1.1. Introduction and installation of OWSlib

1.1.1. Introduction

OWSLib is a Python package for client-side programming with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Services (OWS) interface standard and its associated content model.

OWSLib was originally included in PCL, but was proposed as a separate project in R481.

OGC Web services toollibrary, Python package uses OGC maps, functions, and overlay services. OWSLib provides general API access GetCapabilities, service metadata and wrapper access maps, and GETFEATURE requests.

1.1.2. Installation

$ pip install OWSLib