Standards Working Groups (SWGs)

The purpose of this SWG is to incorporate the GeoTIFF specification into the OGC Standards suite by updating the specification to bring it into conformance with current OGC practices and to provide a forum for evolving the standard in the future, if need be.

The purpose of the GeoXACML SWG is to develop and maintain an OGC GeoXACML standard and associated coordination.

The purpose of the OGC GML SWG is to maintain the OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard.The SWG may decide that the revision should be a joint project with ISO/TC 211 and result in a revision of ISO 19136, too.

The purpose of OGC GMLJP2 SWG is to manage revision to the GMLJP2 Standard. The SWG will process impacts to this standard from updates of dependent standards, address omissions from the initial standard, process comments from Innovation Program initiatives, and assess future work items for the Standard.

The Groundwater SWG aims to maintain a data exchange standard for the groundwater domain. The Standard is known as GroundWater Markup Language 2 (GWML2) and consists of conceptual and logical information models, as well as language specific implementations, which initially minimally include a GML-XML encoding specification.

The purpose of the OGC HDF SWG is to Standardize the HDF5 data model, its binary encodings, related extensions, and other appropriate items, and support other OGC working groups (SWG and DWG) in understanding the HDF5 data model and applying it in their domains of interest.

Water information needs to be shared across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries, which can be facilitated by OGC’s interoperability Standards. The Hydrologic Features SWGbrings together interested parties to develop and promote the technology for improving the way in which surface water information is organized, managed, and shared.

The purpose of this IndoorGML SWG is to develop an application schema of OGC GML and manage the adopted OGC Standard. This Standard provides a common schema framework for indoor navigation applications.