OGC - Open Geospatial Consortium
Organização sem fins-lucrativos formada por +/- 380 instituições voluntárias de vários países que, desde 1994, define padrões de:
- Conteúdo e de serviços geoespaciais
- Processamento de dados SIG
- Compartilhamento de dados
Padrões de meu interesse
- WMS - Web Map Service: mapas em forma de imagens.
- WFS - Web Feature Service: Manipular features (abstração de fenômenos).
- WCS - Web Coverage Service: Provide coverage objects from a specified region.
- WPS - Web Processing Service: Remote processing service.
- CSW - Web Catalog Service: Access to catalog information.
- SFS - Simple Features - SQL
- OWS - OGC Web Service Common
These were originally designed around the HTTP web services paradigm for message-based interactions in web-based systems. However, in the last year the members have been working on defining a common approach for SOAP protocol and WSDL bindings. There has also been considerable work and progress in defining Representational State Transfer web services..
WFS - Web Feature Specification
- É um padrão de interface para transporte de dados geográficos na Web.
- Usa chamadas independentes de plataforma.