot, Phase 1](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/fcp1/): The Future City Pilot (Phase 1) is now complete. The outcomes have been documented in the following OGC Engineering Reports:
- [GeoPackage Elevation Extension Interoperability Experiment](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/geopackage-elev/): This interoperability experiment (GPKG-EE IE) tested a proposed extension to the OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard (12-128r1). Testing was achieved by building GeoPackages using the proposed extension and then using those GeoPackages in visualization and analysis software. This IE produced an OGC Engineering Report that discusses whether the elevation extension meets community requirements and can proceed to the OGC standards adoption process. The OGC GeoPackage Elevation Extension Interoperability Experiment Engineering Report is now available.
- [Systemic Standardisation Approach to Empower Smart Cities and Communities](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/espresso/): Over the next decade, the way we live, work and use energy, transportation and other city resources and services will change significantly thanks to a range of innovative ‘Smart City’ solutions. A Smart City integrates physical, digital and human systems to deliver a sustainable, prosperous and inclusive future for its citizens. Many of these innovative solutions will be based on sophisticated information and communication technologies. However, technological complexity, as well as the complexity of the various sectorial services involved within a Smart City, require a system approach to standardisation. Such an approach must promote the greatest possible reuse of existing open standards to accelerate Smart City deployment and exploit the enormous potential deriving from use of disparate interoperable technologies and from re-use of interoperable applications and services among cities.
- [OGC Testbed 13](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/testbed13/): OGC Testbeds are the largest OGC Innovation Program (OGC IP) activities. The OGC IP provides global, hands-on, collaborative prototyping for rapid development and delivery of geospatial IT solutions. All results are publicly available once approved by the OGC Technical Committee. Testbeds provide a unique platform where sponsors can outsource the rapid generation of prototypes and test environments with a number of leading organizations in their field. Testbeds result in more than just new and updated standards: outcomes include guides, overviews, and best practices for solving leading-edge geospatial problems.
- [DataBio](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/databio/): DATABIO, EC grant agreement 732064, is a large-scale application pilot co-funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 2020 call H2020-ICT-2016-1. 
- [Indian Plugfest](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/indian-plugfest/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Department of Science & Technology (DST) under the Government of India conducted the OGC India Plugfest 2017 (OIP-2017). The OIP-2017 was targeted at enhancing the interoperability among geospatial products and web services based on OGC standards within the Indian Geospatial Information (GI) community. The successful conclusion of OIP-2017 will assist National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) under DST to provide guidance on best practices using OGC standards for development of applications in several important & flagship schemes/programmes of the Government such as Smart Cities, Atal Mission for Rejuvenation through Urban Trasnformation (AMRUT); National Land Records Moderinisation Programme (NLRMP); Clean India (Swatchh Bharat – Urban & Rural); National Mission on Clean Ganga; Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management & Planning Authority (CAMPA); State SDIs; Digital India, and others.
- [Underground Infrastructure Concept Development Study](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/underground-cds/): This Underground Concept Development Study (CDS) paved the way for an Underground Pilot.  The pilot will lead to verified, standards-based interoperability for ‘smarter’ underground projects in cities around the world 
- [NextGEOSS](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/nextgeoss/): GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) is a central part of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) Information System’s mission.
- [OGC Testbed 14](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/testbed-14/): OGC Testbeds are the largest OGC Innovation Program (OGC IP) activities. The OGC IP provides global, hands-on, collaborative prototyping for rapid development and delivery of geospatial IT solutions. All results are publicly available once approved by the OGC Technical Committee. Testbeds provide a unique platform where sponsors can outsource the rapid generation of prototypes and test environments with a number of leading organizations in their field. Testbeds result in more than just new and updated standards: outcomes include guides, overviews, videos and best practices for solving leading-edge geospatial problems.
- [API Concept Development Study](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/api-cds/): The OGC Innovation Program utilizes a multi-step collaborative methodology for interoperability initiatives that seeks to uncover geospatial interoperability challenges and then develop ways to address them. The methodology begins with a Concept Development Study (CDS) to better understand and frame the current state of information technology in a target knowledge domain. A critical step in a CDS involves gathering critical insights from domain experts and other stakeholders about productive future directions that can then be explored in subsequent initiative activities such as testbeds, experiments and pilots. Ultimately the initiative methodology leads to development and adoption of consensus reference architectures and information standards that increase both the value and the utility of geospatial information.
- [Environmental Linked Features Interoperability Experiment (ELFIE)](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/elfie/): In recent years, environmental domain feature models have been established by a number of sub-domain groups. However, there is no best practice or standard methodology to encode documents containing links between and among domain features, such as a rivers, aquifers, or soils, and observational data about those features. A common approach to encoding such links is required to allow cross-domain and cross-system sharing and interoperability of such linked information.
- [Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction Across the Americas Summit – Simulated Exercise](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ameriddr17/): Disasters are responsible for major socioeconomic damages. Global initiatives call for the improvement of information technology infrastructure to better share data and advance multinational collaboration.
- [OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Related Tables Extension Interoperability Experiment](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/gpkg-rte-ie/): The OGC GeoPakcage GPKG Related Tables Extension Interoperability Extension has completed.
- [Smart City Interoperability Reference Architecture (SCIRA)](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/scira/): A SCIRA Pilot operational exercise was conducted on January 16, 2020 in St. Louis, Missouri. A summary of the final demonstration event in St. Louis was published in Geoconnexion Magazine under the title ‘Bringing It All Together’ .
- [Underground Infrastructure Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ugi-pilot/): The MUDDI ETL-Plugfest Workshop was held at the Fund for the City of New York (FCNY) on July 24-25. Here are the Workshop presentations:
- [Disasters Interoperability Concept Development Study](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/disasters-cds/): www.pixabay.com
- [OGC Testbed 15](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/testbed-15/): Table of Contents
- [Geospatial to the Edge Interoperability Plugfest](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/geoedgeplugfest/): What is a plugfest?
- [Maritime Limits and Boundaries (MLB) Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/mlbp/): Click here to view the original Call for Participation information in English and here for the French version. 
- [Portrayal CDS](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/portrayal-cds/): Cartography suffers in distributed web service environments and the poor presentation of data creates a negative  perception of the data quality, spatial data infrastructures and web standards. The current domain of web based  map driven display often ignores the fundamental concepts of basic cartography. The developers of the web based  map tools are often programmers with little cartographic experience, training or guidance. A major problem exists:  A haphazard use of colors, symbols, patterns, shapes and sizes are used to represent similar features.   
- [Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Hackathon 2018](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/eo-cloud-hack/): Version 1.5 - February 20, 2018
- [WFS 3.0 Hackathon](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/wfs3hackathon/): On 6 and 7 March 2018, the OGC organized a WFS3 Hackathon in Fort Collins, Colorado USA. The USGS had the foresight to see the value in rapidly progressing this standard and as a result, provided both funding to operate the hackathon and space to work at the USGS Powell Center. Special thanks are also in order to Radiant.Earth for assisting with funding for attendees and refreshments. 30 attendees participated in person and we had remote attendance from Nigeria as well as a small, distributed team working in Europe.
- [Indoor Mapping and Navigation Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/indoor-pilot/): 2020-04-20 - revision 0.1
- [Borehole Interoperability Experiment](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/boreholeie/): Geological and geophysical data are crucial for many domains of our society. Any domain that need to probe the underground relies on these data: raw material exploration, hydrology, oil and gas, mining, civil engineering (constructions, transportation), and environmental sciences. In most cases, the according human activities that need to investigate the underground are relying on indirect observations methods like geophysical measurements (e.g., seismic or geoelectrical exploration). However, for direct investigations of the subsurface and for the verification of indirect measurements and models, drilling is essential. Notwithstanding, each geoscientific domain has its own set of methods and interest (resource geologists look at rock properties relevant to mineral occurrences; hydrogeologists at water resources; civil engineers at mechanical properties; and the energy sector at fossil fuel potential) they all use the same basic engineering feature, a borehole.
- [Citizen Science Interoperability Experiment](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/citsci-ie/): The Citizen Science Interoperability Experiment has now concluded, resulting in the publication of Standardized Information Models to Optimize Exchange, Reusability and Comparability of Citizen Science Data (16-129).
- [Vector Tiles Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/vt-pilot-2018/): Vector Tiles is a technology that optimizes delivering vector data over the web to create maps. The approach provides a pre-defined shape (i.e. tile) to package vector data. Vector Tiles provide various opportunities:
- [CYBELE](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/cybele/): CYBELE generates innovation and creates value in the domain of agri-food, and its verticals in the sub-domains of Precision Agriculture and Precision Lifestock Farmin. in specific, as demonstrated by the real-life industrial cases to be supported, empowering capacity building within the industrial and research community.
- [Disasters Pilot 2019](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/dp19/): Click here to view the original Call for Participation information
- [Mixed Reality to the Edge CDS](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/mixed-reality/): The Mixed Reality to the Edge Concept Development Study (CDS) has completed. The Engineering Report that describes the information from the CDS has been finalized and approved for public release by the OGC Technical Committee. The final report "OGC Mixed Reality to the Edge Concept Development Study" has been posted.
- [CDB Vector Data in GeoPackage Interoperability Experiment](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/cdb-vector-gpkg/): The CDB Vector Data in GeoPackage Interoperability Experiment  has tested encodings of vector data via GeoPackage in the OGC CDB 1.1 Standard and Best Practices. A primary objective of this IE was to inform decision making for possible enhancements in the OGC CDB Standards Working Group (SWG). 
- [Second Environmental Linked Features Interoperability Experiment (SELFIE)](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/selfie/): The OGC SELFIE experiment tests web-resource models to enable interoperable linked feature data across domains using OGC APIs.
- [Routing Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/routing-pilot/): The Pilot has completed. The Open Routing API Pilot developed new capabilities to easily share routes and prototype APIs able to use routing data from any source - based on the next generation of OGC APIs.
- [UGAS-2019](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ugas2019/): The OGC UGAS 2019 initiative advanced interoperability standards for UAS and autonomous airborne sensor data management.
- [OGC Testbed-16](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/t-16/): The OGC T-16 initiative advances GeoPackage best practices and extensions to enhance geospatial data packaging and interoperability.
- [OGC API Hackathon 2019](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/oapihackathon19/): The OGC OAPI Hackathon 2019 brought developers together to build and test open APIs advancing geospatial interoperability.
- [Energy Utilities Data Sharing for Wildfires Study](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/wildfire-cds-19/): The OGC Wildfire CDS-19 study advances interoperable systems for wildfire data sharing to support utility risk reduction and response.
- [e-shape](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/e-shape/): The OGC E-SHAPE initiative advances interoperable Earth Observation services and pilots for sustainable development and resilience.
- [Earth Observation Applications Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/eoa-pilot/): The OGC Earth Observation Applications Pilot explored interoperable architectures to run applications on Earth Observation data platforms.
- [CityGML Challenge](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/citygmlchalleng/): Learn how the CityGML Challenge encouraged developers to configure visualization software for CityGML 3 with dynamic 3D content and sensors.
- [3D IoT Platform for Smart Cities Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/3d-iot-platform/): OGC’s 3D IoT Platform initiative focuses on spatial IoT interoperability and frameworks for integrated connected environments.
- [DEMETER](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/demeter/): OGC’s DEMETER initiative drives interoperable smart farming IoT platforms and open agriculture data models to improve sustainability and efficiency.
- [Vector Tiles Pilot Phase 2](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/vtp2/): VTP-2 enabled consistent online/offline vector tile delivery and metadata support across APIs and servers for modern geospatial use cases.
- [3D Data Container and Tiles Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/3dt/): A collaborative OGC initiative focused on modernizing 3D geospatial data access and interoperability.
- [Interoperable Simulation and Gaming (ISG) Sprint (Year 1)](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/isg-sprint-yr1/): Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Sprint Year 1 advanced glTF and 3D API interoperability for modeling and simulation.
- [OGC UML-to-GML Application Schema Pilot 2020 (UGAS-2020)](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ugas-2020/): UGAS-2020 advances UML-to-JSON Schema conversion and geospatial interoperability, improving modern data modeling across the NSG and wider community.
- [STAC and OGC API – Features and Catalogues Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ogc-api-featu/): Sprint advancing STAC and OGC API Features with new query and filter capabilities for interoperable geospatial data.
- [Modernizing SDI: Data Interoperability for Cumulative Effects CDS](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/modernizing-sdi/): The Modernizing SDI CDS advances next-gen standards to improve cumulative effects data interoperability across regions and domains.
- [Building Energy Mapping and Analytics CDS](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/bdgenergycds/): Study advancing building energy mapping, analytics, and standards to support efficiency, planning, and low-carbon transitions.
- [Geospatially Enabled Ecosystem for Europe (GeoE3)](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/geoe3/): The GeoE3 Project shows how interoperable data services support smart cities, renewable energy, and cross-border digital collaboration.
- [SWIM Discovery Service Workshop](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/sds-workshop/): The SWIM Discovery Service Workshop reviewed the FAA SDS spec to strengthen inter-SWIM service discovery.
- [Health Spatial Data Infrastructure CDS](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/health-sdi-cds/): Health SDI CDS defines an interoperable geospatial data model to improve pandemic response and health emergency resilience.
- [Disaster Pilot 2021](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/dp21/): Disaster Pilot 2021 combines EO, AI, cloud workflows and GeoPackage tools to deliver decision-ready information for disaster response.
- [EO Cloud Platform CDS](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/cloud-cds/): The EO Cloud Platform CDS advances cloud-native EO data processing with interoperable standards for climate, sustainability and disaster-risk insights.
- [Data Cube Interoperability](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/gdc/): Data Cube Interoperability advances a user-centric model for geospatial data cubes, improving metadata, APIs and processing for scalable EO analysis.
