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Completed COSI Initiatives

Below you’ll find an alphabetical list of completed COSI initiatives. Each entry includes a short summary of objectives and activities—and, where applicable, links to outputs....

Technical Committee Policy Directives

Technical Committee Policy Directives Policy Directives Database This database captures OGC Policies and Directives related to the proper writing of technical content in an OGC...

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Media Guidance Press Release, Article Guidance, Quotes, and Images The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) encourages writers of all articles, blogs, and other media-related activities to...

Standards

Standards OGC Standards are internationally recognized specifications that let different systems exchange information seamlessly. They are organized by functional area (e.g., data discovery, organization). The functional...

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About Team OGC Our Board of Directors and executive team are leaders in the geospatial field, guiding OGC’s mission with expertise and vision. Supported by...

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How we are governed These policies and procedures, as well as the formal texts (by laws and intellectual property documents) cover our methodology for doing...

Travel stipends to the OGC 132nd Member Meeting available for government entities in LatAm and Caribbean

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is offering travel stipends of up to $1,000 USD to support participation from government organizations across Latin America and the...

OGC® Public Report Repository 

OGC® Public Report Repository OGC publishes many different types of public documents for use, review, and comment. These are not official positions and / or...

OGC Geoscience Markup Language (GeoSciML)

Overview GeoSciML is a model of geological features commonly described and portrayed in geological maps, cross sections, geological reports and databases. The model was developed...

Well-known text representation of coordinate reference systems

Overview This Standard defines the structure and content of well-known text strings describing coordinate reference systems (CRSs) and coordinate operations between coordinate reference systems. It...

OGC Web Services Context Document (OWS Context)

Overview This standard describes the use cases, requirements and conceptual model for the OWS Context encoding standard. The goal of this standard is to provide...

Open GeoSMS – Core

Overview The OGC Open GeoSMS Standard provides developers with an extended Short Message Service (SMS) encoding and interface to facilitate communication of location content between different LBS...

Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S)

Overview A single I3S data set, referred to as a Scene Layer, is a container for arbitrarily large amounts of heterogeneously distributed 3D geographic data....

OpenSearch

Overview The OpenSearch specification originated in a community effort built around Amazon’s A9.com. The specification was intended to allow syndication of search results that could...

OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set

Overview The OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set and Tile Set Metadata Standard defines the rules and requirements for a tile matrix set as a...

Sensor Model Language (SensorML)

Overview The primary focus of the Sensor Model Language (SensorML) is to provide a robust and semantically-tied means of defining processes and processing components associated...

SWE Service Model Implementation

Overview This standard currently defines eight packages with data types for common use across OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) services. Five of these packages define...

Web Services Security

Overview Information Assurance (IA) Controls for OGC Web Services (OWS) have been implemented for years. However, these implementations break interoperability, as they are not standardized...

GeoPackage

Overview A GeoPackage is an open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information. The GeoPackage standard describes a set of conventions for...

KML

Overview Google submitted KML (formerly Keyhole Markup Language) to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to be evolved within the OGC consensus process with the following...

3D Portrayal Service

Overview The 3D Portrayal Service Standard is a geospatial 3D content delivery implementation specification. It focuses on what is to be delivered in which manner...

OGC invites you to its ‘Mixed Reality to the Edge’ Workshop this April in Tampa, FL

Visionary experts from Defense, Utilities, First Responders, and more will lead panels concerning the automation of workflows that bring 3D/4D geospatial content to users at...

OGC Adopts 3D Tiles v1.1 as Community Standard

3D Tiles enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and metaverse applications.

3D Tiles

Overview 3D Tiles is designed for streaming and rendering massive 3D geospatial content such as Photogrammetry, 3D Buildings, BIM/CAD, Instanced Features, and Point Clouds. It...

The Latest on Cloud-Native Geospatial Standards in OGC

OGC Chief Standards Officer, Scott Simmons, digs into the elements of the cloud ecosystem that OGC is addressing: interfaces, applications, encodings, and operations.

A recap of the 124th OGC Member Meeting, Singapore

From October 3-7 ‘22 (and a little bit beforehand), more than 100 experts from across industry, government, and academia converged on the Lifelong Learning Institute...

