2026-08-30 –, 604
This workshop introduces OGC APIs, their story, objectives and structure, with practical examples from the GeoServer. Join this workshop to get an update on the APIs, to learn the current implementation progress as well as some GeoServer unique features.
GeoServer is a web service for publishing your geospatial data using industry standards for vector, raster and mapping. It powers a number of open source projects like GeoNode and geOrchestra and it is widely used throughout the world by organizations to manage and disseminate data at scale.
This workshop will get your started with OGC APIs, and their implementation in GeoServer, covering:
- An introduction to the common concepts in OGC APIs
- The landing page of a service
- The OpenAPI definition of a service
- OGC API Features, the schemaless, vector data access service
- OGC API Styles, or how to access styles and eventually apply them client side
- OGC API Tiles, or how to get tiled data and images
- OGC API Map, or how to get maps in a given area and projection
- OGC API Coverages, downloading raw raster data
- OGC API Processes, processing data on the fly
GeoSolutions will make available an all-in-one package to run the workshop zip file. This should be pre-installed on attendees laptops before the workshop, along with a Java 17 runtime.
Basic understanding of GIS, data formats.
What skills do participants require to have?:Some exposure to REST services, JSON and classic OGC services is useful but not a strict requirement.
Link to software source code:
Open source enthusiast with strong experience in Java development and GIS. Personal interest range from high performance software, managing large data volumes, software testing and quality, spatial data analysis algorithms, map rendering.
Full time open source developer on GeoServer and GeoTools, regular presenter at F0SS4G.
Received the Sol Katz's OSGeo award in 2017.