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April 29, 2019

OGC invites developers to participate in the CityGML Hackathon

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested developers to the OGC CityGML Hackathon, to be held in London on 11-12 June, 2019.In this hackathon, participants will experiment with and validate the current draft conceptual model for the upcoming version 3.0 of CityGML.An OGC Hackathon is a collaborative and inclusive event designed to support the development of new applications and open standards.For more information on the Hackathon, including venue information, registration requirements, and expected skill sets, visit the OGC CityGML Hackathon event page on OGC’s website, or register on Eventbrite.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

August 17, 2016

OGC releases CityGML Quality Interoperability Experiment Engineering Report

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has released the results of the CityGML Quality Interoperability Experiment (QIE) as a public Engineering Report.Carried out as a joint activity between the OGC, SIG3D and EuroSDR, the CityGML QIE, defined data quality requirements for a general CityGML data specification, created recommended implementation guidance for CityGML encoded 3D data, and provided a suite of tools to carry out quality assurance on CityGML data.The CityGML QIE improves the interoperability of CityGML data by removing some ambiguities from the current standard, and formally defining data quality requirements for a general CityGML data standard.These requirements and guidance should meet the OGC Membership and community’s desire for better implementation guidance for OGC standards.The Engineering Report, available for free at portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=68821, specifies the results and findings of the CityGML QIE.

June 24, 2014

The OGC calls for participation in a CityGML Data Quality Interoperability Experiment

The OGC calls for participation in an interoperability experiment to define data quality requirements for virtual 3D city models encoded in CityGML.An increasing range of applications has raised the demand for high quality 3D data.The CityGML Data Quality Interoperability Experiment (CityGML QIE) aims to provide implementation recommendations for CityGML data based on data specification and a conception of the validation workflow.This will be accomplished by evaluating the quality of existing CityGML data as well as the quality of CityGML sample data sets that have been specifically developed for this experiment with available quality checking tools.Organisations and individuals are invited to participate in the activity by providing CityGML test data and/or test tools, defining requirements, or carrying out tests using a variety of different test tools.

May 19, 2014

The OGC® seeks public participation in Development of CityGML 3.0

In 2008 it was adopted by the OGC membership as an international OGC standard.Active participation in the CityGML 3.0 development process does not require OGC membership.To be most effective, organizations and individuals responding to this CFP should plan to fully participate in the CityGML 3.0 development activities.Responses to the CFP are requested by the time of the 10 June 2014 kickoff of CityGML 3.0 development at the OGC Technical Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.Note, however, that this CFP will remain open for the duration of the CityGML 3.0 development process.

May 29, 2013

OGC , SIG 3D, and TUM announce workshop to gather CityGML requirements

29 May 2013 – The OGC CityGML SWG, the SIG 3D, and Technische Universität München will host a joint international workshop to gather requirements to guide the development of the next major version of CityGML (3.0).Short OGC CityGML 3.0 Standards Working Group meeting : 15:00-17:00Friday 21 JuneLocation:Workshop : Technische Universität München, Vorhoelzer Forum,Arcisstr.21, 80333 Munich, Germany Evening Event : Will be announced on the Workshop Wiki: Will be announced on the Workshop Wiki OGC CityGML Standards Working Group (SWG) Meeting: To be announcedSee more details at http://www.opengeospatial.org/node/1812 and in the Workshop Wiki at http://en.wiki.modeling.sig3d.de/index.php/Workshop_Munich_2013Register for the SIG 3D – OGC – TUM International Workshop on Requirements for CityGML 3.0 at https://portal.ogc.org/public_ogc/register/130620citygml.php.SIG 3D members developed the first version of CityGML (http://www.citygml.org) and in 2005 submitted CityGML as a candidate standard into the OGC standards process.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

December 1, 2011

OGC Announces Webinar – How the OGCs CityGML Standard Supports 3D Innovation for Business and Government

The title of the webinar is, How the OGC’s CityGML Standard Supports 3D Innovation for Business and Government: Developments achieved in the Netherlands including use cases from the City of Rotterdam.Attendees will learn about the 3D Pilot NL (http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/1503), an award-winning collaborative pilot project to establish a national standard for 3D geo-information in the Netherlands.The Netherlands 3D standard is an implementation of the OGC CityGML Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml) (see also http://www.citygml.org/index.php?id=1531), which is based on the OGC GML (Geography Markup Language) Standard.By joining CityGML with the existing national 2D standards framework, 3D Pilot NL laid the groundwork for one of the worlds most comprehensive national 3D geo-information infrastructures.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

August 15, 2011

The OGC seeks comment on City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) V1.1

15 August 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on Version 1.1 of the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml).With this guidance, the Working Group developed the draft CityGML Version 1.1, a minor revision of the current CityGML version 1.0 that maintains backwards compatibility with version 1.0.The candidate CityGML Version 1.1 standard documents are available for review and comment at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/82.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

January 6, 2010

OGC seeks input on next version of CityGML

Wayland, Mass., 6 January 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is seeking broad input on enhancements and changes for a revision of the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml).CityGML is implemented as an application schema of the OGC Geography Markup Language 3 (GML3) Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml), an international standard for spatial data exchange and encoding approved by the OGC and ISO.The current version 1.0 of CityGML was adopted as an official OGC Standard in August 2008 and has come to wide use since then.The OGC Technical Committee seeks input from the wider community in the form of change requests, proposed additions and suggestions for the future development of CityGML.The next version of CityGML will be a minor revision of the standard to version 1.1.

August 20, 2008

OGC(R) Adopts CityGML Encoding Standard

Wayland, Mass., August 20, 2008 – The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have adopted version 1.0.0 of the OpenGIS® CityGML Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml and www.citygmlwiki.org) as an official OGC Standard.CityGML is an open data model framework and XML-based encoding standard for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D urban models.CityGML is an application schema of the OpenGIS Geography Markup Language 3 (GML3) Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml), an international standard for spatial data exchange and encoding approved by the OGC and ISO.OpenGIS® Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.