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Launching the Location Innovation Academy

Announcing the Launch of the Location Innovation Academy

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

Public Comment Requested for standardizing training data for AI/ML applications

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.

Banner announcing TEAM Engine v5.5

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.

Banner announcing Call For Participation in OGC FMSDI Pilot 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.

Banner announcing the call for participation for OGC Testbed-19

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.

Banner announcing the 2022 OGC Gardels Award Winner, Steve Liang (L), with OGC CEO Nadine Alameh (M), and OGC CSO Scott Simmons (R)

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.

Banner announcing 2023 Open Standards and Open Source Software Code Sprint, including sponsor logo

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.

Padlock on gate with overlaid text announcing public comment period for GeoXACML v3 and related JSON Profile

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.

Arduino with sensors and components with banner text announicng public comment period for STAplus standard.

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.

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