Excited to announce that Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) has been published as official OGC Standard. COG allows for the efficient streaming and partial downloading of web-based imagery and grid coverage data for fast visualization and processing
Excited to announce that Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) has been published as official OGC Standard. COG allows for the efficient streaming and partial downloading of web-based imagery and grid coverage data for fast visualization and processing
Landmark news! GeoTIFF v1.1 has officially been adopted as an OGC standard! V1.1 formalizes the existing
#GeoTIFF
specification and aligns it with the EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset while maintaining backward compatibility with GeoTIFF 1.0
OGC is excited to announce our first Podcast series powered and produced by
@MapScaping
! Our first episode focuses on why you should care about
#geospatial
data. Listen here, and learn more:
We're very excited to announce that
#OGCAPI
- Tiles (Part 1: Core) is now an official OGC Standard, signaling a new era in how tiled
#geospatial
information is served over the Web. Learn more, including where to find example code, here:
OGC is happy to announce that it has adopted 3D Tiles as a Community Standard! 3D Tiles is designed for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets for use in visualization
A free series of monthly seminars will showcase different applications of geospatial tech & data used in building
#Climate
&
#Disaster
#Resilience
. Open to the public, anyone using
#geospatial
for C&D resilience is encouraged to attend. See the schedule:
Excited to announce that Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) has been published as official OGC Standard. COG allows for the efficient streaming and partial downloading of web-based imagery and grid coverage data for fast visualization and processing
The next chapter at OGC is here. Join us in celebrating the organization's new brand, and continued commitment to making location information Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable:
#Geospatial
#Location
OGC Membership has approved and published a minor update (v1.3) to
#GeoPackage
- the open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring
#geospatial
information
GeoPackage can store geographic, raster, feature, and attribute data. While maps contain the same information, *style* is what makes them consumable. For
#GeoPackage
this can be enabled through extensions.
Last month, developers from
@opengeospatial
@TheASF
and
@OSGeo
worked together on implementations of open geospatial standards. We'll be presenting an overview of the sprint and its achievements at the next OGC Meeting Meeting. Learn more and register at
Excited to announce that OGC has adopted 3D Tiles v1.1 as a Community Standard.
#3DTiles
enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and
#metaverse
applications
OGC is proud to announce that Dr. Nadine Alameh will return to OGC to serve as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective 1 March 2019. Welcome,
@nadinesa
! The announcement also coincides with a new leadership structure for OGC:
Congratulations to Joan MasΓ³ (
@joanma747
) from Universitat AutΓ²noma de Barcelona
@CREAF_ecologia
- awarded the 2018 Gardels Award for being βthe hardest working OGC member out there.β
#OGC18DE
OGC and
@OSGeo
have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding, renewing our partnership in support of closer collaboration to advance Open Geospatial Standards and Open Source Geospatial Software
Last night
@brinkwoman
received our 2019 Gardels Award for making an outstanding contribution to advancing OGC's vision of using location to connect people, communities, technology, and decision making for the greater good. Hearty congratulations, Linda!
OGC is excited to welcome
@opencholmes
as our first OGC Visiting Fellow. Chris will bring to OGC invaluable insight and perspective to the on-going development of the
#OGCAPI
family of Standards. Welcome, Chris!
We're formalizing Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF as an official OGC Standard, and seeking public comment on the standard. COG allows for efficient streaming and partial downloading of imagery on the web and enables fast data viz and processing workflows.
Excited to announce that the first of our new
#OGCAPI
standards has been approved as an official OGC standard! OGC API - Features - Part 1: Core is now available to download and implement completely free of charge
OGC has published a Best Practice for
#EarthObservation
Application Packages, which outlines the implementation, packaging, and deployment of cross-cloud EO Applications - A step forward for greater efficiency and bringing the βuser to the data.β
We're excited to announce the formation of the new GeoParquet Standards Working Group. The new SWG will work to advance the GeoParquet encoding format for adoption as an OGC Encoding Standard for cloud-native vector data
OGC is seeking public comment on the adoption of
@Open_EO
as a Community Standard. openEO aims to increase the interoperability of processing βbig EO dataβ (eg satellite imagery) in the cloud by defining a simple an unified API.