- [UxS Command and Control IE](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/uasccie/): The UxS Command and Control IE tests shared protocols and data models to enable unified, cross-provider control of unmanned systems.
- [Geotech IE](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/geotech-ie/): Geotech IE advances GIS–BIM interoperability, enabling standardized geotechnical data exchange for efficient, error-free infrastructure planning.
- [ILIAD – Digital Twin of the Ocean](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/iliad/): ILIAD builds an interoperable Digital Twin of the Ocean using advanced data models, HPC, and OGC standards for real-time marine insights.
- [All Data for Green Deal](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ad4gd/): AD4GD builds a FAIR, standards-based data space that unifies climate, environmental, IoT, and socio-economic data for the EU Green Deal.
- [CLIMOS](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/climos/): CLIMOS predicts how climate change drives disease spread, offering early warnings and data tools to support climate-health decisions.
- [InCASE](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/incase/): InCASE improves the quality and interoperability of in-situ environmental data to support EU climate monitoring and policy decisions.
- [CHEK](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/chek/): CHEK digitizes building permits with BIM and geodata, automating compliance checks and modernizing municipal approval processes.
- [ACCORD](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/accord/): ACCORD digitizes building permits with open standards, automates compliance, and supports climate-neutral construction across Europe.
- [USAGE](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/usage/): USAGE builds a trusted Urban Data Space to make climate and environmental data accessible for smarter, climate-ready cities.
- [DIS4SME](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/dis4sme/): EU-funded DIS4SME trains SMEs and professionals in data and location interoperability to boost digital skills and efficiency.
- [OGP / IPIECA Oil Spill Response Common Operating Picture (COP)](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/ogp-oil-spill/): Request for Information (RFI) for Oil Spill Response Common Operating Picture recommended practiceRequest for Information (RFI) for Oil Spill Response Common Operating Picture recommended practice
- [Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI) – CDS](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/msdi-cds-2018/): The Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Concept Development Study has completed. It was organized by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and supported by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.  
- [ESIP and OGC API – Coverages and Processing Analytics Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/initiatives/apianalytics/): Sprint advancing OGC API Coverages and Processing with new analytics methods for arrays, gridded data, and geospatial resources.

## Calls & Requests
- [Call for Sponsors: OGC FMSDI Phase 6 Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/requests/call-for-sponsors-ogc-fmsdi-phase-6-pilot/): Building on five successful pilot phases, FMSDI Phase 6 focuses on advancing the maturity of Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructures by addressing dynamic data exchange, multi-domain access, metadata and semantic interoperability, and decision-making in data-constrained environments.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed 3D Tiles 2.0 Community Standard Work Item](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-proposed-3d-tiles-2-0-community-standard-work-item/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the proposed 3D Tiles 2.0 Community Standard Work Item, a revision to the 3D Tiles Community Standard designed to support the efficient streaming of high-resolution, semantically rich 3D geospatial data.
- [Open Science Persistent Demonstrator 2026](https://www.ogc.org/requests/open-science-persistent-demonstrator-2026/): The full Call for Participation (CFP) for Open Science Persistent Demonstrator 2026 is available from the links below:
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed EmissionML Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-proposed-emissionml-standard/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites public comment on the candidate OGC EmissionML Standard, a proposed framework for standardized, interoperable representation of emission event data across environmental monitoring and reporting systems.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Candidate BigTIFF Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-candidate-bigtiff-standard/): A candidate Standard for large image files exceeding 4 GB
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed GeoHEIF Standards Working Group](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-proposed-geoheif-standards-working-group/): The GeoHEIF format supports the storage of imagery with integrated geospatial metadata
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Justification for the Global Entity Reference System (GERS) Framework and Model as an OGC Community Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-justification-for-the-global-entity-reference-system-gers-framework-and-model-as-an-ogc-community-standard/): GERS provides unique, open, and interoperable identifiers for geospatial entities such as buildings, places, and road segments.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Open Parcel Number (OPN) Standards Working Group](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-proposed-open-parcel-number-opn-standards-working-group/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the proposed Open Parcel Number (OPN) Standards Working Group (SWG).
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Provenance Domain Working Group Charter](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-proposed-provenance-domain-working-group-charter/): OGC invites public comment on the proposed Provenance Domain Working Group charter for standardising geospatial provenance.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed OGC SensorThings API Version 2.0](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-proposed-ogc-sensorthings-api-version-2-0/): OGC invites public comment on the proposed SensorThings API Version 2.0 Standard to advance interoperable IoT and observational data access.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Candidate OGC API – Common – Part 2: Geospatial Data Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-candidate-ogc-api-common-part-2-geospatial-data-standard/): Standard defines a means of organizing geospatial data in collections and operations for listing and describing them.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Deep Learning Model Standards Working Group](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-proposed-deep-learning-model-standards-working-group/): Proposed SWG to develop a metadata structure to describe Deep Learning models.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Community Standard Work Item Justification for Extended Well-Known Binary](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-proposed-community-standard-work-item-justification-for-extended-well-known-binary/): Extension to OGC’s Well-Known Binary (WKB) format adds support for additional dimensions and spatial reference identifiers
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Restructuring of the Simple Features Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-restructuring-of-the-simple-features-standard/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the proposed restructuring of the OGC Simple Features Standard into a multipart Standard.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Candidate OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval – Part 3: Service Profiles Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-candidate-ogc-api-environmental-data-retrieval-part-3-service-profiles-standard/): October 27, 2025 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the candidate OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) - Part 3: Service Profiles Standard. The OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) standard defines a family of lightweight web APIs that simplify access to environmental and other data. The Part 3: Services Profile Standard ensures interoperability between API implementations by defining a consistent approach to specifying a Profile of OGC API - EDR - Part 1: Core.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Candidate LAZ 1.4 Community Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-candidate-laz-1-4-community-standard/): October 06, 2025: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate LAZ 1.4 Community Standard. The comment period is open for 30 days and will close on November 05, 2025.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Candidate OGC API – Joins Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-candidate-ogc-api-joins-standards/): The OGC API — Joins candidate Standard specifies the behavior of Web APIs that join data from specified input data files containing feature collections with other input data files.
- [Towards Greater Interoperability: OGC Testbed-21 Call for Participation](https://www.ogc.org/requests/towards-greater-interoperability-ogc-testbed-21-call-for-participation/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites members to participate in Testbed-21 — a collaborative R&D initiative advancing open standards and solutions in geospatial interoperability, data quality, GEOINT media, and conformance testing. Funded participation available. Apply by Sept 9, 2025.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Candidate OGC SensorThings API Extension: WebSub Asynchronous Messaging Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-candidate-ogc-sensorthings-api-extension-websub-asynchronous-messaging-standard/): The candidate Extension enables HTTP-based asynchronous messaging for SensorThings API using the W3C WebSub protocol.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Revisions to The ModSpec Model: A Standard for Designing and Writing Modular Standards](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-proposed-revisions-to-the-modspec-model-a-standard-for-designing-and-writing-modular-standards/): The ModSpec defines a structured, modular approach for writing testable Standards by specifying clear requirements and recommendations to ensure consistent implementation and verifiable conformance
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on v1.2 of OGC API – Environment Data Retrieval Standard – Part 1](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-v1-2-of-ogc-api-environment-data-retrieval-standard-part-1/): The OGC API – EDR Standard makes it easier to efficiently access subsets of complex environmental or other spatiotemporal data through lightweight spatiotemporal queries via a simple, uniform Web interface.
- [Tender (ITT) for the provision of Software Engineering Management Services for OGC Validation Tools](https://www.ogc.org/requests/tender-itt-for-the-provision-of-software-engineering-management-services-for-ogc-validation-tools/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites organizations to bid for providing software engineering management services for OGC validation tools. Interested organizations should respond to the Invitation To Tender (ITT). Responses close 22:00hrs UTC on July 15th, 2025.
- [OGC Spatial Data Infrastructure Modernization Project 2025-2026](https://www.ogc.org/requests/the-future-of-spatial-data-infrastructure-call-for-contributions-for-demonstrative-examples-of-the-next-generation-of-sdi/): The Spatial Data Infrastructure Modernization Project will highlight examples from around the world of how SDI is evolving.
- [Vocabulary Service Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/vocabulary-service-standard/): OGC proposes a standard to unify how vocabularies are accessed and shared, boosting semantic data interoperability.
- [OGC seeking public comment on candidate Interpolation Extension to Web Coverage Service Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeking-public-comment-on-candidate-interpolation-extension-to-web-coverage-service-standard/): OGC seeks public comment on the WCS Interpolation Extension, refining interpolation control in Web Coverage Service processing. Comments due by April 21, 2025.
- [Public Comment Requested on v2.0 of OGC Geospatial User Feedback Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/public-comment-requested-on-v2-0-of-ogc-geospatial-user-feedback-standard/): OGC seeks public comment on the Geospatial User Feedback Standard v2.0, which enhances geospatial metadata with user insights. Comments due by April 21, 2025.
- [OGC looks to adopt STAC as Community Standard; Seeking Public Comment before moving to vote](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-looks-to-adopt-stac-as-community-standard-seeking-public-comment-before-moving-to-vote/): The STAC family of specifications aim to standardize the way geospatial asset metadata is structured and queried.
- [OGC looks to adopt openEO as Community Standard; Seeking Public Comment before moving to vote ](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-looks-to-adopt-openeo-as-community-standard-seeking-public-comment-before-moving-to-vote/): OGC seeks public comment on adopting openEO API & Processes as Community Standards to unify cloud-based Earth observation data processing. Comments due April 21, 2025.
- [OGC Seeking Sponsors for Testbed-21 Initiative](https://www.ogc.org/requests/seeking-sponsors-for-testbed-21/): OGC’s Testbed-21 initiative will efficiently address real-world data integration challenges faced by sponsoring organizations. OGC is now inviting organizations to sponsor the Testbed and discuss their ideas and requirements.
- [OGC Seeking Information for Testbed-21 Initiative](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeking-information-for-testbed-21-initiative/): RFI will inform development of the Testbed such as what organizations and components could be included, as well as what interconnections are missing or might need to be adapted.
- [OGC considering LAZ v1.4 – R1 as a Community Standard; comment sought on the work item proposal](https://www.ogc.org/requests/laz-v1-4-community-standard-work-item-proposal/): LAZ is the de facto industry standard for compressed LiDAR, with v1.4 enabling up to 93% reduction in file size through on-the-fly lossless compression.
- [Seeking Additional Sponsors for a Space Pilot to address Lunar Positioning, Navigation, and Timing; Digital Twins; and more](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-space-pilot-2025-call-for-sponsors/): The OGC Space Pilot is designed to foster innovation and collaboration in the realm of geospatial technology for New Space. We are seeking sponsors to support this groundbreaking endeavor, which will shape the future of lunar exploration.
- [Seeking Additional Sponsors for an AI-augmented Discrete Global Grid Systems Interoperability Initiative](https://www.ogc.org/requests/seeking-sponsors-for-ai-discrete-global-grid-systems-pilot/): OGC is seeking visionary organizations to support an upcoming Pilot aimed at testing, enabling, and improving AI-augmented Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS).
- [OGC requests Public Comment on candidate OGC API – DGGS Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-requests-public-comment-on-candidate-ogc-api-dggs-standard/): The candidate OGC API - DGGS Standard enables compliant APIs to retrieve geospatial data for a specific area, time, and resolution, based on a specific DGGRS, and also inquire which zones of interest correspond to a particular query.
- [Requesting Public Comment on OGC Best Practice document for Encoding Rules for converting UML to JSON](https://www.ogc.org/requests/requesting-public-comment-on-ogc-best-practice-document-for-encoding-rules-for-converting-uml-to-json/): New OGC Best Practice aims to support a standardized encoding from UML to JSON, in order to improve interoperability and efficiency in the chain from conceptual models to JSON implementation.
- [Requesting Public Comment on Potential OGC Geospatial Observation Needs And Requirements Working Group](https://www.ogc.org/requests/requesting-public-comment-on-potential-ogc-geospatial-observation-needs-and-requirements-working-group/): The GONAR SWG aims to create a standardized way to clearly and consistently express user needs for geospatial observation data so that they may be acted upon by data providers.
- [Grant Applications Open for Pilot Project to Bridge Land and Sea Data](https://www.ogc.org/requests/grant-applications-open-for-pilot-project-to-bridge-land-and-sea-data/): Fifth phase of OGC’s multi-year Federated Marine SDI project will explore mechanisms for dynamically transferring data between land and sea paradigms with as little loss as possible.
- [OGC requests Public Comment on OGC API – Connected Systems and supporting Sensor Standards before adoption](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-requests-public-comment-on-ogc-api-connected-systems-and-supporting-sensor-standards-before-adoption/): OGC API - Connected Systems modernizes the OGC Sensor Web Enablement Standards, and connects sensors with infrastructure systems on or around the Earth.
- [Generative AI capabilities and tools to be tested in the next phase of the OGC Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot – Applications for grants now open](https://www.ogc.org/requests/climate-disaster-resilience-pilot-phase-2-participation/): OGC is excited to offer our members a pool of funding to participate in the second phase of the 2024 Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot. Apply now. Applications close September 18. A Q&A webinar is scheduled for September 12. 
- [OGC to form Emission Event Modeling Language Working Group; Public Comment sought on Charter](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-to-form-emission-event-modeling-language-working-group-public-comment-sought-on-charter/): EmissionML seeks to address the data interoperability gap that exists between emissions, their associated sensor observations, and the geospatial features that are their source.
