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The OGC Environmental Data Retrieval API: simple access to big data

  • Posted on: 18 May 2020
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Contributed by: 
Steve Olson, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and OGC Meteorology & Oceanography DWG Chair

Another step towards the creation of the OGC Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) API Standard has been completed: the successful testing of some of the API’s capabilities during the OGC Environmental Data Retrieval API Sprint. The virtual event was held from March 18-20, 2020. A final report detailing the EDR API Sprint is now available on GitHub.

But what is the upcoming EDR API? And how does it improve and simplify access to 'big data'?

ESIP/OGC Coverage Processing Sprint Results

  • Posted on: 21 February 2020
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Contributed by: 
George Percivall, Annie Burgess, Ingo Simonis

Opening session of the ESIP/OGC Coverage and Processing Analytics API SprintA joint OGC / ESIP Coverage and Processing Analytics API development sprint was held on January 6-7, 2020. The Sprint was held in conjunction with the ESIP Winter Meeting. This sprint builds on the OGC API Hackathon in June 2019, and the OGC API Features and Catalogues Sprint in November 2019. The ESIP/OGC sprint focused on OGC API-Coverages, API-Processes, and API-Common as part of the overall development of OGC APIs.

Open Portrayal Framework: Sharing Styles and Updating Tiles for a New Generation of Maps

  • Posted on: 8 August 2019
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Contributed by: 
Jeff Harrison (US Army Geospatial Center) & Martin Klopfer (OGC)

The Open Portrayal Framework in OGC Testbed 15 is developing a conceptual model for styles together with a series of new APIs for styles, images, maps and tiles handling.
In the Open Portrayal Framework, a style is an encoding with essential information about itself, e.g. title, abstract description of the style, a thumbnail, and information about the data it can be applied to. These metadata elements allow users to share, discover, select, and apply a style. A style further contains a sequence of rules or instructions that define how mapping engines shall render vector or raster data or, in OGC speak, features and coverages.

OGC API Hackathon 2019 - How it went!

Last month, OGC, Ordnance Survey, the European Space Agency, and NGA held a hackathon in London aiming to advance OGC APIs. 

It is envisaged that the output of the hackathon will be instrumental to the evolution of OGC web service standards to a modern API-based approach, setting the course for open geospatial standards for the next decade. The output should lead to a solid, common core and advancement of a whole new generation of OGC standards that are flexible in modern IT environments. This does not mean that existing OGC web service standards will fade away. Instead, it means that a new suite of OGC standards will give developers and users the option of leveraging capabilities offered by Web APIs.

OGC advances the Web Feature Service standard through a public hackathon

As many readers are aware, OGC has been making a concerted effort over the past few years to integrate better with the community implementing OGC standards. OGC members and staff believe that by involving those who actually need to code against standards early in the process, we can develop standards that are both more responsive to market demands and more accessible (read: “easier to understand and implement”) for developers. Hence, why not try a hackathon?

WFS3 Hackathon

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