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Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Services (OWS) are services defined by the OGC, allowing all kinds of geospatial functionality. They include services for data access, data display and data processing. OWS requests are defined using the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol and are encoded using key-value-pairs (KVP) structures or Extensible Markup Language (XML). The most widely known OWS is the Web Map Service (WMS).
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The currently most important distributed computing platform supported by the OGC is the web, or to be more precise the HTTP. HTTP defines two ways for passing information between clients and services, one of them being HTTP GET, most commonly associated with the KVP encoding and HTTP POST, usually used in conjunction with XML-encoded requests.
They can be classified into application services, portrayal services, data services, registry services and processing services [1].
Application services define interfaces for...
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Percivall G (2003) OpenGIS Reference Model. OGC project document 03-040. http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=3836
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Lupp, M. (2008). OGC Web Services. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_903
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