The 2023 OGC Tiling Interfaces Code Sprint – How it went!

On June 12-14, 2023, OGC held its 2023 Tiling Interfaces Code Sprint at OGC Strategic Member NGA’s Moonshot Labs in St. Louis, Missouri. The code...

CDB

Overview The CDB standard defines a standardized model and structure for a single, “versionable”, virtual representation of the earth. A CDB structured data store provides...

How Esri’s Adoption of 3D Tiles Accelerates the Open Geospatial Future 

At its 2025 Partner Conference, Esri announced it will integrate Google’s Photorealistic 3D Tiles into the ArcGIS ecosystem. The move is more than a technical...

Save the Date: Khronos & OGC Workshop — Bringing Geospatial Models into glTF

The Khronos Group (Khronos) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) are holding a joint workshop to explore how geospatial models developed by OGC can be...

OGC, Khronos, and Geospatial Leaders Add 3D Gaussian Splats to the glTF Asset Standard

OGC, Khronos, and the geospatial community are integrating 3D Gaussian Splats into glTF—unlocking compact, photorealistic, interoperable 3D.

OGC GeoPose Outreach to W3C and Khronos Group

OGC’s GeoPose team recently engaged with W3C and the Khronos Group to promote adoption of the GeoPose 1.0 standard. Through presentations at Google HQ and...

Bentley Systems increases investment in OGC and reinforces commitment to Open Standards following Cesium acquisition

Bentley’s increased investment in OGC, coupled with its acquisition of Cesium, signals their commitment to a future built around open standards, data, and infrastructure.

Zarr Storage Specification

Overview Multidimensional array data (a.k.a. N-dimensional arrays, ND-arrays, “tensors”) is ubiquitous in scientific research and engineering. Zarr is an open-source specification for the storage of...

A recap of the 129th OGC Member Meeting, Montreal, Canada

Themed “Standards enabling collaboration for global challenges,” the meeting focused on discussing, aligning, supporting, and promoting geospatial solutions around climate change, disasters, marine, AI/ML, and...

Principled and Powerful: Geospatial data for ESG reporting at Location Powers 2022

There was a principled and powerful representation in attendance at OGC’s Location Powers event in London last November. Ordnance Survey hosted the event at the Geovation Hub with 23 speakers over...

OGC seeks public comment on KML 2.3 standard

19 December 2014 - The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC KML 2.3 Standard.KML is an XML...

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...

A recap of the 125th OGC Member Meeting, Frascati, Italy

With a theme of "Geospatial in Space" OGC's 125th Member Meeting saw 200+ experts converge on th ESA Centre for Earth Observation (ESRIN) in Frascati,...

Announcing the Launch of the Location Innovation Academy

New Location Innovation Academy empowers users to improve the accessibility, interoperability, and integration of their geospatial data and services, for free.

A Recap of the 130th OGC Member Meeting, Goyang, Korea

Themed 'AI for Geo,' the meeting provided members with insights into what’s happening at OGC and how interoperable technologies are critical for tackling global challenges.

The OGC invites comment on GeoSciML 4.0 Standards Working Group charter

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of a new OGC Technical Committee Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose of this SWG is to progress...

OGC approves Community Standard for streaming 3D Content

The standard is referred to as the OGC Indexed 3D Scene Layer (I3S) and the Scene Layer Package Format (SLPK) Specification.These standards are released as...

From Rotterdam to Reality: Inside the OGC Code Sprint

From onboarding new developers to deep technical discussions, the Rotterdam Code Sprint advanced OGC Standards and community collaboration.

The OGC adopts GML in JPEG 2000 (“GMLJP2”) Encoding Standard Version 2

19 November 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted the OGC GML in JPEG 2000 Encoding Standard (Part 1 - Core) (GMLJP2) version...

OGC adopts 3D Tiles as Community Standard

3D Tiles Community Standard is designed for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets for visualizationThe membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has approved the...

Navigating the Era of Synthetic Imagery: Why Trust in Geospatial Data Matters

Discover how OGC’s Integrity, Provenance, and Trust (IPT) framework ensures data reliability, transparency, and accuracy across industries.

