ogcapi - openapi - mcp; enable llm's to enter ogcapi's

[pvgenuchten]

modelcontextprotocol is a novel standardisation effort in llm domain. a set of conventions on how llm's exchange information with support services.

OGC API is an interesting supporting platform to llm's as it may provide data sources or capabilities that the llm may not be aware of

The idea that openapi can contribute to llm has already been picked up by openapi-mcp-server

A python sdk to add mcp to a project is available at

A use case; llm identifies the location of the user and sends it to an ogc api to get information about the weather conditions or water quality/temperature at that location.

[C-Loftus]

Noteworthy that you can mount python mcp server to an existing asgi server so afaik I believe you could directly integrate the mcp endpoint in the same pygeoapi server which is cool https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk?tab=readme-ov-file#mounting-to-an-existing-asgi-server