
SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs and the Open Geospatial Consortium
As SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) specification matures one of the more frequent questions we get asked is the relationship between STAC and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). I wanted to write this post to help clarify, at both a technical and an organizational level.
The tl;dr version is:
‘STAC API implements and extends the OGC API — Features standard, and our shared goal is for STAC API to become a full OGC standard’
The longer version has a lot more detail, but if you’re interested then read on!