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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.

June 25, 2024

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.

June 20, 2024

Andreas Matheus receives OGC’s 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.

June 7, 2024

Standards Enabling Collaboration For Global Challenges

A preview of the 129th Member Meeting, to be held June 17-21 in Montreal, Canada.

June 6, 2024

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.

May 31, 2024

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.

May 22, 2024

Registrations Open for OGC’s 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).

May 16, 2024

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.

May 14, 2024

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.