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February 19, 2008

OGC(R) Requests Comments on CityGML Encoding Standard

Wayland, Mass., February 19, 2008 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is requesting public comment on the candidate CityGML Encoding Standard.CityGML is a Geography Markup Language 3 (GML3) application schema for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D city models.CityGML is a common information model for the representation of 3D urban objects.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 345 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

December 21, 2022

OGC Seeks Public Comment on adoption of new version of CityJSON as Community Standard

CityJSON is a web-friendly encoding of the CityGML data model, which is used in Digital Twins and other uses pertaining to built and natural environments. Public comment period ends 1, February 2023.

August 10, 2022

OGC Seeks Public Comment on adoption of new version of CityJSON as Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on an updated version (v1.1) of the CityJSON Community Standard.CityJSON v1.0 was accepted as an OGC Community standard in August 2021.CityJSON version 1.0 is a JSON-based encoding for a subset of the OGC CityGML data model version 2.0.0.The CityJSON v1.1 Community Standard Justification Document outlining the many changes is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by September 9, 2022, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the CityJSON v1.1 Community Standard’s public comment request page.

July 22, 2021

OGC Seeking Sponsors for a new IDBE Pilot linking Geospatial and Building Information Models

The OGC Integrated Digital Built Environment Pilot seeks to understand the current level of interoperability between Geospatial and BIM and forge a path for better integrated solutions.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), together with buildingSMART International (bSI), invite organizations to express their interest in sponsoring the OGC Integrated Digital Built Environment Pilot.The Pilot will explore, through real-world use cases, the current state-of-the-art in geospatial and Building Information Model (BIM) data integration and forge a path for better integrated solutions.With progress being made on both sides, the potential for data integration is better than ever before.buildingSMART is engaged with other international standards bodies such as ISO, the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

July 22, 2021

OGC Seeking Sponsors for a new IDBE Pilot linking Geospatial and Building Information Models

The OGC Integrated Digital Built Environment Pilot seeks to understand the current level of interoperability between Geospatial and BIM and forge a path for better integrated solutions.

April 14, 2021

OGC seeks public comment on 3D GeoVolumes Standards Working Group Charter

New SWG will develop OGC API – 3D GeoVolumes, which will integrate various current approaches to accessing 3D geospatial content over the web into a single solution.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft charter of the new 3D GeoVolumes Standards Working Group (SWG), which will develop and maintain an OGC API – 3D GeoVolumes core Standard and extensions.In recent years several solutions and standards have emerged to access and transfer 3D geospatial content over the internet (e.g., 3D Tiles, I3S, OGC 3D Portrayal Service, glTF, CDB, CityGML).The draft 3D GeoVolumes SWG Charter is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by May 5, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the 3D GeoVolumes SWG Draft Charter’s public comment request page.

April 14, 2021

OGC seeks public comment on 3D GeoVolumes Standards Working Group Charter

New SWG will develop OGC API – 3D GeoVolumes, which will integrate various current approaches to accessing 3D geospatial content over the web into a single solution.

January 7, 2021

OGC seeks public comment on new CityJSON Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on its adoption of CityJSON as an OGC Community Standard.CityJSON 1.0 provides a directly implementable JSON encoding based on the CityGML 2.0 data model, an OGC standard since 2012.An OGC Community Standard is an official Standard of OGC that is considered to be a widely used, mature specification, but was developed outside of OGC’s standards development process.The candidate CityJSON Community Standard 1.0 is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by February 7, 2021, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the CityJSON Community Standard 1.0’s public comment request page.

January 7, 2021

OGC seeks public comment on new CityJSON Community Standard

CityJSON offers an easy-to-use alternative to the GML encoding of CityGML 2.0 for the storage and exchange of 3D city models.