Overview of next generation standards for geospatial geospatial.

1. Next generation
standards for
geospatial information
Linda van den Brink
Geonovum | The Netherlands

2. Since 2007
Government-funded organization
‘national geospatial standards body’
41 people
“Allowing the government
to work better with geo-
information”
“We do this by improving
the access to geo-
information and by making
it possible to exchange
geo-information and other
types of information, using
standards.”
Geonovum

3. Active in
Leading the web to its full potential

4. OGC
standards
since 20+
years...

6. WMS
New generation OGC standards
SDI.Next
OGC API Features
RESTful Web-
based
standards
CSW
WCS CRS conneg
Filters
Old SOAP/XML
based
standards
(Was: WFS)

7. Web Feature Service 2.0
For downloading geodata
OGC API Features 1.0
Next generation geodata download
From PDF to OpenAPI definitions

8. From GML to lighter data formats
Based on SQLLite

9. CityGML to CityJSON
• Same data model, JSON
encoding
• ~6X compacter than CityGML
• Whole Netherlands in 3D is
available in CityJSON
https://brt.kadaster.nl/basisvoor
ziening-3d/
More @ work:
Linked Building Data community group
Semantic Sensor Network ontology
GeoSPARQL

10. Dr. Linda van den Brink
Geonovum
Contact
Email: l.vandenbrink@geonovum.nl
Twitter: @brinkwoman
www.geonovum.nl