Newsletter - January 25, 2024
News in brief
Registration is open for the 128th Member Meeting
The meeting in Delft from March 25 - 28 will feature a Geospatial Building Information Modeling (GeoBIM) Summit, special sessions on Land Administration and the Built Environment, the Europe Forum, and OGC Working Group meetings.
Insights from Innovation Days 2023
Climate, disaster, and emergency management experts met in Washington, DC, to discuss OGC-enabled geospatial capabilities and identify directions for standards and future initiatives.
Developing an OGC Standard for underground data
The UK Geospatial Commission has published a recap of the recent OGC code sprint in London that advanced the OGC MUDDI Standard underlying the UK National Underground Asset Register data model.
Collaboration & Innovation
Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot
Advancing technologies supporting climate and disaster resilience information and seeding collaboration across geospatial domains. Applications to participate end January 30.
Releasable Basemap Tiles GeoPackage Sprint
Funding is available for OGC members to participate in the Releasable Basemap Tiles GeoPackage Sprint. Applications close February 9.
Standards
Bathymetric Attributed Grid as a Community Standard
Bathymetric Attributed Grid (BAG) is an open specification for bathymetric data including depth grids and metadata. Public comments on the adoption of BAG as an OGC Community Standard. Comments are due by February 12, 2024.
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GeoZarr Standards Working Group
New SWG will develop a GeoZarr Standard that establishes flexible and inclusive conventions for the cloud-native Zarr format that meet the diverse requirements of the geospatial domain.
Upcoming events
Monthly Climate & Disaster Resilience Seminars
February 21
The next in the OGC Climate and Disaster Resilience community monthly seminar series features Anna Liljedahl, Associate Scientist for Woodwell Climate Research Center .
Joint OGC, OSGeo, and Apache Code Sprint
February 26 - 28
This sprint will cover several OGC approved and candidate standards. Registration is free and open to the public. The code sprint is supported by Geobeyond Srl , NaturalGIS , and the EU-funded GeoE3 project, and hosted by University of Évora .
128th OGC Member Meeting
March 25 - 28
The theme of our OGC Member Meeting at Delft University of Technology is interoperable geospatial technology for the built environment.
129th OGC Member Meeting
June 17 - 21
Help us celebrate 30 years of The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) at our 129th Member Meeting in Montreal.
Explore our extensive calendar featuring OGC and partner events.
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