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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....

Media guidance

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...

Who We Are

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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...

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.

OGC Members Adopt Implementation Specifications for Location Based Services and Enhanced Web Mapping

Wayland, MA, July 16, 2003 - In June, OGC members voted to adopt the OpenGIS(R) Location Services (OpenLS(TM)) Implementation Specification, and the OpenGIS Web Map...

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 Announces Availability of Online Compliance Testing

The tests and resources are the result work on the Compliance & Interoperability Test & Evaluation Initiative (CITE).The Compliance Tests OGC commissioned a planning study...

OGC Requests Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) Reference Implementations

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests reference implementations of the OGC Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) Interface Standard for use in compliance testing.The OGC Compliance...

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 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 Invites Participation in Web Services Interoperability Experiment

Wayland, MA, May 25, 2004 - The Open GIS Consortium Inc. (OGC) invites participation in an Interoperability Experiment that will result in a proposed XML...

OGC Announces June 9 Asia-Pacific Webinar Demo of OWS-6 Interoperability Testbed Results

On Tuesday, June 9, 2009, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) will conduct a free webinar demonstrating results from the OGC Web Services, Phase 6...

OGC Announces June 10 Webinar Demo of OWS-6 Interoperability Testbed Results

On Wednesday, June 10, 2009, from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDT (15:00-17:00 UTC), the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) will conduct a free webinar...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...