generated: '2026-08-20' method: searched source: https://ogcapi.ogc.org/ + https://www.ogc.org/wp-json/wp/v2/standards type: standards-taxonomy note: Two layers. `ogc_api_family` is the modern OpenAPI-described OGC API suite with the maturity OGC itself badges on ogcapi.ogc.org — this is what a developer means today by "an OGC API". `standards_catalog` is the full published standards list from OGC's own CMS, which still includes the legacy OWS suite (WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS, CSW) that the OGC API family supersedes. Maturity is reported as OBSERVED on the date shown; OGC approval is a Technical Committee vote and the website can lag it. summary: ogc_api_family: 18 approved: 11 draft: 7 standards_catalog: 98 ogc_api_family: - name: OGC API - Features status: Approved Standard status_evidence: status badge on ogcapi.ogc.org, retrieved 2026-08-20 repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-features stars: 383 archived: false description: An open standard for querying geospatial information on the web. - name: OGC API - Common status: Approved Standard status_evidence: status badge on ogcapi.ogc.org, retrieved 2026-08-20 repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-common stars: 55 archived: false description: OGC API - Common provides those elements shared by most or all of the OGC API standards to ensure consistency across the family. - name: OGC API - EDR status: Approved Standard status_evidence: status badge on ogcapi.ogc.org, retrieved 2026-08-20 repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-environmental-data-retrieval stars: 71 archived: false description: A Web API that provides a family of lightweight interfaces for accessing Environmental Data resources. - name: OGC API - Tiles status: Approved Standard status_evidence: status badge on ogcapi.ogc.org, retrieved 2026-08-20 repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-tiles stars: 43 archived: false description: OGC API - Tiles draft specification - name: OGC API - Processes status: Approved Standard status_evidence: status badge on ogcapi.ogc.org, retrieved 2026-08-20 repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-processes stars: 62 archived: false - name: OGC API - Maps status: Approved Standard status_evidence: status badge on ogcapi.ogc.org, retrieved 2026-08-20 repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-maps stars: 55 archived: false description: OGC API - Map draft specification - name: OGC API - Moving Features status: Approved Standard status_evidence: status badge on ogcapi.ogc.org, retrieved 2026-08-20 repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-movingfeatures stars: 12 archived: false description: OGC API - Moving Features - name: OGC API - Records status: Approved Standard status_evidence: status badge on ogcapi.ogc.org, retrieved 2026-08-20 repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-records stars: 82 archived: false description: An open standard for the discovery of geospatial resources on the Web. - name: OGC API - Connected Systems status: Approved Standard status_evidence: status badge on ogcapi.ogc.org, retrieved 2026-08-20 repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-connected-systems stars: 17 archived: false description: Public Repository for the Connected Systems SWG - name: OGC API - DGGS status: Approved Standard status_evidence: status badge on ogcapi.ogc.org, retrieved 2026-08-20 repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-discrete-global-grid-systems stars: 37 archived: false description: https://ogcapi.ogc.org/dggs - name: SensorThings API status: Approved Standard status_evidence: status badge on ogcapi.ogc.org, retrieved 2026-08-20 - name: OGC API - Coverages status: Draft status_evidence: no approved badge on ogcapi.ogc.org; the GitHub repo description calls it a draft/SWG repo repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-coverages stars: 27 archived: false description: OGC API - Coverages draft specification - name: OGC API - Styles status: Draft status_evidence: no approved badge on ogcapi.ogc.org; the GitHub repo description calls it a draft/SWG repo repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-styles stars: 12 archived: false description: A Web API that enables map servers, clients as well as visual style editors, to manage and fetch styles. - name: OGC API - Joins status: Draft status_evidence: no approved badge on ogcapi.ogc.org; the GitHub repo description calls it a draft/SWG repo repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-joins stars: 5 archived: false description: OGC API - Joins SWG public repo - name: OGC API - Routes status: Draft status_evidence: no approved badge on ogcapi.ogc.org; the GitHub repo description calls it a draft/SWG repo repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-routes stars: 12 archived: false description: public repo for OGC API - Routes Standards Working Group - name: OGC API - GeoDataCubes status: Draft status_evidence: no approved badge on ogcapi.ogc.org; the GitHub repo description calls it a draft/SWG repo repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-geodatacubes stars: 4 archived: false - name: OGC API - 3D GeoVolumes status: Draft status_evidence: no approved badge on ogcapi.ogc.org; the GitHub repo description calls it a draft/SWG repo repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-3d-geovolumes stars: 10 archived: false - name: OGC API - SOSA status: Draft status_evidence: no approved badge on ogcapi.ogc.org; the GitHub repo description calls it a draft/SWG repo repository: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-sosa