OGC Membership approves OGC API – Features – Part 3: Filtering as an official OGC Standard
OGC API – Features defines a web interface for creating, modifying, and querying feature data. Part 3 supports advanced filtering functionality using the Common Query Language (CQL2).
How OGC Contributes to FAIR Geospatial Data
Standards are a key element of the FAIR Principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability. As such, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has been supporting the FAIR Principles for geospatial information since its formation 30 years ago. This blog post offers an overview of select OGC Standards and components that support FAIRness in geospatial data.
Reflections on the 2022 Joint OGC & ISO Code Sprint – The Metadata Code Sprint
Over the past two decades, standards such as ISO 19115:2003 and the OGC Catalog Services for the Web (CSW) have been integrated into several Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) initiatives at national and international levels. These standards leveraged the Extensible Markup Language (XML) which, at the time, was the primary encoding for data exchange in IT. […]
Lowering the barrier of entry for OGC Web APIs
A version of this article originally appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of GeoConnexion Magazine under the title ‘Lowering The Barrier To Entry.’ For the last few years, OGC has been modernizing our standards to better align with web best-practices and the expectations of developers and consumers alike, resulting in our growing OGC API family of standards. Part […]
How it Went! The November 2021 Geospatial API Virtual Code Sprint
From November 15-17, 2021, OGC and ISO/TC 211 jointly hosted the November 2021 Geospatial API Virtual Code Sprint. The code sprint focused on the refinement of the OGC API – Features Standard and its ISO version, ISO 19168. OGC API – Features offers the capability to serve, create, modify, and query spatial data on the Web. The Standard […]
Hexagon on the value of collaboration, Standards, and OGC Membership
Hexagon’s long-time support of OGC and our Standards, including our family of OGC APIs, has enabled the Company to learn from, collaborate with, and support the broader geospatial community, while also improving their product offering and being one of the first to market with support for the latest generation of geospatial standards.