Glossary

GeoJSON

GeoJSON is used as a JSON interchange format for spatial features. Intially a community led development GeoJSON is now formally recognized as a W3C standard.

OGC

Open Geospatial Consortium

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium for geospatial and location information.

WFS

Web Feature Service

Web Feature Services is a web service standard used to publish features. WFS is defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium as an Open Document standard for publishing FeatureTypes. FeatureType content is accessed using operations such as GetFeature and DescribeFeatureType.