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OGC

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Providers using this tag (18)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Ordnance SurveyReal EstateUnited KingdomLand RegistryGeospatial10 APIs53.9VantorSatellite ImageryEarth ObservationGeospatialRemote Sensing31 APIs50.9USGS Water ServicesWaterStreamflowGroundwaterWater Quality1 API43.0Bureau of Land ManagementEnvironmentFederal GovernmentLandResources1 API41.9Sentinel HubSatellite ImageryGeospatialRemote SensingEarth Observation1 API41.1British Columbia Data CatalogueOpen DataGovernmentCanadian GovernmentBritish Columbia1 API40.1
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
DLREarth ObservationRemote SensingSatellite DataGeospatial1 API39.0GeoInsightGeospatialDGGSDiscrete Global Grid SystemEarth Observation2 APIs33.5Ellipsis DriveCompanyGeospatialSpatial DataGIS1 API33.3
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
ZarticoCompanyTravelTourismDestination Marketing2 APIs19.9Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)OGC APIGeospatialGIS24 APIs17.8
Minimal 7 Almost no public developer surface
Environment and Climate Change CanadaGeospatialWMSGIS2 APIs5.3GeoCatGeospatialWMSWFS2 APIs5.3GeoSolutionsGeospatialWMSWFS2 APIs5.3Deutscher WetterdienstGeospatialWMSWFS1 API3.4Eurac ResearchGeospatialWMSWFS1 API3.4Flanders Marine InstituteGeospatialWMSWFS1 API3.4SpacebelGeospatialWMSWFS1 API3.4

