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As the geospatial community now relies upon CRSs that cannot be adequately defined using WKT CRS 1.0, the CRS Standards Working Group have recommended its deprecation. Contact: info@ogc.org 7 July 2022: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the Deprecation of v1.0 of the Geographic Information - Well Known Text Representation of Coordinate Reference

Copy Architects, landscape architects, and planning professionals have been working with GIS data for many years to great success in Vectorworks’ BIM workflows. Much of this work has involved georeferenced Shapefiles (SHP), Drawing Interchange Formats (DXF), and image files (JGW, BPW, TFW, etc.). Though georeferencing makes sense as a solution for aligning GIS data in a BIM environment, users did not immediately expect that it would also be the solution to maintaining accurate positioning of ...

Public comment sought on v1.1 of OGC Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension February 1, 2021 By Editor CIS extension revision enables OGC imagery-related standards to more concisely represent remotely-sensed imagery 1 February2021: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on version 1.1 of the OGC Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension. Comments are due by March 3, 2021. The CIS ReferenceableGridCover...