30th International Cartographic Conference 2023
Pre-conference workshop organized by the
ICA Commission on SDI and Standards and the Open Geospatial Consortium
Friday, 11 August 2023, Cape Town, South Africa
Colophon Room, SANBI, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town
Directions from the conference venue (take an Uber or taxi)
To attend, register here.
Please bring your own laptop. Lunch and refreshments in Kirstenbosch are for your own cost.
| 8:30 | Arrival and registration |
| 9:00 | Welcome and introductions Serena Coetzee, Chair: ICA Commission on SDI & Standards |
| 9:10 | Introduction to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and its standards Gobe Hobona, Director of Product Management for Standards, OGC |
| 9:30 | Technical foundations of OGC standards Franz-Josef Behr, Co-Chair: ICA Commission on SDI & Standards |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:00 | OGC API Standards Gobe Hobona, Director of Product Management for Standards, OGC |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Make queryable Maps with OGC API – Features Sverre Iversen, Geological Survey of Norway: Filtering (search) both human- and machine readable, navigation in the datasets and linked datasets, how to build chartography (symbolization) |
| 14:15 | Question and Answer Session |
| 14:30 | Further into OGC API Standards Gobe Hobona, Director of Product Management for Standards, OGC |
| 16:00 | End |
For more information, please contact Serena Coetzee or Franz-Josef Behr.