| Steve Liang receives OGC’s 2022 Gardels Award February 23, 2023 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog Congratulations to Steve Liang, awarded the 2022 Gardels Award for his work in sensor technologies for geospatial and pioneering web standards for publishing spatial data. ! e> OGC seeks Public Comment on v3.0 of GeoXACML and related JSON Profile February 21, 2023 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog Request Open: February 21, 2023 12:00 am — March 23, 2023 12:00 am (29 days left) The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on version 3.0 of the OGC Geospatial eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (GeoXACML) Standard and its related JSON Profile (v1.0). Comments are due by March 23, 2023. The OGC Geospatial eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (GeoXACML) 3.0 Standard is a geospatial extension to the OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) v3.0 standard, which defines a common language for expressing security policy. As per the XACML documentation, “If implemented throughout an enterprise, a common policy language allows the enterprise to manage the enforcement of all the elements of its security policy in all the components of its information systems.” GeoXACML 3.0 extends XACML 3.0 to support the interoperable definition of access rights that include geographic conditions, providing additional spatial constraints for XACML-based security policies.
GISCafe Industry Predictions for 2023 – Geodecisions February 20, 2023 by Sanjay Gangal By Brendan Wesdock, Geodecisions, president
Brendan Wesdock A Look at Technology and Geospatial Trends Impacting the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Industry Reviewing where we’ve been and looking ahead to where we’re going, there are five primary technology and geospatial trends impacting the AEC industry: Kubernetes, geospatial artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), digital twins, GeoBIM, and high-definition (HD) maps and LiDAR. Kubernetes Kubernetes – an open-source platform that orchestrates data and process workload balancing, automated program updates, and data management – is becoming more popular for cloud processing. It allows computing to happen at a completely different scale, becoming a transformation agent. Benefits Kubernetes implementations have multiple benefits: scalability/system response, cloud environment/decreased investment in on-site technology, increased return on investment with more capital, and system upgrade functionality. STAplus brings features to improve the usefulness of the SensorThings API to Citizen Science. February 20, 2023 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on STAplus 1.0. STAplus is an extension to the OGC SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing Version 1.1 (STA) Standard data model that is based on requirements from the Citizen Science community. Comments are due by March 23, 2023. STAplus (SensorThings API extension PLUS) defines a SensorThings data model extension that improves FAIR data principles when exchanging sensor data by including licensing and ownership information. The dominant use for the OGC SensorThings API (STA) data model (and API) can be thought of as “a single authority provides sensor readings to consumers.” However, in Citizen Science there are many contributors (citizens) whose observations together form the “big picture.” The STAplus extension is designed to support a model in which observations are owned by (different) users that may express a license for re-use. | 