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September 11, 2024

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.

September 4, 2024

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.

September 2, 2024

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

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….

August 12, 2024

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.

August 8, 2024

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.

August 7, 2024

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…

July 9, 2024

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.

July 2, 2024

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.

June 27, 2024

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.