Geomaticians

OGC Seeks Public Comment On FlatGeobuf Becoming A Community Standard

FlatGeobuf is a performant binary encoding for geographic data that works well as a “cloud native” lossless format for vector data. 10 February 2023: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is looking to adopt FlatGeobuf as an official OGC Community Standard. Comments are due by March 13, 2023. FlatGeobuf was designed to be: suitable for storing and accessing large volumes of static data; significantly faster than legacy formats; unconstrained by size limitations for contents or metainformation, and; suitable for streaming/random access. No other current format combines good performance and “cloud native” design.