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June 8, 2023

Dr. Jeff de La Beaujardiere receives OGC Lifetime Achievement Award

Jeff’s support of open standards and OGC’s FAIR mission has improved access to Earth science information for countless users and decision-makers globally.

June 1, 2023

Natural Resources Canada receives inaugural OGC Community Impact Award

New award recognizes OGC members who, through exceptional leadership, volunteerism, collaboration, and investment, have positively impacted the geospatial community.

May 24, 2023

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).

May 18, 2023

OGC Forms new GeoDCAT Standards Working Group

The GeoDCAT SWG will separate a general geospatial profile of DCAT, called GeoDCAT, out from the Europe-specific Application Profile, GeoDCAT-AP.

May 18, 2023

OGC Forms new GeoDataCube Standards Working Group

New SWG will develop datacube interoperability Standards that meet the needs of scientists, application developers, and API integrators.

May 18, 2023

OGC Forms new Agriculture Information Model Standards Working Group

New OGC Working Group will develop, publish, and maintain an Agriculture Information Model (AIM) to support interoperability of agriculture information.

May 18, 2023

OGC Forms new Analysis Ready Data Standards Working Group

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

May 17, 2023

OGC to host European Innovation Days and more at Data Week Leipzig ‘23

As part of GeoE3, OGC will present on Data Spaces, The European Green Deal, Urban Platforms, Semantics, and FAIR data and services.

May 4, 2023

OGC Adopts 3D Tiles v1.1 as Community Standard

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