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OGC Welcomes Friso Penninga to Its Board of Directors
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OGC Releases the Features and Geometries JSON (JSON-FG) Standard
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Earlier in this series, I introduced four common challenges that I frequently encounter in geospatial integration projects. After exploring the importance of knowing your data in the previous post, I now turn to the second challenge: creating standards-based metadata.In one of my previous projects, when...
For several years, OGC has been asking an important question: how must geospatial data and processing offerings — and the standards they rest on —...
Data integration is often where geospatial projects slow down. It is a critical step in building a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), and it is often...
Geospatial data shapes how we understand the world and how we make decisions about it. But its value depends on one critical condition: the ability...
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Request For Comment (RFC)
OGC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed 3D Tiles 2.0 Community Standard Work Item
Due by:
July 23, 2026 12:00 AM