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OWSLib

Open Geospatial Web Services Library

OWSLib is a Python package for client programming with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service (hence OWS) interface standards, and their related content models.

OWSLib is Open Source, released under an BSD 3-Clause License, and runs on any platform that supports Python (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X).

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Core Features

  • easily connect to WMS, WFS, WCS, WPS, CSW services using Python (and many more)

  • support for the new OGC APIs

  • easy to install with pip3 install OWSLib

  • also available with Conda, and as a Debian package

  • an OSGeo Community Project

  • detailed log output

  • support for proxies

Implemented Standards

OGC Standards

Standard

Version(s)

Standard

Version(s)

OGC WMS

1.1.1, 1.3.0

OGC WFS

1.0.0, 1.1.0, 2.0.0, 3.0

OGC WCS

1.0.0, 1.1.0, 2.0, 2.0.1

OGC WMC

1.1.0

OGC SOS

1.0.0, 2.0.0

OGC SensorML

1.0.1

OGC CSW

2.0.2

OGC WPS

1.0.0

OGC Filter

1.1.0

OGC OWS Common

1.0.0, 1.1.0, 2.0

OGC OWS Context

1.0.0 (alpha)

NASA DIF

9.7

FGDC CSDGM

1998

ISO 19139

2007

ISO 19139-2

2012

Dublin Core

1.1

Swiss GM03

2.3

OGC WMTS

1.0.0

WaterML

1.0, 1.1, 2.0

OpenSearch

1.1

OGC API Support

Standard

Version

Standard

Version

OGC API - Features - Part 1: Core

1.0

OGC API - Coverages - Part 1: Core

draft

OGC API - Features - Part 3: Filtering

draft

OGC API - Processes - Part 1: Core

1.0

OGC API - Features - Part 4: Create, Replace, Update and Delete

draft

OGC API - Connected Systems - Part 1: Feature Resources

draft

OGC API - Records - Part 1: Core

draft

OGC API - Connected Systems - Part 2: Dynamic Data

draft

Details

Website: https://owslib.readthedocs.io/

Licence: BSD 3-Clause License

Software Version: 0.33.0

Supported Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac

API Interfaces: Python

Support: OSGeo service providers

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