[OSGeoLive] Proposal to officially add OWSLib to OSGeoLive

Seth G sethg at geographika.co.uk
Sun May 25 02:58:46 PDT 2025


Hi all,

I would like to propose officially adding the OWSLib Python library as a project to OSGeoLive. OWSLib is already installed on OSGeoLive and is an OSGeo Community Project. 
A project overview and quickstart are available in a PR at: https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/pull/893
Below hopefully covers all the questions outlined at https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Projects/How_to_apply
I am happy to act as the project liaison. 

Summary
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Name: OWSLib
Description: OWSLib is a Python package for client programming with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service interface standards, and their related content models.
OGC Standards: Client supporting many OGC standards https://owslib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/features.html#standards-support
Homepage: https://owslib.readthedocs.io/
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/OWSLib/
Authors: Sean Gillies, Tom Kralidis, and the OWSLib team
Licence: BSD 3-Clause License - https://owslib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/license.html
Language: Python
Version: 0.33.0 (already installed). 
OpenHub: https://openhub.net/p/OWSLib
Download stats: https://pypistats.org/packages/owslib and https://pepy.tech/projects/owslib
Size: owslib-0.33.0-py3-none-any.whl (240.1 kB)
Contributors: https://github.com/geopython/OWSLib/graphs/contributors and https://openhub.net/p/OWSLib/contributors/summary

In terms of stability, OWSLib has been developed continually since 2007. It is a cornerstone of the geospatial Python ecosystem, and is included in software such as QGIS. In the last month it has been downloaded 150,128 times, and in total 4.93 million times. It has a test suite, with coverage of 60% - https://coveralls.io/builds/73820767.
OWSLib has featured in several FOSS4G conferences, and in workshops such as "Doing Geospatial in Python": https://geopython.github.io/geopython-workshop/

It does not have a user interface, but Jupyter notebooks have been added to allow interaction using a UI. See PRs: https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-Notebooks/pull/34, https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-Notebooks/pull/35, and https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-Notebooks/pull/36. 

Installation
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OWSLib is installed already as part of the base_python.sh script using apt-get install: https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/base_python.sh#L40.
It is packaged as part of UbuntuGIS: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable/+packages?field.name_filter=owslib

Let me know if there are any further details required,

Seth Girvin and the OWSLib team. 


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