OGC® adopts updated KML Earth browser standard – KML 2.3

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that the OGC membership has approved the OGC KML 2.3 Standard.In early 2007, Google submitted KML to the Open...

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...

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...

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...

A Strong Foundation for GeoAI Innovation

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

Catalogue Service

Overview Catalogue services support the ability to publish and search collections of descriptive information (metadata) for data, services, and related information objects. Metadata in catalogues...

A recap of the 128th OGC Member Meeting, Delft, The Netherlands

OGC’s 128th Member Meeting, themed ‘GeoBIM for the Built Environment,’ was our biggest ever, with over 300 attendees from industry, government and academia.

Geo-BIM for the Built Environment

The meeting will include a Geo-BIM Summit, a Built Environment Joint Session, a Land Administration Special Session, a meeting of the OGC Europe Forum, sessions...

How OGC Contributes to FAIR Geospatial Data

Standards are a key element of the FAIR Principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability. As such, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has been supporting...

OGC India Forum 2023: Key Highlights from Hyderabad

The OGC India Forum 2023 brought together geospatial experts to discuss and find opportunities to invest and collaborate on open geospatial standards.

A recap of the 126th OGC Member Meeting, Huntsville, AL, USA

Attendees spent the week discussing the latest geospatial innovations in areas such as Climate, Space, Open Science, Defense & Intelligence, Connected Systems, and more.

OGC to host European Innovation Days and more at Data Week Leipzig ‘23

As part of GeoE3, OGC will present on Data Spaces, The European Green Deal, Urban Platforms, Semantics, and FAIR data and services.

Developers Invited to the 2023 OGC Tiling Interfaces Code Sprint

Online and in-person Code Sprint, June 12-14, will support the development and maturation of Open Standards and Projects that use tiles to transfer and represent...

OGC seeking public comment on update to GeoSPARQL Standard

Update improves core standard, documentation, and exemplification. Comments should be submitted via the method outlined on the GeoSPARQL v1.1 Standard's public comment request page. Comments due 13 February,...

Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint 2026

A hybrid code sprint bringing together OGC, OSGeo, and Apache ASF communities to advance open geospatial standards, interoperability, and implementations.

OGC publishes IndoorGML 2.0 Part 1: Conceptual Model Standard

A conceptual model that enables interoperable representation of indoor navigation networks and spatial relationships

The OGC adopts OWS Context Conceptual Model and ATOM Encoding Standards

18 November 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted the OGC OWS Context Conceptual Model and the associated OGC OWS Context ATOM...

OGC approves WaterML 2.0 Water Quality Best Practice

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the OGC WaterML 2.0 Water Quality (WaterML-WQ) document for publication as an OGC Best Practice.This OGC Best...

OGC announces standard for concise description of Earth coordinate reference systems

5 May 2015 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted the OGC Well-known Text (WKT) Representation of Coordinate Reference Systems Encoding Standard.The newly...

OGC announces Christy Monaco as new Chief Operating Officer

As OGC’s COO, Christy will use her experience with federal agencies, partnership-building, event management, and member success to help grow and shape the Consortium.

The OGC forms working group to draft Point of Interest (POI) encoding standard

This group will develop a candidate POI encoding specification for possible adoption by the OGC membership as an OGC Standard.Considering the ubiquitous need for POI...

Charles Heazel receives OGC’s 2020 Gardels Award

Congratulations to Charles “Chuck” Heazel awarded the 2020 Gardels Award for their continued contributions to the creation and advancement of OGC StandardsAt the December Open...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on update to 3D Tiles Community Standard

3D Tiles enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and metaverse applications.3D Tiles 1.1 promotes several...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on v1.1 of 3D Tiles Community Standard

3D Tiles enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and metaverse applications.Previously referred to as “3D...

OGC Membership approves new version of 3D streaming Community Standard, I3S

A Scene Layer can be accessed in the form of a web service or Scene Layer Package (SLPK) – a file-based exchange format.The changes included...

OGC seeks public comment on candidate OGC API – Tiles – Part 1: Core Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC API - Tiles - Part 1: Core Standard.As with other OGC API Standards,...