#EarthObservation
Congratulations OGC CEO, Nadine Alameh, for becoming the 2022 Geospatial World Geospatial Diversity Champion of the Year for her leadership role in championing diversity and inclusivity across geospatial industry. Thank you for everything you do to evolve
#geospatial
community!
Public Comment sought on new Features and Geometries JSON Standards Working Group, which will develop a
#JSON
encoding for
#geospatial
feature data to support important additional concepts as well as the
#OGCAPI
standards
#OGCPubCom
Seeking public comment on FlatGeobuf becoming an OGC Community Standard. FlatGeobuf is a performant binary encoding for geographic data that works well as a βcloud nativeβ lossless format for vector data
#OGCPubCom
Excited to announce the appointment of Prashant Shukle, Javier de la Torre, and Patty Mims to OGC's Board of Directors. Welcome! The new appointeesβ diverse sets of experiences will inform the strategy of the Consortium and help instill innovation.
The latest OGC
#Hackathon
will test the readiness of new, interoperable cloud-deployment architectures for processing of Earth Observation data
#EOHack
OGC exists because of constantly evolving use of location information. Thank you for paving the way for new technologies to thrive in our Innovation Program, providing leadership in our Standards Program, and engaging with experts across the globe.
Thank you Barbara Ryan - pictured here with OGC's
@twitt_mfv
and
@BartDeLathouwer
- for your lifelong service in advancing Earth Observations and Geospatial Information.
Did you hear the news?
#OGCAPI
- Tiles (Part 1: Core) is now an official OGC Standard, signaling a new era in how tiled
#geospatial
information is served over the Web. Learn more, including where to find example OpenAPI files, here:
Announcing a new
#OGCAPI
standard: Features - Part 2: CRS by Reference. OGC API - Features provides the API building blocks to create, modify, and query βfeaturesβ on the Web. Part 2 adds the ability to use different coordinate reference systems.
Chris Holmes, OGC's first and current Visiting Fellow, has written a blog post that seeks to address the question: "What would geospatial standards look like if they were built for the cloud?"
#COG
#Zarr
#STAC
#OGCAPI
#CloudComputing
Very excited to welcome
@Microsoft
to the OGC Community as our latest Principal Member. Microsoft will help advance
#OGCAPI
- the new generation of location standards for integrating location-aware information in any application
@msPartner
Developers! Come join us for the most important
#hackathon
in OGC history: the OGC API Hackathon at
@Geovation
in London on June 20-21. Test draft
#OpenAPI
based specifications for features, coverages, map tiles, and processes using a common
#API
template
Calling for Participation in our Vector Tiles Pilot, which will create extensions for use in OGC Web Services & GeoPackage, and supply a conceptual abstract model that can be used across OGC standards
Excited to announce the publication of the
#CityGML
v3.0 Conceptual Model Standard. CityGML defines a semantic information model for 3D objects and models that can be used by many different applications - making
#3D
city models much more cost-effective
Congratulations to outgoing OGC President & CEO
@Reichardtme
who last night received a special edition of the Gardelβs Award in recognition of his years of commitment to, leadership of, and passion for OGC.
Seeking Public Comment on a
#Standard
that defines the model and encodings for standardizing any training data used to train, validate, and test
#MachineLearning
models that involve location or time. Comments close April 23
OGC is hiring! We have an immediate need for a 'Director Innovation Program' with expertise in Smart Cities technologies and related standards. This is the first of a few new hires for 2018, so stay tuned for more. Applications close 31 May 2018.
#Jobs
OGC Blog: The Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) recently updated its GeoMet standards-based public access service to v2.0, supporting OGC WMS, WCS, and WFS plus additional export formats, and new data layers:
Requesting public comment on the Features and Geometries JSON β Part 1: Core Standard, which specifies extensions to the GeoJSON format that support certain useful geospatial application contexts. Comments due June 24.
