Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

The Open Geospatial Consortium is the standards body for geospatial interoperability — a member-funded consortium founded in 1994 and headquartered in the United States, with 362 member organizations plus 159 individual members across government, commercial, academic and non-profit sectors. OGC wrote the web-mapping layer the public sector has run on for two decades — WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS and CSW, the OWS suite — and is now replacing it with the OGC API family: a set of resource-oriented, OpenAPI-described standards sharing a common core, of which eleven are approved (Features, Common, EDR, Tiles, Processes, Maps, Moving Features, Records, Connected Systems, DGGS and SensorThings) and seven more are in draft. Its API posture is genuinely open where it counts and closed where most standards bodies are: every adopted standard is a free download, the schemas and OpenAPI documents are served anonymously from schemas.opengis.net, and drafting happens in public on GitHub across 361 repositories — while portal.ogc.org, where Technical Committee documents, votes and delegate rosters live, returns HTTP 401 to the public. OGC runs a compliance and certification programme (CITE) and publishes its active member roster as a CSV, which is unusual and makes the coalition measurable. The distinction this repo keeps is that OGC publishes SPECIFICATIONS, not services: the contracts here have templated servers and describe what a conformant implementation must offer, so they must never be read as a callable API.

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) publishes 10 APIs on the APIs.io network, including OGC API - Common, OGC API - Connected Systems, OGC API - DGGS, and 7 more. Tagged areas include OGC, OGC API, Geospatial, GIS, and Standards.

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19.2/100 emerging Agent 24/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
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10 APIs
OGCOGC APIGeospatialGISStandardsSpecificationInteroperabilityWMSWFSWMTSSensorThingsEarth ObservationConsortium

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Composite quality — 19.2/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 10.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Access Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.6 / 10
Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 10

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

OGC API - Common

The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Common. This is the STANDARD'S contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a templ...

OGC API - Connected Systems

The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Connected Systems. This is the STANDARD'S contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block...

OGC API - DGGS

The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - DGGS. This is the STANDARD'S contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a templat...

OGC API - EDR

The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - EDR. This is the STANDARD'S contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a template...

OGC API - Features

The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Features. This is the STANDARD'S contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a tem...

OGC API - Maps

The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Maps. This is the STANDARD'S contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a templat...

OGC API - Moving Features

The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Moving Features. This is the STANDARD'S contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block i...

OGC API - Processes

The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Processes. This is the STANDARD'S contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a te...

OGC API - Records

The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Records. This is the STANDARD'S contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a temp...

OGC API - Tiles

The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Tiles. This is the STANDARD'S contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a templa...

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Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Specification
Specification

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Certification
Certification

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Releases
Releases

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Other 12

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Standards
Standards
 Governance
Governance
 Policies
Policies
 Membership
Membership
 Participants
Participants
 WorkingGroups
WorkingGroups
 Companies
Companies
 Leads
Leads
 Taxonomy
Taxonomy
 Repositories
Repositories
 Contributors
Contributors
 People
People