Invitation to Participate in the November 2021 Geospatial API Virtual Code Sprint

The next OGC Code Sprint will focus on developing and testing implementations of the joint OGC API - Features / ISO 19168-1:2020 Geospatial API for...

Organizing the World in Grid Cells: The AI-DGGS Pilot

Streamlining the interoperation of different DGGS systems and assessing the power of AI technologies in Disaster Management.

OGC approves new standard for geological science data

The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved GeoSciML as an OGC Standard.The OGC GeoSciML Standard defines a model and encoding for geological...

OGC® adopts ARML 2.0, new open standard encoding for sharing Augmented Reality data

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the OGC® Augmented Reality Markup Language 2.0 Interface Standard (ARML 2.0).Augmented Reality (AR) content encoded in ARML...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on the GeoPackage Conceptual Model Candidate Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the GeoPackage Conceptual Model Candidate Standard.The GeoPackage Conceptual Model Candidate Standard documents an OGC Conceptual and...

Towards Greater Interoperability: OGC Testbed-21 initiative

OGC Testbed-21 is a collaborative initiative advancing geospatial interoperability through rapid prototyping in data quality, GEOINT imagery, and conformance tools. Its outcomes help shape future...

OGC seeks public comment on 3D GeoVolumes Standards Working Group Charter

New SWG will develop OGC API - 3D GeoVolumes, which will integrate various current approaches to accessing 3D geospatial content over the web into a...

OGC seeks public comment on major revision to OGC Abstract Specification Topic 0 – Overview

Abstract Specification Topic 0 - Overview.

OGC, Layar, Metaio and Wikitude invite Mobile World Congress attendees to AR Interoperability Demo

Layar, Metaio and Wikitude, the largest AR platform providers, have cooperated to make it easy for AR content to be shared across their technology platforms.The...

Results of OGC’s biggest Innovation Initiative in 2019, Testbed-15, are now available

The key outcomes, including detailed Engineering Reports, overview presentations, and videos, are freely available on the Testbed-15 webpage.OGC Testbed results, documented in Engineering Reports, are...

OGC seeks public comment on Version 1.2 of CDB Standard for use in modeling & simulation

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate CDB version 1.2 standard.CDB version 1.2 contains two substantive changes that are not deemed...

OGC Announces New 3D Portrayal Service Standard

The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the 3D Portrayal Service (3DPS) 1.0 standard.Viewing 3D geospatial content from diverse sources has just...

OGC Forms GeoSynchronization Services Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the formation of a GeoSynchronization Service Standards Working Group (SWG).Frequently, geospatial content providers must collaborate with outside entities to...

OGC Seeks public comment on GeoPackage Related Tables Extension

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the GeoPackage Related Tables Extension.The GeoPackage Related Tables Extension (RTE) defines the rules and requirements for...

Request for Information: “Mixed Reality to the Edge” Concept Development Study

Study will explore the convergence of real world data with virtual 3d/4d environments for mobile and disconnected users.Standards enable governments, non-governmental organizations, private industry, and...

The OGC seeks comment on GeoSynchronization Best Practices

7 December 2011 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC GeoSynchronization Best Practices Document.Frequently, geospatial content providers must collaborate...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on MetOcean profile and extensions to WCS 2.1

Extension to and Profile for WCS 2.1 will enable MetOcean community to efficiently query and access required data contained in datacubes.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

OGC seeks public comment on proposal to revise Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) Community Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the proposal for a revision to the OGC Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) Community Standard.A Scene...

The OGC requests comment on the candidate standard, OGC® OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions

13 November 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate standard, OGC® OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions.This document extends the...

OGC seeks public comment on candidate 3D Portrayal Service Standard

28 January 2015 - The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC 3D Portrayal Service (3DPS) Standard.Based on...

OGC® seeks public comment on a candidate standard that may replace legacy coordinate systems

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests public comment on the OGC candidate Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) Core Standard.The OGC DGGS candidate standard defines a...

OGC approves Standard for use in the Modeling and Simulation World

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved CDB as an OGC standard.The OGC CDB standard is based on and derived from an industry developed...

OGC seeks public comment on a proposed work item for Indexed 3D Scene Layers as a Community standard work item

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is considering start of a new work item for a Community Standard: Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S).The Indexed 3D Scene...

