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 is real. As time changes, so do requirements, use cases, and the need for scalability. What was once a centerpiece to a core infrastructure or service can become dated months […]
OGC Startups: Disrupting, Growing, Evolving Location
Join OGC and our thriving startup community today and learn why it is such a quickly growing consortium of industry leaders, influencers, and more. Over the course of the last two decades technology has made incredible strides in both scalability, and accessibility creating a new landscape for innovation. Small businesses became more and more agile, being able […]
The US Geospatial Data Act – Evolving Beyond Committees, Processes, and Tools
Cowritten by co-written by Molly Schar, NSGIC Executive Director, and Nadine Alahmeh, OGC CEO – It’s no secret, geospatial is mainstream, and it is everywhere. As leaders in the geospatial community, we’ve known this for a while, but it is refreshing to see experts across the globe agree. There is a new wave of excitement in […]
Innovation at OGC: Data-driven Decision Making
Data-driven decision making is fundamental to all aspects of society, In almost all cases, location data is involved. For decades, OGC has driven toward open solutions for location data integration from heterogeneous sources that are diverse in their purposes, business rules, underlying concepts, and enabling technologies. With this vast experience, OGC has evolved into a […]
The 2021 Joint OGC – OSGeo – ASF Code Sprint – How it went!
From February 17-19, 2021, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) hosted a joint virtual code sprint. The code sprint served to accelerate the support of open geospatial standards within the developer community. A summary report of the sprint is now available. Part of the motivation for holding […]
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 of fatalities were caused by hundreds of catastrophes ranging from earthquakes to wildfires. To address this decades-long trend of ever larger and deadlier disasters, OGC and the greater location information […]