OGC API — Features
OGC API Features specifies web API building blocks for discovering and querying geospatial features and collections.
What the authority record establishes
OGC API Features specifies web API building blocks for discovering and querying geospatial features and collections.
Voluntary technical standard unless required by contract, policy, procurement, or another authority
The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.
Why it matters to this market
Parcel, address, zoning, district, inspection, and permit context often depend on geospatial features whose identity, coordinate reference, source, version, access, and update behavior must be explicit.
Affected operating stages
- Discovery
- Query
- Filtering
- Integration
- Publication
- Change Management
Capabilities to examine
Parcel Property And Address Master
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for parcel property and address master.
GIS Mapping And Spatial Integration
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for GIS mapping and spatial integration.
APIs Integrations And Data Export
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for APIs integrations and data export.
Documents Records Retention And Public Disclosure
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for documents records retention and public disclosure.
Workload Turnaround And Service Reporting
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for workload turnaround and service reporting.
Affected buyer audiences
- GIS architects
- integration teams
- civic platform administrators
- data publishers
- vendors
Implementation questions
- Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
- What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
- Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
- Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
- How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?
Interpretation boundary
Conformance to an API standard does not establish data completeness, legal authority, address accuracy, parcel ownership, zoning status, interoperability quality, or permit decision fitness.