OGC APIs with GeoServer: implementation, availability, and next steps
11-04, 11:00–11:30 (America/New_York), Reston ABC

OGC APIs offer a modern, modular approach to geospatial APIs using REST, JSON, and OpenAPI. This talk introduces key APIs, extensions, and GeoServer integrations, outlining current implementations, future plans, and long term evolution of the GeoServer service platform.

The OGC APIs are a fresh take at doing geo-spatial APIs, based on WEB API concepts and modern formats, including:

  • Small core with basic functionality, extra functionality provided by extensions
  • OpenAPI/RESTful based
  • JSON first, while still allowing to provide data in other formats
  • No mandate to publish schemas for data
  • Improved support for data tiles (e.g., vector tiles)
  • Specialized APIs in addition to general ones (e.g., DAPA vs OGC API - Processes)
  • Full blown services, building blocks, and ease of extensibility

This presentation will provide an introduction to various OGC APIs and extensions, such as Features, Styles, Maps and Tiles, STAC and CQL2 filtering. Some of specs are finalized and complete enough that they have a GeoServer supported extensions, while others are provided as community modules. Join us to find out the current state of implementation, our future steps, and how you can participate in it.
Andrea Aime

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.

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Simone Giannecchini

Simone Giannecchini is Founder and Managing Director of GeoSolutions, specializing in open-source geospatial software. A computer engineer by training, he serves on the Project Steering Committees for GeoServer and GeoTools, contributing actively to their advancement and regularly presenting at international conferences on geospatial innovation.

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