ows4R

R client for OGC Web-Services

ows4R is a new project that aims to set-up a pure R interface to OGC Web-Services. ows4R currently targets:

• the Common OGC Web-Services specifications, versions 1.1 and 2.0
• the Catalogue Service for the Web (CSW), version 2.0.2 (including Transaction and Harvest operations)
• the Web Feature Service (WFS), versions 1.0.0, 1.1.0, and 2.0.0
• the Web Map Service (WMS), versions 1.1.0, 1.1.1, and 1.3.0
• the Web Processing service (WPS) version 1.0.0

The following projects have contributed to strenghten ows4R:

• for the WMS and WPS support (ongoing)

Blue-Cloud has received funding from the European Union's Horizon programme call BG-07-2019-2020, topic: [A] 2019 - Blue Cloud services, Grant Agreement No.862409.

Citation

We thank in advance people that use ows4R for citing it in their work / publication(s). For this, please use the citation provided at this link

OGC standards coverage status

In case of a missing feature, create a ticket.

Development perspectives

Support for additional OGC web-service standard specifications including

• Web Processing Service (WPS)
• Web Coverage Service (WCS)
• Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS)
• Filter Encoding (FES) version 2.0
• Web Feature Service (WFS) Transaction operations
• Catalogue Service (CSW) version 3.0 (including Transaction and Harvest operations)
• OGC API
• ...

For more information, or if you are interested in funding this R project or to contribute to it, do not hesitate to contact me by e-mail