- [OGC requests Public Comment on IndoorGML v2.0 Conceptual Model](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-requests-public-comment-on-indoorgml-v2-0-conceptual-model/): IndoorGML models indoor spaces and their neighborhood relationships to support indoor location-based services, including indoor navigation.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on OGC API – Features – Parts 4 & 5](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-ogc-api-features-parts-4-5/): Part 4 defines API building blocks that allow geospatial resources to be added to, replaced, modified and/or removed; while Part 5 specifies how to describe data using a logical schema.
- [OGC seeks public comment on OGC CDB v1.3](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-ogc-cdb-v1-3/): CDB v1.3 adds the ability to use NAS and other feature dictionaries, a rework of the Gamma Tutorial, and four new texture types.
- [OGC Requests Public Comment on OGC API – Records – Part 1: Core](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-requests-public-comment-on-ogc-api-records-part-1-core/): New OGC API makes geospatial resources Findable by standardizing the way that collections of descriptive information (metadata) about the resources is exposed.
- [Advancing the Foundations of Interoperability: OGC Testbed-20 Calls For Participation](https://www.ogc.org/requests/advancing-the-foundations-of-interoperability-ogc-testbed-20-calls-for-participation/): Testbed-20 will drive innovation at the foundations of geospatial data ecosystems, with new imagery, new HPC, and new data cubes.
- [OGC Calls for Participation in the Urban Digital Twins Interoperability Pilot](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-calls-for-participation-in-the-urban-digital-twins-interoperability-pilot/): Laying the foundations for improved interoperability between Digital Twins developed for separate applications. Funding is available.
- [OGC Requests Public Comment on JSON and XML Encodings for Training Data Markup Language for Artificial Intelligence Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-requests-public-comment-on-json-and-xml-encodings-for-training-data-markup-language-for-artificial-intelligence-standard/): OGC TrainingDML-AI Standard standardizes any training data used to train, validate, and test Machine Learning models that involve location or time.
- [OGC to form Transportation and Mobility Domain Working Group; Public Comment sought on Charter](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-to-form-transportation-and-mobility-domain-working-group-public-comment-sought-on-charter/): Providing a forum to discuss and support the use of geographic information in planning, operating, and optimizing transportation and mobility systems.
- [OGC Requests Public Comment on OGC Points Of Interest Conceptual Model Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-requests-public-comment-on-ogc-points-of-interest-conceptual-model-standard/): A flexible, lightweight, extensible POI data model that will enable content publishers to effectively describe and efficiently exchange POI data.
- [OGC Requests Public Comment on Features and Geometries JSON – Part 1: Core Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-requests-public-comment-on-features-and-geometries-json-part-1-core-standard/): The JSON-FG Standard specifies extensions to the GeoJSON format that support certain useful geospatial application contexts.
- [OGC seeking public comment on OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval – Part 2: Publish-Subscribe Workflow Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeking-public-comment-on-ogc-api-environmental-data-retrieval-part-2-publish-subscribe-workflow-standard/): New Standard will provide a basis for Publish-Subscribe implementation patterns within the OGC API ecosystem.
- [OGC to form Geospatial Reporting Indicators Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on Charter](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-to-form-geospatial-reporting-indicators-standards-working-group-public-comment-sought-on-charter/): New SWG will support transparency, enable interoperability, and promote knowledge-sharing surrounding the use of international reporting indicators that rely on geospatial data.
- [OGC to form Geographic Data Files Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on Charter](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-to-form-geographic-data-files-standards-working-group-public-comment-sought-on-charter/): New SWG will create a major revision to the GDF Standard, used for the preparation and exchange of spatial and map data within the Intelligent Transport Systems domain.
- [OGC considering openEO as a Community Standard; comment sought on its adoption](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-considering-openeo-as-a-community-standard-comment-sought-on-its-adoption/): openEO aims to increase the interoperability of processing “big EO data” satellite imagery in the cloud.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on OGC API – Maps – Part 1: Core Candidate Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-ogc-api-maps-part-1-core-candidate-standard/): OGC API - Maps defines web APIs that can serve spatially referenced electronic maps in a manner independent of the underlying data store.
- [OGC considering Bathymetric Attributed Grid as a Community Standard; comment sought on its adoption](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-considering-bathymetric-attributed-grid-as-a-community-standard-comment-sought-on-its-adoption/): BAG is an established open specification for representing bathymetric data as regular grids of seafloor depths with the corresponding vertical uncertainty and associated metadata.
- [OGC Calls For Participation in the Releasable Basemap Tiles GeoPackage Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-calls-for-participation-in-the-ogc-releasable-basemap-tiles-geopackage-sprint/): Three-week Sprint intends to test a draft specification for NSG Vector Tiles Interoperability Volume 2: Basemap Tile Packages
- [OGC to form Land Administration Domain Model Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on Charter](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-to-form-land-administration-domain-model-standards-working-group-public-comment-sought-on-charter/): New LADM SWG will create an encoding Standard as an additional Part to the ISO LADM Standard, facilitating adoption of LADM and improving interoperability.
- [OGC seeking Sponsors for Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot 2024 – Connecting Land & Sea](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeking-sponsors-for-federated-marine-spatial-data-infrastructure-pilot-2024-connecting-land-sea/): Addressing the complexities faced by organizations connecting data of the sea with data of the land.
- [OGC seeks Public Comment on Abstract Conceptual Model For Time](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-abstract-conceptual-model-for-time/): New OGC Abstract Topic document clearly defines the major underlying concepts of time, such as the fundamental concepts of events, clocks, timescales, coordinates, and calendars.
- [OGC Calls for Participation in the Climate & Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-calls-for-participation-in-the-climate-disaster-resilience-pilot-2024/): Pilot will advance information and technologies supporting climate and disaster understanding & readiness while seeding collaboration between these two connected domains.
- [OGC seeks public comment on MUDDI Conceptual Model for underground objects](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-muddi-conceptual-model-for-underground-objects/): The Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration Standard makes subsurface data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable.
- [Funding available for creating GeoParquet Developer Resources](https://www.ogc.org/requests/funding-available-for-creating-geoparquet-developer-resources/): OGC has opened a Call For Proposals to receive funding to develop resources to assist implementers of the Standard and support the creation of a robust GeoParquet ecosystem.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Adoption of STAC and STAC API as Community Standards](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-adoption-of-stac-and-stac-api-as-community-standards/): The SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) is an open specification designed to improve the discovery, accessibility, and interoperability of geospatial data.
- [OGC to form Space Standards Domain Working Group; Public Comment sought on Draft Charter](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-to-form-space-standards-domain-working-group-public-comment-sought-on-draft-charter/): The Space Standards DWG will serve as a coordinating body for Space Standards, leading to interoperable representations for space and time across the domain.
- [Sponsorship Opportunities Open for the OGC Climate & Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024](https://www.ogc.org/requests/sponsorship-opportunities-open-for-the-ogc-climate-disaster-resilience-pilot-2024/): Stakeholder-centric Pilot will accelerate our readiness for climate change and related disasters by optimizing on-demand information to better understand, trace, mitigate, adapt, and respond.
- [OGC to form GeoZarr Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on draft Charter](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-to-form-geozarr-standards-working-group-public-comment-sought-on-draft-charter/): A GeoZarr Standard developed by the SWG will establish flexible and inclusive conventions for the cloud-native Zarr format that meet the diverse requirements of the geospatial domain.
- [OGC seeks public comment on candidate OGC API – Moving Features – Part 1: Core Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-candidate-ogc-api-moving-features-part-1-core-standard/): New OGC API provides a standard way to manage and interact with geospatial data that represents phenomena and objects that move and change over time.
- [OGC seeks Public Comment on CDB v2.0 Core and related GeoPackage Profile](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-cdb-v2-0-core-and-related-geopackage-profile/): This major revision is the result of numerous OGC Interoperability Experiments, Sprints, discussions, and feedback from the user community.
- [OGC releases Open Science Persistent Demonstrator Request For Information](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-releases-open-science-persistent-demonstrator-request-for-information/): Initiative will grow the open science community and make scientific results available to the people who need it most, in a format they can benefit from.
- [OGC seeks Public Comment on update to Abstract Specification Topic 1 – Spatial Schema](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-update-to-abstract-specification-topic-1-spatial-schema/): OGC Abstract Specification Topic 1 to be aligned with the ISO 19107:2019 Standard.
- [OGC seeks Public Comment on version 1.4 of GeoPackage Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-version-1-4-of-geopackage-standard/): New version of GeoPackage adds more flexibility and prevents some possible interoperability problems.
- [Public Comment requested on GeoPose Implementations before Adoption as OGC Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/geopose-implementations-public-comment/): GeoPose is a Standard for expressing and sharing geographically-anchored poses of objects in six degrees of freedom and referenced to a CRS.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Parts 1 & 3 of OGC Abstract Specification Topic 6 For Coverage Geometry and Functions](https://www.ogc.org/requests/public-comment-ab-spec-topic-6-parts-1-3/): Parts 1 & 3 of updated International Standard define the concept of Coverages as well as a processing language for extracting, filtering, processing, analyzing, and fusing multi-dimensional geospatial Coverages.
- [OGC Requests Public Comment on a Standardized Deformation Model and a Geodetic Data Grid Exchange Format](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-requests-public-comment-on-a-standardized-deformation-model-and-a-geodetic-data-grid-exchange-format/): Two new specifications will provide a standardized way to exchange information used to calculate the changing positions of objects due to the movement and deformation of the Earth’s crust.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on New Standard for Training Data for AI/ML Applications](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-new-standard-for-training-data-for-ai-ml-applications/): OGC TrainingDML-AI Standard defines the model and encodings for standardizing any training data used to train, validate, and test Machine Learning models that involve location or time.
- [Connecting Land and Sea for Global Awareness: The OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot 2023 Calls For Participation](https://www.ogc.org/requests/fmsdi-pilot-2023-cfp/): Pilot will investigate how marine navigational data can be used in new ways in the Caribbean, and how Digital Twins can be created for coastal management in Singapore and the Arctic.
- [Interoperability and Collaboration from Oceans to Space: OGC Testbed-19 Calls For Participation](https://www.ogc.org/requests/interoperability-and-collaboration-from-oceans-to-space-ogc-testbed-19-calls-for-participation/): OGC Testbed-19 will pave the way towards new levels of interoperability across Geospatial in Space, Machine Learning, Geodatacubes, Analysis Ready Data, Agile Reference Architecture, and High Performance Computing.
- [OGC seeks Public Comment on v3.0 of GeoXACML and related JSON Profile](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-v3-0-of-geoxacml-and-related-json-profile/): Geospatial eXtensible Access Control Markup Language is a geospatial extension to the OASIS XACML standard for defining access rights based on geographic conditions.
- [OGC Seeks Public Comment on Extension to SensorThings API Standard, STAplus 1.0](https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-extension-to-sensorthings-api-standard-staplus-1-0/): STAplus brings features to improve the usefulness of the SensorThings API to Citizen Science.
- [OGC seeks Public Comment on FlatGeobuf becoming a Community Standard](https://www.ogc.org/requests/public-comment-requested-justification-document-for-flatgeobuf-as-an-ogc-community-standard/): FlatGeobuf is a performant binary encoding for geographic data that works well as a “cloud native” lossless format for vector data.
- [OGC to create Agriculture Information Model Standards Working Group; Public Comment Sought on Draft Charter](https://www.ogc.org/requests/public-comment-requested-agriculture-information-model-standards-working-group-charter/): New SWG will develop an Agriculture Information Model that will provide a common language for agriculture applications to harmonize and improve data and metadata exchange.
- [OGC to form GeoDCAT Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on Draft Charter](https://www.ogc.org/requests/public-comment-requested-geodcat-standards-working-group-charter/): The GeoDCAT SWG aims to separate a general geospatial profile of DCAT, called GeoDCAT, out from the Europe-specific Application Profile, GeoDCAT-AP.

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- [Cassie Lee Joins OGC as Chief Innovation Officer](https://www.ogc.org/?p=1872): As OGC’s Chief Innovation Officer, Cassie Lee will leverage her expertise in aerospace, emerging technology

## Standards
- [The ModSpec Model](https://www.ogc.org/standards/modspec/): The ModSpec: Core Standard defines a model and related requirements and recommendations for writing and structuring modular standards documents. Further, this model is designed to enable consistent and verifiable testing of implementations of a standard that claim conformance. The ModSpec is a meta-standard: A standard specifying requirements for crafting and documenting modular and testable standards.
- [Features and Geometries JSON](https://www.ogc.org/standards/json-fg/): The OGC Features and Geometries JSON (JSON-FG) Standard specifies GeoJSON extensions that provide standard ways to support these and other additional requirements. The JSON-FG Standardization goal is to focus on capabilities that may require some geospatial expertise, but that are useful in many applications. Edge cases are considered out-of-scope of JSON-FG.
- [openEO](https://www.ogc.org/standards/openeo/): The OGC openEO Community Standard defines an API in support of interoperable cloud-based processing of large Earth observation datasets.
- [Bathymetric Attributed Grid (BAG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/bag/): The Bathymetric Attributed Grid (BAG) was created to service the needs of the hydrographic community and target the concept of a Navigation Surface on a survey by survey basis.
- [SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/stac/): The SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) family of specifications aim to standardize the way geospatial asset metadata is structured and queried. A “spatiotemporal asset” is any file that represents information about the Earth at a certain place and time. The original focus was on scenes of satellite imagery, but the specifications now cover a broad variety of uses, including sources such as aircraft and drone and data such as hyperspectral optical, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), video, point clouds, lidar, digital elevation models (DEM), vector, machine learning labels, and composites like NDVI and mosaics. STAC is intentionally designed with a minimal core and flexible extension mechanism to support a broad set of use cases. This specification has matured over the past several years, and is used in numerous production deployments.
