Open Standards

The challenges OGC is trying to overcome in using artificial intelligence in geospatial applications, in conversation with GeoAI Domain Working Group co-chair Kyoung-Sook Kim.

The real world and the internet will merge thanks to the 'metaverse' – and geospatial information and technology will be key to that combination.

Climate resilience information systems can only fulfil their potential if the data and services they rely on adhere to agreed standards — and OGC is working to make that happen.

Advances in meteorology are opening up whole new markets and applications, but standards will be needed if the sector is to avoid siloing and errors.

Combining IoT, 3D city models, indoor location, smart devices, dynamic routing and more, using only open standards and commercially available hardware, brings safety benefits for cities of all sizes.

Urban digital twins are already transforming cities, but R&D, standards and community involvement will all be needed to exploit their true potential.

An OGC initiative to make using Big Data as easy as downloading an app from a store, bringing processing to the data rather than the other way around.

The OGC's Data Access and Processing API will enable scientists and geospatial analysts to analyse data in a way mostly independent of its location, supporting the Open Science movement.

Coasts are among our most important and threatened environments, yet land and marine data systems rarely speak the same language. OGC is working to change that.

Cloud-native computing, FAIR data principles and open standards are combining to create a self-organising geospatial ecosystem with the potential to address some of humanity's most pressing challenges.

OGC's community of location experts is collaborating on a new family of web developer-friendly APIs to support a future geared towards data integration and innovation.

A recent OGC workshop led to the development of a new definition of data cube and underscored the need for a user-centric approach.

OGC's Testbed-17 will investigate cloud-based processing apps, convenience Web APIs, semantic interoperability, and discrete global grid systems as a simplified location reference.