The OGC Reference Model describes a framework for the ongoing work of the
Open Geospatial Consortium
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international voluntary consensus standards organization for geospatial content and location-based services, sensor web and Internet of Things, GIS data processing and data sharing. It originated in 199 ...
(OGC) and their specifications and implementing interoperable
solutions and applications for geospatial services, data, and applications. It is not an OGC standard.
It has the following purposes:
* Provides a foundation for coordination and understanding (both internal and external to OGC) of ongoing OGC activities and the Technical Baseline;
* Update/Replacement of parts of the 1998 OpenGIS Guide;
* Describes the OGC requirements baseline for geospatial interoperability;
* Describes the OGC architecture framework through a series of non-overlapping viewpoints: including existing and future elements;
* Regularize the development of domain-specific interoperability architectures by providing examples.
External links
*The full specification is a public document, and can be
downloadedfrom the OGC Web site.
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