GeoDCAT SWG (GeoDCAT.SWG)
The purpose of this SWG is to revise, publish, and maintain GeoDCAT, a spatio-temporal profile of the W3C DCAT Recommendation [DCAT] , and provide guidance about its use and further specialization.
GeoPackage SWG (GeoPackage SWG)
GeoPackage is an open, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information.
GeoParquet SWG (GeoParquet SWG)
The OGC GeoParquet SWG will work to advance the GeoParquet encoding format for cloud-native vector data to an OGC Encoding Standard. GeoParquet builds upon Apache Parquet, described by Apache as “an open source, column-oriented data file format designed for efficient data storage and retrieval. It provides efficient data compression and encoding schemes with enhanced performance […]
GeoPose SWG (GeoPose SWG)
This SWG developed GeoPose 1.0, a standard for geographically-anchored pose (GeoPose) with 6 degrees of freedom referenced to one or more standardized Coordinate Reference Systems (CRSs). The SWG now supports implementers of GeoPose 1.0 standard and identifies future enhancements for the widespread adoption of this standard.
GeoSciML SWG (GeoSciML SWG)
The purpose of this SWG is to maintain the GeoSciML data model and application schema for geoscience information interchange.
GeoSPARQL SWG (GeoSPARQL SWG)
Since the release of GeoSPARQL [1] in 2012, there has been growth of both the Semantic Web and spatial information represented in Semantic Web [2] form. The purpose of this SWG is to revise, and likely extend, the GeoSPARQL standard.