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/