The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Dassault Systèmes has joined the OGC as a Principal Member. As a Principal Member of OGC, Dassault Systèmes will participate across OGC activities and serve in OGC's Planning Committee to explore...
OGC Requests Public Comment on Proposed Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) Com
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is requesting public comment on the proposed Indexed 3D Scene Layers Community Standard. Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) was submitted by Esri for consideration as an OGC Community Standard. The submission was supported by 13 OGC...
OGC Approves New Standard for Geological Science Data
The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved GeoSciML as an OGC Standard. The OGC GeoSciML Standard defines a model and encoding for geological features commonly described and portrayed in geological maps, cross sections, geological reports,...
OGC Seeks Public Comment on Candidate GeoPackage 1.2 Standard
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on its candidate GeoPackage 1.2 standard. GeoPackage is an open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information. It is suitable for...
OGC Seeks Public Comment on OGC WaterML 2 – Part 3, Surface Hydrology Features Conceptual Model
The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on its WaterML 2 - Part 3, Surface Hydrology Features Conceptual Model. The OGC WaterML 2 - Part 3, Surface Hydrology Features Conceptual Model (HY_Features) is part of an intended ‘OGC...
OGC requests public comment on its Coverage Implementation Schema – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the OGC Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) - ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension. A referenceable grid is associated with information that allows the location of all points in the grid to be determined...
OGC Seeks Public Comment for Candidate Moving Features Access Standard
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on its candidate Moving Features Access Standard. Applications using moving feature data, such as vehicles or pedestrians, are rapidly increasing. Innovative applications are expected to require the overlay,...
OGC Honors Hexagon Geospatial Employee With Gardels Award
ORLANDO, FL - Yesterday, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) awarded one of its highest honors, the Kenneth D. Gardels Award, to Hexagon Geospatial employee Stan Tillman. The Gardels award, a gold medallion, is awarded each year to an individual OGC member who has...
OGC Requests Participation in its Land Administration DWG
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling for public participation in its newly-established Land Administration Domain Working Group (Land Admin DWG). Worldwide, effective and efficient land administration is an ongoing concern, as only a small number of...
OGC Releases CityGML Quality Interoperability Experiment Engineering Report
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has released the results of the CityGML Quality Interoperability Experiment (QIE) as a public Engineering Report. Carried out as a joint activity between the OGC, SIG3D and EuroSDR, the CityGML QIE,  defined data quality...