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Registrations Open for the next OGC Code Sprint

OGC invites developers and other contributors to the next Open Standards Code Sprint, to be held from March 25-27, 2025.

OGC Membership approves OGC API – Moving Features – Part 1: Core as an official OGC Standard

OGC API – Moving Features provides a standard way to manage and interact with geospatial data representing phenomena and objects that move and change over...

OGC Membership approves OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval – Part 2: Publish-Subscribe Workflow as an official OGC Standard

OGC API – EDR – Part 2 defines a web interface for efficient event-driven data updates, employing a Publish-Subscribe Workflow for real-time notifications.

OGC Membership approves OGC API – Maps – Part 1: Core as an official OGC Standard

OGC API – Maps supports the ability to generate maps by combining and rendering data from one or more servers into a single view, ensuring...

OGC Membership approves OGC API – Features – Part 3: Filtering as an official OGC Standard

OGC API - Features defines a web interface for creating, modifying, and querying feature data. Part 3 supports advanced filtering functionality using the Common Query...

Public Services on the Map: A Decade of Success

The Netherlands’ Cadastre, Land Registry, and Mapping Agency (Kadaster) maintains the nation’s register of land and property rights, ships, aircraft, and telecom networks. It’s also...

Registrations Open for OGC’s July 2024 Open Standards Code Sprint

While all OGC Standards are in scope, the Sprint will feature three special tracks on Data Quality & Artificial Intelligence, Validators, and Map Markup Language...

Announcing the 2024 Joint OGC ASF OSGeo Code Sprint

4th annual joint sprint will advance support of open geospatial Standards within the developer community – while advancing the Standards themselves.

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...

Registrations Open for OGC’s October 2023 Open Standards Code Sprint

London-based hybrid event will support the development and improvement of Open Standards and supporting applications.

European Innovation, Global Impact

OGC's ongoing contributions to European research topics, driven by projects co-funded by the European Commission (EC), cover areas such as data spaces, climate, digital building...

OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval v1.1 Adopted as Official Standard

The OGC API – EDR Standard makes it easy to access just the required subset from a wide range of data through a uniform, well-defined,...

Developers invited to the 2023 OGC API – Processes Virtual Code Sprint

Next OGC Code Sprint, held September 18-20, will refine the OGC API - Processes Standard and associated extensions.

OGC Compliance Certification Available for v1.0 of the OGC API – Processes Standard

OGC compliance provides confidence that a product will seamlessly integrate with other compliant solutions, regardless of the vendor that created them.

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...

OGC SensorThings API for European Green Deal Data Spaces

This post outlines the SensorThings API Standard together with initial results from two Horizon Europe projects on Green Deal Data Spaces: All Data for Green...

OGC API – Common – Part 1: Core Adopted as Official OGC Standard

OGC API - Common specifies reusable building blocks that can be used in the construction of OGC API or other other resource-specific Web API Standards.

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 SensorThings API and OGC API – Features: Good Practice for European Spatial Information

OGC API - Features and OGC SensorThings API Standards are recognised as INSPIRE good practice for the provision of INSPIRE data.

Developers Invited to the 2023 Open Standards and Open Source Software Code Sprint

OGC, Apache Software Foundation, Open Source Geospatial Foundation, and Camptocamp co-host annual code sprint to advance open geospatial standards.

Ordnance Survey GB and Next Generation OGC API Standards

Pairing Ordnance Survey's new, easier-to-use data with OGC's new easy-to-use OGC APIs, OS has launched the OS NGD API – Features product, which provides access...

OGC seeks Public Comment on v1.1 of OGC API – Environment Data Retrieval Standard

The OGC API - EDR Standard makes it easier to efficiently access a wide range of geospatial or spatiotemporal data through a uniform, well-defined, simple...

OGC to form new GeoParquet Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on Draft Charter

GeoParquet adds geospatial types to Apache Parquet to serve as an efficient cloud-native vector data format.

OGC Announces new Geo for Metaverse Domain Working Group

New OGC DWG will help the Location communities collaborate and contribute expertise into building and growing the open Metaverse.

OGC Calls For Participation in its next Pilot to improve Disaster Management and Response

New Pilot will bridge technology and stakeholder engagement to reduce disaster preparation time and accelerate our ability to transform data from observation into decision.

Building the Building Blocks for the Future of Location: The November 2022 OGC Web Mapping Code Sprint

The mechanisms through which maps are delivered across the Internet have evolved significantly over the past two decades. Advancement of such mechanisms has been driven...

OGC Seeks Public Comment on Creating new GeoDataCube Standards Working Group

New Standard Working Group will improve data interoperability of GeoDataCube for Analysis Ready Data. The public comment period for the GeoDataCubes SWG will end 19...