OGC announces a new standard that improves the way information is referenced to the earth

The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) as OGC Abstract Specification - Topic 21 [OGC 15-104r5].The...

OGC seeks public comment on GML in JPEG 2000 (GMLJP2) v2.1 Candidate Encoding Standard

New revision of encoding standard allows geospatial content (GML) to be added to JPEG 2000 images and other gridded coverage data.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

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

A Scene Layer can be accessed in the form of a web service or Scene Layer Package (SLPK) – a file-based exchange format.The changes included...

Public Comment Requested on revision to OGC 3D streaming community standard, I3S

New version of the I3S Community Standard, used for streaming large 3D datasets to desktop and mobile devices, improves performance and scalability with enhancements to...

OGC Seeks Comments on Open GeoSMS – Candidate Standard for Location in Short Message Service

25 March 2011 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Open GeoSMS Standard - Core.The candidate OGC Open GeoSMS...

The OGC Forms International Augmented Reality Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the formation of the OGC ARML 2.0 Standards Working Group (SWG).ARML (Augmented Reality Markup Language) 1.0 is a descriptive,...

OGC 3DIM honors 3D Pilot NL with OGC 3D award

During the well-attended OGC 3D Summit in Boulder, Colorado the first ever OGC 3DIM Award was given to the 3D Pilot NL, a unique network...

OGC Membership Approves Open GeoSMS Standard for Encoding Location in Short Message Service (SMS)

26 January 2012 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has voted to adopt the candidate OGC Open GeoSMS Standard as an official OGC standard.The...

The OGC seeks comment on revised GML in JPEG 2000 Encoding Standard

17 February 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comment on the candidate GML in JPEG 2000 Encoding Standard version 2.This geospatial data encoding...

OGC announces new Discrete Global Grid Systems Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the formation of a new OGC Technical Committee Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose of this SWG will be to...

The OGC® adopts OGC Geo and Time Extensions Standard for OpenSearch

24 April 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Members approved OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions as an OGC standard.OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time...

OGC and ECCMA announce agreement to work together on standards for the identification and description of real property

The mission of the workgroup is real property data content standardization and seeks to foster the adoption of standards published by the organizations.Quality data as...

OGC publishes Testbed 10 Cross-Community Interoperability Engineering Reports

23 July 2014 – 24 public Engineering Reports resulted from the Open Geospatial Consortiums (OGC®) recently completed OGC Interoperability Testbed 10 (OWS-10), the most recent...

OGC Supports European Data Modelling Workshop

National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies and other spatial data infrastructure (SDI) content providers are facing increasing demand for making well documented data in known data...

OGC requests comment on LandInfra Conceptual Model

22 January 2015 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) membership has issued a Request for Comments on the OGC LandInfra Conceptual Model.This document, the first...

OGC requests comment on charter for Point Cloud Domain Working Group

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Point Cloud Domain Working Group (DWG).The Point Cloud DWG...

OGC® seeks comment on the OGC OWS Context GeoJSON Encoding Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the OGC OWS Context GeoJSON Encoding candidate standard.The OGC Web Services Context Document standard (OWS Context)...

OGC announces simplified web mapping standard

25 January 2016 – The OGC announces that the OGC membership has adopted the The OGC® WMTS Simple Profile, which defines a simplified profile of...

OGC seeks public comment on CDB Candidate Standard

This OGC Candidate Standard specifies an open format and encoding for the storage, access and modification of a representation of the natural and built environment...

OGC seeks public comment for candidate Moving Features Access Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on its candidate Moving Features Access Standard.The OGC currently maintains two Moving Features Encoding Standards for capturing...

OGC calls for public review of proposed Common Object Model Container Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Common Object Model Container (COMC) Standards Working Group (SWG).The core philosophy...

Open Geospatial Consortium announces Geoscience Australia as its newest Principal Member

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Geoscience Australia has raised its membership level from Technical to Principal Level.Geoscience Australia has been...

OGC seeks public comment on Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core Standard.Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) is...

OGC invites you to its CDB Vector Data in GeoPackage Interoperability Experiment

Participants in this IE will have the opportunity to explore one or more design alternatives using Geopackage to encode vector data in their own CDB...

