FME 2025 OGC Certification Project

Introduction

As part of Safe Software’s ongoing commitment to interoperability, several OGC standards have been certified and recertified in FME 2025. The certification and recertifications ensure that FME’s latest version adheres to OGC’s compliance standards. This article covers Safe Software’s FME 2025 OGC Certification project, outlining what was certified, what was recertified, and how to get certified. If you want to learn more about the OGC certification methodology, read this article.

New Certifications and Recertifications in FME 2025

Safe Software’s vision has always been to help users maximize the value of their data through integration, transformation, and automation. This vision aligns with the OGC’s goal of making location information more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). Safe Software is a Technical Member of the OGC and actively participates in standards working groups (SWGs), domain working groups (DWGs), and OGC pilot projects.

Despite supporting reading and writing many open standards, Safe Software has been working towards obtaining official OGC certifications for the formats supported by FME. This ensures that the data written out by FME is entirely compliant with OGC’s implementation standards.

New Certifications

Pursuing new certifications improves FME’s interoperability and ensures that FME can seamlessly produce and consume OGC standards. The latest certifications that FME 2025 received are listed below.

GeoRSS 1.0
GMLJP2 2.0
CityGML 2.0
IndoorGML 1.0

Recertifications

Updating certifications means that FME 2025 can continue to generate OGC-compliant outputs. The standards below have been recertified with the OGC, enabling continued compliance when using the formats in FME workflows.

GML 3.2
KML 2.2
GeoTIFF 1.1
GeoPackage 1.2

How does FME get certified?

To become certified in a format, FME needs to be able to handle writing in that format properly. The written output must then pass the OGC’s TEAM Engine test suite. Passing the test indicates that the output written by FME fully complies with OGC standards. Using the successful test session, Safe is able to apply for FME to be certified compliant in that format. At this point, the OGC will process the application, certify the standard that successfully passed the test suite, and note the version of FME used. Learn more about how to validate FME output data against OGC standards here.

Terminology

OGC	The OGC is the Open Geospatial Consortium, an international body tasked with maintaining and developing open standards for geospatial data.
GML	Geography Markup Language. XML encoding for transport and storage of geographic information.
KML	Keyhole Markup Language. XML encoding for transporting representations of geographic data for display in an earth browser such as Google Earth.
GeoPackage	Open standard from OGC designed to be used with mobile devices, using SQLite as an underlying data container.
GeoTIFF	A raster file with elevation data or image files containing color data.
GeoRSS	Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS. XML feed with spatial information included using one of the three methods: W3C Geo, GeoRSS simple, and GML.
GMLJP2	GML in JPEG 2000. Geospatial image format embedding GML metadata inside JPEG 2000 image files, allowing for raster data, coordinate system, and georeferencing information to be stored as one file.
CityGML	XML-based format for storing and exchanging 3D urban models.
IndoorGML	XML schema for modelling indoor spaces for navigation purposes.