OGC standards in daily practice: gaps and difficulties found in their use

Abstract

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) defines standards for the geospatial domain. The purpose of open standards is to provide interoperability. However, in our daily practice of creating web applications based on a service oriented architecture we experienced that problems associated with the application of OGC standards do surface. In this paper, a conceptual model on the use of these standards for further discussion is proposed. Issues associated with the application of OGC standards can surface at three levels: the definition of the standard, the implementation of the standard in software, and the application of this software. The issues can be divided into three categories: semantic issues, organizational issues and technical issues. This leads to a two dimensional matrix which can be used to classify gaps and difficulties encountered when working with OGC standards. The identification of these issues in the right context makes it easier to address the shortcomings and to improve existing standards.

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