Thursday, June 8th, 2017
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...
Monday, March 27th, 2017
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...
Friday, March 17th, 2017
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...
Monday, February 6th, 2017
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 use across many domains, from...
Monday, January 30th, 2017
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites interested organizations to respond to the just released Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC Testbed 13 Interoperability Testbed. Organizations selected to participate in Testbed 13 will develop prototype solutions based...
Friday, January 20th, 2017
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...
Tuesday, December 6th, 2016
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...
Monday, September 26th, 2016
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, integration,...
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
24 May 2016 —The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will further the missions of both organizations by collaborating as partners in the development...
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that the U.A.E. Ministry of the Interior, represented by Abu Dhabi Police GIS Center for Security, has become a Principal Member of the OGC to chair a new, planned international OGC...