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Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), and the Hierarchical Data Format
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(HDF), a set of file formats (HDF4, HDF5) that are widely used, particularly in
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climate research. The GeoTIFF format, which originated at NASA in the late
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1990s, is extensively used to share image data. In the 1990s, open web mapping
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also began with MapServer (https://mapserver.org) and continued later with
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other projects such as OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org). The
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following two decades, the 2000s-2020s, brought an expansion of open standards
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and integration with web technologies developed by OGC, as well as other
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standards such as the Keyhole Markup Language (KML) for displaying geographic
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data in Earth browsers. Formats suitable for cloud computing also emerged, such
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as the Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG), followed by Zarr and Apache Parquet for
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array and tabular data, respectively. In 2006, the Open Source Geospatial
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Foundation (OSGeo, https://www.osgeo.org) was established, demonstrating the
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community's commitment to the development of open-source geospatial
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technologies. While some standards have been developed in the industry (e.g.,
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Keyhole Markup Language (KML) by Keyhole Inc., which Google later acquired),
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they later became international standards of the OGC, which now encompasses
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more than 450 commercial, governmental, nonprofit, and research organizations
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working together on the development and implementation of open standards
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1990s, is extensively used to share image data. The following two decades, the
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2000s-2020s, brought an expansion of open standards and integration with web
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technologies developed by OGC, as well as other standards such as the Keyhole
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Markup Language (KML) for displaying geographic data in Earth browsers. Formats
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suitable for cloud computing also emerged, such as the Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF
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(COG), followed by Zarr and Apache Parquet for array and tabular data,
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respectively. In 2006, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo,
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https://www.osgeo.org) was established, demonstrating the community's
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commitment to the development of open-source geospatial technologies. While
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some standards have been developed in the industry (e.g., Keyhole Markup
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Language (KML) by Keyhole Inc., which Google later acquired), they later became
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international standards of the OGC, which now encompasses more than 450
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commercial, governmental, nonprofit, and research organizations working
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together on the development and implementation of open standards
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(https://www.ogc.org).
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