Communication protocols between the server and client

• Agreement between the server and the client is about

  how to ask for the data

  how to send the data

• Basically API (application programming interface)

OGC Open Web Services

Open Geospatial Consortium is international organisation for developing and publishing standards in the geospatial domain.

Among others OGC produces set of “Open Web Services” – standards for publishing geospatial data. Three most used standards are:

• OGC WMS - Web Mapping Service
• OGC WFS - Web Feature Service
• OGC WCS - Web Coverage Service

QGIS and OWS

• New QGIS project
  • Orthophoto images
  • Vector data
• OGC Web Map Service
• QGIS project deployment
• What have we done?
• Load Published WMS service to QGIS
• OGC Web Feature Service
• Testing OGC WFS directly
• Adding WFS layer to QGIS
• OGC Web Coverage Service
• Testing OGC WCS directly