- [Discrete Global Grid Systems](https://www.ogc.org/standards/dggs/): DGGSs (Discrete Global Grid Systems) provide a new way to organise, store and analyse spatio-temporal data. This document contains a normative definition for DGGS and informative annexes. Annex B discusses the theoretical basis for equal area Earth DGGS, and Annex C discusses DGGS’s historical background. At the heart of DGGS is a new Referencing system. Spatial and temporal RSs described elsewhere by ISO/TC211 and the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) fall into two types:
- [OGC API – Connected Systems](https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogc-api-connected-systems/): The OGC API — Connected Systems Standard (aka “this Standard” or “CS API”) specifies the fundamental API building blocks for interacting with Connected Systems and associated resources. A Connected System represents any kind of system that can either directly transmit data via communication networks (being connected to them in a permanent or temporary fashion), or whose data is made available in one form or another via such networks. This definition encompasses systems of all kinds, including in-situ and remote sensors, actuators, fixed and mobile platforms, airborne and space-borne systems, robots and drones, and even humans who collect data or execute specific tasks.
- [OGC API – Records](https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogcapi-records/): The OGC API family of Standards is being developed to make it easy for anyone to provide geospatial data over the web. These Standards build upon the legacy of the OGC Web Service Standards (WMS, WFS, WCS, WPS, CSW, etc.), but define resource-centric APIs that take advantage of modern web development practices.
- [Points of Interest (POI)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/points-of-interest-poi/): POI data has many uses including navigation systems, mapping, geocaching, location-based social networking games, and augmented reality browsers.
- [OGC API – Moving Features](https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogc-api-moving-features/): This standard defines a standard interface for querying and accessing geospatial data that changes over time, such as the location and attributes of moving objects like vehicles, vessels, or pedestrians.
- [Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF](https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogc-cloud-optimized-geotiff/): The Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF standard defines a GeoTIFF layout optimized for cloud and web usage, allowing COG-aware applications to stream and access parts of raster data efficiently.
- [OGC API – EDR – Part 2: Publish-Subscribe Workflow](https://www.ogc.org/standards/sensor-things-api-extension-2/): This standard defines building blocks that can be assembled to implement Publish-Subscribe workflows (discovery, topic structure, encoding) as part of OGC API — Environmental Data Retrieval — Part 1: Core. A topic structure is the structured information that a publisher makes available to allow subscribers to choose information of interest to them.
- [STAplus: Sensor Things API Extension](https://www.ogc.org/standards/sensor-things-api-extension/): This standard specifies a backwards-compatible extension to the OGC Standard SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing and Sensing 1.1 data model. The STAplus extension is designed to support a model in which observations are owned by different users.
- [Semantic Sensor Network Ontology](https://www.ogc.org/standards/semantic-sensor-network-ontology/): This standard provides a flexible but coherent perspective for representing the entities, relations, and activities involved in sensing, sampling, and actuation. It is an is an ontology for describing sensors and their observations, the involved procedures, the studied features of interest, the samples used to do so, and the observed properties, as well as actuators.
- [Time Ontology in OWL](https://www.ogc.org/standards/time-ontology-in-owl/): This standard developed to describe the temporal properties of any resource denoted using a web identifier (URI), including web-pages and real-world things if desired. OWL-Time focusses particularly on temporal ordering relationships. OWL-Time also supports other representations of temporal position and duration, including temporal coordinates (scaled position on a continuous temporal axis) and ordinal times (named positions or periods).
- [Symbology Conceptual Core Model](https://www.ogc.org/standards/symbology-conceptual-core-model/): This standard provides the conceptual basis to define symbology rules for the portrayal of geographical data. The abstract Style class must be considered as the root element for portraying a geographic data model and for defining a concrete style model, e.g., specific style dedicated to render 2D vector data.
- [OpenFlight Scene](https://www.ogc.org/standards/openflight-scene/): The OpenFlight Scene standard defines a 3D scene description file format widely used for real-time visual simulation of 3D terrain and moving models such as aircraft and vehicles.
- [CityJSON](https://www.ogc.org/standards/cityjson/): CityJSON is a JSON-based standard for exchanging digital 3D city and landscape models, offering a simplified encoding of the CityGML data model that enhances usability and developer workflows.
- [Zarr Storage Specification](https://www.ogc.org/standards/zarr-storage-specification/): This community standard defines an open-source specification for the storage of multi-dimensional arrays of data (also known as data cubes, N-dimensional arrays, ND-arrays, or tensors). Such arrays are ubiquitous in scientific research and engineering. In June 2022, the OGC endorsed a community standard of Zarr V2.0 (https://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/spec/v2.html).
- [Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/indoor-mapping-data-format/): This standard provides a generalized, yet comprehensive model for any indoor location, providing a basis for orientation, navigation and discovery. In this release there are also detailed instructions for modeling the spaces of an airport, a shopping mall, and a train station.
- [Abstract Specification](https://www.ogc.org/standards/abstract-specification/): The Abstract Specification provides the conceptual foundation for geospatial standard development, offering topic volumes with abstract models like metadata and geometry.
- [OGC API – Maps](https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogcapi-maps/): This standard describes an API that presents data as maps by applying a style. The Standard allows a client application to request maps as images, or change parameters such as size and coordinate reference systems at the time of request, making them implementer-friendly and easily understandable by developers without geospatial experience.
- [Common Query Language (CQL2)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/cql2/): The CQL2 standard defines a common query language with text and JSON encoding that enables advanced filtering and querying of geospatial feature and resource data.
- [Geodetic data Grid eXchange Format (GGXF)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/ggfx/): The GGXF standard defines the Geodetic data Grid eXchange Format, a file format for exchanging regularly gridded geodetic data for tasks such as coordinate transformation and vertical datum conversion.
- [MUDDI](https://www.ogc.org/standards/muddi/): This standard defines classes that support the integration of datasets from different types of information about the underground space, using different information models. These information models include models about elements such as utility infrastructure, transport infrastructure, soils, ground water, or environmental parameters.
- [Training Data Markup Language for Artificial Intelligence](https://www.ogc.org/standards/trainingdml-ai/): This standard aims to develop the unified modeling language (UML) model and encodings for geospatial machine learning training data. Training data plays a fundamental role in Earth Observation (EO) Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (AI/ML), especially Deep Learning (DL). It is used to train, validate, and test AI/ML models.
- [CoverageJSON](https://www.ogc.org/standards/coveragejson/): The CoverageJSON standard defines a JSON-based format for encoding and exchanging spatio-temporal coverage data in a web-friendly, efficient way suitable for interactive visualization.
- [OGC API – Common](https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogcapi-common/): This standard is a multi-part standard that specifies reusable building-blocks that can be used in the construction of OGC API Standards. It defines fundamental building blocks and requirements which are applicable to all OGC Web API Standards.
- [Well-known text representation of coordinate reference systems](https://www.ogc.org/standards/wkt-crs/): This standard defines the structure and content of well-known text strings describing coordinate reference systems (CRSs) and coordinate operations between coordinate reference systems. It does not prescribe how implementations should read or write these strings.
- [Web Service Common](https://www.ogc.org/standards/common/): This standard specifies many of the aspects that are, or should be, common to all or multiple OGC Web Service (OWS) interface Implementation Standards. These common aspects are primarily some of the parameters and data structures used in operation requests and responses. Rather than continuing to repeat this material in each such Implementation Specification, each specification should normatively reference each relevant part of this Standard.
- [Web Processing Service](https://www.ogc.org/standards/wps/): This standard provides rules for standardizing how inputs and outputs (requests and responses) for geospatial processing services, such as polygon overlay. The standard also defines how a client can request the execution of a process, and how the output from the process is handled.
- [Web Map Tile Service](https://www.ogc.org/standards/wmts/): This implementation standard provides a standard based solution to serve digital maps using predefined image tiles. The WMTS standard complements the existing Web Map Service standard of the OGC. The WMTS standard offers a standardized approach to declaring the images which a client can request from a server, enabling a single type of client to be developed for all servers.
- [Web Map Service](https://www.ogc.org/standards/wms/): This standard provides a simple HTTP interface for requesting geo-registered map images from one or more distributed geospatial databases. A WMS request defines the geographic layer(s) and area of interest to be processed. The response to the request is one or more geo-registered map images (returned as JPEG, PNG, etc) that can be displayed in a browser application.
- [Web Map Context](https://www.ogc.org/standards/wmc/): This standard specification applies to the creation and use of documents which unambiguously describe the state, or “Context,” of a WMS Client application in a manner that is independent of a particular client and that might be utilized by different clients to recreate the application state.
- [Web Feature Service](https://www.ogc.org/standards/wfs/): This standard defines direct fine-grained access to geographic information at the feature and feature property level by specifying discovery, query, locking and transaction operations and operations to manage stored, parameterized query expressions. This standard covers 11 operations e.g. GetCapabilities (discovery operation). This Standard continues to be a reliable means to provide geospatial data to the web. However, the functional capabilities are now available in a more modern web API, OGC API – Features, and implementers are encouraged to use the newer Standard.
- [Web Coverage Service](https://www.ogc.org/standards/wcs/): This standard offers multi-dimensional coverage data for access over the Internet. WCS Core specifies a core set of requirements that a WCS implementation must fulfill. The OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) supports electronic retrieval of geospatial data as “coverages.” Coverages are digital geospatial information representing space/time-varying phenomena, specifically spatio-temporal regular and irregular grids, point clouds, and general meshes. Core requirements are mandatory for any implementation claiming to be conformant with WCS. Extensions to the core define extensions to meet additional requirements, such as the response encoding. Additional extensions are required in order to completely specify a WCS for implementation.
- [Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/wcps/): This standard defines a protocol-independent language for the extraction, processing, and analysis of multi-dimensional coverages representing sensor, image, or statistics data.
- [OGC WaterML](https://www.ogc.org/standards/waterml/): WaterML 2.0 is a standard information model for the representation of water observations data, with the intent of allowing the exchange of such data sets across information systems. Through the use of existing OGC standards, it aims at being an interoperable exchange format that may be re-used to address a range of exchange requirements. OGC WaterML2.0 is, however, a harmonized information model between a number of standards from various countries with existing OGC standards. OGC WaterML2.0 is based on the OGC Observations and Measurements standard (ISO 19156). It comprises a number of parts.
- [OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set](https://www.ogc.org/standards/tms/): This standard defines the rules and requirements for a tile matrix set as a way to index space based on a set of regular grids defining a domain (tile matrix) for a limited list of scales in a Coordinate Reference System (CRS) as defined in Abstract Specification Topic 2: Referencing by Coordinates.
- [TimeseriesML (TSML)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/tsml/): This standard defines an XML encoding that implements the OGC Timeseries Profile of Observations and Measurements , with the intent of allowing the exchange of such data sets across information systems.
- [Table Joining Service](https://www.ogc.org/standards/tjs/): This standard defines a simple way to describe and exchange tabular data that contains information about geographic objects.
- [Symbology Encoding](https://www.ogc.org/standards/se/): This standard defines Symbology Encoding, an XML language for styling information that can be applied to digital Feature and Coverage data.
- [Styled Layer Descriptor](https://www.ogc.org/standards/sld/): This standard defines an encoding that extends the WMS standard to allow user-defined symbolization and coloring of geographic feature and coverage data.
- [Simple Feature Access – Part 2: SQL Option](https://www.ogc.org/standards/sfs/): This second part of Simple Features Access (SFA), also called ISO 19125, defines a standard Structured Query Language (SQL) schema that supports storage, retrieval, query and update of feature collections via the SQL Call-Level Interface (SQL/CLI) (ISO/IEC 9075-3:2003).
- [Simple Features for OLE/COM](https://www.ogc.org/standards/sfo/): This specification addresses GIS specific interfaces above and interfaces that were available through Microsoft data access technologies in 1999. It is based on use of the OLE DB and ADO facilities provided by Microsoft.
- [Simple Features for CORBA](https://www.ogc.org/standards/sfc/): This standard defines a specification to provide interfaces to allow GIS software engineers to develop applications that expose functionality required to access and manipulate geospatial information comprising features with ‘simple’ geometry using OMG’s Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) technology.
- [Simple Feature Access – Part 1: Common Architecture](https://www.ogc.org/standards/sfa/): This part of Simple Features Access (SFA), also called ISO 19125, describes the common architecture for simple feature geometry. The base Geometry class has subclasses for Point, Curve, Surface and GeometryCollection. Each geometric object is associated with a Spatial Reference System, which describes the coordinate space in which the geometric object is defined.
- [SensorThings API](https://www.ogc.org/standards/sensorthings/): This standard provides an open, geospatial-enabled and unified way to interconnect the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, data, and applications over the Web. It provides 2 main functions Sensing and Tasking.
- [Sensor Planning Service (SPS)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/sps/): This standard defines interfaces for queries that provide information about the capabilities of a sensor and how to task the sensor.
- [Sensor Observation Service](https://www.ogc.org/standards/sos/): This standard defines a Web service interface which allows querying observations, sensor metadata, as well as representations of observed features.
- [Sensor Model Language (SensorML)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/sensorml/): This standard provides a robust and semantically-tied means of defining processes and processing components associated with the measurement and post-measurement transformation of observations. This includes sensors and actuators as well as computational processes applied pre- and post-measurement.
- [SWE Service Model Implementation](https://www.ogc.org/standards/swes/): This standard serves as the home for all data type and interface definitions that are common only to SWE services. It currently defines eight packages with data types for common use across OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) services. Five of these packages define operation request and response types.
- [SWE Common Data Model Encoding](https://www.ogc.org/standards/swecommon/): The Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Common Data Model Encoding Standard defines low level data models for exchanging sensor related data between nodes of the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) framework. These models allow applications and/or servers to structure, encode and transmit sensor datasets in a self describing and semantically enabled way.
