# Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ogc/  
**Website:** https://www.ogc.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

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.

## Kin Score — 19.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 55.6 |
| Contract Quality | 43.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 23.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (10)

- **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...

## Tags

OGC, OGC API, Geospatial, GIS, Standards, Specification, Interoperability, WMS, WFS, WMTS, SensorThings, Earth Observation, Consortium

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ogc/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.