OGC E-learning

This is an official OGC tutorial module. The tutorial module is designed to familiarize the trainee with OGC standards.

Audience

This tutorial module has been designed for trainees who have basic experience of using the World Wide Web and the Internet.

Learning Objectives

At completion of the module, trainees will be able to:

  • Describe how web clients and servers interact

  • Identify various types of OGC-based data encodings

  • Describe the use and structure of OGC-based data encodings

  • Identify and describe various types of OGC web services

  • Identify and describe an OGC Application Programming Interface (API)

  • Describe what can be done with an OGC web service and an OGC API

  • Understand how to issue requests for various types of OGC web services and OGC APIs

  • Describe the relationship of OGC standards to their DGIWG and NSG Profiles.