- [OGC PUCK Protocol](https://www.ogc.org/standards/puck/): This standard defines a protocol for RS232 and Ethernet connected instruments. PUCK addresses installation and configuration challenges for sensors by defining a standard instrument protocol to store and automatically retrieve metadata and other information from the instrument device itself.
- [Publish/Subscribe](https://www.ogc.org/standards/pubsub/): This standard defines a specification that supports the core components and concepts of the Publish/Subscribe message exchange pattern with OGC Web Services. It primarily addresses subscription management capabilities such as creating a subscription, renewing a subscription, and unsubscribing.
- [PipelineML Conceptual and Encoding Model](https://www.ogc.org/standards/pipelineml/): This standard defines concepts supporting the interoperable interchange of data pertaining to oil and gas pipeline systems. PipelineML supports the common exchange of oil and gas pipeline information.
- [Web Services Security](https://www.ogc.org/standards/security/): This standard applies to OWS deployed on HTTPS. It specifies how conformant OWS Services advertise their IA Controls and additional security features. The advertisement uses XML elements that are already part of the Capabilities document structure. This ensures that existing client implementations will not break.
- [OGC Web Services Context Document (OWS Context)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/owc/): This standard describes the use cases, requirements and conceptual model for the OGC Web Services (OWS) Context encoding standard. The OGC Web Services Context Document (OWS Context) was created to allow a set of configured information resources (service set) to be passed between applications primarily as a collection of services. OWS Context is developed to support in-line content as well.
- [Ordering Services Framework for Earth Observation Products](https://www.ogc.org/standards/oseo/): This standard specifies the interfaces, bindings, requirements, conformance classes, and a framework for implementing extensions that enable complete workflows for ordering of Earth Observation (EO) data products.
- [OpenSearch](https://www.ogc.org/standards/opensearch/): This standard which comprises several parts originated in a community effort built around Amazon’s A9.com. OpenSearch is a collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results. This specification is currently being maintained on GitHub and is available under the Creative CC BY-SA 4.0 license, see: https://github.com/dewitt/opensearch/blob/master/LICENSE.txt. There are extensions for Earth Observation (EO) which specifies a series of additional parameters that can be used to constrain searches especially for EO collection and EO product metadata as well as Geo and Time to make spatial and temporal queries to a repository of geospatial content that contains geographic and temporal properties.
- [OGC Open Modelling Interface (OpenMI)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/openmi/): The OpenMI standard defines a runtime interface for process simulation models and tools to exchange data, enabling interoperable integrated modelling across diverse systems.
- [Open GeoSMS – Core](https://www.ogc.org/standards/opengeosms/): The Open GeoSMS standard provides an extended SMS encoding and interface to share location content between LBS devices and applications, facilitating interoperable geospatial messaging.
- [OGC API – Tiles](https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogcapi-tiles/): This standard specification is a successor to the OGC’s Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) standard, focusing on simple reusable REST API building blocks which can be described using the OpenAPI specification. Whereas WMTS focused on map tiles, this standard has been designed to support any form of tiled data.
- [OGC API – Processes](https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogcapi-processes/): This standard specifies a processing interface to communicate over a RESTful protocol using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) encodings. It leverages concepts from the OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) 2.0 Interface Standard but does not require implementation of a WPS.
- [OGC API – Features](https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogcapi-features/): This standard specifies the fundamental API building blocks for interacting with features. The geospatial community uses the term ‘feature’ for things in the real world that are of interest. OGC API Features is comprised of multiple parts, each of them is a separate standard. Part 1, the “Core,” specifies the core capabilities and is restricted to fetching features where geometries are represented in the coordinate reference system WGS 84 with axis order longitude/latitude. Part 2 specifies the capabilities for fetching features that have geometries represented in all other coordinate reference systems.
- [OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval](https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogcapi-edr/): This standard specification identifies resources, captures compliance classes, and specifies requirements which are applicable to OGC Environmental Data Retrieval APIs. It addresses two fundamental operations; discovery and query. Discovery operations allow the API to be interrogated to determine its capabilities and retrieve information (metadata) about this distribution of a resource. Query operations allow Environmental Data resources to be retrieved from the underlying data store based upon simple selection criteria, defined by this standard and selected by the client.
- [Observations, Measurements, and Samples](https://www.ogc.org/standards/om/): This standard which comprises several parts defines a conceptual schema for observations, for features involved in the observation process, and for features involved in sampling when making observations. Models support the exchange of information describing observation acts and their results, both within and between different scientific and technical communities.
- [OGC network Common Data Form (netCDF) standards suite](https://www.ogc.org/standards/netcdf/): This standard consists of a suite of standards that support encoding of digital geospatial information representing space/time-varying phenomena. Although it was originally developed for the Earth science community, netCDF can be used to communicate and store a wide variety of multidimensional data. The netCDF data model and encodings are particularly well suited to providing data in forms familiar to atmospheric and oceanic scientists, specifically, as sets of related arrays.
- [OGC Moving Features](https://www.ogc.org/standards/movingfeatures/): This standard specifies standard encoding representations of movement of geographic features. The primary use case is information exchange.
- [Location Service (OpenLS)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/ols/): This standard specifies interfaces that enable companies in the Location Based Services (LBS) value chain to “hook-up” and provide their pieces of applications such as emergency response (E-911, for example), personal navigator, traffic information service, proximity service, location recall, mobile field service, travel directions, restaurant finder, corporate asset locator, concierge, routing, vector map portrayal and interaction, friend finder, and geography voice-graphics.
- [LAS Specification](https://www.ogc.org/standards/las/): Discover the LAS specification, an open point cloud data format that enables LiDAR hardware and software tools to output and exchange data in a common format.
- [OGC LandInfra / InfraGML](https://www.ogc.org/standards/infragml/): This standard comprises several parts presents the implementation-dependent, GML encoding of concepts supporting land and civil engineering infrastructure facilities specified in the OGC Land and Infrastructure Conceptual Model Standard (LandInfra). Conceptual model subject areas include land features, facilities, projects, alignment, road, railway, survey (including equipment, observations, and survey results), land division, and condominiums. It is published as a multi-part standard.
- [KML](https://www.ogc.org/standards/kml/): Originating as a community standard, this standard defines an XML language focused on geographic visualization, including annotation of maps and images. It is used to encode and transport representations of geographic data for display in an earth browser. Put simply, KML encodes what to show in an earth browser, and how to show it.
- [OGC IndoorGML](https://www.ogc.org/standards/indoorgml/): This standard specifies an open data model and XML schema for indoor spatial information. IndoorGML intentionally focuses on modelling indoor spaces for navigation purposes.
- [Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/i3s/): The I3S standard (Indexed 3D Scene Layers) defines an open 3D content delivery format for rapidly streaming and distributing large volumes of 3D GIS data to web, mobile, and desktop clients.
- [OGC Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5®)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/hdf5/): This standard describes the HDF5© data model as an encoding standard particularly suitable to scientific and engineering geospatial applications that employ multidimensional numeric arrays to describe temporally and spatially varying phenomena.
- [OGC WaterML 2: Part 4 – GroundWaterML 2 (GWML2)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/gwml2/): This standard describes a conceptual and logical model for the exchange of groundwater data, as well as a GML/XML encoding with examples.
- [OGC GeoTIFF](https://www.ogc.org/standards/geotiff/): This standard defines the Geographic Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF) by specifying requirements and encoding rules for using the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) for the exchange of georeferenced or geocoded imagery. The GeoTIFF 1.1 standard formalizes the existing community GeoTIFF specification version 1.0 and aligns it with the continuing addition of data to the EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset. The GeoTIFF format is used throughout the geospatial and earth science communities to share geographic image data.
- [Geospatial User Feedback (GUF)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/guf/): This standard defines a conceptual data model and a practical XML encoding of the conceptual model. Geospatial User Feedback is metadata that is predominantly produced by the consumers of geospatial data products as they use and gain experience with those products. The standard allows for documenting feedback items such as ratings, comments, quality reports, citations, significant events, etc. about the usage of the data.
- [GeoXACML](https://www.ogc.org/standards/geoxacml/): This standard defines a geospatial extension to the OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) Version 3.0 Standard. GeoXACML 3.0 supports the interoperable definition of access rights including geographic conditions based on the XACML 3.0 language, processing model and policy schema.
- [GeoRSS](https://www.ogc.org/standards/georss/): This community standard is designed as a lightweight way to extend existing RSS feeds with simple geographic information. It provides for encoding location in an interoperable manner so that applications can request, aggregate, share and map geographically tag feeds.
- [Geography Markup Language (GML)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/gml/): The GML standard (Geography Markup Language) defines an XML encoding for geographic information that supports modeling, transport, and storage of spatial and non-spatial geodata.
- [GeoSPARQL – A Geographic Query Language for RDF Data](https://www.ogc.org/standards/geosparql/): A Geographic Query Language for RDF Data
- [OGC Geoscience Markup Language (GeoSciML)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/geosciml/): This standard specification describes a logical model and GML/XML encoding rules for the exchange of geological map data, geological time scales, boreholes, and metadata for laboratory analyses. It includes a Lite model, used for simple map-based applications; a basic model, aligned on INSPIRE, for basic data exchange; and an extended model to address more complex scenarios.
- [GeoPose](https://www.ogc.org/standards/geopose/): The GeoPose standard defines a format for interoperably exchanging the location and orientation (“pose”) of real or virtual objects in geographic reference frames using standardized encodings.
- [GeoPackage](https://www.ogc.org/standards/geopackage/): This encoding standard describes a set of rules and conventions for storing vector features, imagery tile matrix sets, raster map tile matrix sets and non-spatial tabular data in a SQLite database. The standard also describes rules for extending the capabilities of a GeoPackage.
- [GeoAPI Implementation Specification](https://www.ogc.org/standards/geoapi/): This standard defines a Java language application programming interface (API) including a set of types and methods which can be used for the manipulation of geographic information structured following the specifications adopted by the Technical Committee 211 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
- [GML in JPEG 2000 for Geographic Imagery](https://www.ogc.org/standards/gmljp2/): This standard defines the means by which the Geography Markup Language (GML) Standard is used within JPEG 2000 images for geographic imagery.
- [Filter Encoding](https://www.ogc.org/standards/filter/): The Filter Encoding standard defines an XML and Key-Value Pair (KVP) encoding for expressing neutral syntax query expressions that enable geospatial data filtering, selection, and sorting.
- [EO Dataset Metadata GeoJSON(-LD)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/eo-geojson/): This standard describes a GeoJSON and JSON-LD encoding for Earth Observation (EO) metadata for datasets (granules). It can be applied to encode metadata based on the Earth Observation Metadata Profile of Observations and Measurements (O&M) OGC 10-157r4 or as an encoding of the Unified Metadata Model for Granules (UMM-G) conceptual model.
- [Coordinate Transformation Service](https://www.ogc.org/standards/ct/): This standard provides a way for software to specify and access coordinate transformation services for use on specified spatial data. This standard addresses a key requirement for overlaying views of geospatial data from diverse sources: the ability to perform coordinate transformation in such a way that all spatial data are defined relative to the same spatial reference system.
- [CDB](https://www.ogc.org/standards/cdb/): The CDB standard defines an open, structured data model and storage format for synthetic environment databases used in real-time distributed simulation and modeling.
- [Catalogue Service](https://www.ogc.org/standards/cat/): This standard supports the ability to publish and search collections of descriptive information (metadata) for data, services, and related information objects. They are required to support the discovery and binding to registered information resources within an information community.
- [Catalogue Services Standard 2.0 Extension Package for ebRIM Application Profile: Earth Observation Products](https://www.ogc.org/standards/cat2eoext4ebrim/): The Earth Observation Catalogue Extension defines how EO product metadata is organized and implemented within the Catalogue Services 2.0 framework to support discovery, retrieval, and management.
- [Augmented Reality Markup Language 2.0 (ARML 2.0)](https://www.ogc.org/standards/arml/): The ARML standard defines the Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML 2.0) that describes virtual objects and their anchors in AR scenes, with support for dynamic interaction.
- [3D Portrayal Service](https://www.ogc.org/standards/3dp/): This standard is a geospatial 3D content delivery implementation specification. It focuses on what is to be delivered in which manner to enable interoperable 3D portrayal. It does not define or endorse particular content transmission formats, but specifies how geospatial 3D content is described, selected, and delivered.
- [3D Tiles](https://www.ogc.org/standards/3dtiles/): The 3D Tiles standard enables efficient streaming and visualization of large-scale 3D geospatial datasets such as buildings, terrain, and point clouds.
- [CityGML](https://www.ogc.org/standards/citygml/): The CityGML standard defines an open 3D city model conceptual model and exchange format for storing and sharing virtual representations of terrain, buildings, infrastructure, and urban objects.

## Events
- [Metadata Summit 2026](https://www.ogc.org/event/metadata-summit-2026/): Metadata Summit 2026 brings together the communities tackling these questions every day. Convened by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) with European and international partners, the summit provides a neutral forum for practitioners, policymakers, standards organizations, researchers, and technology leaders to exchange ideas, challenge assumptions, and develop practical approaches.
- [14th International FIG Workshop on LADM & 3D LA](https://www.ogc.org/event/14th-international-fig-workshop-on-ladm-3d-la/): The 14th International FIG Workshop on the Land Administration Domain Model & 3D Land Administration will take place in Sofia, Bulagria, 1-2 October 2026. It will be a joint event together with 21st International 3D GeoInfo Conference (28-29 September 2026) and 10th International Smart Data and Smart Cities Conference (29 September - 1 October 2026). The event is hosted by the Big Data for Smart Society (GATE) Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria.
- [OGC Canada Forum: Implementing Canada’s Collaborative Geospatial Strategy](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-canada-forum-implementing-canadas-collaborative-geospatial-strategy/): The OGC Canada Forum at GeoIgnite 2026 brings together leaders from government, industry, academia, and the standards community to advance the implementation of Canada’s emerging Collaborative Geospatial Strategy.
