Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Capabilities API

Essential characteristics of the information available from the API.

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ogc-capabilities-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Ogc Capabilities API
  x-refined-note:
  - x-logo differs across the merged source definitions and was not carried
  version: '1.0'
  description: 'Operations tagged Capabilities across 4 of this provider''s published API definitions: ogc-edr-1-1-openapi-ogcapi-environmental-data-retrieval-1-bundled.json, ogc-movingfeatures-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-movingfeatures-1-bundled.json, ogc-processes-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-processes-1.yaml, ogc-records-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-records-1-example-all-in-one.yaml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://example.org/edr
  description: Example OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval server
- description: Example server
  url: http://example.org/ogcapi
- url: https://example.org/data
  description: Production server
- url: https://example.org/data-dev
  description: Development server
tags:


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