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OGC Simple Features

Information Model Geospatial openly published

OGC Simple Feature Access (ISO 19125) Part 1 defines common architecture for geometry types — Point, Curve, Surface & GeometryCollection with Spatial Reference System....

Open Geospatial Consortium, from their own og:description

Other geospatial data models

FGDC CSDGM (Federal Geographic Data Committee) Metadata Model GeoJSON Exchange Schema GeoPackage Exchange Schema OGC GeoSPARQL Ontology / Vocabulary INSPIRE Data Specifications Information Model ISO 19107 / 19109 Spatial Schema and General Feature Model Information Model ISO 19115 Geographic Metadata Metadata Model KML Exchange Schema OGC 3D Tiles Exchange Schema OGC API - Features / Records / EDR (Open Geospatial Consortium) Exchange Schema OGC Moving Features (Open Geospatial Consortium) Information Model OpenStreetMap tagging schema Ontology / Vocabulary
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Model Details
Steward Open Geospatial Consortium
Origin International United States
Layer Information Model
Domain Geospatial
Status live
Access Openly published
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 3/3. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

Modernity Profile
Access Open
Assessed 51.0% of the rubric

Not enough of this standard was readable to place it in a band. That is a limit of what I could see, not a finding against the standard.

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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