Apidays London 2024 - Open Standards for Getting your APIs into the Geospatial Ecosystem by Gobe Hobona

Open Standards for Getting your APIs into the Geospatial Ecosystem
Dr. Gobe Hobona, PhD MRICS Director of Product Management, Standards - Open Geospatial Consortium

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1. Open Standards for Getting Your APIs into the Geospatial Ecosystem Gobe Hobona, PhD Director of Product Management for Standards Copyright © 2024 Open Geospatial Consortium
2. Introduction • The importance of location to your data and your APIs • Vision and mission of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) • What is an OGC Standard?
3. High level overview of a Geospatial Ecosystem Source: Coetzee et al. (2021)
4. Geospatial Market • Valued at USD 96.26 billion in 2023 • Projected to grow from USD 105.06 billion in 2024 to USD 211.54 billion by 2032 • Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 9.1% Source: https://www.marketresearchfuture.com/reports/geospatial- market-2441
5. 5-step Path to Success in the Geospatial Ecosystem 1. Identify the standards that are relevant to your target market 2. Implement the standards or deploy existing implementations 3. Integrate with third-party applications through the standards 4. Promote the standards and your implementations of them 5. Influence future versions of the standards
6. Identify the standards that are relevant to your target market Defence & Intelligence Real Estate Climate Resilience Health & Social Care Finance & Insurance Transportation Energy & Utilities OGC Standards
7. OGC Standards Baseline
8. OGC API - Maps OGC API - Tiles OGC API - Features OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval OGC API – Records OGC API - Styles OGC API – Discrete Global Grid Systems OGC API - Processes OGC API - Common OGC API - Routes OGC API – Coverages OGC API – Moving Features OGC API – Joins OGC API – 3D GeoVolumes Solid green border = approved and published | Dashed green border = approved and publication pending OGC SensorThings API Approved and Candidate OGC API Standards
9. Implement the Standards • OpenAPI • AsyncAPI https://ogcapi.ogc.org/#standards
10. Deploy implementations of the Standards • Certification of compliance to the Standards • Look for the certification mark! https://www.ogc.org/resources/certified-products/
11. Integrate with third-party applications through the Standards • Open spatial data catalogues (e.g. Spatineo and GeoSeer - millions of data layers discoverable) • API catalogues (e.g. SwaggerHub) • Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) initiatives (e.g. United Kingdom, United States, South Africa, Canada, India, Netherlands, and 80 more national SDIs)
12. Promote the standards and your implementations of them Photo taken March 2018 • Webinars and blog posts • Standards showcase at quarterly face-to-face OGC meetings
13. Influence future versions of the Standards • Public GitHub repositories (https://github.com/opengeospatial) • Testbeds • Code sprints https://climateintelligence.eu/2024/07/climate-services-code-sprint/
14. Case Studies on the OGC API – Features Standard • European Space Agency (ESA), British Geological Survey (BGS), etc. • Applications in city planning, defence, transportation, emergency response, etc. • OGC API – Features defines an API for creating, modifying, and querying vector spatial data on the Web (e.g. building footprints, road networks) https://ogcapi.ogc.org/features/
15. Case Studies on the OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval Standard • US National Weather Service, Meteorological Service of Canada, UK Met Office, etc. • Applications in aviation, hydrology, meteorology, etc. • OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) defines an API for accessing spatio-temporal environmental data on the Web (e.g. weather data) https://ogcapi.ogc.org/edr/
16. Case Studies on the OGC API – Processes Standard • National Centre for Geographic Information in Spain (CNIG), US Geological Survey (USGS), European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) • Applications in public health, climate resilience, defence & intelligence, etc. • OGC API – Processes defines an API for wrapping and invoking executable processes on the Web (e.g. AI/ML-driven analytics) https://ogcapi.ogc.org/processes/ https://ojs.revistamapping.com/MAPPING/article/view/445/248
17. Newly released OGC API – Maps Standard • User specified customization of maps • Format independent • OGC API - Maps defines an API for requesting maps and map tiles over the Web in a manner that is independent of the underlying data store Screenshot of Hexagon LuciadRIA retrieving maps from Ecere GNOSIS server https://ogcapi.ogc.org/maps/
18. Benefits of Adopting OGC API Standards • Improve interoperability with a variety of 3rd party products and data sources • Reduce the risk of vendor lock-in • Accelerate the development of solutions • Reduce the cost of developing new capabilities • Improve seamless integration through compliance testing & certification
19. Conclusions • Geospatial ecosystems are built from spatial data infrastructures that are enabled by open standards • For APIs to be successful in the geospatial ecosystem, they must be built in a modular way by implementing open standards • Organizations should spatially enable their Web APIs through OGC API Standards to ensure that their data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR)
20. 110+ Member Meetings 60+ Alliance and Liaison partners 50+ Standards Working Groups 45+ Domain Working Groups 25+ Years of Not for Profit Work 10+ Regional and Country Forums Innovation 120+ Innovation Initiatives 380+ Technical reports Quarterly Tech Trends monitoring Standards 65+ Adopted Standards 300+ products with 1000+ certified implementations 1,700,000+ Operational Data Sets Using OGC Standards Copyright © 2024 Open Geospatial Consortium Thank You Community Dr. Gobe Hobona ghobona@ogc.org