Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) DGGRS Description API
The DGGRS Description API from Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) — 6 operation(s) for dggrs description.
The DGGRS Description API from Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) — 6 operation(s) for dggrs description.
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
version: '1.0'
title: OGC API - Discrete Global Grid Systems DGGRS Description API
description: 'Example API Definition for OGC API - DGGS - Part 1: Core'
contact:
name: Open Geospatial Consortium
email: info@ogc.org
license:
name: OGC License
url: http://www.opengeospatial.org/legal/
servers:
- description: Example OGC API - DGGS server
url: https://maps.gnosis.earth/ogcapi
tags:
- name: DGGRS Description
paths:
/dggs:
get:
tags:
- DGGRS Description
summary: Retrieve the list of available DGGRSs
operationId: .dataset.getDGGRSList
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/f-metadata'
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/components/responses/DGGSList'
'406':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotAcceptable'
'500':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
/dggs/{dggrsId}:
get:
tags:
- DGGRS Description
summary: Retrieve the description of the specified Discrete Global Grid Reference System
operationId: .dataset.getDGGRS
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/dggrsId'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/f-metadata'
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/components/responses/DGGRS'
'404':
description: The requested DGGS id was not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/exception'
'406':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotAcceptable'
'500':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
/dggs/{dggrsId}/zones/{zoneId}:
get:
tags:
- DGGRS Description
summary: Retrieve information about a DGGRS Zone, such as geometry and data availability.
operationId: .dataset.getDGGRSZoneInfo
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/dggrsId'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/zoneId'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/collections'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/datetime'
responses:
'200':
description: 'DGGRS zone information returned as a response, potentially including id, geometry, links to DGGRS (rel: dggrs), dataset, (rel: dataset), collection (rel: geodata), data (rel: dggrs-zone-data) (if available for this zone)'
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/zone-info'
application/geo+json:
schema:
allOf:
- format: geojson-feature
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/zone-info/properties/geometry/allOf/1'
'404':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
'406':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotAcceptable'
'500':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
/collections/{collectionId}/dggs:
get:
tags:
- DGGRS Description
summary: Retrieve the list of available DGGRS for the specified collection
operationId: .collection.getDGGRSList
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/f-metadata'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/collectionId-all'
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/components/responses/DGGSList'
'404':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
'406':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotAcceptable'
'500':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
/collections/{collectionId}/dggs/{dggrsId}:
get:
tags:
- DGGRS Description
summary: Retrieve the description of the specified Discrete Global Grid Reference System in the context of a specified collection
operationId: .collection.getDGGRS
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/dggrsId'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/f-metadata'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/collectionId-all'
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/components/responses/DGGRS'
'404':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
'406':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotAcceptable'
'500':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
/collections/{collectionId}/dggs/{dggrsId}/zones/{zoneId}:
get:
tags:
- DGGRS Description
summary: Retrieve information about a DGGRS Zone, such as geometry and data availability, in the context of a specific collection.
operationId: .collection.getDGGRSZoneInfo
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/dggrsId'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/zoneId'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/collectionId-all'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/collections'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/datetime'
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/paths/~1dggs~1%7BdggrsId%7D~1zones~1%7BzoneId%7D/get/responses/200'
'404':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
'406':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotAcceptable'
'500':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
components:
schemas:
zone-info:
title: Information for a specific Discrete Global Grid System zone
description: Zone information for a particular zone of a DGGS, including useful information such as zone geometry, data access links and statistics
type: object
required:
- id
- links
properties:
id:
description: Zone identifier based on the DGGRS.
type: string
links:
description: Links to related resources. A `[ogc-rel:dggrs-zone-data]` link to retrieve data for this zone and a `[ogc-rel:dggrs]` back to the `.../dggs` resource must be included.
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/link'
shapeType:
description: The type of shape for the zone geometry (e.g., hexagon or pentagon)
type: string
level:
description: The refinement level of this zone
type: integer
minimum: 0
crs:
description: The Coordinate Reference System in which the geometry, centroid and bbox properties are specified
type: string
format: uri
default: '[OGC:CRS84]'
centroid:
description: The centroid of the zone, in the CRS specified in crs property
type: array
items:
type: number
minItems: 2
maxItems: 3
bbox:
description: The spatial envelope of the zone (bounding box), in the CRS specified in crs property
type: array
items:
type: number
minItems: 4
maxItems: 6
areaMetersSquare:
description: Surface area of the zone in meters square.
type: number
volumeMetersCube:
description: Volume of the zone in meters cube for a DGGS with three spatial dimension.
type: number
temporalDurationSeconds:
description: Amount of time covered by the zone for a temporal DGGS.
type: number
geometry:
description: Spatial geometry of the zone.
