OGC’s member-community of experts makes location-data Findable, Accessible Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) through #innovation#collaboration and #standards
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CFP closes Feb 17 for the OGC Disaster Pilot 2023, which will bridge technology and stakeholder engagement to reduce disaster preparation time and accelerate our ability to transform data from observation into decision. Funding available! https://bit.ly/3Xo1LIU#OGCCFP
Public Comment requested on the charter for the new Agriculture Information Model (AIM) Standards Working Group, which will develop an AIM that will provide a common language for ag apps to harmonize and improve data and metadata exchange https://bit.ly/3HvQNKD
) recently announced that OGC API – Tiles was adopted as an official OGC Standard. Read about why the largest #Geospatial Organization in the world uses the #OpenAPI Specification! #opensource➡️
The Global Top 100 Geospatial Companies – 2023 Edition is out, and over 1/4 are OGC Members! Congratulations to those on the list, and thank you to the Geo Awesome committee for putting it together. See the full list: https://bit.ly/3Ylr666#Location#Geospatial
OGC is forming a new GeoDCAT Standards Working Group, which aims to separate a general geospatial profile of DCAT, called GeoDCAT, out from the Europe-specific Application Profile, GeoDCAT-AP. Public comment is requested on its draft charter, due Feb 22 https://bit.ly/3Rri9WL
Q&A Session for the OGC Disaster Pilot 2023, this Wed! The Pilot will bridge technology and stakeholder engagement to reduce disaster preparation time and accelerate our ability to transform data from observation into decision. Funding available! https://bit.ly/3Xo1LIU#OGCCFP
The wrap-up of our 2022 Location Powers event - which focused on how Environmental, Social, and (corporate) Governance #ESG reporting benefits from #geospatial technologies - is now available on the OGC Blog: https://bit.ly/3kkG8uh#OGCLP22
Public Comment requested on v1.1 of the #OGCAPI - Environment Data Retrieval Standard, which makes it easier to efficiently access a wide range of geospatial or spatiotemporal data through a uniform, well-defined, simple Web interface https://bit.ly/3R8BOL3#OGCPubCom
OGC Compliance Certification is now available for the #OGCAPI - Environmental Data Retrieval v1.0 Standard. The tests take only a few minutes to complete. Compliance assures that a product will seamlessly integrate with other vendor's compliant solutions https://bit.ly/3jYFKkV
We're looking for talented, motivated experts across the industry to help continue our commitment of making location FAIR. Apply to join our constantly evolving and quickly growing team of experts and change agents as we push #geospatial innovation onward: https://ogc.org/ogc/organization/careers…
OGC's Member Meeting will be hosted by ESA the week of 24 February. We have special sessions about health, metaverse, and more. Join us and be at THE place where geospatial innovation happens: https://portal.ogc.org/meet/
Public Comment is sought on the draft charter for the new GeoParquet Standards Working Group. GeoParquet adds geospatial types to Apache Parquet to serve as an efficient cloud-native vector data format https://bit.ly/400BKkw
Anyone interested in (funded) participation in the OGC Disaster Pilot '23 should join the Q&A call this Wed. The pilot will bridge technology and stakeholder engagement to accelerate our ability to transform data from observation into decision https://bit.ly/3Xo1LIU#OGCCFP
Excited to announce the launch of the OGC Geo for #Metaverse Domain Working Group, which will help the Location communities collaborate and contribute expertise into building and growing the #OpenMetaversehttps://bit.ly/3GV8uTJ
Thank-you to the 500+ registered for OGC Testbed-18 Demonstration Days event! See how the location community is innovating in geospatial through interoperable technology and open standards at our upcoming Digital Twins for Future Cities Webinar on 25, Jan: https://ogc.org/ogcevents/digital-twins-future-cities-webinar…
Calling For Participation in the OGC Disaster Pilot 2023, which will bridge technology and stakeholder engagement to reduce disaster preparation time and accelerate our ability to transform data from observation into decision. Funding available! https://bit.ly/3Xo1LIU#OGCCFP
The wrap-up of our 2022 Location Powers event - which focused on how Environmental, Social, and (corporate) Governance #ESG reporting benefits from #geospatial technologies - is now available on the OGC Blog: https://bit.ly/3kkG8uh#OGCLP22
Testbed 18 demo tomorrow Jan 17. This took me back to 1999 when I participated as a student in the very first OGC Testbed demo! Grateful for this community for making geospatial easier for everyone https://ogc.org/ogcevents/testbed-18-demonstration-days-virtual…
OGC's Testbed-18 Demonstration Days, the future of geospatial R&D, kicked off with an introduction from OGC CEO, Nadine Alameh, followed by a kickoff from our Sponsors, organizations that fund and lead the initiative. Join hundreds online. https://bit.ly/3Winnoz
Interested in planning and building the future of location? Continue your journey in #Geospatial at an OGC event.
Next week, see years of R&D work at Testbed-18 Demo Days (free virtual), in February join us at
OGC Compliance Certification is now available for the #OGCAPI - Environmental Data Retrieval v1.0 Standard. Compliance tests usually take only a few minutes to complete, with passing products able to apply to use the "Certified OGC Compliant" trademark https://bit.ly/3jYFKkV
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You're invited: January 18-19 – Testbed-18 Demonstration Days – Register for the opportunity to see the future of #geospatial R&D through proof of concept, demonstration, interoperable technology, and more.
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Building the Building Blocks for the Future of Location: The November 2022 OGC Web Mapping Code Sprint.
A diverse group of applications, servers, web APIs, encodings, and software libraries were demonstrated and stress tested at the event. Learn more: https://ogc.org/blog/4830
REMINDER: OGC seeking public comment on update to GeoSPARQL Standard until 11 January, 2023. Support for several now common geometry formats such as GeoJSON have been added as well as many simple non-topological functions: https://bit.ly/3FnUcKA
REMINDER: OGC Moving Features Encoding Ext - JSON Best Practice will soon be retired. Please confirm any JSON encoding for moving feature data is using the Standard (not the BP) and/or provide comments that support or raise concern with the BP retirement. https://bit.ly/3STcPdP
OGC Seeks Public Comment on adoption of new version of CityJSON, a web-friendly encoding of the CityGML data model that is used in Digital Twins in natural and built environments, as Community Standard. Public comment period ends 1, February 2023: https://ogc.org/pressroom/pressreleases…
OGC Seeks Public Comment on Creating new GeoDataCube Standards Working Group that will improve data interoperability of GeoDataCube for Analysis Ready Data. https://bit.ly/3W8u6lK#ARD#DataCubes#DataInteroperability#Geospatial
We want to solve your org's technology integration challenges! Areas of interest for Testbed-19 could include: #ML & Training Data; Open Science; Agile Ref Architectures; Standards for Space; GeoDataCubes; High Perf Computing; #OGCAPI and more https://bit.ly/3EVtael#OGCCFS
Our next annual R&D initiative, Testbed-19, is looking to solve your technology integration challenges. Areas of interest include: GeoDataCubes; High Perf Computing; #ML & Training; Agile Ref Architecture; Standards for Space; Open Science & more. https://bit.ly/3EVtael#OGCCFS