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May 10, 2022

The 2022 Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint – How it went!

Over the past decade, geospatial technologies and data have become more widespread in use and application. A key catalyst for the increased uptake of geospatial…

May 3, 2022

The Metaverse is Geospatial

With momentum and interest once again building around the ‘metaverse’, OGC hosted a ‘Metaverse Ad-Hoc Session’ at its virtual 121st Member Meeting in December 2021….

April 13, 2022

Building a cloud-native future at OGC

March 2022 marked my 3-year anniversary at OGC! As I look back at those 3 years – 2 of which occurred during the tumultuous COVID-19…

March 16, 2022

A Strong Foundation for GeoAI Innovation

New AI capabilities have reoriented and transformed GIS and Remote Sensing, providing new solutions and greatly increasing efficiency.

February 11, 2022

Lowering the barrier of entry for OGC Web APIs

A version of this article originally appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of GeoConnexion Magazine under the title ‘Lowering The Barrier To Entry.’ For the last few…

January 18, 2022

7 Key Takeaways from the OGC Climate Change Special Session

Article contributed by Steve Liang, SensorUp “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” The quote is originally from management consultant Peter Drucker and…

December 21, 2021

Towards a Cloud-Native OGC

Article Contributed by Chris Holmes, OGC Visiting Fellow – About six months ago I started as the first ‘Visiting Fellow’ of the Open Geospatial Consortium. It’s been…

December 8, 2021

How it Went! The November 2021 Geospatial API Virtual Code Sprint

From November 15-17, 2021, OGC and ISO/TC 211 jointly hosted the November 2021 Geospatial API Virtual Code Sprint. The code sprint focused on the refinement of…

December 3, 2021

Towards a Cloud-Native Geospatial standards baseline

Article Contributed by Chris Holmes, OGC Visiting Fellow – In my previous post I laid out the vision for Cloud-Native Geospatial, but with this post, I…