APIs with this tag (40)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
ArcGIS Server OGC Web ServicesArcGIS Server publishes any map or feature service through the OGC interfaces - WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS and KML...70.4
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Hexagon GeoCloud GraphQL APIThe federated GraphQL API behind Hexagon GeoCloud (formerly HxDR / Reality Cloud Studio) for uploading, pro...60.2
Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Landmark Geodata Web Map Tile Service (WMTS)On-demand raster mapping tile service delivered against the Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Tile Service...52.4Maxar Technologies Streaming Basemap APIOGC service delivering Maxar Vivid basemap products and their metadata for cartographic and analytic use.50.9Maxar Technologies Streaming Imagery APIOGC-compliant WFS / WMS / WMTS streaming services for delivering online imagery strips into web mapping cli...50.9Maxar Technologies Vector Analytics APIVector deliveries of change monitoring outputs through OGC WMS / WMTS for downstream analytic and GIS consu...50.9MapTiler Maps APIThe Maps API from MapTiler — 8 operation(s) for maps.45.8TomTom WMS / WMTS APIThe WMS / WMTS API from TomTom — 3 operation(s) for wms / wmts.42.4BLM National and State ArcGIS REST / OGC WMS ServicesBLM's own ArcGIS Server estate, operated on blm.gov infrastructure rather than a hosted platform: thirteen ...41.9Sentinel Hub OGC ServicesOGC-standard web services (WMS, WCS, WFS, WMTS) for integrating Sentinel Hub satellite imagery into GIS app...41.1DataBC Public OGC Web Services (WMS/WFS)DataBC's public OGC endpoint serves the spatial half of the BC Data Catalogue: 895 queryable WMS 1.3.0 laye...40.1
Thin 12 Limited public surface area
EOC Atmosphere Web Map Service (WMS)OGC Web Map Service providing atmospheric data visualization layers from DLR including Sentinel-5P TROPOMI ...39.0EOC Basemap Web Coverage Service (WCS)OGC Web Coverage Service for DLR basemap and reference datasets including the SRTM X-SAR global digital ele...39.0EOC Basemap Web Map Service (WMS)OGC Web Map Service providing basemap and core geospatial reference layers from DLR including global mosaic...39.0EOC Imagery Web Coverage Service (WCS)OGC Web Coverage Service providing direct download and extraction of coverage data for DLR Earth observatio...39.0EOC Imagery Web Map Service (WMS)OGC Web Map Service providing visualization layers for DLR Earth observation imagery products including opt...39.0EOC Land Web Map Service (WMS)OGC Web Map Service providing land cover and land use visualization layers from DLR research, including Wor...39.0EOWEB GeoPortal APIMulti-mission web portal API for interactive access to the DLR Earth observation data holdings including br...39.0Ellipsis Drive API v3The Ellipsis Drive API v3 provides programmatic access to manage, use, and integrate spatial data: accounts...33.3Copernicus OGC API (WMS/WMTS/WFS/WCS)OGC-compliant web services providing seamless satellite data access through standard GIS applications. Expo...30.7G-Portal Web APIOGC-compliant web services for searching and accessing JAXA Earth observation satellite products from missi...28.7PANGAEA Bathymetry WMSOGC-compliant Web Map Service providing bathymetric (ocean depth) map layers for integration into GIS softw...28.24M WFS APIThe 4M WFS API is an OGC Web Feature Service that streams 4M's validated subsurface utility data (line and ...26.4
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
CER Assessments Map Service (Federal Geospatial Platform)The CER's Environmental and Socio-economic Assessments (ESA) layer, published through the Government of Can...25.7Copernicus Marine CSW Catalogue APIThe Copernicus Marine Catalogue Service for the Web (CSW) provides OGC-compliant metadata discovery over th...24.7Copernicus Marine WMTS APIThe Copernicus Marine Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) is an OGC-compliant REST API for visualizing ocean data a...24.7Transport Canada Canadian Airports OGC WMSOGC Web Map Service 1.3.0 endpoint for the same Canadian Airports with Air Navigation Services layer. GetCa...22.0Zartico GeoServer OGC Web ServicesZartico operates a public, anonymously readable GeoServer instance at geoserver.zartico.com serving OGC Web...19.9Global Wind Atlas Web Processing ServiceAn OGC Web Processing Service 1.0.0 serving Global Wind Atlas results. The GetCapabilities document names D...19.3
Minimal 11 Almost no public developer surface
Malta Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI) geoportalMalta's INSPIRE / geospatial stack exposing standard OGC services (GeoNetwork CSW, GeoServer WMS/WFS, ArcGI...5.5Environment and Climate Change Canada OGC API - FeaturesA GeoServer-provided OGC API - Features endpoint on the same host. Probed anonymously on 2026-08-20: /colle...5.3Environment and Climate Change Canada OGC Web Services (WMS / WFS)An OGC-standard GeoServer at geo.ec.gc.ca. Probed anonymously on 2026-08-20: the WMS 1.3.0 GetCapabilities ...5.3GeoCat bv OGC API - FeaturesA modern OGC API - Features endpoint alongside the classic OGC web services. Verified anonymously on 2026-0...5.3GeoCat bv OGC Web Services (WMS / WFS)OGC-standard web services served from a GeoServer instance. Verified anonymously on 2026-08-20: a WMS 1.3.0...5.3GeoSolutions OGC API - FeaturesA modern OGC API - Features endpoint alongside the classic OGC web services. Verified anonymously on 2026-0...5.3GeoSolutions OGC Web Services (WMS / WFS)OGC-standard web services served from a GeoServer instance. Verified anonymously on 2026-08-20: a WMS 1.3.0...5.3Deutscher Wetterdienst OGC Web Services (WMS / WFS)OGC-standard web services served from a GeoServer instance. Verified anonymously on 2026-08-20: a WMS 1.3.0...3.4Eurac Research OGC Web Services (WMS / WFS)OGC-standard web services served from a GeoServer instance. Verified anonymously on 2026-08-20: a WMS 1.3.0...3.4Flanders Marine Institute OGC Web Services (WMS / WFS)OGC-standard web services served from a GeoServer instance. Verified anonymously on 2026-08-20: a WMS 1.3.0...3.4Spacebel s.a OGC Web Services (WMS / WFS)OGC-standard web services served from a GeoServer instance. Verified anonymously on 2026-08-20: a WMS 1.3.0...3.4

Companies reaching this through an API (14)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “OGC” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

4M Analytics Canada Energy Regulator Copernicus Marine data.gov.mt (Open Data Malta) Esri European Space Agency (ESA) Hexagon JAXA Landmark Information Group MapTiler PANGAEA Technical University of Denmark TomTom Transport Canada

Score breakdown

Frequency
46.9
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
30.3
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
13.3
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

Geospatial broader

Related tags

WMS 22 co-occurrences WFS 16 co-occurrences WMTS 8 co-occurrences GIS 17 co-occurrences STAC 6 co-occurrences Geospatial 31 co-occurrences Earth Observation 7 co-occurrences

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