- [Testbed-21 Final Demonstration](https://www.ogc.org/event/testbed-21-final-demonstration/): OGC Testbed-21 brings together industry and government to tackle some of the hardest challenges in geospatial interoperability — not in theory, but through hands-on development and testing.
- [OGC Builder Days: Code Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-builder-days-code-sprint/): OGC Builder Days offer collaborative and inclusive code sprints that provide an environment for rapid and innovative development of new applications and candidate standards. The May 2026 OGC Code Sprint will bring together software developers, architects, and standards editors to work collaboratively on emerging standards.
- [OGC iDays 2026](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-idays-2026/): OGC iDays brings city leaders, AEC firms, utility operators, mapping agencies, policy makers, and the geospatial industry into one room in Munich on 23–24 November 2026. The agenda is built around the practical questions cities are actually facing: making digital twins useful, connecting data across systems, building for AI and automation, coordinating underground and above-ground assets, and turning EU policy on digital building logbooks into something workable.
- [Bioclima Webinar: Understanding Biodiversity in Times of Climate Change](https://www.ogc.org/event/bioclima-webinar-understanding-biodiversity-in-times-of-climate-change/)
- [OGC Code Sprint – Fort Collins](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-code-sprint-geoint-imagery-media-for-intelligence-surveillance-and-reconnaissance-gimi-standard/): The Code Sprint will be a collaborative and inclusive event to support the development of open standards and applications that implement those standards. This Sprint is run with OGC Alliance Partners, the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and thus will include software implementations from those organisations. Other organizations are also welcome to bring their implementations to the code sprint.
- [OGC Connect Cape Town](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-connect-cape-town/): Connecting Africa’s Geospatial Future: Turning Regional Priorities into Global Standards
- [The People Panel at NORTH51](https://www.ogc.org/event/the-people-panel-at-north51/): The People Panel at NORTH51 explores the unseen ways geospatial technologies are transforming human behavior and shaping societies worldwide. From advanced aerial detection improving pipeline safety to remote sensing uncovering invisible greenhouse gas emissions, these innovations are influencing how industries operate, communities plan, and individuals interact with their environments. As geospatial data becomes more integrated into decision-making, it is changing how we understand risk, sustainability, and resilience on a global scale. This discussion will highlight the profound yet often unnoticed ways these technologies are reshaping the world and the lives of those within it.
- [Sprint: Open Science × OGC RAINBOW × OGC APIs](https://www.ogc.org/event/sprint-open-science-x-ogc-rainbow-x-ogc-apis/): Interoperability has always been at the heart of geospatial innovation. Yet for many data providers, achieving it can feel like a costly challenge—until collaboration, reuse, and scalability reveal its real value.
- [AfricaGIS 2025 and UN-GGIM: Africa XI Joint Conference](https://www.ogc.org/event/africagis-2025-and-un-ggim-africa-xi-joint-conference/): AfricaGIS 2025 returns as the continent’s premier Geospatial Information conference and exhibition, bringing together a global community of innovators, policymakers, researchers, and development leaders.
- [XXV ISPRS Congress 2026](https://www.ogc.org/event/xxv-isprs-congress-2026/): The ISPRS Congress is officially returning to Canada. During the XXIV Congress in Nice, France, the ISPRS General Assembly selected Canada as the host nation for the XXV ISPRS Congress, which will be held in Toronto in 2026. This marks a historic milestone, as the last ISPRS Congress hosted in Canada took place in Ottawa in 1972. The 2026 Congress is scheduled to be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC) from 4–11 July 2026.
- [GeoPose Summit 2025](https://www.ogc.org/event/geopose-summit-2025/): Date: Monday, October 27, 2025Duration: one dayLocation: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics – Boulder, ColoradoHybrid Event: in-person and remote (via Zoom)
- [Geomob Berlin 2025](https://www.ogc.org/event/geomob-berlin-2025/): Join us at Bettermile’s office in Berlin for an evening of geospatial innovation!
- [OGC Japan Forum × OSGeo.JP Meetup](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-japan-forum-x-osgeo-jp-meetup/): Frontiers of Urban 3D Digital Twins
- [Canada Forum September 2025](https://www.ogc.org/event/canada-forum-september-2025-2/): The OGC Canada Forum invites you to an online engagement session on Thursday, September 24, 12:00–2:00 PM EDT. This session will focus on the role of geospatial partners and stakeholders in implementing the Collaborative Geospatial Strategy for Canada, developed by the Canadian Council on Geomatics (CCOG) in collaboration with the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (CCMEO) and the OGC Canada Forum.
- [Save the Date: Khronos & OGC Workshop — Bringing Geospatial Models into glTF](https://www.ogc.org/event/save-the-date-khronos-ogc-workshop-bringing-geospatial-models-into-gltf/): The Khronos Group (Khronos) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) are holding a joint workshop to explore how geospatial models developed by OGC can be encoded in a Khronos glTF-based environment—enhancing interoperability with widely adopted computer graphics standards.
- [OGC Open Standards Code Sprint – October 2025](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-open-standards-code-sprint-october-2025/): This Code Sprint is a three-day virtual or hybrid event, where dozens of developers from around the world come together to code and share their ideas. The main goals of this code sprint are to support the development of OGC (draft) Standards, as well as software which implements those Standards. In addition, it also aims to create awareness about the Standards and software projects. This code sprint takes place at the VONK innovation center (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), and on the OGC-events Discord server. It is hosted by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Geonovum.
- [134th Member Meeting](https://www.ogc.org/event/134th-member-meeting/): Join us for the 134th Member Meeting as we unite global experts to advance 3D geospatial standards, foster innovation, and drive collaboration across industries and disciplines.
- [Join the OGC U.S. & Canada Team for a Summer Meetup](https://www.ogc.org/event/join-us-for-an-ogc-meet-up-in-bethesda/): Calling all OGC members, partners, and friends in the Washington, DC area!Join us for an informal evening gathering at World of Beer with OGC’s U.S. and Canadian staff and members of the broader geospatial community.
- [Expanding OGC GeoPose Support for Visual Positioning](https://www.ogc.org/event/expanding-ogc-geopose-support-for-visual-positioning/): Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Metaverse Standards Forum invite you to this workshop for the new OGC GeoPose standards that are reaching draft stage—help shape the future of interoperable Visual Positioning Services (VPS) and real-world spatial computing.
- [OGC UK & Ireland Forum](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-uk-ireland-forum-geovation/): The OGC UK & Ireland Forum is an informal group of people and organisations in the UK and Ireland that are interested in OGC Standards and geospatial innovation. It is open to any organisation located wholly or in part in the UK or Ireland.
- [OGC Code Sprint Tokyo](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-code-sprint-tokyo/): Join the first-ever OGC Code Sprint in Japan, hosted by the OGC Japan Forum! This two-day event brings together developers, engineers, and geospatial professionals to collaborate on open standards, share knowledge, and spark innovation.
- [Geospatial Meetup](https://www.ogc.org/event/geospatial-meetup/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is hosting an informal Geospatial Meetup in Fort Collins, and we’d love for you to join us.
- [OGC China Forum Meeting](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-china-forum-meeting/): Explore how open standards build trust in geospatial data and power real-world solutions—from national digital twins to smart city infrastructure. Hear insights from OGC, ISO/TC 211, and experts from Korea and China on the future of geospatial interoperability.
- [13th International FIG Workshop on the Land Administration Domain Model & 3D Land Administration](https://www.ogc.org/event/13th-international-fig-workshop-on-the-land-administration-domain-model-3d-land-administration/): The 13th International FIG Workshop on the Land Administration Domain Model & 3D Land Administration will be held in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, from 3–5 November 2025.
- [Future-Proofing OGC Governance](https://www.ogc.org/event/future-proofing-ogc-governance/): OGC is launching a comprehensive review of our foundational governance—policies, procedures, and bylaws—to ensure that our processes remain transparent, inclusive, and adaptable in a world of accelerating innovation and cross-domain integration.
- [OGC Canada Forum](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-canada-forum-ottawa/): We’ll dive into key topics like the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) and how Building Information Modeling (BIM) integrates with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This event gathers experts from industry, academia, Indigenous organizations, and government to explore these technologies' impact on Canada’s built environment. We'll also cover how OGC standards boost interoperability and innovation. All Canadian organizations and those operating in Canada are welcome, whether you're an OGC member or not.
- [DGI 2026 – The World’s Leading Geospatial Intelligence Event](https://www.ogc.org/event/dgi-2026/): As the race for decision advantage gathers pace, DGI 2026 unites the community to unlock new capabilities to:
- [Conference: iDays Frankfurt](https://www.ogc.org/event/conference-idays-frankfurt/): AI-Ready Digital Ecosystems for a Trusted FutureFrom data to decisions: shaping the future of trusted geospatial ecosystems
- [133rd Member Meeting](https://www.ogc.org/event/133rd-member-meeting/): OGC's 133rd member meeting will be held from October 28 to 31, 2025, at the UCAR Center Green Campus (CG) in Boulder, Colorado. The event will feature several tracks on a variety of topics.
- [132nd Member Meeting](https://www.ogc.org/event/132nd-ogc-member-meeting/): OGC's 132nd member meeting will take place in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, from June 9-12, 2025. The event will feature several tracks on a variety of topics. Registration will open soon for members and non-members alike.
- [Geo Connect Asia 2025](https://www.ogc.org/event/geo-connect-asia-2025/): Geo Connect Asia (GCA) 2025 celebrates its fifth year with an exhibition and an expanded programme of conferences, demonstrating the growing application of geospatial-focused data in transforming decision-making with the impact of autonomy on earth observation, the digital underground, and digital construction.
- [The 13th International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics](https://www.ogc.org/event/the-13th-international-conference-on-agro-geoinformatics-2/): The 13th International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics (Agro-Geoinformatics 2025) will be held in Boulder, CO, USA, from July 7-10, 2025. The conference is organized and hosted by the International Society of Agromatics (ISAM), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS) of George Mason University.
- [CNG Conference 2025](https://www.ogc.org/event/cng-conference-2025/): CNG Conference is where geospatial data users gather to create the future of our industry together. Learn how experts at NOAA, Planet, the World Bank, and others are using geospatial data and AI to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. The conference will be held from 30 April to 2 May 2025 at Snowbird in Utah.
- [OGC Canada Forum Virtual Session](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-canada-forum-virtual-session/): Advancing Geospatial Technologies in Canada
- [The 20th International 3D GeoInfo Conference and the 9th International Smart Data and Smart Cities Conference](https://www.ogc.org/event/the-20th-international-3d-geoinfo-conference-and-the-9th-international-smart-data-and-smart-cities-conference/): 3D GeoInfo & SDSC 2025, the co-located conference of the 20th International 3D GeoInfo Conference 2025 and the 9th International Smart Data and Smart Cities Conference, will be held in Kashiwa, Japan on 02-05 September 2025. The conference is hosted by the Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS), the University of Tokyo and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT).
- [OGC Testbed-20 Demonstration Days](https://www.ogc.org/event/t20-demo-days/): The two-day virtual event will focus on demonstrations of the solutions developed and discoveries made during Testbed-20, including any needs for future research and any potential challenges.
- [1st annual Cesium Developer Conference](https://www.ogc.org/event/2025-cesium-developer-conference/): Mark your calendar for the 2025 Cesium Developer Conference, June 23-25, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Supercharge your apps and integrations with open geospatial technologies and standards for the built and natural environment—and beyond.
- [Workshop: Using RDF and SPARQL for data integrity checking](https://www.ogc.org/event/workshop-using-rdf-and-sparql-for-data-integrity-checking/): OGC and the CHEK project are offering a free workshop where participants will learn how to use RDF and SPARQL to design an efficient data completeness checking service, and discover how semantic technologies can enhance data validation and management across various domains.
- [OGC Open Standards Code Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-open-standards-code-sprint-3/): A Code Sprint is a three day virtual or hybrid event, where dozens of developers from around the world come together to code and share their ideas. The main goals of this code sprint are to support the development of OGC (candidate) Standards, as well as software which implements those Standards. In addition, it also aims to create awareness about the Standards and software projects. This code sprint will be virtual and it will take place on the OGC-events Discord server. It is hosted by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), but is open to anyone interested in attending.
- [OGC CityRDF Webinar](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-cityrdf-webinar/): The CityRDF Webinar is a virtual event that brings together international experts in urban data technologies and semantic interoperability. This platform is designed to showcase the latest developments in CityRDF, a key initiative for integrating and transforming urban data, while discussing how to implement FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) in real-world projects.
- [131st OGC Member Meeting](https://www.ogc.org/event/131st-ogc-member-meeting/): OGC's 131st member meeting will take place at the Auditorium della Tecnica Centro Congressi (Conference Center) in Rome, Italy, from March 3-6, 2025. The event will feature several tracks across topics such as:
- [Esri Federal GIS Conference](https://www.ogc.org/event/esri-federal-gis-conference/): OGC CEO Peter Rabley will attend the 2025 Esri Federal GIS Conference in Washington DC.
- [DGI 2025 – Geospatial Intelligence for Defence and Security](https://www.ogc.org/event/dgi-2025-geospatial-intelligence-for-defence-and-security/): OGC CEO, Peter Rabley, and OGC COO, Christy Monaco, will both present at DGI 2025.
- [Geo Week Denver 2025](https://www.ogc.org/event/geo-week-denver-2025/): OGC's Chief Standards Officer, Scott Simmons, will present on a panel entitled "What Open Data Means for Geospatial Professionals" alongside Chris Andrews from Cesium, and Amy Rose for The Overture Maps Foundation.