allOf:
- format: geometry-polygon
- title: GeoJSON Polygon Feature
type: object
required:
- type
- properties
- geometry
properties:
type:
type: string
enum:
- Feature
id:
oneOf:
- type: number
- type: string
properties:
type:
- object
- 'null'
geometry:
title: GeoJSON Polygon geometry
type: object
required:
- type
- coordinates
properties:
type:
type: string
enum:
- Polygon
coordinates:
type: array
items:
type: array
minItems: 4
items:
type: array
minItems: 2
items:
type: number
bbox:
type: array
minItems: 4
items:
type: number
bbox:
type: array
minItems: 4
items:
type: number
temporalInterval:
description: Sart and end time of the zone.
type: array
items:
type: string
minItems: 2
maxItems: 2
statistics:
type: object
description: Statistics for individual fields of the data (e.g., fields of the range of a coverage, or relevant numeric properties of a feature collection)
additionalProperties:
type: object
properties:
minimum:
type: number
maximum:
type: number
average:
type: number
stdDev:
type: number
dggrs-item:
title: Discrete Global Grid Reference System description (item)
description: A minimal Discrete Global Grid Reference System element for use within a list of DGGRS linking to a full description.
type: object
required:
- id
- title
- links
properties:
id:
description: Local DGGRS identifier consistent with the `{dggrsId}` parameter of `/dggs/{dggrsId}` resources.
type: string
title:
description: Title of this Discrete Global Grid System, normally used for display to a human
type: string
uri:
description: Identifier for this Discrete Global Grid Reference System registered with an authority.
type: string
format: uri
links:
description: Links to related resources. A `self` link to the Discrete Global Grid Reference System description and an `[ogc-rel:dggrs-definition]` link to the DGGRS definition (using the schema defined by https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/dggs/1.0/core/schemas/dggrs-definition/dggrs-definition-proposed.yaml) are required.
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/link'
exception:
title: Exception Schema
description: JSON schema for exceptions based on RFC 7807
type: object
required:
- type
properties:
type:
type: string
title:
type: string
status:
type: integer
detail:
type: string
instance:
type: string
dggrs:
title: Discrete Global Grid Reference System description
description: A description of a Discrete Global Grid Reference System provided by the API.
type: object
required:
- id
- title
- description
- defaultDepth
- links
properties:
id:
description: Local DGGRS identifier consistent with the `{dggrsId}` parameter of `/dggs/{dggrsId}` resources.
type: string
title:
description: Title of this Discrete Global Grid Rfeference System, intended for displaying to a human
type: string
description:
description: Brief narrative description of this Discrete Global Grid System, normally available for display to a human
type: string
keywords:
description: Unordered list of one or more commonly used or formalized word(s) or phrase(s) used to describe this Discrete Global Grid Reference System
type: array
items:
type: string
uri:
description: Identifier for this Discrete Global Grid Reference System registered with an authority.
type: string
format: uri
crs:
allOf:
- description: Coordinate Reference System (CRS) used by this DGGS (mandatory if applicable), specified as a URI if one exists.
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/crs'
defaultDepth:
description: "The default zone depth returned for zone data retrieval when the `zone-depth` parameter is not used. This is the DGGS resolution levels beyond the requested DGGS zone’s hierarchy level included in the response, when retrieving data for a particular zone. This can be either: • A single positive integer value — representing a specific zone depth to return e.g., `5`; • A range of positive integer values in the form “{low}-{high}” — representing a\n continuous range of zone depths to return e.g., `1-8`; or,\n• A comma separated list of at least two (2) positive integer values — representing a\n set of specific zone depths to return e.g., `1,3,7`.\n A particular data encoding imply a particular zone depth and not support the default zone depth specified here,\n in which case the default zone depth (or the only possible depth) for that encoding will be used."
oneOf:
- type: integer
minimum: 0
- type: string
description: A comma separated list of positive integers, or a {min}-{max} range of relative zone depths
maxRefinementLevel:
type: integer
minimum: 0
description: The maximum refinement level at which the full resolution of the data can be retrieved for this DGGRS and origin (using a `zone-depth` relative depth of 0) and/or used for performing the most accurate zone queries (using that value for `zone-level`)
maxRelativeDepth:
type: integer
minimum: 0
description: The maximum relative depth at which the full resolution of the data can be retrieved for this DGGRS and origin
links:
description: Links to related resources. A `self` link to the Discrete Global Grid Reference System description and an `[ogc-rel:dggrs-definition]` link to the DGGRS definition (using the schema defined by https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/dggs/1.0/core/schemas/dggrs-definition/dggrs-definition-proposed.yaml) are required. An `[ogc-rel:dggrs-zone-query]` link to query DGGS zones should also be included if _DGGS Zone Query_ is supported.
