19 January 2016 — The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the following two candidate standards: OGC Geospatial User Feedback Conceptual Model (“GUF Modelâ€) and the OGC Geospatial User Feedback XML encoding Standard. The...
OGC Seeks Public Comment on a Candidate Standard that May Replace Legacy Coordinate Systems
05 January, 2016 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests public comment on the OGC candidate Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) Core Standard. The OGC DGGS candidate standard defines a set of rules for defining highly efficient architectures for spatial...
OGC Requests Comment on the OGC Coverage Implementation Schema
December 17, 2015 — Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the OGC® Coverage Implementation Schema(abbreviated as “CISâ€). This candidate OGC Standard complements the OGC Abstract Topic 6 Standard (which is identical to ISO...
OGC Announces New Deadline for Submissions to Participate in Major Interoperability Testbed (Testbed 12)
November 17, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that there will be two separate submission deadlines and kickoff dates for “threads†of the OGC Testbed 12 Interoperability Testbed. Responses to the OGC Testbed 12 Aviation thread must still...
OGC and ASPRS to Collaborate on Geospatial Standards, Invite Participation in Point Cloud work
November 2, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) have agreed to work together more closely in the application and promotion of standards and best practices for the location and geospatial...
OGC Calls for Participation in Major Interoperability Testbed (Testbed 12)
October 23, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) in the OGC Testbed 12 Interoperability Testbed. Testbed 12 sponsors have documented interoperability requirements and objectives for this...
OGC seeks sponsors for FutureCities Pilot
September 16, 2015 —The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) in collaboration with buildingSMART International (bSI) invites sponsorship in a pilot project to help cities around the world benefit from modern standards for geospatial technologies. The Pilot, based in...
OGC announces Common DataBase Best Practice
July 28, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership announces OGC’s approval of the OGC Common DataBase specification as an OGC Best Practice. This OGC Best Practice specifies an open format and encoding for the storage, access and modification of...
OGC Invites Organizations to Co-sponsor a Major Spatial Interoperability Testbed
July 13, 2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites organizations with specific spatial data integration requirements to explore a low cost, highly effective, high return on investment testbed approach to meeting those requirements. OGC testbeds are rapid...
OGC Issues GeoPackage Corrigendum
May 12,  2015 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a corrigendum to correct minor flaws in the OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Encoding Standard. The flaws were identified after publication of Version 1.0 in early 2014. A key reference for Well Known Binary...