OGC Reference Model

• Provides a foundation for coordination and understanding 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.