OGC Reference Model

The OGC Reference Model describes a framework for the ongoing work of the Open Geospatial Consortium and their specifications and implementing interoperable solutions and applications for geospatial services, data, and applications.

It has the following purposes:

• Provides a foundation for coordination and understanding (both internal and external to OGC) of ongoing OGC activities and the Technical Baseline;
• Update/Replacement of parts of the 1998 OpenGIS Guide;
• Describes the OGC requirements baseline for geospatial interoperability;
• Describes the OGC architecture framework through a series of non-overlapping viewpoints: including existing and future elements;
• Regularize the development of domain-specific interoperability architectures by providing examples.

The full spec is a public document, can downloaded from openGeospatial site.