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OGC forms new GeoZarr Standards Working Group to establish a Zarr encoding for geospatial data

SWG to develop a GeoZarr Standard that establishes flexible and inclusive conventions for the cloud-native Zarr format that meet the diverse requirements of the geospatial...

Insights from Innovation Days 2023

At OGC Innovation Days 2023, members of the climate, disaster, and emergency resilience and response communities gathered to explore what OGC-enabled geospatial technologies have made...

Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) published as official OGC Standard

COG allows for the efficient streaming and partial downloading of web-based imagery and grid coverage data for fast visualization and processing.

OGC forms new GeoParquet Standards Working Group

New OGC SWG will work to advance the GeoParquet encoding format for adoption as an OGC Encoding Standard for cloud-native vector data.

OGC Forms new GeoDataCube Standards Working Group

New SWG will develop datacube interoperability Standards that meet the needs of scientists, application developers, and API integrators.

OGC API – Common – Part 1: Core Adopted as Official OGC Standard

OGC API - Common specifies reusable building blocks that can be used in the construction of OGC API or other other resource-specific Web API Standards.

OGC to form new GeoParquet Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on Draft Charter

GeoParquet adds geospatial types to Apache Parquet to serve as an efficient cloud-native vector data format.

OGC Testbed-19 Call For Sponsors: Interoperability and Collaboration from Oceans to Space

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is currently preparing its next major Innovation Initiative, Testbed-19, which builds upon the success and outcomes of Testbed-17, Testbed-18, and...

Bringing the Heat in Madrid: a recap of our 123rd Member Meeting

OGC’s 123rd Member Meeting – our long awaited return to in-person(!) – was held in Madrid, Spain, from June 13-16, 2022. And even with the heatwave...

The Latest on Cloud-Native Geospatial Standards in OGC

OGC Chief Standards Officer, Scott Simmons, digs into the elements of the cloud ecosystem that OGC is addressing: interfaces, applications, encodings, and operations.

Towards a Cloud-Native OGC

Article Contributed by Chris Holmes, OGC Visiting Fellow – About six months ago I started as the first ‘Visiting Fellow’ of the Open Geospatial Consortium. It’s been...

Towards a Cloud-Native Geospatial standards baseline

Article Contributed by Chris Holmes, OGC Visiting Fellow – In my previous post I laid out the vision for Cloud-Native Geospatial, but with this post, I...

OGC welcomes Chris Holmes as its inaugural Visiting Fellow

Chris Holmes will bring to OGC invaluable insight and perspective to the on-going development of the OGC API family of Standards.