- [Fifth plenary meeting of the UN-GGIM High-level Group of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (HLG-IGIF)](https://www.ogc.org/event/fifth-plenary-meeting-of-the-un-ggim-high-level-group-of-the-integrated-geospatial-information-framework-hlg-igif/): The meeting of the Bureau of the Committee of Experts and its expanded bureau together with the fifth plenary meeting of the High-level Group of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (HLG-IGIF) will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from 2-4 February 2025, hosted by OGC Principal Member Geospatial Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (GEOSA). The meetings will bring together members of the Bureau and its expanded bureau and the High-level Group to consider strategic directions and priorities in enhancing global geospatial information management arrangements and accelerating the implementation of the UN-IGIF and the SDGs.
- [Geospatial meets AI: The power of a self-conscious location](https://www.ogc.org/event/geospatial-meets-ai-the-power-of-a-self-conscious-location/): We are thrilled to invite you to an inspiring webinar “Geospatial meets AI: The power of a self-conscious location” where the worlds of geospatial technology and artificial intelligence converge! Leaders from business, NGO, and academia will take you along in a thoughtful journey of potential opportunities and challenges in a changing geospatial world. Discover how AI will change the power and use of location intelligence.
- [TASTI 2024](https://www.ogc.org/event/tasti-2024/): TASTI 2024 is an event organized by the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) that aims to bring together experts from various fields in the space industry. As a unique hub for expertise exchange, TASTI 2024 offers a platform for academia, governments, and industries to collaborate and share insights.
- [Modernizing GIS for Enhanced Decision-Making and Efficiency – Koniag Lunch & Learn Series](https://www.ogc.org/event/modernizing-gis-for-enhanced-decision-making-and-efficiency-koniag-lunch-learn-series/): OGC Chief Standards Office, Scott Simmons, will be presenting during the following event:
- [FOSS4G Europe 2024](https://www.ogc.org/event/foss4g-europe-2024/): The FOSS4GE conference, a European extension of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) annual event, connects professionals in the geoinformation software realm. OSGeo, as an international association, emphasizes geoinformatics, cartography, and open standards, fostering data sharing, collaboration, and innovative problem-solving across various domains.
- [OGC Innovation Days Europe: Climate and Disaster Resilience, One Health, and Data Spaces](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-innovation-days-europe-climate-and-disaster-resilience-one-health-and-data-spaces/): View the agenda below.
- [Peter Rabley Meet & Greet](https://www.ogc.org/event/peter-rabley-meet-greet/): Join us for an exciting opportunity to meet OGC's new CEO, Peter Rabley, at the Esri User Conference! The Meet & Greet is scheduled for July 16 from 3 - 4 PM Pacific Time in Aqua Salon E at the Hilton. 
- [Commercial UAV Expo 2024](https://www.ogc.org/event/commercial-uav-expo-2024/): Use code SAVE100 for a $100 discount. Commercial UAV Expo is the premier event for the commercial drone industry focusing on the integration/operation of commercial UAS and showcasing Drones In Action.
- [2024 K-GEO Festa](https://www.ogc.org/event/2024-k-geo-festa/): Since 2008, K-GEO Festa has been one of Asia's premier geospatial industry events, attracting around 13,000 participants, including distinguished guests from approximately 20 nations. Under the slogan "Digital Earth: Better Life for All," this event highlights advancements and fosters collaboration in the geospatial sector.
- [12th International FIG Workshop on the Land Administration Domain Model & 3D Land Administration](https://www.ogc.org/event/12th-international-fig-workshop-on-the-land-administration-domain-model-3d-land-administration/): The 12th International FIG Workshop on the Land Administration Domain Model & 3D Land Administration will take place in Kuching, Malaysia, 24-26 September 2024.
- [ACCORD Digital Building Permit and Logbook Workshop at Sustainable Places 2024](https://www.ogc.org/event/accord-digital-building-permit-and-logbook-workshop-at-sustainable-places-2024/): Digital building logbooks and permit processes have the potential to make the building permit application process in municipalities more efficient, faster and more transparent. They also allow for more accurate planning and efficient use of resources, reducing waste and improving energy management in buildings. On the other hand, there are several challenges. The initial set-up costs of digital building permits and logbooks, including software development, hardware installation and staff training, can be significant. Concerns about data security and privacy can arise from storing sensitive building data in digital format. Resistance to change and lack of familiarity with digital tools among building control, permit applicants and management staff can also hinder user adoption.
- [2024 Climate Services Code Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/event/2024-climate-services-code-sprint/): In response to the European Digital Transformation Act, the existing European digital infrastructures are being enhanced and optimised to be harnessed for sustainable development. In particular, climate action can be underpinned by applications that provide scientific processing methods for enabling information generation from raw data to useful information.
- [Canada’s National GoGeomatics Expo 2024](https://www.ogc.org/event/canadas-national-gogeomatics-expo-2024/): The GoGeomatics Expo is planned by GoGeomatics Canada in consultation with our industry, academia, association, and media partners. This Geomatics Technology Exposition is distinctive to the North American Geo sector.
- [OGC Canada Forum](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-canada-forum/): We are excited to announce that the next Canada Forum will be held during the GoGeomatics Expo on October 28. This event will bring together key stakeholders from across Canada’s geospatial sector, including industry leaders, academics, indigenous communities, government representatives, and technologists, to continue vital discussions on advancing geospatial technologies and interoperability in Canada.
- [buildingSmart International Participation Report and OGC Japan Forum Lecture](https://www.ogc.org/event/buildingsmart-international-participation-report-and-ogc-japan-forum-lecture/): In collaboration with the OGC Member Meeting (Seoul, November), we are pleased to announce a series of events to be held in Tokyo on October 29th and 30th, leading up to the inaugural OGC Japan Forum, scheduled for January 2025. Join us for a welcome reception and return report on October 29th, followed by a lecture on GeoBIM at the Hongo campus on October 30th. We warmly invite anyone interested in OGC activities to participate.
- [2024 International Symposium on Geo-Intelligent and Digital Twins Interoperability](https://www.ogc.org/event/2024-international-symposium-on-geo-intelligent-and-digital-twins-interoperability/): The Symposium will be a half-day event held Nov 2, 2024, and followed by GIS.FCU's 30th Anniversary Celebration and Banquet.
- [OGC@30 Anniversary Celebration](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc30-anniversary-celebration/): OGC@30 is an invitation-only 30th-anniversary celebration event taking place on Monday, 2 December 2024, and preceding our Innovation Days DC event. The event provides an unmissable opportunity for guests to hear keynotes and panels from forward-looking leaders within and beyond the geospatial industry as they discuss some of today’s most pressing issues.
- [OGC Open Standards Code Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/event/ogc-open-standards-code-sprint/): This will be a collaborative and inclusive event to support the development of open Standards and applications that implement those Standards. All OGC Standards are in scope for this Code Sprint, including OGC API Standards. The Sprint will feature three special tracks on Data Quality & Artificial Intelligence, Validators, and the Map Markup Language (MapML).
- [The November 2024 OGC Metadata Code Sprint](https://www.ogc.org/event/the-november-2024-ogc-metadata-code-sprint/): The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites developers to the hybrid in-person and online 2024 OGC Metadata Code Sprint, to be held November 18-19, 2024. The code sprint, sponsored by AURIN (the Australian Urban Research Information Network), and SURROUND Australia (catering), is organized by the GeoDCAT Standards Working Group (SWG) and Metadata & Catalogues Domain Working Group (DWG). This code sprint will coincide with the ISO TC211 Plenary meetings in Sydney and focus on implementations of various OGC and ISO metadata standards using the OGC API family of Standards, as well as the GeoDCAT semantic model for dataset descriptions. 

## Success Stories
- [WMO Information System 2.0: Powering Global Weather and Climate Resilience with OGC Standards](https://www.ogc.org/success-stories/wmo-information-system-2-0-powering-global-weather-and-climate-resilience-with-ogc-standards/): How a New Global Network is Turning Weather Data into Life-Saving Action
- [Enabling Open Geospatial Data Spaces: How GeoCat Helps Governments Unlock the Power of OGC Standards](https://www.ogc.org/success-stories/enabling-open-geospatial-data-spaces-how-geocat-helps-governments-unlock-the-power-of-ogc-standards/): A hydrologist in Spain, an urban planner in Belgium, and a disaster response team in Croatia—all needing to access and use the same datasets, in real time, across different systems. Without shared standards, this level of collaboration would be impossible. GeoCat is helping make it a reality. By putting OGC standards at the heart of its open-source tools, the company is building bridges—between agencies, systems, and countries.
- [Simplifying Mission Data Sharing for NATO: A REPMUS Success Story with Kongsberg Geospatial ](https://www.ogc.org/success-stories/simplifying-mission-data-sharing-for-nato-a-repmus-success-story-with-kongsberg-geospatial/): At the Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping with Maritime Unmanned Systems 2024 (REPMUS24) exercise, the NATO Maritime Geospatial, Meteorological and Oceanographic Centre of Excellence (Maritime GEOMETOC COE) saw an opportunity to shift this paradigm. They invited Kongsberg Geospatial to introduce a more unified, standards-based approach to handling environmental mission data – an approach grounded in operational need and designed to cut through the clutter.

## Standards Working Groups
- [3D GeoVolumes SWG (3DGeoVol SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/3d-geovolumes-swg-3dgeovol-swg/): The 3D GeoVolumes SWG seeks to provide an API to integrate various approaches to the access and transfer 3D geospatial content over the internet (e.g. 3D Tiles, I3S, glTF, CDB, CityGML) into a single, open standards-based solution.
- [3D Portrayal SWG (3DP SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/3d-portrayal-swg-3dp-swg/): The 3D Portrayal Service (3DPS) is an OGC service implementation Standard targeting the delivery of 3D portrayal in an interoperable fashion. When the client and service(s) involved share a common set of capabilities, it becomes possible to view and analyze 3D geoinformation from heterogeneous sources in a combined manner.
- [Agriculture Information Model SWG (AIM.SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/agriculture-information-model-swg-aim-swg/): The Agriculture Information Model SWG will develop, publish and maintain an Agriculture Information Model (AIM) to support interoperability of information in the Agriculture Domain, with emphasis on the re-use of generic OGC standards as appropriate.
- [Analysis Ready Data SWG (ARD SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/analysis-ready-data-swg-ard-swg/): The Analysis Ready Data (ARD) SWG is chartered to develop a multi-part standard on geospatial Analysis Ready Data.
- [CDB SWG (CDB SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/cdb-swg-cdb-swg/): The CDB Standard defines an open format for the storage, access, and modification of a synthetic environment database. A synthetic environment is a computer simulation that represents activities at a high level of realism, from simulation of theaters of war to factories and manufacturing processes.
- [CityGML SWG (CityGML SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/citygml-swg-citygml-swg/): CityGML is an open data model and XML-based format for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D city models. It is an application schema for the Geography Markup Language version 3.1.1 (GML3), the extendible international standard for spatial data exchange issued by the OGC and the ISO / TC211.
- [Connected Systems SWG (CONSYS SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/connected-systems-swg-consys-swg/): The Connected Systems SWG will focus on modernization of the SensorML and related Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Standards.
- [Coverages SWG (CoveragesSWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/coverages-swg-coveragesswg/): Coverages, as defined in Abstract Topic 6 and Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS), have proven valuable as a unified, comprehensive representation of spatio-temporal grids, point clouds, and meshes. In particular, coverages serve to model “datacubes”.
- [CRS SWG (CRS SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/crs-swg-crs-swg/): A Coordinate Reference System (CRS) is a coordinate-based local, regional, or global system used to locate geographical entities. A spatial reference system defines a specific map projection, as well as transformations between different spatial reference systems.
- [CRS Well Known Text SWG (CRS WKT SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/crs-well-known-text-swg-crs-wkt-swg/): The purpose of this SWG is to manage a Standard for Well Known Text (WKT) representation of Coordinate Reference System (CRS) definitions.
- [Discrete Global Grid Systems SWG (DGGS SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/discrete-global-grid-systems-swg-dggs-swg/): The purpose of this SWG is to explore and manage a Standard to enable interoperability through the use of Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS). The goal of the SWG is to increase awareness of the advantages of DGGSs in general, to define the qualities of a DGGS, to make them interoperable – with conventional and other DGGS data sources, and to standardize operations on them.
- [Environmental Data Retrieval API SWG (EDR-API SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/environmental-data-retrieval-api-swg-edr-api-swg/): The Environmental Data Retrieval API SWG will standardize several APIs, defined with OpenAPI (Version 3), to query and retrieve various common data patterns from a relatively persistent data store. The data patterns will include, but are not restricted to, data at a point in space and time, time series at a point, data along a trajectory, which may be 2, 3, or 4 dimensional, within a ‘corridor’ around a trajectory, or covering a specified polygon or rectangular tile possibly with vertical and temporal extensions.
- [EO Product Metadata and OpenSearch SWG (EO PMOS SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/eo-product-metadata-and-opensearch-swg-eo-pmos-swg/): The Earth Observation Metadata profile of Observations & Measurements is an OGC Implementation Standard that provides a concise model for documenting Earth Observation Product metadata.
- [Features and Geometries JSON SWG (FeatGeoJSON SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/features-and-geometries-json-swg-featgeojson-swg/): The OGC Features and Geometries JSON SWG is chartered to develop a JSON encoding for geospatial feature data. This encoding is intended to build upon the foundational OGC standards (such as Simple Features), be inclusive of other geospatial JSON encodings (such as GeoJSON), and support content delivery per the OGC API suite of standards.
- [Features API SWG (FeatAPI SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/features-api-swg-featapi-swg/): The purpose of the OGC Features API SWG is to develop new and maintain existing parts of the OGC API Features multipart Standard, develop corrigenda for the WFS 2.0 and FES 2.0 Standards, and review draft Engineering Reports from the OGC Innovation Program related to OGC API Features.