stars: 4 archived: false standards_catalog: - name: 3D Portrayal Service url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/3dp/ slug: 3dp - name: 3D Tiles url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/3dtiles/ slug: 3dtiles - name: Abstract Specification url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/abstract-specification/ slug: abstract-specification - name: Augmented Reality Markup Language 2.0 (ARML 2.0) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/arml/ slug: arml - name: Bathymetric Attributed Grid (BAG) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/bag/ slug: bag - name: Catalogue Service url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/cat/ slug: cat - name: 'Catalogue Services Standard 2.0 Extension Package for ebRIM Application Profile: Earth Observation Products' url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/cat2eoext4ebrim/ slug: cat2eoext4ebrim - name: CDB url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/cdb/ slug: cdb - name: CityGML url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/citygml/ slug: citygml - name: CityJSON url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/cityjson/ slug: cityjson - name: Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogc-cloud-optimized-geotiff/ slug: ogc-cloud-optimized-geotiff - name: Common Query Language (CQL2) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/cql2/ slug: cql2 - name: Coordinate Transformation Service url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/ct/ slug: ct - name: CoverageJSON url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/coveragejson/ slug: coveragejson - name: Discrete Global Grid Systems url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/dggs/ slug: dggs - name: EO Dataset Metadata GeoJSON(-LD) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/eo-geojson/ slug: eo-geojson - name: Features and Geometries JSON url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/json-fg/ slug: json-fg - name: Filter Encoding url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/filter/ slug: filter - name: GeoAPI Implementation Specification url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/geoapi/ slug: geoapi - name: Geodetic data Grid eXchange Format (GGXF) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/ggfx/ slug: ggfx - name: Geography Markup Language (GML) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/gml/ slug: gml - name: GeoPackage url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/geopackage/ slug: geopackage - name: GeoPose url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/geopose/ slug: geopose - name: GeoRSS url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/georss/ slug: georss - name: GeoSPARQL – A Geographic Query Language for RDF Data url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/geosparql/ slug: geosparql - name: Geospatial User Feedback (GUF) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/guf/ slug: guf - name: GeoXACML url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/geoxacml/ slug: geoxacml - name: GML in JPEG 2000 for Geographic Imagery url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/gmljp2/ slug: gmljp2 - name: Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/i3s/ slug: i3s - name: Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/indoor-mapping-data-format/ slug: indoor-mapping-data-format - name: KML url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/kml/ slug: kml - name: LAS Specification url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/las/ slug: las - name: Location Service (OpenLS) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/ols/ slug: ols - name: MUDDI url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/muddi/ slug: muddi - name: Observations, Measurements, and Samples url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/om/ slug: om - name: OGC API – Common url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogcapi-common/ slug: ogcapi-common - name: OGC API – Connected Systems url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogc-api-connected-systems/ slug: ogc-api-connected-systems - name: 'OGC API – EDR – Part 2: Publish-Subscribe Workflow' url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/sensor-things-api-extension-2/ slug: sensor-things-api-extension-2 - name: OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogcapi-edr/ slug: ogcapi-edr - name: OGC API – Features url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogcapi-features/ slug: ogcapi-features - name: OGC API – Maps url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogcapi-maps/ slug: ogcapi-maps - name: OGC API – Moving Features url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogc-api-moving-features/ slug: ogc-api-moving-features - name: OGC API – Processes url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogcapi-processes/ slug: ogcapi-processes - name: OGC API – Records url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogcapi-records/ slug: ogcapi-records - name: OGC API – Tiles url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/ogcapi-tiles/ slug: ogcapi-tiles - name: OGC Geoscience Markup Language (GeoSciML) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/geosciml/ slug: geosciml - name: OGC GeoTIFF url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/geotiff/ slug: geotiff - name: OGC Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5®) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/hdf5/ slug: hdf5 - name: OGC IndoorGML url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/indoorgml/ slug: indoorgml - name: OGC