OGC Digest - August 22, 2024
News in brief
Save the Date for OGC's 30th Anniversary Celebration
OGC@30 is a celebration of OGC’s 30th Anniversary taking place on Monday, December 2nd in Washington DC. This event precedes?Innovation Days DC , and features keynotes and panels from geospatial leaders that address pressing challenges currently faced by people and the planet. Highlights include a Lifetime Achievement Award for a notable figure from OGC's history and a Global Impact Award given to a member organization for advancing geospatial technologies and standards.
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PDOK: A Decade of Success
The Public Services on the Map (PDOK), managed by Kadaster in The Netherlands, celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2023. By using OGC API Standards, Kadaster has made it much easier to manage its extensive national 3D building dataset, offering a detailed, high-resolution view of the country's built environment.
Community updates
MUDDI powers National Underground Asset Register
The Geospatial Commission is building the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR), a digital map of underground pipes and cables for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. By consolidating data from over 600 organizations, NUAR aims to improve the safety and efficiency of installing, maintaining, and repairing buried infrastructure. The NUAR Harmonised Data Model is based on the newly approved OGC MUDDI Conceptual Model , and represents the first global effort for comprehensive underground data integration.
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Open calls
Grant applications open for next phase of Climate & Disaster Resilience Pilot
OGC is excited to offer our members a pool of funding to participate in the second phase of the 2024 Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot. The Pilot’s second phase will focus on generative AI tools working on Analysis Ready Data and their potential integration into geospatial workflows in the related fields of Climate- and Disaster-Resilience. Applications close September 18.
EmissionML Standard Working Group
The OGC membership seeks to form a new Emission Event Modeling Language Standards Working Group (EmissionML SWG) to improve data interoperability between emissions, sensor observations, and their geospatial sources. ?Public comments on the draft Charter are due by September 2.
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OGC API – Features – Parts 4 & 5
The OGC API – Features standard offers the capability to create, modify, and query spatial data on the Web. Part 4 covers how to add, update, modify, and delete geospatial resources, while Part 5 explains how to describe data using a logical schema. Public comments are due by September 23.
Upcoming events
ACCORD Digital Building Permit and Logbook Workshop
September 24 | Luxembourg
This partner event will explore how digital building permits and logbook processes can enhance economic, environmental, and social sustainability. The workshop comprises presentations from key projects such as ACCORD, DigiChecks, and EUnet4DBP, followed by an interactive session focusing on user perspectives, sustainability contributions, and the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) for Life Cycle Assessment.
Climate Services Code Sprint
October 7 - 9 | Bonn, Germany
The Climate Services Code Sprint is a free hybrid event at The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and online via Slack. The event will showcase how scientific applications can transform raw data into useful insights, especially for climate action.
The 130th Member Meeting
November 4 - 8 | Goyang, Republic of Korea
The 130th Member Meeting is scheduled to take place in Goyang, within the Seoul Capital Area. Sponsored by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) and the Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation (LX), this event will also include a joint conference with the 2024 K-GEO Festa . Registration will open soon.
OGC@30 Anniversary Celebration
December 2 | Washington DC, USA
OGC@30 is a 30th-anniversary celebration event that provides an unmissable opportunity for OGC Members and other high-profile guests to witness forward-looking keynotes and panels from leaders from within and beyond the geospatial industry as they discuss some of today’s most pressing issues. The event will also feature a presentation of our Lifetime Achievement Award to a key figure from OGC’s history, and a new Global Impact Award recognizing a member organization that’s raising the profile of geospatial technologies and standards.
Innovation Days DC
December 3 - 5 | Washington DC, USA
The theme for the 2024 Innovation Days DC meeting is Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Futures, featuring keynote speaker Josh Delmonico of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FDGC). Attendees can meet people facing similar challenges to their own and learn how they were overcome, while guiding OGC towards creating impactful solutions to problems faced by people and the planet.
Explore our extensive calendar featuring OGC and partner events.