Learn about OGC's Web Map Service (WMS) Standard, enabling the sharing and rendering of geospatial maps across diverse platforms and applications.

The OGC Web Services Context Document (OWS Context) was created to allow a set of configured information resources (service set) to be passed between applications primarily as a collection of services. OWS Context is developed to support in-line content as well.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international voluntary consensus standards organization that develops and maintains international standards for geospatial content and location-based services, sensor web, Internet of Things, GIS data processing and data sharing.

OGC Web Services were created more than ten years ago, when the web technologies looked very different from what is used nowadays. OGC encourages the transition from OWS and "Technical Committee Policies and Procedures 05-020r29" presents a process for deprecating API elements in OGC Standards.

This standard specifies many of the aspects that are, or should be, common to all or multiple OGC Web Service (OWS) interface Implementation Standards. These common aspects are primarily some of the parameters and data structures used in operation requests and responses.

OGC APIs are designed to make it easy for ANYONE to provide and use geospatial data on the web, and to integrate this data with ANY other type of information. These Standards build upon the legacy of the OGC Web Service Standards (WMS, WFS, WCS, WPS, etc.), but define resource-centric APIs that take advantage of modern web development practices.

OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) is a dynamic coverage service that follows the WCS specification of OGC. You can use the URL of the OGC WCS service to do the following: Add grid coverages as an item in the Content page. Add grid coverages to a scene in Scene Viewer. Add grid coverages to a map in Map Viewer.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service Interface Standard (WMS) specifies a means for a client to request a rendered, projected, and cartographically styled map image from an Internet map server for display purposes.

The OGC Web Services Context Document (OWS Context) was created to allow a set of configured information resources (service set) to be passed between applications primarily as a collection of services. OWS Context is developed to support in-line content as well.

May 30, 2001 · OGC Web Services provide a vendor-neutral, interoperable framework for web-based discovery, access, integration, analysis, exploitation and visualization of multiple online geodata sources, sensor-derived information, and geoprocessing capabilities.