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March 24, 2021

Four Location-Focused Themes at the 118th OGC Member Meeting

OGC’s Member Meeting is the center of all things for location information. Happening for almost three decades, the meetings focus on everything from evolving core standards…

March 17, 2021

Urban Digital Twins – Planning the Cities of Tomorrow

Urban digital twins are not a “solved problem.” Along with increased investment in research and development, the vision demands agreed-upon methodologies and standards, new commitments to data-sharing, -privacy & -ethics, forward-looking regulations, and the development of a robust global community that is as devoted to tradecraft as it is to technology.

January 20, 2021

Bringing STAC into OGC

Over three years ago, a small group of OGC members working on the next version of the venerable Web Feature Service (WFS) standard started the…

December 21, 2020

Building an Interoperable Routing Engine (Part 2)

Article Contributed by Ignacio “Nacho” Correas, Chief Technology Innovation Officer at Skymantics – There are two trade-offs that need to be carefully balanced: accuracy vs….

September 10, 2020

We Remember with fondness the incredible life and contributions of Lance McKee

The OGC family has lost a cherished friend and impassioned supporter of the use of location information and open standards for good. We recently learned…