{"id":13847,"date":"2024-09-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/?p=13847"},"modified":"2024-09-19T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T13:00:00","slug":"ogc-membership-approves-ogc-api-maps-part-1-core-as-an-official-ogc-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/announcement\/ogc-membership-approves-ogc-api-maps-part-1-core-as-an-official-ogc-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"OGC Membership approves OGC API &#8211; Maps &#8211; Part 1: Core as an official OGC Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Membership has approved <em>OGC API &#8211; Maps &#8211; Part 1: Core<\/em> as an official OGC Standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>OGC API &#8211; Maps &#8211; Part 1: Core<\/em> Standard defines a web interface for portraying geographic information. One of the main benefits of this Standard is the ability to generate maps by combining data from one or more servers into a single view, ensuring fast and efficient cartographic portrayal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional features include options for retrieving data layers within specific areas of interest (AOIs) as well as specifying transparency, styles, scales, and device display settings. The Standard also provides the ability to specify map orientation and supports multiple Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>OGC API &#8211; Maps &#8211; Part 1: Core<\/em> Standard is designed as a modern, API-based alternative to the Web Map Service (WMS) and Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) Standards. It can be integrated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/ogcapi.ogc.org\/tiles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><em>OGC API &#8211; Tiles &#8211; Part 1: Core<\/em><\/a> Standard to support more advanced capabilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help developers quickly implement products that support this standard, example API definitions and schemas are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ogcapi.ogc.org\/maps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OGC API \u2013 Maps webpage<\/a>. These resources conform to <a href=\"https:\/\/swagger.io\/specification\/v3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OpenAPI Specification v3.0<\/a>, making them easy to integrate into various Web APIs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>OGC API \u2013 Maps \u2013 Part 1: Core<\/em> is the outcome of the work and dedication of the OGC API \u2013 Maps Standards Working Group. Development of the Standard was led by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Editors:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Joan Mas\u00f3, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creaf.cat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (CREAF)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>J\u00e9r\u00f4me Jacovella-St-Louis, <a href=\"https:\/\/ecere.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ecere Corporation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Submitters:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jeff Harrison, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agc.army.mil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">US Army Geospatial Center (AGC)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Satish Sankaran, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Esri<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As with any OGC standard, the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.ogc.org\/is\/20-058\/20-058.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><em>OGC API &#8211; Maps &#8211; Part 1: Core Standard<\/em><\/a><em> is free to download and implement. Interested parties can learn more on the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ogcapi.ogc.org\/maps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><em>OGC API &#8211; Maps Standard webpage<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OGC API \u2013 Maps supports the ability to generate maps by combining and rendering data from one or more servers into a single view, ensuring fast and efficient cartographic portrayal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[180,174],"class_list":["post-13847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","tag-ogc-api-maps","tag-ogc-apis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}