# Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Instance data queries API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ogc/ogc-instance-data-queries-api/  
**Provider:** Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) — https://apis.io/providers/ogc/  
**Base URL:** https://www.example.org/edr  
**Documentation:** https://ogcapi.ogc.org/common/

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Instance data queries API is one of 38 APIs that [Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)](https://apis.io/providers/ogc/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Instance data queries. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

Data queries available on instances of the collection.

## Operations (16)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/position` | Query end point for position queries of instance {instanceId} of collection {collectionId} |
| POST | `/collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/position` | Query end point for position queries of instance {instanceId} of collection {collectionId} |
| GET | `/collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/radius` | Query end point to return data within defined radius of a point for an instance {instanceId} of collection {collectionId} |
| POST | `/collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/radius` | Query end point to return data within defined radius of a point for an instance {instanceId} of collection {collectionId} |
| GET | `/collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/area` | Query end point for area queries of instance {instanceId} of collection {collectionId} defined by a polygon |
| POST | `/collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/area` | Query end point for area queries of instance {instanceId} of collection {collectionId} defined by a polygon |
| GET | `/collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/cube` | Query end point for Cube queries of instance {instanceId} of collection {collectionId} defined by a cube |
| POST | `/collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/cube` | Query end point for Cube queries of instance {instanceId} of collection {collectionId} defined by a cube |
| GET | `/collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/trajectory` | Query end point for trajectory queries of instance {instanceId} of collection {collectionId} defined by a wkt linestring and a iso8601 time period |
| POST | `/collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/trajectory` | Query end point for trajectory queries of instance {instanceId} of collection {collectionId} defined by a wkt linestring and a iso8601 time period |
| GET | `/collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/corridor` | Query end point for Corridor queries of instance {instanceId} of collection {collectionId} defined by a polygon |
| POST | `/collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/corridor` | Query end point for Corridor queries of instance {instanceId} of collection {collectionId} defined by a polygon |
| 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 {collectionId} defined by a location id |
| POST | `/collections/{collectionId}/instances/{instanceId}/locations/{locId}` | Query end point for queries of instance {instanceId} of collection {collectionId} defined by a location id |

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ogc/refs/heads/main/openapi/ogc-instance-data-queries-api-openapi.yml
- **Specification** — https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/

## Other Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) APIs (12)

- [Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) API](https://apis.io/apis/ogc/ogc-api-api/)
- [Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Capabilities API](https://apis.io/apis/ogc/ogc-capabilities-api/)
- [Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Collection API](https://apis.io/apis/ogc/ogc-collection-api/)
- [Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Collection data queries API](https://apis.io/apis/ogc/ogc-collection-data-queries-api/)
- [Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Collection metadata API](https://apis.io/apis/ogc/ogc-collection-metadata-api/)
- [Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Collections API](https://apis.io/apis/ogc/ogc-collections-api/)
- [Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Conformance API](https://apis.io/apis/ogc/ogc-conformance-api/)
- [Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Conformance Declaration API](https://apis.io/apis/ogc/ogc-conformancedeclaration-api/)
- [Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Coverage Tiles API](https://apis.io/apis/ogc/ogc-coverage-tiles-api/)
- [Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Custom Projection CRS API](https://apis.io/apis/ogc/ogc-custom-projection-crs-api/)
- [Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Data Collections API](https://apis.io/apis/ogc/ogc-data-collections-api/)
- [Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) DGGRS Description API](https://apis.io/apis/ogc/ogc-dggrs-description-api/)

## Tags

Instance data queries

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