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/link'
linkTemplates:
description: Templated Links to related resources. A templated `[ogc-rel:dggrs-zone-data]` link to retrieve data should be included if _DGGS Zone Data_ is supported.
type: array
items:
type: object
required:
- uriTemplate
- rel
properties:
uriTemplate:
type: string
description: Supplies the URL template to a remote resource (or resource fragment), with template variables surrounded by curly brackets (`{` `}`).
example: http://data.example.com/buildings/{featureId}
rel:
type: string
description: The type or semantics of the relation.
example: alternate
type:
type: string
description: A hint indicating what the media type of the result of dereferencing the link templates should be.
example: application/geo+json
varBase:
description: A base path to retrieve semantic information about the variables used in URL template.
type: string
example: /ogcapi/vars/
hreflang:
type: string
description: A hint indicating what the language of the result of dereferencing the link should be.
example: en
title:
type: string
description: Used to label the destination of a link template such that it can be used as a human-readable identifier.
example: Trierer Strasse 70, 53115 Bonn
length:
type: integer
link:
type: object
required:
- href
- rel
properties:
href:
type: string
description: Supplies the URI to a remote resource (or resource fragment).
example: http://data.example.com/buildings/123
rel:
type: string
description: The type or semantics of the relation.
example: alternate
type:
type: string
description: A hint indicating what the media type of the result of dereferencing the link should be.
example: application/geo+json
hreflang:
type: string
description: A hint indicating what the language of the result of dereferencing the link should be.
example: en
title:
type: string
description: Used to label the destination of a link such that it can be used as a human-readable identifier.
example: Trierer Strasse 70, 53115 Bonn
length:
type: integer
all-collections:
type: string
enum:
- SRTM_ViewFinderPanorama
- NaturalEarth:cultural:ne_10m_admin_0_countries
- HRDEM-Ottawa
- HRDEM-RedRiver
- blueMarble
- NaturalEarth:raster:HYP_HR_SR_OB_DR
- NaturalEarth:physical:bathymetry
all-dggrs:
type: string
enum:
- ISEA3H
- ISEA9R
- GNOSISGlobalGrid
- OpenEAGGR
- rHEALPix
- H3
- GeoSOT
crs:
title: CRS
oneOf:
- description: String representing the CRS, as a URI when possible
type: string
- type: object
description: JSON encoding for Well-known text representation of coordinate reference systems 2.0
parameters:
collectionId-all:
name: collectionId
in: path
description: Local identifier of a collection
required: true
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/all-collections'
datetime:
name: datetime
in: query
description: 'Either a date-time or an interval. Date and time expressions adhere to RFC 3339, section 5.6. Intervals may be bounded or half-bounded (double-dots at start or end). Server implementations may or may not support times expressed using time offsets from UTC, but need to support UTC time with the notation ending with a Z.
Examples:
* A date-time: "2018-02-12T23:20:50Z" * A bounded interval: "2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/2018-03-18T12:31:12Z" * Half-bounded intervals: "2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/.." or "../2018-03-18T12:31:12Z"
Only resources that have a temporal property that intersects the value of `datetime` are selected.
If a feature has multiple temporal properties, it is the decision of the server whether only a single temporal property is used to determine the extent or all relevant temporal properties.'
required: false
schema:
type: string
style: form
explode: false
collections:
name: collections
in: query
style: form
description: The collections that should be included in the response. The parameter value is a comma-separated list of collection identifiers. If the parameters is missing, some or all collections will be included. This parameter may be useful for dataset-wide DGGS resources, but it is not defined by OGC API - DGGS - Part 1.
required: false
explode: false
schema:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/all-collections'
dggrsId:
name: dggrsId
in: path
description: Identifier for a supported Discrete Global Grid System
required: true
allowEmptyValue: false
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/all-dggrs'
f-metadata:
name: f
in: query
description: The format of the response. If no value is provided, the accept header is used to determine the format. Accepted values are 'json' or 'html'.
required: false
schema:
type: string
enum:
- json
- html
style: form
explode: false
zoneId:
name: zoneId
in: path
description: Identifier for a specific zone of a Discrete Global Grid Systems. This identifier usually includes a component corresponding to a hierarchy level / scale / resolution, components identifying a spatial region, and a optionally a temporal component.
required: true
schema:
type: string
example: B2-1-A
responses:
NotFound:
description: The requested resource does not exist on the server. For example, a path parameter had an incorrect value.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/exception'
text/html:
schema:
type: string
ServerError:
description: A server error occurred.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/exception'
text/html:
schema:
type: string
DGGSList:
description: List of available Discrete Global Grid Reference Systems.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
required:
- dggrs
properties:
links:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/link'
dggrs:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/dggrs-item'
text/html:
schema:
type: string
NotAcceptable:
description: Content negotiation failed. For example, the `Accept` header submitted in the request did not support any of the media types supported by the server for the requested resource.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/exception'
text/html:
schema:
type: string
DGGRS:
description: Description for a specific Discrete Global Grid Reference System.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/dggrs'
text/html:
schema:
type: string