If you have worked with geospatial data covering large areas, you’ve probably have to deal with projections, having to represent the globe on a plane surface and this usually inevitably introduces distortion and stretching specially when you move north or south of the equator. This distortion fundamentally changes the area of your map pixels represents

Geolynx is now among the latest company selected to join the Estonian Business Incubator Centre of the European Space Agency (ESA BIC Estonia), part of the Europe-wide ESA BIC network that supports innovative startups using space technologies and data.

On October 24, 2025, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) officially approved and released the OGC API for Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS). For those in the geospatial ecosystem, this is an important milestone. But what is a DGGS and what does this API standard mean for us?