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ogc
name: Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
x-type: standards-body
x-category: Consortium
x-host: null
type: Index
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-20'
modified: '2026-08-20'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ogc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
description: 'The Open Geospatial Consortium is the standards body for geospatial interoperability — a member-funded consortium
  founded in 1994 and headquartered in the United States, with 362 member organizations plus 159 individual members across
  government, commercial, academic and non-profit sectors. OGC wrote the web-mapping layer the public sector has run on for
  two decades — WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS and CSW, the OWS suite — and is now replacing it with the OGC API family: a set of resource-oriented,
  OpenAPI-described standards sharing a common core, of which eleven are approved (Features, Common, EDR, Tiles, Processes,
  Maps, Moving Features, Records, Connected Systems, DGGS and SensorThings) and seven more are in draft. Its API posture is
  genuinely open where it counts and closed where most standards bodies are: every adopted standard is a free download, the
  schemas and OpenAPI documents are served anonymously from schemas.opengis.net, and drafting happens in public on GitHub
  across 361 repositories — while portal.ogc.org, where Technical Committee documents, votes and delegate rosters live, returns
  HTTP 401 to the public. OGC runs a compliance and certification programme (CITE) and publishes its active member roster
  as a CSV, which is unusual and makes the coalition measurable. The distinction this repo keeps is that OGC publishes SPECIFICATIONS,
  not services: the contracts here have templated servers and describe what a conformant implementation must offer, so they
  must never be read as a callable API.'
tags:
- OGC
- OGC API
- Geospatial
- GIS
- Standards
- Specification
- Interoperability
- WMS
- WFS
- WMTS
- SensorThings
- Earth Observation
- Consortium
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ogc.org/
- type: Specification
  url: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/
- type: Standards
  url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/opengeospatial
- type: Governance
  url: https://www.ogc.org/about/governance/
- type: Policies
  url: https://www.ogc.org/about/policies/
- type: Membership
  url: https://www.ogc.org/membership/
- type: Participants
  url: https://www.ogc.org/ogc-member-directory/
- type: Certification
  url: https://www.ogc.org/compliance/
- type: WorkingGroups
  url: working-groups/ogc-working-groups.yml
- type: Companies
  url: companies/ogc-companies.yml
- type: Leads
  url: leads/ogc-new-company-leads.yml
- type: Taxonomy
  url: taxonomy/ogc-taxonomy.yml
- type: Repositories
  url: repositories/ogc-repositories.yml
- type: Contributors
  url: contributors/ogc-contributors.yml
- type: Releases
  url: releases/ogc-releases.yml
- type: People
  url: people/ogc-people.yml
apis:
- aid: ogc:ogc-api-common
  name: OGC API - Common
  description: The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Common. This is the STANDARD'S
    contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a template, so it describes what a conformant implementation
    must offer rather than a callable host.
  humanURL: https://ogcapi.ogc.org/common/
  tags:
  - OGC
  - OGC API
  - OGC API Common
  - Geospatial
  - Specification
  x-maturity: Approved Standard
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/ogc-common-part1-1-0-openapi-3-0-api-common-part-1-1-0.yaml
  - type: Specification
    url: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/
- aid: ogc:ogc-api-connected-systems
  name: OGC API - Connected Systems
  description: The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Connected Systems. This is the
    STANDARD'S contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a template, so it describes what a conformant
    implementation must offer rather than a callable host.
  humanURL: https://ogcapi.ogc.org/connectedsystems/
  tags:
  - OGC
  - OGC API
  - OGC API Connected Systems
  - Geospatial
  - Specification
  x-maturity: Approved Standard
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/ogc-connected-systems-part1-1-0-openapi-openapi-connectedsystems-1.yaml
  - type: Specification
    url: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/
- aid: ogc:ogc-api-dggs
  name: OGC API - DGGS
  description: The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - DGGS. This is the STANDARD'S contract,
    not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a template, so it describes what a conformant implementation must
    offer rather than a callable host.
  humanURL: https://ogcapi.ogc.org/dggs/
  tags:
  - OGC
  - OGC API
  - OGC API DGGS
  - Geospatial
  - Specification
  x-maturity: Approved Standard
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/ogc-dggs-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-dggs-1-bundled.json
  - type: Specification
    url: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/
- aid: ogc:ogc-api-edr
  name: OGC API - EDR
  description: The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - EDR. This is the STANDARD'S contract,
    not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a template, so it describes what a conformant implementation must
    offer rather than a callable host.
  humanURL: https://ogcapi.ogc.org/edr/
  tags:
  - OGC
  - OGC API
  - OGC API EDR
  - Geospatial
  - Specification
  x-maturity: Approved Standard
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/ogc-edr-1-1-openapi-ogcapi-environmental-data-retrieval-1-bundled.json
  - type: Specification
    url: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/
- aid: ogc:ogc-api-features
  name: OGC API - Features
  description: The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Features. This is the STANDARD'S
    contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a template, so it describes what a conformant implementation
    must offer rather than a callable host.
  humanURL: https://ogcapi.ogc.org/features/
  tags:
  - OGC
  - OGC API
  - OGC API Features
  - Geospatial
  - Specification
  x-maturity: Approved Standard
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/ogc-features-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-features-1.yaml
  - type: Specification
    url: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/
- aid: ogc:ogc-api-maps
  name: OGC API - Maps
  description: The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Maps. This is the STANDARD'S contract,
    not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a template, so it describes what a conformant implementation must
    offer rather than a callable host.
  humanURL: https://ogcapi.ogc.org/maps/
  tags:
  - OGC
  - OGC API
  - OGC API Maps
  - Geospatial
  - Specification
  x-maturity: Approved Standard
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/ogc-maps-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-maps-1-bundled.json
  - type: Specification
    url: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/
- aid: ogc:ogc-api-moving-features
  name: OGC API - Moving Features
  description: The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Moving Features. This is the STANDARD'S
    contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a template, so it describes what a conformant implementation
    must offer rather than a callable host.
  humanURL: https://ogcapi.ogc.org/movingfeatures/
  tags:
  - OGC
  - OGC API
  - OGC API Moving Features
  - Geospatial
  - Specification
  x-maturity: Approved Standard
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/ogc-movingfeatures-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-movingfeatures-1-bundled.yaml
  - type: Specification
    url: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/
- aid: ogc:ogc-api-processes
  name: OGC API - Processes
  description: The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Processes. This is the STANDARD'S
    contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a template, so it describes what a conformant implementation
    must offer rather than a callable host.
  humanURL: https://ogcapi.ogc.org/processes/
  tags:
  - OGC
  - OGC API
  - OGC API Processes
  - Geospatial
  - Specification
  x-maturity: Approved Standard
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/ogc-processes-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-processes-1.yaml
  - type: Specification
    url: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/
- aid: ogc:ogc-api-records
  name: OGC API - Records
  description: The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Records. This is the STANDARD'S
    contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a template, so it describes what a conformant implementation
    must offer rather than a callable host.
  humanURL: https://ogcapi.ogc.org/records/
  tags:
  - OGC
  - OGC API
  - OGC API Records
  - Geospatial
  - Specification
  x-maturity: Approved Standard
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/ogc-records-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-records-1-example-all-in-one.yaml
  - type: Specification
    url: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/
- aid: ogc:ogc-api-tiles
  name: OGC API - Tiles
  description: The approved standard OpenAPI description OGC itself publishes for OGC API - Tiles. This is the STANDARD'S
    contract, not any one deployment of it — the servers block is a template, so it describes what a conformant implementation
    must offer rather than a callable host.
  humanURL: https://ogcapi.ogc.org/tiles/
  tags:
  - OGC
  - OGC API
  - OGC API Tiles
  - Geospatial
  - Specification
  x-maturity: Approved Standard
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_original/ogc-tiles-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-tiles-1-bundled.json
  - type: Specification
    url: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/