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GeoPose Summit 2025
Empowering Developers with Standardized Geo-Referencing: A Deep Dive into OGC GeoPose
Date: Monday, October 27, 2025
Duration: one day
Location: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics – Boulder, Colorado
Hybrid Event: in-person and remote (via Zoom)
A geographically-anchored pose, or ”GeoPose” for short, is a real or digital object’s pose that is defined relative to a geographical frame of reference. All physical world objects have a geographically-anchored pose. Digital objects may be assigned/attributed a GeoPose. The OGC GeoPose 1.0 Data Exchange Standard defines rules and requirements for specifying, managing and exchanging the location and orientation (“poses”) of real or virtual objects within reference frames anchored to the Earth’s surface (“geo”) or within other coordinate systems tied to other objects than the Earth.
GeoPose Summit Turns Theory into Practice
The primary goal of the GeoPose Summit is to engage with developers of commercial services and platforms in which there are not previously well-defined and interoperable ways to express and exchange GeoPoses, as well as with developers of international standards who seek to implement a consistent, standardized method for exchanging GeoPoses (without needing to reinvent the wheel).
Sessions will demonstrate the value of implementing GeoPose and assist developers embarking on their GeoPose implementation projects by introducing libraries and other resources at their disposal. In addition, the event will share the current status of the GeoPose SWG’s efforts to incorporate feedback and requests into the next generations of GeoPose. The primary metric of the event’s impact is the growth of GeoPose-compliant projects, products and services.
Agenda
1. Welcome and Introduction to GeoPose
Time: 9:00 – 9:20
Description: The OGC GeoPose standard makes it easy to represent geoanchored-location and orientation information, such as to describe a point-of-view, in a way that’s intuitive and developer-friendly. At this Summit, you’ll explore the many use cases for GeoPose, how GeoPose works, where the standard is evolving, and how you can harness it to build powerful, interoperable spatial applications.
Speakers: Steve Smyth, Open Site Plan; Christine Perey, PEREY Research & Consulting
2. Use Cases for GeoPose and Examples (#1)
Time: 9:20 – 10:00
Description: A pose—or point-of-view—is fundamentally about visual perception in 3D space, making it essential for use cases that involve sensing the absolute and relative position of things (stationary or moving objects, real or digital) or environmental forces (eg. odors, wind, sounds). GeoPose elevates this concept of 3D perception by anchoring pose data to a standardized Earth-based coordinate system. This powerful linkage enables precise navigation and situational awareness for a wide range of applications, including autonomous vehicles, collision avoidance, rendezvous operations, target tracking, motion capture, and even scenarios involving complex, jointed systems.
Moderator: Josh Lieberman, Tumbling Walls
Speakers: Steve Smyth, Open Site Plan; Mikel Salazar, IFE; Rob Smith, Away Team
Video | Josh Lieberman Slides, Steve Smyth Slides, Mike Salazar Slides, Rob Smith Slides,
3. Use Cases for GeoPose and Examples (#2)
Time: 10:00 – 10:45
Description: GeoPose shines in scenarios where location and orientation data need to be precisely exchanged—especially in augmented and extended reality (AR/XR) applications. Whether you’re placing service points in a cityscape or rendering celestial bodies like the sun and moon with lifelike accuracy, GeoPose ensures that poses of digital content or real objects are clearly requested (and responses received), and that two or more reference frames align seamlessly in the physical world, enabling immersive and context-aware experiences.
Moderator: Josh Lieberman, Tumbling Walls
Speakers: Jan-Erik Vinje, OnSite Viewer/Open AR Cloud; Ali Hantal, XR Masters/Open AR Cloud; Katherina Ufnarovskaia, Augmented City; Mikel Salazar, IFE
Video | Jan-Erik Vinje Slides, Ali Hantal Slides, Katherina Ufnarovskaia Slides, Mikel Salazar Slides
Break
Time: 10:45 – 11:00
4. GeoPose Implementation and Testing
Time: 11:00 – 12:00
Description: GeoPose is simple to implement and can be quickly integrated with existing software in any language. Code development in Testbed-18 highlighted several common pitfalls that can be easily avoided with the correct approach. Learning how to integrate GeoPose with your software and how to use the GeoPose testing tools to ensure interoperability are the first steps to joining our thriving community.
Speaker: Rob Smith, Away Team
5. GeoPose to Meet Geospatial Requirements in Other Standards
Time: 12:00 – 1:00
Description: GeoPose is built from modular components that can be used independently or combined to create complete representations of position and orientation. This flexible design allows GeoPose to integrate seamlessly with other standards, making it a powerful tool for bridging systems and ensuring interoperability across diverse spatial applications. By referencing GeoPose in a normative manner, other standards benefit from the well-defined framework of components.
Speakers: Steve Smyth, Open Site Plan; George Percivall, GeoRoundtable/Spatial Web Foundation/IEEE; Alfred Tom, OMA3; Johannes Behr, Web3D Consortium/Threedy
Video | Steve Smyth Slides, George Percivall Slides, Alfred Tom Slides, Johannes Behr Slides
6. GeoPose 1.x
Time: 2:30 – 3:30
Description: Following the initial public review and subsequent publication of the GeoPose standard, we received valuable feedback across multiple areas. These insights were carefully analyzed and grouped into eight focused work packages—each centered around a specific theme—to guide future enhancements and ensure the standard continues to meet the needs of its growing user community.
Speaker: Steve Smyth, Open Site Plan
7. Commercial Opportunities
Time: 4:00 – 5:00
Description: Visual perception is a foundational technology across a wide range of domains. From navigation and collision avoidance to autonomous observation systems, it underpins a vast and growing field of commercial innovation. These capabilities are critical not only in robotics and autonomous vehicles but also in smart cities, industrial automation, defense, and immersive media. As adoption accelerates, the potential continues to expand—what other opportunities do you see for applying visual perception in your work or industry? The tutorial session (session 4) will provide examples, running code primarily led/provided by GeoPose SWG members, and we can also invite customer segment representatives as well as vendors.
Speaker: Nikhil Sawlani, Multiset.ai; Pedro Cruz, MeshMap; Representative from Hexagon/Immersal
8. Discussion and Next Steps
Time: 5:00 – 5:30
Description: Join the Conversation: Share, Learn, and Shape the Future. We invite you to take part in an open discussion:
- What have you learned so far?
- What questions remain or areas do you want to explore further?
- Are there corrections, clarifications, or contributions you’d like to offer?
Your insights and feedback are essential as we refine and evolve the GeoPose standard together.
Speakers: All participants
Summit Planning Committee
The Summit is a joint activity of the Metaverse Standards Forum Real/Virtual World Integration Working Group, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and W3C WebVMT. The planning committee includes the following experts:
Co-chairs
- Steve Smyth, Open Site Plan
- Christine Perey, PEREY Research & Consulting
Committee Members
- Ali Hantal, XR Masters
- Mikel Salazar, IFE
- Jan-Erik Vinje, OnSiteViewer
- Rob Smith, Away Team
- Jim Antonisse, Wisc Enterprises
- Josh Lieberman, Tumbling Walls
