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September 12, 2023

Registrations Open for OGC’s October 2023 Open Standards Code Sprint

London-based hybrid event will support the development and improvement of Open Standards and supporting applications.

September 1, 2023

OGC to form Space Standards Domain Working Group; Public Comment sought on Draft Charter

The Space Standards DWG will serve as a coordinating body for Space Standards, leading to interoperable representations for space and time across the domain.

August 31, 2023

Sponsorship Opportunities Open for the OGC Climate & Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024

Stakeholder-centric Pilot will accelerate our readiness for climate change and related disasters by optimizing on-demand information to better understand, trace, mitigate, adapt, and respond.

August 24, 2023

OGC forms new GeoParquet Standards Working Group

New OGC SWG will work to advance the GeoParquet encoding format for adoption as an OGC Encoding Standard for cloud-native vector data.

August 23, 2023

OGC to form GeoZarr Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on draft Charter

A GeoZarr Standard developed by the SWG will establish flexible and inclusive conventions for the cloud-native Zarr format that meet the diverse requirements of the geospatial domain.

August 21, 2023

OGC, UKHO, and partners release the IGIF-(M)SDI Maturity Roadmap

New Roadmap seeks to advance and simplify efforts in Marine SDI and ensure their alignment with the UN-IGIF principles.

August 17, 2023

European Innovation, Global Impact

OGC’s ongoing contributions to European research topics, driven by projects co-funded by the European Commission (EC), cover areas such as data spaces, climate, digital building permits, agriculture, digital twins for the oceans, knowledge generation, and beyond. These topics are high on the European research agenda while having global impact.

August 8, 2023

OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval v1.1 Adopted as Official Standard

The OGC API – EDR Standard makes it easy to access just the required subset from a wide range of data through a uniform, well-defined, simple Web interface.

August 7, 2023

OGC Welcomes Dr. Simon Cox as next Visiting Fellow

Simon will use his expertise and experience to help OGC take the new “OGC Rainbow” interoperability environment to the next level.