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March 14, 2023

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

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

March 3, 2023

Connecting Land and Sea for Global Awareness: The OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot 2023 Calls For Participation

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.

February 24, 2023

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.

February 23, 2023

Steve Liang receives OGC’s 2022 Gardels Award

Congratulations to Steve Liang, awarded the 2022 Gardels Award for his work in sensor technologies for geospatial and pioneering web standards for publishing spatial data.

February 22, 2023

Developers Invited to the 2023 Open Standards and Open Source Software Code Sprint

OGC, Apache Software Foundation, Open Source Geospatial Foundation, and Camptocamp co-host annual code sprint to advance open geospatial standards.

February 21, 2023

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.

February 20, 2023

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.

February 17, 2023

CAE upgrades OGC Membership to Principal Level

CAE’s Principal level of OGC membership supports advancing standards for high fidelity geospatial data sources.

February 10, 2023

OGC seeks Public Comment on FlatGeobuf becoming a Community Standard

FlatGeobuf is a performant binary encoding for geographic data that works well as a “cloud native” lossless format for vector data.