LandInfra / InfraGML url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/infragml/ slug: infragml - name: OGC Moving Features url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/movingfeatures/ slug: movingfeatures - name: OGC network Common Data Form (netCDF) standards suite url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/netcdf/ slug: netcdf - name: OGC Open Modelling Interface (OpenMI) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/openmi/ slug: openmi - name: OGC PUCK Protocol url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/puck/ slug: puck - name: OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/tms/ slug: tms - name: OGC WaterML url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/waterml/ slug: waterml - name: 'OGC WaterML 2: Part 4 – GroundWaterML 2 (GWML2)' url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/gwml2/ slug: gwml2 - name: OGC Web Services Context Document (OWS Context) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/owc/ slug: owc - name: Open GeoSMS – Core url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/opengeosms/ slug: opengeosms - name: openEO url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/openeo/ slug: openeo - name: OpenFlight Scene url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/openflight-scene/ slug: openflight-scene - name: OpenSearch url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/opensearch/ slug: opensearch - name: Ordering Services Framework for Earth Observation Products url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/oseo/ slug: oseo - name: PipelineML Conceptual and Encoding Model url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/pipelineml/ slug: pipelineml - name: Points of Interest (POI) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/points-of-interest-poi/ slug: points-of-interest-poi - name: Publish/Subscribe url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/pubsub/ slug: pubsub - name: Semantic Sensor Network Ontology url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/semantic-sensor-network-ontology/ slug: semantic-sensor-network-ontology - name: Sensor Model Language (SensorML) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/sensorml/ slug: sensorml - name: Sensor Observation Service url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/sos/ slug: sos - name: Sensor Planning Service (SPS) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/sps/ slug: sps - name: SensorThings API url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/sensorthings/ slug: sensorthings - name: 'Simple Feature Access – Part 1: Common Architecture' url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/sfa/ slug: sfa - name: 'Simple Feature Access – Part 2: SQL Option' url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/sfs/ slug: sfs - name: Simple Features for CORBA url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/sfc/ slug: sfc - name: Simple Features for OLE/COM url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/sfo/ slug: sfo - name: SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/stac/ slug: stac - name: 'STAplus: Sensor Things API Extension' url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/sensor-things-api-extension/ slug: sensor-things-api-extension - name: Styled Layer Descriptor url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/sld/ slug: sld - name: SWE Common Data Model Encoding url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/swecommon/ slug: swecommon - name: SWE Service Model Implementation url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/swes/ slug: swes - name: Symbology Conceptual Core Model url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/symbology-conceptual-core-model/ slug: symbology-conceptual-core-model - name: Symbology Encoding url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/se/ slug: se - name: Table Joining Service url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/tjs/ slug: tjs - name: The ModSpec Model url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/modspec/ slug: modspec - name: Time Ontology in OWL url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/time-ontology-in-owl/ slug: time-ontology-in-owl - name: TimeseriesML (TSML) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/tsml/ slug: tsml - name: Training Data Markup Language for Artificial Intelligence url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/trainingdml-ai/ slug: trainingdml-ai - name: Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/wcps/ slug: wcps - name: Web Coverage Service url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/wcs/ slug: wcs - name: Web Feature Service url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/wfs/ slug: wfs - name: Web Map Context url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/wmc/ slug: wmc - name: Web Map Service url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/wms/ slug: wms - name: Web Map Tile Service url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/wmts/ slug: wmts - name: Web Processing Service url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/wps/ slug: wps - name: Web Service Common url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/common/ slug: common - name: Web Services Security url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/security/ slug: security - name: Well-known text representation of coordinate reference systems url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/wkt-crs/ slug: wkt-crs - name: Zarr Storage Specification url: https://www.ogc.org/standards/zarr-storage-specification/ slug: zarr-storage-specification