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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The first public release of Java interfaces in org.opengis packages was in the OpenGIS Coordinate Transformation Service Implementation Specification standard, published on January 12, 2001.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> This standard is retrospectively named GeoAPI 1.0.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p><p>Developers of Open Source projects joined later, following a public email calling for the creation of a geospatial API in October 2002.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> OGC created a GeoAPI Standard Working Group and published GeoAPI 2.0 in June 2005.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p><p>The OGC GeoAPI working has been dissolved in June 2006, but recreated as GeoAPI 3 in January 2009.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> OGC released GeoAPI 3.0 in June 2011, followed by 3.0.1 in 2017 and 3.0.2 in 2023.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p><p>The <a href="/facts/GeoTools/jSEFLIX5">GeoTools</a> project participated to GeoAPI 2, but quitted before GeoAPI 3. GeoTools created a fork of GeoAPI interfaces but kept the org.opengis namespace, which caused incompatibilities with OGC standard releases.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> The conflict has been resolved in October 2023 with the GeoTools 30 release. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Open_Geospatial_Consortium/uDKbX6Cl">Open Geospatial Consortium</a> – a standards organization</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.geoapi.org/">GeoAPI home page</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>GeoAPI specification <a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/geoapi/" target="_blank">http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/geoapi/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>GeoAPI on Maven repository <a href="http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7CGeoAPI" target="_blank">http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7CGeoAPI</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>OpenGIS Coordinate Transformation Service Implementation Specification <a href="https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=999" target="_blank">https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=999</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>GeoAPI 1.0 <a href="https://www.geoapi.org/archives/1.0/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.geoapi.org/archives/1.0/index.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Alignment of GeoAPI version numbers with formal OGC releases <a href="https://github.com/opengeospatial/geoapi/issues/83" target="_blank">https://github.com/opengeospatial/geoapi/issues/83</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Call for the creation of a geospatial API <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030509104308/http://digitalearth.org/story/2002/10/10/55046/206" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20030509104308/http://digitalearth.org/story/2002/10/10/55046/206</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>GeoAPI 2.0 <a href="https://www.geoapi.org/archives/2.0/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.geoapi.org/archives/2.0/index.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>GeoAPI 3 SWG <a href="https://portal.ogc.org/?m=projects&a=view&project_id=294" target="_blank">https://portal.ogc.org/?m=projects&a=view&project_id=294</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>GeoAPI 3.0 <a href="https://www.geoapi.org/3.0/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.geoapi.org/3.0/index.html</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Unethical use of GeoAPI library in Geotools <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/geotools/mailman/message/33467346/" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/p/geotools/mailman/message/33467346/</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>