OGC is seeks experts in geospatial IT, cloud analytics, new Web APIs and sensor integration. Help us prototype, design, and develop solutions to location problems in domains like Earth Observation, GeoInt, and Aviation. Get funding and build the future:
OGC is forming a Geographic Data Files Standards Working Group to create a major revision to the GDF Standard, used for the prep and exchange of spatial and map data within the
#IntelligentTransportSystems
domain. Public comment is requested by March 7
The Disasters Concept Development Study is looking to gather information from anyone who provides and/or uses geospatial data or products connected to
#disasters
β. Anyone in this field is urged to respond to this RFI.
OGC seeks Public Comment onGeoPackage v1.4, which adds more flexibility and prevents some possible interoperability problems. GeoPackage is an open, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information.
Congratulations to Ignacio 'Nacho' Correas of
@skymantics
on winning the poll for the most outstanding application demonstrated during the Developer Track at the 118th OGC Member Meeting on 2021-03-24. The demo showed Routing using an
#OGCAPI
built on
@pygeoapi
from
@osgeo
#OGCMM
Seeking public comment on the new
#CityJSON
Community Standard, which offers an easy-to-use alternative to the GML encoding of
#CityGML
2.0 for the storage and exchange of 3D city models
#OGCPubCom
Public comment requested on v1.1 of the 3D Tiles Community Standard, which enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and
#metaverse
applications
#OGCPubCom
Excited to announce that OGC has adopted 3D Tiles v1.1 as a Community Standard.
#3DTiles
enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and
#metaverse
applications
Chris Holmes reflects on his time as OGC's Visiting Fellow, and outlines his vision of 'Cloud-Native Geospatial' by addressing the question βWhat would geospatial standards look like if they were built for the cloud?β
@opencholmes
#Geospatial
#CloudNative
OGC's series of free monthly seminars will showcase geospatial tech & data used in building
#Climate
&
#Disaster
#Resilience
. On Feb 21, Anna Liljedahl of
@WoodwellClimate
will present on "big data creation and knowledge-gen to support Arctic communities"
What is the OGC API - Maps? The draft specification enables a client application to request maps as images and includes the ability to specify or change parameters. We are inviting developers to test these standards on May 26th to May 28th. Register now:
Developers are invited to the 2023 OGC,
@TheASF
and
@OSGeo
"Open Standards and Open Source Software Code Sprint" - A free virtual and in-person event, hosted by
@camptocamp
in Switzerland, from April 25-27
What's that? Possibly the biggest evolution in geospatial standards in 25 years, you say? Our head of Standards, Scott Simmons, penned this 'must read' post on OGC's use of OpenAPI to make standards easier to implement and use
#OGCAPI
Seeking Public Comment on a
#Standard
that defines the model and encodings for standardizing any training data used to train, validate, and test
#MachineLearning
models that involve location or time. Comments close April 23
Last month, OGC,
@OrdnanceSurvey
the
@esa
and
@NGA_GEOINT
held an
#OGCAPI
hackathon at
@Geovation
. The hackathon was instrumental in the transition of OGC web service standards to a modern API-based approach. Learn more about it on the OGC Blog:
We chatted with
@tomkralidis
from the Meteorological Service of Canada on the use of OGC APIs to deliver real-time and archived weather, climate, and water datasets and products that can be easily integrated into apps and decision support systems
#OGCAPI
The OGC membership has approved a new standard: Symbology Conceptual Model: Core Part. The new βSymCoreβ standard will increase consistency between different maps by defining agreed upon symbology rules. Learn more at
#NewStandard
#Cartography
#geospatial
V. excited to announce that OGC API - Processes - Part 1: Core is now an official OGC Standard! As a successor to WPS, it provides a means to build simple-to-understand Web APIs through which complex computational tasks can be executed.
#OGCAPI
Calling for Participation in our first Citizen Science Interoperability Experiment (CitSciIE), which will demonstrate how current ICT tools can better enable citizens to participate in
#CitizenScience
projects, and improve the reusability of gathered data
Excited to announce that CoverageJSON v1.0 has been adopted as an official OGC Community Standard. CoverageJSON enables the development of interactive visualizations that display and manipulate spatio-temporal data within a web browser.
