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December 10, 2020

Charles Heazel receives OGC’s 2020 Gardels Award

Congratulations to Charles “Chuck” Heazel awarded the 2020 Gardels Award for their continued contributions to the creation and advancement of OGC StandardsAt the December Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Member Meeting, held virtually, Charles “Chuck” Heazel was presented the OGC’s prestigious Kenneth D. Gardels Award.The Gardels Award is presented each year to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to advancing OGCs vision of fully integrating geospatial information into the worlds information systems.Chuck’s technical expertise, understanding of the specific needs of many domains, and concern with ensuring that interoperability can be fully realized, exemplify the values associated with the Gardels Award.Award nominations are made by members – the prior Gardels Award winners – and approved by the Board of Directors.OGC’s member-driven consensus process creates royalty free, publicly available geospatial standards.

July 8, 2020

Developers are invited to the OGC Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Sprint

The draft specification aligns with OGC Web API Guidelines and supports multiple 3D geospatial standards from the OGC portfolio, including 3D Tiles, I3S, CDB, and CityGML.At OGC Sprints, technology and domain experts, programmers and program managers come together to test and recommend improvements to draft specifications.OGC encourages participation by organizations with geospatial experience that have not worked with OGC in the past.To learn more about the Sprint, or to download the Call For Participation, visit the Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Sprint page on the OGC website.For information on other OGC Sprints, both past and future, visit the OGC Sprints webpage.

July 8, 2020

Developers are invited to the OGC Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Sprint

This OGC Sprint will test a draft API that provides a simple method to retrieve 3D tiled resources in a manner independent of the underlying data store.

April 14, 2020

OGC Members move to create new Standards Working Group for Underground Data; Public Comment sought on Draft Charter

New MUDDI (Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration) SWG seeks to create models, standards, and mappings to fully represent underground infrastructure in context with the environment that contains them.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft charter for the new OGC MUDDI (Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration) Standards Working Group (SWG).Additionally, the MUDDI SWG will create mappings to/from other geospatial data models that characterize the underground environment that contains said assets.The draft charter for the MUDDI Standards Working Group is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by the 5th May, 2020, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the MUDDI SWG Draft Charter public comment request page.

April 14, 2020

OGC Members move to create new Standards Working Group for Underground Data; Public Comment sought on Draft Charter

New MUDDI (Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration) SWG seeks to create models, standards, and mappings to fully represent underground infrastructure in context with the environment that contains them.

April 9, 2020

OGC and buildingSMART International publish discussion paper on the integration of BIM and GIS

The Discussion Paper, entitled Built environment data standards and their integration: an analysis of IFC, CityGML and LandInfra, is free to download from OGC’s Discussion Papers webpage.The benefits of open standards are clear, and we encourage more engagement from both standards body representatives.The Built environment data standards and their integration: an analysis of IFC, CityGML and LandInfra discussion paper is free, along with many others, to download from OGC’s Discussion Papers webpage.Its members, who range from across the built environment spectrum, collaborate under the buildingSMART organization.buildingSMART is engaged with other international standards bodies such as ISO, the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

April 9, 2020

OGC and buildingSMART International publish discussion paper on the integration of BIM and GIS

New discussion paper aims to coordinate the development of data standards produced by the two leading standards organizations in the fields of Geospatial and Building Information Modeling

February 13, 2020

OGC considering CityJSON as community standard; seeks public comment for new Work Item

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is considering CityJSON for adoption as an official OGC Community Standard.A new Work Item justification to begin the Community Standard endorsement process is available for public comment.An approved OGC Community Standard is an official standard of OGC that is considered to be a widely used, mature specification, but was developed outside of OGC’s standards development and approval process.The proposed CityJSON community standard work item justification is available for review and comment on the OGC Portal.Comments are due by 5th March, 2020, and should be submitted via the method outlined on the CityJSON community standard work item public comment request page.

February 13, 2020

OGC considering CityJSON as community standard; seeks public comment for new Work Item

CityJSON provides a simplified alternative to the GML encoding of CityGML that is also lightweight and suitable for use on the web and mobile.