Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Instance data queries API

Data queries available on instances of the collection.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 16

GET /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/position Query end point for position queries of instance {instanceId} of collection… #
POST /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/position Query end point for position queries of instance {instanceId} of collection… #
GET /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/radius Query end point to return data within defined radius of a point for an instance… #
POST /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/radius Query end point to return data within defined radius of a point for an instance… #
GET /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/area Query end point for area queries of instance {instanceId} of collection… #
POST /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/area Query end point for area queries of instance {instanceId} of collection… #
GET /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/cube Query end point for Cube queries of instance {instanceId} of collection… #
POST /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/cube Query end point for Cube queries of instance {instanceId} of collection… #
GET /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/trajectory Query end point for trajectory queries of instance {instanceId} of collection… #
POST /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/trajectory Query end point for trajectory queries of instance {instanceId} of collection… #
GET /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/corridor Query end point for Corridor queries of instance {instanceId} of collection… #
POST /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/corridor Query end point for Corridor queries of instance {instanceId} of collection… #
GET /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/locations List available location identifers for the instance #
POST /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/locations List available location identifers for the instance #
GET /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/locations/{locId} Query end point for queries of instance {instanceId} of collection… #
POST /collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/locations/{locId} Query end point for queries of instance {instanceId} of collection… #

Specifications

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

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

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OpenAPI Specification

ogc-instance-data-queries-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval Standard Instance…
  description: Example of OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval Standard OpenAPI document
  version: 1.1.0
  license:
    name: OGC License
    url: https://www.ogc.org/legal
servers:
- url: https://example.org/edr
  description: Example OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval server
tags:


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