21 February 2020: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites developers to participate in the Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) API Sprint, held from 18-20 March, 2020, at the NOAA/NWS facilities in Silver Spring, MD, USA. Remote participation is possible.
OGC seeks public comment on revision to TimeseriesML standard
18 February 2020: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on version 1.3 of the TimeseriesML standard. TimeseriesML is an XML Encoding of the Timeseries Profile of Observations and Measurements, and is used for the representation of observations as ‘timeseries’ – that is, a sequence of data values that are ordered in time. TimeseriesML supports […]
OGC Announces Publication of Open Routing API Pilot Results
New OGC Engineering Reports document outcomes of the Open Routing API Pilot, including new capabilities to easily share routes and prototype APIs able to use routing data from any source – based on the next generation of OGC APIs
OGC announces the creation of new GeoPose Standards Working Group
Members of the new GeoPose SWG will work towards a standard to provide an interoperable way to express, record, and share the location, position, and orientation of objects across diverse applications, users, devices, services, and platforms.
OGC Calls for Participation in its Next Major Innovation Testbed (Testbed-16); Funding Available for Participants
Testbed-16 will provide funding for participants to undertake R&D to further advance the Earth Observation Cloud Architecture, Data Integration & Analytics, and Modeling & Packaging.
OGC Calls for Participation in Vector Tiles Pilot
OGC Vector Tiles Pilot will create extensions for use in OGC Web Services, GeoPackage, and supply a conceptual abstract model that can be used across OGC standards
OGC seeks public comment on Tile Matrix Set Candidate Standard
A new module to be used for any standard requiring the use of tiled spaces.
OGC Announces Disasters Interoperability Concept Development Study
Study and further initiatives aim to collate, document, and make freely available the knowledge and best practices required for geospatial data, product and information sharing in times of crisis.
OGC Announces European Space Agency Invitation to Tender for Testbed 14 Thematic Exploitation Platforms
Earth Observation Exploitation Platforms are collaborative, virtual work environments providing access to EO data and the tools, processors, and resources required to work with it.
OGC recognizes the IJIS Institute with Distinguished Member Award
31 August 2017: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that the IJIS Institute has been awarded OGC’s Distinguished Member Award, and Steve Ambrosini a Lifetime Achievement Award.