OGC Testbed-19 Call For Sponsors: Interoperability and Collaboration from Oceans to Space

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is currently preparing its next major Innovation Initiative, Testbed-19, which builds upon the success and outcomes of Testbed-17, Testbed-18, and...

OGC API – Tiles – Part 1: Core adopted as official OGC Standard

The release of OGC API - Tiles as an OGC Standard signals a new era in how tiled geospatial information is served over the Web.

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...

OGC Seeks to Retire OGC Moving Features Encoding Extension – JSON Best Practice; Public Comment Sought

Superseded Best Practice Document will be retired to ensure consistency in implementation.

Reflections on the 2022 Joint OGC & ISO Code Sprint – The Metadata Code Sprint

Over the past two decades, standards such as ISO 19115:2003 and the OGC Catalog Services for the Web (CSW) have been integrated into several Spatial...

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.

The 2022 Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint – How it went!

Over the past decade, geospatial technologies and data have become more widespread in use and application. A key catalyst for the increased uptake of geospatial...

Lowering the barrier of entry for OGC Web APIs

A version of this article originally appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of GeoConnexion Magazine under the title ‘Lowering The Barrier To Entry.’ For the last few...

7 Key Takeaways from the OGC Climate Change Special Session

Article contributed by Steve Liang, SensorUp “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” The quote is originally from management consultant Peter Drucker and...

Towards a Cloud-Native OGC

Article Contributed by Chris Holmes, OGC Visiting Fellow – About six months ago I started as the first ‘Visiting Fellow’ of the Open Geospatial Consortium. It’s been...

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...

Towards a Cloud-Native Geospatial standards baseline

Article Contributed by Chris Holmes, OGC Visiting Fellow – In my previous post I laid out the vision for Cloud-Native Geospatial, but with this post, I...

Hexagon on the value of collaboration, Standards, and OGC Membership

Hexagon’s long-time support of OGC and our Standards, including our family of OGC APIs, has enabled the Company to learn from, collaborate with, and support the...

INSPIRE and OGC APIs – Modernizing INSPIRE

Within the broader context of the European Strategy for Data, the Joint Research Centre (the European Commission’s science and knowledge service) is collaborating with the EU Member States...

Esri’s ArcGIS enables thousands of datasets, maps, and apps for location

Article Contributed by Adam Martin, ESRI Open standards aren’t just about efficiency. They allow organizations across the globe to share information effectively and securely, and...

Paving the way forward for Building Energy Mapping and Analytics

This Article was Contributed by Eddie Oldfield, Senior Lead, Projects & Advisory Services, QUEST; Jessica Webster, Energy Planning Analyst, Natural Resources Canada; and Ryan Ahola,...

A User-centric Approach to Data Cubes

A recent OGC workshop led to the development of a new definition of data cube and underscored the need for a user-centric approach.

How’s the weather up there?

One of Canada's oldest government institutions, MSC, is also one to keep up with the times by using the latest technologies in its quest to...

Reflecting on the May 2021 OGC API Code Sprint

APIs have proven to be a popular and very effective enabler of rapid software development. This is more so in web mapping, where a combination...

Evolving Geospatial Technologies Through OGC’s Testbed-17

Decades in the Making: The Challenges of Evolving Technologies and Standards When it comes to evolving a technology or standard over multiple decades, the struggle...

OGC Startups: Disrupting, Growing, Evolving Location

Join OGC and our thriving startup community today and learn why it is such a quickly growing consortium of industry leaders, influencers, and more. Over the course...

The US Geospatial Data Act – Evolving Beyond Committees, Processes, and Tools

Cowritten by co-written by Molly Schar, NSGIC Executive Director, and Nadine Alahmeh, OGC CEO – It’s no secret, geospatial is mainstream, and it is everywhere. As...

Innovation at OGC: Data-driven Decision Making

Data-driven decision making is fundamental to all aspects of society, In almost all cases, location data is involved. For decades, OGC has driven toward open...

The 2021 Joint OGC – OSGeo – ASF Code Sprint – How it went!

From February 17-19, 2021, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) hosted a joint virtual code...

OGC Disaster Pilots work to address floods, fires, landslides, and epidemics with better information sharing.

The last three years have been unprecedented when it comes to disasters. In 2019 alone there was billions of dollars’ worth of damage, and thousands...

OGC welcomes Chris Holmes as its inaugural Visiting Fellow

Chris Holmes will bring to OGC invaluable insight and perspective to the on-going development of the OGC API family of Standards.

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...

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...