Congratulations to
@PrashantShukle
recent recipient of the OGC Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of Prashantβs lifetime of service and his steadfast support of open geospatial standards and the OGC mission.
Big things are happening at OGC: possibly the biggest evolution in geospatial standards in 25 years. If you work with OGC standards this blog post by our COO and ED of Standards, Scott Simmons, is a must read! Expect even more of this in the future
#OGCAPI
We're excited to announce the formation of the new GeoParquet Standards Working Group. The new SWG will work to advance the GeoParquet encoding format for adoption as an OGC Encoding Standard for cloud-native vector data
GeoPackage can store geographic, raster, feature, and attribute data. Via extensions, however,
#GeoPackage
can also contain styles | David Wilson on the OGC Blog
Excited to announce the publication of the Engineering Reports documenting the
#EarthObservation
Applications Pilot, sponsored by
@NRCan
and
@esa
. The Pilot tested a method for the simple dev & deployment of sharable EO processing apps for multiple clouds!
OGC is seeking public comment on the adoption of
@Open_EO
as a Community Standard. openEO aims to increase the interoperability of processing βbig EO dataβ (eg satellite imagery) in the cloud by defining a simple an unified API.
#EarthObservation
Requesting Information on Earth Observation Big Data Architecture. Organizations are invited to provide feedback on our draft Earth Observation Cloud Applications architecture, and express their interest in joining the upcoming evaluation Pilot
Don't miss your chance to hear about the Location community's take on Spatial Data Infrastructure with our upcoming Modernizing SDI webinars. Join us February 10 in English and February 17 in French. Data interoperability here:
OGC adopts and publishes Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) as an official OGC Standard.
@hdf5
provides a flexible, extensible, and efficient data model, programming interface, and storage model for keeping and managing spatial data.
Weβre thrilled to announce our collaboration with
@GMapsPlatform
on Photorealistic
#3DTiles
, now available through their Map Tiles API. Learn more:
#GoogleIO
OGC is delivering consistent, interoperable online/offline architecture for
#vectortiles
through one of our ongoing initiatives. Learn what OGC Vector Tiles Pilot Phase 2 is about:
As part of the Vector Tiles Pilot Phase 2 (VTP2) project,
@geosolutions_it
has produced a video demonstrating OGC API - Tiles in action. The video shows GeoServer serving data through the OGC API and also shows Tile Set Metadata. View it at
#OGCAPI
OGC's Testbed 17 is kicking off next week with a focus on APIs, across technologies and domains such Defense, Aviation, and more. Help build the future of
#location
technology:
Public Comment sought on new Features and Geometries JSON Standards Working Group, which will develop a
#JSON
encoding for
#geospatial
feature data to support important additional concepts as well as the
#OGCAPI
standards
#OGCPubCom
Pairing
@OrdnanceSurvey
's new, easier-to-use data with OGC's new easy-to-use
#OGCAPI
, OS has launched the OS NGD API β Features product, which provides access to daily-updated, next-gen data, with powerful filtering capabilities
Back in Feb, OGC
@osgeo
&
@TheASF
ran a joint code sprint to help accelerate the support of open geospatial standards. The outcomes have just been published in a summary report, along with a short blog post outlining the objectives
#OGCAPI
Excited to announce that CoverageJSON v1.0 has been adopted as an official OGC Community Standard. CoverageJSON enables the development of interactive visualizations that display and manipulate spatio-temporal data within a web browser.
Excited to announce that OGC has adopted 'CityGML 3.0 Part 2: GML Encoding' as an official OGC Standard. The new encoding for CityGML v3.0 can be used to store and exchange 3D city models in the GML format as data sets or via web services
RT
@foss4g
: Pumped to announce Denise McKenzie aka
@SpatialRed
as a plenary keynote speaker at
@foss4g
! She'll be presenting the frontier of standards, interoperability, and international development in the geospatial industry - karibu Denise!