OGC publishes results from its Testbed-14 Innovation Initiative

They describe prototypes developed by Testbed-14’s participating technology providers, and provide a clear vision on potential new or enhanced OGC standards.As with all Testbeds, the...

OGC updates OGC Abstract Spec Topic 21 – Discrete Global Grid Systems; public comment sought before approval

The update, developed jointly with ISO TC211, enables 4D DGGS, aligns itself with other ISO standards, and more.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has proposed...

OGC seeks public comment on new OGC API for Environmental Data Retrieval

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval Standard.The OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval (OGC...

OGC seeks public comment on new Sample Markup Language for Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Standards Working Group Charter

A key component of ML techniques and processes is sample data – data with known provenance, consistent metadata, and quality measurements that can be used...

The OGC Announces Call for Participation in OWS-7 Testbed

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotes/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) for the OGC Web Services, Phase 7 (OWS-7) Interoperability Initiative, a...

OGC seeks input on next version of CityGML

Wayland, Mass., 6 January 2010 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is seeking broad input on enhancements and changes for a revision of the...

The OGC Forms REST and WFS/FE Standards Working Groups

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of two new OGC Technical Committee Standards Working Groups: the RESTful Service Policy Standard Working Group (REST...

Jeffrey K. Harris Elected Chairman of the OGC Board of Directors

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) Board of Directors has unanimously elected The Honorable Jeffrey K. Harris as Chairman of the Board of the Open Geospatial...

OGC City Geography Markup Language v 2.0 Adopted

- The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted Version 2.0 of the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml).CityGML is a community...

OGC Seeks Comments on NIL Extension to Geography Markup Language (GML)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate GML-NIL profile of the OGC Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding standard.The candidate OGC GML-NIL...

The OGC Seeks Participants for Ground Water Interoperability Experiment

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites participation in a Groundwater Interoperability Experiment (GWIE2).Participants will then prepare an engineering report with the intent to develop it...

The OGC requests comments on the OWS Context Conceptual Model and ATOM Extension candidate standards

18 January 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the OGC OWS Context Conceptual Model and the associated ATOM Extension document...

The OGC requests comments on the OWS Context Encoding Standard

9 July 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate OGC OWS Context Encoding Standard.This standard is comprised of three...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Location Based Marketing Association (LBMA) to jointly address location information issues

The Location Based Marketing Association (The LBMA) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) recently signed a liaison agreement.Mark Reichardt, president and CEO of the Open...

The OGC requests comment on the candidate standard Geographic Information – Well Known Text for coordinate reference systems

2 October 2013 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the candidate OGC standard, Geographic Information – Well Known Text (WKT) for...

Register for the OGC Testbed 10 Webinars!

5 May 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites software developers, location service providers, spatial analytics experts, system architects and information system managers to...

OGC announces Unified Geo Data Reference Model For Law Enforcement and Public Safety – an OGC Best Practice

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that it has adopted the OGC Unified Geo Data Reference Model For Law Enforcement and Public Safety as an...

The OGC requests comment on the OGC® OpenSearch Extension for Earth Observation Standard

7 October 2015 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the OGC OpenSearch Extension for Earth Observation, a candidate OGC standard.This OpenSearch...

OGC seeks public comment on update of OGC® Abstract Specification Topic 11: Metadata from ISO 19115:2003 to ISO 19115:2014

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) requests public comment on the update of OGC Abstract Specification Topic 11: Metadata from ISO 19115:2003 to ISO 19115:2014.The OGC...

OGC requests comment on charter for Coordinate Reference System Standards Working Group

Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Coordinate Reference System (CRS) Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose...

OGC requests comment on revision of its GWML2 specification

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is requesting comments on the WaterML 2: Part 4 - GroundWaterML 2 (GWML2) candidate standard.The GWML2 standard is motivated by...

OGC invites you to its Environmental Linked Feature Interoperability Experiment: ELFIE

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites interested members & non-members alike to participate in the OGC Environmental Linked Feature Interoperability Experiment (ELFIE).In recent years, environmental...

