Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Records API

access to records

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Operations 1

GET /collections/{catalogId}/items fetch records #

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

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

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OpenAPI Specification

ogc-records-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: 'OGC API - - Part 1: Core Records API'
  version: 1.0.0
  description: 'This is a sample OpenAPI definition that conforms to the conformance

    classes of the "OGC API - Records - Part 1: Core" standard:


    * Searchable Catalog

    * Searchable Catalog - Sorting

    * Local Resources Catalog

    * Local Resources Catalog - Query Parameters

    * Local Resources Catalog - Sorting

    * OpenAPI 3.0


    This example is a generic definition that uses path parameters to

    describe all catalogs and records.'
  contact:
    name: CubeWerx Inc.
    email: pvretano@cubewerx.com
    url: https://www.cubewerx.com
  license:
    name: CC-BY 4.0 license
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
servers:
- url: https://example.org/data
  description: Production server
- url: https://example.org/data-dev
  description: Development server
security:
- openIdConnect: []
tags:


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# Full source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ogc/refs/heads/main/openapi/ogc-records-api-openapi.yml