Blogs

Metadata is critical for geospatial resource discovery, determination of fitness for purpose, and more, but the standards and guidelines regarding its use and upkeep require an update.

Dr Luis Bermudez talks about the new way that the OGC Validation Tools will be managed.

In a recent OGC Architecture Board (OAB) meeting, the GeoPackage 1.2 candidate standard was reviewed and the OAB reached a consensus that the candidate base standard is ready to be released to proceed to an approval vote in the OGC, but that the Elevation Extension does not yet meet the criteria. This is not a repudiation of the work done to date. Rather, the OAB recognizes that elevation content is of general interest to OGC and ISO standards and thus the work should be as broadly applicable as possible. 

The NSF has an open program solicitation that seeks to establish more ‘Big Data Spokes’ to Advance Big Data Applications. An OGC IP initiative could help prototype and design a solution for Big Data Spokes, based on open standards, that could be further implemented in a Data Hub. 

Today I, Marie-Françoise Voidrot, am honored to join the staff of OGC Europe as Europe Director of the Innovation Program, and to contribute more intensively to the development of OGC activities.

OGC's new Executive Director of its Innovation Program investigates how OGC Innovation Initiatives help advance innovation, and what makes OGC succeed in developing useful standards?

This blog highlights several recent innovations in OGC processes: Changes in the OGC Innovation Program; Community Standards in the OGC Standards Program; and Geospatial Trends Tracking by the OGC Architecture Board.

As we transition into the 2017 New Year, I thank OGC members for their continuing contributions to improve location information sharing and interoperability.

For many years, the OGC membership discussed and struggled with defining a process and set of related policies for accommodating submission of widely used, mature specifications developed outside the OGC standards development and approval process. Examples of these specifications are GeoTIFF,

Recent guest blog for the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) by our CEO Mark Reichardt