1.3 What is WFS?
The OGC Web Feature Service Interface Standard (WFS) provides an interface allowing requests for
geographical features across the web using platform-independent calls.
The basic Web Feature Service allows querying and retrieval of features. A transactional Web Feature Service
(WFS-T) allows creation, deletion, and updating of features.
The WFS describes discovery, query, or data transformation operations. The client generates the request and
posts it to a web feature server using HTTPS. The web feature server then executes the request. The WFS
specification uses HTTPS as the distributed computing platform, although this is not a hard requirement.