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OGC and NRCan request information for a study concerning Building Energy Mapping and Analytics

Release Date:

26 February 2020

Content:

New Concept Development Study aims to characterize the state of energy mapping and analytics, and propose practices and standards to improve efficiency and consistency.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) are requesting information to support the Building Energy Mapping and Analytics Concept Development Study (CDS). Responses are due April 3, 2020.

Open Geospatial Consortium to Consider Apple’s Indoor Mapping Data Format as Community Standard

Release Date:

25 February 2020

Content:

IMDF targets indoor mapping and provides a mobile-friendly, compact, and human-readable data model for any indoor space, providing a basis for orientation, navigation, and discovery.

Public Comment Requested on IMDF Work Item Justification

OGC Invites Developers to its Environmental Data Retrieval API Sprint

Release Date:

21 February 2020

Content:

New OGC Sprint event will focus on emerging standards for a data-centric Environmental Data Retrieval API that will promote quick and easy access to environmental data.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites developers to participate in the Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) API Sprint, held from 18-20 March, 2020, at the NOAA/NWS facilities in Silver Spring, MD, USA. Remote participation is possible.

OGC seeks public comment on revision to TimeseriesML standard

Release Date:

18 February 2020

Content:

TimeseriesML allows for the precise representation of a sequence of data values that are ordered in time - and now supports changing periodicity.

OGC considering CityJSON as community standard; seeks public comment for new Work Item

Release Date:

13 February 2020

Content:

CityJSON provides a simplified alternative to the GML encoding of CityGML that is also lightweight and suitable for use on the web and mobile.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is considering CityJSON for adoption as an official OGC Community Standard. A new Work Item justification to begin the Community Standard endorsement process is available for public comment.

OGC Announces Publication of Open Routing API Pilot Results

Release Date:

12 February 2020

Content:

New OGC Engineering Reports document outcomes of the Open Routing API Pilot, including new capabilities to easily share routes and prototype APIs able to use routing data from any source - based on the next generation of OGC APIs.

OGC Open Routing API PIlot

New version of 3D streaming community standard, I3S, adopted and published by OGC

Release Date:

11 February 2020

Content:

Latest version of the I3S Community Standard, used for streaming large 3D datasets to desktop and mobile devices, adds Point Cloud Scene Layer type, improved performance, and more.

I3S adopted as OGC Community Standard

OGC seeks public comment on Core Tiling Conceptual and Logical Models Abstract Specification Topic

Release Date:

21 January 2020

Content:

Candidate Abstract Specification Topic defines a conceptual model for tiling space of any number of dimensions, as well as a logical model for tiling 2D space.

OGC announces the creation of new ‘OGC API - Records’ Standards Working Group

Release Date:

16 January 2020

Content:

SWG will work towards the next generation of OGC’s Catalogue service, which will align with the current architecture of the Web and the Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices

New OGC Standards Working Group: OGC API - Records

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) today announced the formation of the ‘OGC API - Records’ Standards Working Group (SWG).

OGC announces the creation of new Environmental Data Retrieval API Standards Working Group

Release Date:

9 January 2020

Content:

New Working Group will create stable, standardized, service APIs based on simple data retrieval patterns, which will improve access to environmental data and information.

Announcing the new Environmental Data Retrieval API Standards Working Group

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