# HKUST Path Advisor API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/hkust/path-advisor/  
**Provider:** Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — https://apis.io/providers/hkust/  
**Base URL:** https://pathadvisor.ust.hk/api  
**Documentation:** https://pathadvisor.ust.hk/

HKUST Path Advisor API is one of 6 APIs that [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://apis.io/providers/hkust/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include Wayfinding, Campus, Geospatial, Open Data, and Smart Campus. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and 1 JSON Schema.

Public, keyless JSON API behind HKUST Path Advisor, the university's campus wayfinding service. Serves the campus spatial model: 7 buildings, 43 calibrated floor plans with metres-per-pixel and origin offsets, 26 point-of-interest categories, and named nodes carrying GeoJSON MultiPolygon footprints. Runs on HKUST's own domain and network (pathadvisor.ust.hk, 143.89.15.35), names no vendor anywhere in its responses or headers, and answers unauthenticated with Access-Control-Allow-Origin *. One route, /connectors, is gated behind an unpublished authorization scheme. HKUST publishes no OpenAPI for it; the description in this repository was written from live probes on 2026-08-30 and is a third-party observation, not an HKUST artifact.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hkust/refs/heads/main/openapi/hkust-path-advisor-openapi.yml
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hkust/refs/heads/main/json-schema/hkust-path-advisor-node.json
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hkust/refs/heads/main/examples/hkust-path-advisor-examples.yml
- **Errors** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hkust/refs/heads/main/errors/hkust-path-advisor-errors.yml
- **Rules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hkust/refs/heads/main/rules/hkust-path-advisor-rules.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hkust/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Hong Kong University of Science and Technology APIs (5)

- [HKUST API Gateway and API Portal](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/api-gateway/)
- [DataSpace@HKUST Research Data Repository API](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/dataspace/)
- [HKUST Shibboleth Identity Provider](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/identity-federation/)
- [HKUST Library Crossref DOI Registration](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/crossref-doi/)
- [HKUST Open Data Platform](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/open-data-platform/)

## Tags

Wayfinding, Campus, Geospatial, Open Data, Smart Campus

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/hkust/path-advisor/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/hkust/.