OGC Calls for Sponsors for Augmented Reality Pilot Project

Joint OGC and W3C Pilot project will propose standards to unite Augmented Reality, Web, and Geospatial technologies.(Image from Wikitude)The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and the...

OGC seeks public comment on version 1.1 of CDB standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks comments on the candidate CDB version 1.1 standard.CDB version 1.1 is a minor revision and is fully backwards compatible...

OGC seeks public comment on Part 1 of the Features and Geometries Candidate Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on Part 1 of the Features and Geometry candidate standard.The Features and Geometries candidate standard provides the...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on GroundwaterML v2.3 Candidate Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on an updated version of the ‘OGC WaterML 2: Part 4 – GroundWaterML 2 (GWML2)’ candidate standard.The...

OGC invites you to indulge in a SELFIE: the Second Environmental Linked Features Interoperability Experiment

SELFIE aims to create a standards-based method to publish and use linked data thats compatible with current web development/W3C best practicesThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

OGC publishes Engineering Reports and Videos documenting successful Vector Tiles Pilot

Vector Tiles are an efficient way to package geographic data into roughly-square shaped tiles with many benefits, including fast loading and flexible styling.The Open Geospatial...

OGC seeks public comment on update to GeoTIFF standard

Minor revision to GeoTIFF enables the use of newer coordinate reference systems and aligns it with OGC’s standardization process.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public...

GeoTIFF v1.1 adopted as an OGC Standard

The GeoTIFF 1.1 standard formalizes the existing GeoTIFF specification version 1.0 by integrating it into OGC’s standardization process.Approval of this GeoTIFF 1.1 standard begins the...

OGC 3D streaming Community Standard, I3S, receives update: public comment sought before approval

Latest version of I3S standard, used for streaming large 3D datasets, adds Point Cloud Scene Layer type, improved performance, and more.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

OGC invites you to its Augmented Reality Summit in Toulouse, France

What partnerships or collaborative projects can OGC members establish or expand to inform and advance interoperable AR?How will OGC members benefit from their collaborative or...

OGC invites responses to its 3D Data Container and Tiles API Pilot Call For Participation; funding available for participants

3D Data Container and Tiles API Pilot seeks to assess a data container model and API that will support smooth transitions between 3D and 2D...

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

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...

OGC and buildingSMART International publish discussion paper on the integration of BIM and GIS

The Discussion Paper, entitled Built environment data standards and their integration: an analysis of IFC, CityGML and LandInfra, is free to download from OGC’s Discussion...

OGC Members move to create new Standards Working Group for Underground Data; Public Comment sought on Draft Charter

New MUDDI (Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration) SWG seeks to create models, standards, and mappings to fully represent underground infrastructure in context with...

OGC adopts and publishes Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core as an official OGC Standard.Hierarchical Data Format Version 5...

Developers invited to three OGC API Sprints in Q3 2020

A series of Sprints will build and test prototype implementations of four draft OGC API specifications to ensure that they are as developer-friendly, usable, and...

OGC Members propose update to GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group; public comment sought on draft charter

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft updated charter for the OGC GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group (SWG).Since the release of GeoSPARQL...

OGC Members update two best practices for Defence profiles of WMS and WFS; public comment sought before approval

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on updates to two Best Practice documents concerning Defence Profiles: DGIWG 122 Defence Profile of OGC’s Web...

Public comment sought on CityGML 3.0 Conceptual Model for storage and exchange of 3D city models

A key goal for the development of the CityGML Conceptual Model is to provide a common definition of the basic entities, attributes, and relations of...

OGC Members propose new Features and Geometries JSON Standards Working Group; public comment sought

New OGC Working Group will develop a JSON encoding for geospatial feature data to support additional concepts that are important for the wider geospatial community...

OGC membership approves new Community Standard: Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has added Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) 1.0.0 to the OGC Standards Baseline as a Community Standard.Indoor Mapping Data...

OGC seeking participants in the Second Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Sprint

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces its Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC Interoperable Simulation and Gaming (ISG) Year 2 Sprint.This, the Year 2...

Seeking Participants for the OGC UxS Command and Control Interoperability Experiment

The OGC UxS Command and Control IE will test the suitability of a C&C data model for heterogeneous UxSs in a real-world environment.The Open Geospatial...