New OGC Working Group will develop a multi-part Standard for geospatial Analysis Ready Data products, which can be integrated and analyzed with minimal user effort.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft charter for a new Analysis Ready Data Standard Working Group (ARD SWG). Comments are due by December 21, 2022. Born from work undertaken in the OGC Disaster Pilot 2021 and Testbed-16, the Analysis Ready Data (ARD) SWG will develop a multi-part Standard for geospatial Analysis Ready Data in partnership with ISO/TC 211.

The release of OGC API – Tiles as an OGC Standard signals a new era in how tiled geospatial information is served over the Web.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the OGC Membership has approved Version 1.0 of the OGC API – Tiles – Part 1: Core specification as an official OGC Standard, signaling the beginning of a new era in how tiled geospatial information is served over the Web. Example API definition files and associated schemas are available now to better support developers looking to quickly implement the new standard.

The multi-part OGC API - Tiles Standard defines building blocks for creating Web APIs that support the retrieval of geospatial information as tiles. Different forms of geospatial information are supported, such as tiles of vector features (“vector tiles”), maps, imagery, coverages, and other types of geospatial information. The OGC API - Tiles building blocks can also be combined with other building-block OGC API Standards and draft specifications for additional capabilities or to increase the interoperability of specific types of data.