- Title
- Web Feature Service Profile
- Description
- The Web Feature Service Profile provides standards and guidance for in support of Geospatial Web Services to provide a standardized interface for geodata provision in a defined format over a network connection.
Taxonomy
Standards
Guidance
The OGC® Web Feature Service 2.0 Interface Standard – With Corrigendum is the normative reference (document) that specifies how Web Feature Services shall be implemented. Note that the version number of this document is 2.0.2
Further implementation guidance can be found in DGIWG 122, Defence Profile of OGC’s Web Feature Service 2.0 v.2.0.1, 28 November 2017.
For testing compliancy of WFS service requests several options exist
- both version strings 2.0.0 and 2.0.2 shall be accepted in the ‘version’ parameter of the corresponding WFS operations or in other parts of the web service metadata.
- when using the version number negotiation mechanism both versions 2.0.0 and 2.0.2 may be requested, and compliance shall be tested by comparing with only the first two digits of the version number (i.e. any version string of the from 2.0.* shall be accepted).