Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Data Collections API

The Data Collections API from Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) — 2 operation(s) for data collections.

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Operations 2

GET /collections Retrieve the list of geospatial data collections available from this service #
GET /collections/{collectionId} Retrieve the description of a collection available from this service #

Specifications

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ogc/refs/heads/main/openapi/ogc-data-collections-api-openapi.yml

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Specification
https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/

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OpenAPI Specification

ogc-data-collections-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Ogc Data Collections API
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Open Geospatial Consortium
    email: info@ogc.org
  license:
    name: OGC License
    url: http://www.opengeospatial.org/legal/
  description: 'Operations tagged Data Collections across 3 of this provider''s published API definitions: ogc-dggs-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-dggs-1-bundled.json, ogc-maps-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-maps-1-bundled.json, ogc-tiles-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-tiles-1-bundled.json. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- description: Example OGC API - DGGS server
  url: https://maps.gnosis.earth/ogcapi
- description: Example OGC API - Tiles server
  url: https://maps.ecere.com/ogcapi
tags:


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