- [GeoAPI SWG (GeoAPI SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/geoapi-swg-geoapi-swg/): The OGC GeoAPI SWG aims to maintain the GeoAPI Standard, which defines a set of programming language API along with an associated test suite, to provide a standardized, programming language level realization of some core OGC Standards.
- [Geocoding API SWG (GeocodeAPISWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/geocoding-api-swg-geocodeapiswg/): Geocoding is a core activity for linking an address or text description to a location on earth. It is in many cases the entry point into the location dimension, unlocking the application of location to many problems including business intelligence, mapping, and routing.
- [GeoDataCube SWG (GeoDataCube.SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/geodatacube-swg-geodatacube-swg/): The GeoDataCube SWG has the goal to facilitate the handling of different GeoDataCubes via a Standardized API that will serve the core functionalities of GeoDataCubes.
- [GeoDCAT SWG (GeoDCAT.SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/geodcat-swg-geodcat-swg/): The purpose of this SWG is to revise, publish, and maintain GeoDCAT, a spatio-temporal profile of the W3C DCAT Recommendation , and provide guidance about its use and further specialization.
- [GeoPackage SWG (GeoPackage SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/geopackage-swg-geopackage-swg/): GeoPackage is an open, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information.
- [GeoParquet SWG (GeoParquet SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/geoparquet-swg-geoparquet-swg/): The OGC GeoParquet SWG will work to advance the GeoParquet encoding format for cloud-native vector data to an OGC Encoding Standard. GeoParquet builds upon Apache Parquet, described by Apache as “an open source, column-oriented data file format designed for efficient data storage and retrieval. It provides efficient data compression and encoding schemes with enhanced performance to handle complex data in bulk.”
- [GeoPose SWG (GeoPose SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/geopose-swg-geopose-swg/): This SWG developed GeoPose 1.0, a standard for geographically-anchored pose (GeoPose) with 6 degrees of freedom referenced to one or more standardized Coordinate Reference Systems (CRSs). The SWG now supports implementers of GeoPose 1.0 standard and identifies future enhancements for the widespread adoption of this standard.
- [GeoSciML SWG (GeoSciML SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/geosciml-swg-geosciml-swg/): The purpose of this SWG is to maintain the GeoSciML data model and application schema for geoscience information interchange.
- [GeoSPARQL SWG (GeoSPARQL SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/geosparql-swg-geosparql-swg/): Since the release of GeoSPARQL in 2012, there has been growth of both the Semantic Web and spatial information represented in Semantic Web form. The purpose of this SWG is to revise, and likely extend, the GeoSPARQL standard.
- [Geospatial Reporting Indicators SWG (GRI SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/geospatial-reporting-indicators-swg-gri-swg/): The standardization promoted by this SWG will support transparency in international reporting indicators which rely on geospatial data, referred to as Geospatial Reporting Indicators.
- [Geospatial User Feedback SWG (GUFswg)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/geospatial-user-feedback-swg-gufswg/): The Geospatial User Feedback Model and Catalogue profile give the user community a formal process for maintaining, improving, documenting feedback on the suitability and use of geospatial data.
- [GeoSynchronization 1.0 SWG (Geosync SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/geosynchronization-1-0-swg-geosync-swg/): A Geosynchronization service, deployed by a data provider, sits between the features a provider offers via a Web Feature Service and data collectors. It allows data collectors to submit new data or make modifications to existing features without directly affecting the features in the provider’s data store(s) until validation has been applied thus ensuring that the data published by the provider is of high quality.
- [GeoTIFF SWG (GeoTIFF SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/geotiff-swg-geotiff-swg/): The purpose of this SWG is to incorporate the GeoTIFF specification into the OGC Standards suite by updating the specification to bring it into conformance with current OGC practices and to provide a forum for evolving the standard in the future, if need be.
- [GeoXACML SWG (GeoXACML SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/geoxacml-swg-geoxacml-swg/): The purpose of the GeoXACML SWG is to develop and maintain an OGC GeoXACML standard and associated coordination.
- [GeoZarr SWG (GeoZarr SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/geozarr-swg-geozarr-swg/): The GeoZarr Standard Working Group (SWG) is chartered to develop a Zarr encoding for geospatial gridded data in the form of Zarr conventions.
- [GML 3.3 SWG (GML 3.3 SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/gml-3-3-swg-gml-3-3-swg/): The purpose of the OGC GML SWG is to maintain the OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard.The SWG may decide that the revision should be a joint project with ISO/TC 211 and result in a revision of ISO 19136, too.
- [GMLJP2 SWG (GMLJP2-SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/gmljp2-swg-gmljp2-swg/): The purpose of OGC GMLJP2 SWG is to manage revision to the GMLJP2 Standard. The SWG will process impacts to this standard from updates of dependent standards, address omissions from the initial standard, process comments from Innovation Program initiatives, and assess future work items for the Standard.
- [Groundwater SWG (GroundwaterSWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/groundwater-swg-groundwaterswg/): The Groundwater SWG aims to maintain a data exchange standard for the groundwater domain. The Standard is known as GroundWater Markup Language 2 (GWML2) and consists of conceptual and logical information models, as well as language specific implementations, which initially minimally include a GML-XML encoding specification.
- [HDF SWG (HDF SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/hdf-swg-hdf-swg/): The purpose of the OGC HDF SWG is to Standardize the HDF5 data model, its binary encodings, related extensions, and other appropriate items, and support other OGC working groups (SWG and DWG) in understanding the HDF5 data model and applying it in their domains of interest.
- [Hydrologic Features SWG (HydroFeat SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/hydrologic-features-swg-hydrofeat-swg/): Water information needs to be shared across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries, which can be facilitated by OGC’s interoperability Standards. The Hydrologic Features SWGbrings together interested parties to develop and promote the technology for improving the way in which surface water information is organized, managed, and shared.
- [IndoorGML SWG (IndoorGML SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/indoorgml-swg-indoorgml-swg/): The purpose of this IndoorGML SWG is to develop an application schema of OGC GML and manage the adopted OGC Standard. This Standard provides a common schema framework for indoor navigation applications.
- [KML 2.3 SWG (KML SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/kml-2-3-swg-kml-swg/): The purpose of this SWG is to manage the OGC KML Implementation Standard and to accommodate known issues and extensions identified in formal OGC Change Request Proposals (CRPs) and tested through implementation experience.
- [Land Admin Domain Model SWG (LADM SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/land-admin-domain-model-swg-ladm-swg/): The LADM SWG will develop an encoding Standard (or multi-part Standard) of the five Parts of the ISO LADM Standard (some Parts currently under development). The content of the encoding Standard will derive requirements from the conceptual model items in the source LADM Parts.
- [Land and Infrastructure SWG (LandInfraSWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/land-and-infrastructure-swg-landinfraswg/): This SWG maintains the Land and Infrastructure (LandInfra) Conceptual Model Standard and the associated parts of the InfraGML encoding Standard to describe the built environment.
- [Moving Features SWG (MovFeat SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/moving-features-swg-movfeat-swg/): With the development of communication and positioning technology such as Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Wi-Fi, and Beacon, collecting movement data for moving features, typically vehicles and pedestrians, has become easy. The Moving Features SWG develops Standards to manage information about features whose locations continuously change over time.
- [MUDDI SWG (MUDDI SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/muddi-swg-muddi-swg/): The MUDDI (Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration) SWGwill standardize a conceptual model, a modular framework, one or more logical models, one or more implementation Standards and mappings to/from other models for geospatial data that represent underground infrastructure assets and characterize the underground environment that contains those assets.
- [NetCDF SWG (NetCDFSWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/netcdf-swg-netcdfswg/): The OGC netCDF SWG works to develop extensions of the existing OGC netCDF suite of Standards for additional data models, encodings, and conventions. It is focused on Earth Observation specific conventions in netCDF, and the NetCDF Classic Linked Data coding standard.
- [Observations, Measurements, and Samples SWG (OMS SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/observations-measurements-and-samples-swg-oms-swg/): Standards-based exchange of observed, measured, or modeled data are key enablers for many critical online consumer and governmental services. The Observations and Measurements Standard defines a conceptual level data model for these datasets.
- [OGC API – Common SWG (OGC API-Common)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/ogc-api-common-swg-ogc-api-common/): The purpose of this SWG is to develop a new Common core Standard for the OGC API suite of Standards as well as to manage any changes required for the OWS Common Standard.
- [OGC API – Joins SWG (TJS)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/ogc-api-joins-swg-tjs/): The purpose of the TJS SWG is to update and maintain the OpenGIS Georeferenced Table Joining Service Implementation Standard . Updates will consider Change Requests (CRs) to the current standard as well as requirements identified by the SWG.
- [OGC API – Maps SWG (OGC API – Maps)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/ogc-api-maps-swg-ogc-api-maps/): The OGC-API Maps SWG will develop and document a Maps API candidate standard that will provide a web based, common, and consistent interface to services that aligns with the current architecture of the Web and the Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices ( https://www.w3.org/TR/sdw-bp/ ).
- [OGC API – Processes SWG (OAPIProc SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/ogc-api-processes-swg-oapiproc-swg/): The OGC API – Processes Standard will enable the execution of computing processes and the retrieval of metadata describing their purpose and functionality. Typically, these processes combine raster, vector, and/or coverage data with well-defined algorithms to produce new raster, vector, and/or coverage information.
- [OGC API – Records SWG (API Records SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/ogc-api-records-swg-api-records-swg/): OGC API – Records provides discovery and access to metadata about geospatial data and services. OGC API standards define modular API building blocks to spatially enable Web APIs in a consistent way. OpenAPI is used to define the reusable API building blocks.
- [OGC API – Styles SWG (Styles API SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/ogc-api-styles-swg-styles-api-swg/): The OGC API – Styles Standard will describe the interface and exchange of styling parameters and instructions. The construction of symbology components of styles is addressed in OGC Symbol Encoding Conceptual Model: Core Part and multiple OGC and other style encoding standards.
- [OGC API – Tiles SWG (OAPITileSWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/ogc-api-tiles-swg-oapitileswg/): The OGC API – Tiles draft Standard references the OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set (TMS) standard. The TMS standard defines the rules and requirements for a tile matrix set as a way to index space based on a set of regular grids defining a domain (tile matrix) for a limited list of scales in a Coordinate Reference System (CRS).
- [OWS Common – Security SWG (ComSecuritySWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/ows-common-security-swg-comsecurityswg/): This SWG maintains a Standard that defines a common publication to declare that one or more operations of a Service instance or individual operations thereof is protected by the implementation of one or more security frameworks from ISO 10181 except 10181-4 and 10181-7.
- [OWS Context SWG (OWScontextSWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/ows-context-swg-owscontextswg/): The purpose of the SWG is to maintain the OWS Context Standard standard. The principle use case for an OWS Context document is for defining the application state of an Integrated Client. When this application state is reproduced by two or more Integrated Clients, such clients are said to share a common operational picture.
- [PipelineML SWG (PipeML SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/pipelineml-swg-pipeml-swg/): The purpose of the SWF is to manage and enhance the PipelineMLStandard to enable the interchange of pipeline data between parties, disparate systems, and software applications without loss of accuracy, density, or data resolution and without need for conversion between intermediate or proprietary formats.
- [Points of Interest SWG (PoI SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/points-of-interest-swg-poi-swg/): The Points of Interest (POI) SWG is developing Standards to model and encode POI data. The SWG is not developing a POI database or service, rather enabling interoperability between such services.
- [PubSub SWG (PubSub SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/pubsub-swg-pubsub-swg/): The purpose of the OGC PubSub SWG is to define an OGC Implementation Standard that enables publish/subscribe functionality for resources supported by OGC API Standards in a well-defined manner.
- [Routing SWG (Routing SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/routing-swg-routing-swg/): The Routing SWG is chartered to develop and maintain an OGC API – Routes core standard and its extensions. Further, the SWG plans to publish and maintain a route exchange model.
- [SensorThings SWG (SensorThings)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/sensorthings-swg-sensorthings/): The OGC SensorThings API provides an open and unified way to interconnect Internet of Things (IoT) devices, data, and applications over the Web. The OGC SensorThings API is an open Standard, and that means it is non-proprietary, platform-independent, and perpetual royalty-free.
- [Simple Features SWG (SF SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/simple-features-swg-sf-swg/): The purpose of the ISO 19125 SWG is to update the common Standard that is both the OGC Simple Features Implementation Standard and the ISO 19125 Standards (Part 1: Common Architecture, and Part 2 SQL Option).
- [Styles and Symbology Encoding SWG (Styles SE SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/styles-and-symbology-encoding-swg-styles-se-swg/): This working group defines a conceptual model and encodings for symbolizing digital Feature and Coverage data. It is also responsible for maintaining SLD/SE, an XML encoding for styles & symbology.
- [Temporal WKT for Calendars SWG (TemporalWKT)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/temporal-wkt-for-calendars-swg-temporalwkt/): The purpose of this SWG is to adapt a set of existing Standards to provide the capability to represent and encode temporal metadata within data sets and protocols which uses a customized calendar.
- [TimeSeriesML SWG (TimeSeriesML)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/timeseriesml-swg-timeseriesml/): The purpose of this SWG is to manage and update the TimeSeriesML Standard. The work derived, in part, from WaterML 2.0 Part 1.
- [Training Data Markup Language for AI SWG (TrainingDML SWG)](https://www.ogc.org/standards-working-gr/training-data-markup-language-for-ai-swg-trainingdml-swg/): The TrainingDML-AI SWG is chartered to develop the model and encodings for geospatial Machine Learning training data.