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Bentley Systems increases investment in OGC and reinforces commitment to Open Standards following Cesium acquisition

Bentley’s increased investment in OGC, coupled with its acquisition of Cesium, signals their commitment to a future built around open standards, data, and infrastructure.

OGC Approves Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration as Official Standard

MUDDI serves as a framework to make different datasets for underground objects interoperable, exchangeable, and more easily manageable.

A recap of the 127th OGC Member Meeting, Singapore

Attendees spent the week discussing the latest geospatial innovations in areas such as GeoAI, Digital Twins, Data Quality, Intelligent Transport, connecting land & sea, and...

European Innovation, Global Impact

OGC's ongoing contributions to European research topics, driven by projects co-funded by the European Commission (EC), cover areas such as data spaces, climate, digital building...

OGC adopts CityGML 3.0 Part 2: GML Encoding as an official OGC Standard

New encoding for CityGML version 3.0 can be used to store and exchange 3D city models in the GML format as data sets or via...

CAE upgrades OGC Membership to Principal Level

CAE’s Principal level of OGC membership supports advancing standards for high fidelity geospatial data sources.

OGC Announces new Geo for Metaverse Domain Working Group

New OGC DWG will help the Location communities collaborate and contribute expertise into building and growing the open Metaverse.

OGC Calls For Participation in its next Pilot to improve Disaster Management and Response

New Pilot will bridge technology and stakeholder engagement to reduce disaster preparation time and accelerate our ability to transform data from observation into decision.

Building the Building Blocks for the Future of Location: The November 2022 OGC Web Mapping Code Sprint

The mechanisms through which maps are delivered across the Internet have evolved significantly over the past two decades. Advancement of such mechanisms has been driven...

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...

OGC Forms Climate Resilience Domain Working Group; Schedules Q&A Session for Climate Resilience Pilot

The OGC Climate Resilience DWG will provide an open forum for the discussion and presentation of interoperability requirements, use cases, pilots, and implementations of OGC...

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 Metaverse is Geospatial

With momentum and interest once again building around the ‘metaverse’, OGC hosted a ‘Metaverse Ad-Hoc Session’ at its virtual 121st Member Meeting in December 2021....

7 Key Takeaways from the OGC Climate Change Special Session

Article contributed by Steve Liang, SensorUp “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” The quote is originally from management consultant Peter Drucker and...

Evolving Geospatial Technologies Through OGC’s Testbed-17

Decades in the Making: The Challenges of Evolving Technologies and Standards When it comes to evolving a technology or standard over multiple decades, the struggle...

OGC Disaster Pilots work to address floods, fires, landslides, and epidemics with better information sharing.

The last three years have been unprecedented when it comes to disasters. In 2019 alone there was billions of dollars’ worth of damage, and thousands...

Urban Digital Twins – Planning the Cities of Tomorrow

Urban digital twins are not a “solved problem.” Along with increased investment in research and development, the vision demands agreed-upon methodologies and standards, new commitments...