OGC CityGML Hackathon

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested developers to the OGC CityGML Hackathon, held in London on 11 & 12 June 2019. CityGML is a well-established and implemented OGC standard, first issued in 2008. In this hackathon, participants will experiment with and validate the current draft conceptual model for the upcoming version 3.0 of CityGML. The Hackathon will draw on the outcomes of the OGC's CityGML Specification Working Group and will allow participants who haven't been members of this group detailed insight about the current plans for CityGML. Following a detailed explanation of the current draft conceptual model, participants will have the opportunity to experiment with parts of the specification and develop CityGML datasets. This can either be done with source data that participants bring to Hackathon themselves or with source data made available by Ordnance Survey and other data sponsors, such as CityGML 2 files, mesh models and Building Information Models.  An OGC Hackathon is a collaborative and inclusive event driven by innovative and rapid programming with minimum process and organisation constraints to support the development of new applications and open standards. Ordnance Survey will host the event on 11 & 12 June 2019 at the Geovation Hub in London, UK and will provide a wealth of 3D city model source data to be transformed into CityGML 3.0. This will include 3D data created for the CityVerve project in Manchester.  “Ordnance Survey has been involved in the development of CityGML since 2005 and as a Strategic Member of OGC, we are hoping to increase the use of open 3D standards in the smart cities field”, said Carsten Rönsdorf, Strategic Product Manager at Ordnance Survey. “The development of CityGML 3.0 has reached a key stage at which a comprehensive draft model needs to be tested against pragmatic requirements to create CityGML datasets. The outcomes of the Hackathon is expected to influence how the upcoming CityGML 3.0 standard will be structured and published, and is seen as a key activity by the OGC CityGML Specification Working Group.” There will be opportunity for joint discussion with all participants on the goals and objectives of the event as well as final briefing of findings and opinions of the participants. However, the majority of the time will be spent in collaboration between participants in active coding and working with datasets.   For more information on the Hackathon, including venue information, registration requirements, and expected skill sets, visit the OGC CityGML Hackathon event page on OGC’s website, or register on Eventbrite. The Hackathon is open to anyone: OGC membership is not a requirement.    About OGC The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of more than 525 companies, government agencies, research organisations and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly-available geospatial standards. OGC standards support interoperable solutions that ‘geo-enable’ the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at www.opengeospatial.org.