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January 22, 2024

OGC considering Bathymetric Attributed Grid as a Community Standard; comment sought on its adoption

BAG is an established open specification for representing bathymetric data as regular grids of seafloor depths with the corresponding vertical uncertainty and associated metadata.

January 19, 2024

OGC Calls For Participation in the Releasable Basemap Tiles GeoPackage Sprint

Three-week Sprint intends to test a draft specification for NSG Vector Tiles Interoperability Volume 2: Basemap Tile Packages

January 18, 2024

OGC forms new GeoZarr Standards Working Group to establish a Zarr encoding for geospatial data

SWG to develop a GeoZarr Standard that establishes flexible and inclusive conventions for the cloud-native Zarr format that meet the diverse requirements of the geospatial domain.

January 17, 2024

Insights from Innovation Days 2023

At OGC Innovation Days 2023, members of the climate, disaster, and emergency resilience and response communities gathered to explore what OGC-enabled geospatial technologies have made possible and to answer the question: what does OGC need to do next?

January 12, 2024

Announcing the 2024 Joint OGC ASF OSGeo Code Sprint

4th annual joint sprint will advance support of open geospatial Standards within the developer community – while advancing the Standards themselves.

December 15, 2023

OGC to form Land Administration Domain Model Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on Charter

New LADM SWG will create an encoding Standard as an additional Part to the ISO LADM Standard, facilitating adoption of LADM and improving interoperability.

December 15, 2023

In Memory of Jeff Burnett

With great sadness, OGC announces the passing of our cherished colleague, Mr. Jeffrey Burnett of Littleton, Mass, on 28 November 2023, from cancer.

December 7, 2023

OGC seeking Sponsors for Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot 2024 – Connecting Land & Sea

Addressing the complexities faced by organizations connecting data of the sea with data of the land.

November 30, 2023

How OGC Contributes to FAIR Geospatial Data

Standards are a key element of the FAIR Principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability. As such, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has been supporting the FAIR Principles for geospatial information since its formation 30 years ago. This blog post offers an overview of select OGC Standards and components that support FAIRness in geospatial data.