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October 20, 2023

Webinar: Location Innovation Academy for NMCA

Webinar will serve as an introduction to the Academy for National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies (NMCA), and will focus on the integration of climate and meteorological data into data portals used and provided by NMCA.

October 18, 2023

Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) published as official OGC Standard

COG allows for the efficient streaming and partial downloading of web-based imagery and grid coverage data for fast visualization and processing.

October 9, 2023

A recap of the 127th OGC Member Meeting, Singapore

Attendees spent the week discussing the latest geospatial innovations in areas such as GeoAI, Digital Twins, Data Quality, Intelligent Transport, connecting land & sea, and more.

October 5, 2023

OGC and the International Data Spaces Association sign Memorandum of Understanding

OGC & IDSA will work together to contribute to the creation and development of Standards for data spaces that support a flourishing data economy.

October 4, 2023

CoverageJSON v1.0 Adopted as OGC Community Standard

CoverageJSON enables the development of interactive visualizations that display and manipulate spatio-temporal data within a web browser.

September 27, 2023

Wuhan University receives OGC Community Impact Award

The award recognizes OGC members who, through exceptional leadership, volunteerism, collaboration, and investment, have positively impacted the geospatial community.

September 26, 2023

OGC Adopts Training Data Markup Language for Artificial Intelligence Conceptual Model as Official Standard

OGC TrainingDML-AI Standard Part 1 defines the Conceptual Model for standardizing any training data used to train, validate, and test Machine Learning models that involve location or time.

September 21, 2023

OGC Seeks Public Comment on Adoption of STAC and STAC API as Community Standards

The SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) is an open specification designed to improve the discovery, accessibility, and interoperability of geospatial data.

September 14, 2023

Making The Data Count, Not Just Counting The Data

The UKHO’s Dr. Gerald J Wong explains how using the IGIF-(M)SDI Maturity Roadmap enables governments to better harness geospatial data that supports their nations’ socio-economic development.