Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Tiling Schemes API
The Tiling Schemes API from Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) — 2 operation(s) for tiling schemes.
The Tiling Schemes API from Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) — 2 operation(s) for tiling schemes.
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Ogc Tiling Schemes 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 Tiling Schemes across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: 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 - Maps server
url: https://maps.gnosis.earth/ogcapi
- description: Example OGC API - Tiles server
url: https://maps.ecere.com/ogcapi
tags:
- name: Tiling Schemes
paths:
/tileMatrixSets:
get:
tags:
- Tiling Schemes
summary: Retrieve the list of available tiling schemes (tile matrix sets)
operationId: getTileMatrixSetsList
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/f-metadata'
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/components/responses/TileMatrixSetsList'
'406':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotAcceptable'
'500':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
servers:
- description: Example OGC API - Maps server
url: https://maps.gnosis.earth/ogcapi
/tileMatrixSets/{tileMatrixSetId}:
get:
tags:
- Tiling Schemes
summary: Retrieve the definition of the specified tiling scheme (tile matrix set)
operationId: getTileMatrixSet
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/tileMatrixSetId'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/f-metadata'
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/components/responses/TileMatrixSet'
'404':
description: The requested tile matrix set id was not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/exception'
'406':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotAcceptable'
'500':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
servers:
- description: Example OGC API - Maps server
url: https://maps.gnosis.earth/ogcapi
components:
schemas:
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
2DPoint:
description: A 2D Point in the CRS indicated elsewhere
type: array
minItems: 2
maxItems: 2
items:
type: number
tileMatrixSet-item:
title: Tile Matrix Set Item
description: A minimal tile matrix set element for use within a list of tile matrix sets linking to a full definition.
type: object
required:
- links
properties:
id:
description: Optional local tile matrix set identifier, e.g. for use as unspecified `{tileMatrixSetId}` parameter. Implementation of 'identifier'
type: string
title:
description: Title of this tile matrix set, normally used for display to a human
type: string
uri:
description: Reference to an official source for this tileMatrixSet
type: string
format: uri
crs:
allOf:
- description: Coordinate Reference System (CRS)
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/crs'
links:
description: Links to related resources. A 'self' link to the tile matrix set definition is required.
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/link'
tileMatrixSets:
type: string
enum:
- WebMercatorQuad
- WorldCRS84Quad
- GNOSISGlobalGrid
- WorldMercatorWGS84Quad
tileMatrixSet:
title: Tile Matrix Set Definition
description: A definition of a tile matrix set following the Tile Matrix Set standard. For tileset metadata, such a description (in `tileMatrixSet` property) is only required for offline use, as an alternative to a link with a `http://www.opengis.net/def/rel/ogc/1.0/tiling-scheme` relation type.
type: object
required:
- crs
- tileMatrices
properties:
title:
description: Title of this tile matrix set, normally used for display to a human
type: string
description:
description: Brief narrative description of this tile matrix set, 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 tile matrix set
type: array
items:
type: string
id:
description: Tile matrix set identifier. Implementation of 'identifier'
type: string
uri:
description: Reference to an official source for this tileMatrixSet
type: string
format: uri
orderedAxes:
type: array
minItems: 1
items:
type: string
crs:
allOf:
- description: Coordinate Reference System (CRS)
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/crs'
wellKnownScaleSet:
description: Reference to a well-known scale set
type: string
format: uri
boundingBox:
allOf:
- description: Minimum bounding rectangle surrounding the tile matrix set, in the supported CRS
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/2DBoundingBox'
tileMatrices:
type: array
description: Describes scale levels and its tile matrices
items:
description: A tile matrix, usually corresponding to a particular zoom level of a TileMatrixSet.
type: object
required:
- id
- scaleDenominator
- cellSize
- pointOfOrigin
- tileWidth
- tileHeight
- matrixWidth
- matrixHeight
properties:
title:
description: Title of this tile matrix, normally used for display to a human
type: string
description:
description: Brief narrative description of this tile matrix set, 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 dataset
type: array
items:
type: string
id:
description: Identifier selecting one of the scales defined in the TileMatrixSet and representing the scaleDenominator the tile. Implementation of 'identifier'
type: string
scaleDenominator:
description: Scale denominator of this tile matrix
type: number
cellSize:
description: Cell size of this tile matrix
type: number
cornerOfOrigin:
description: The corner of the tile matrix (_topLeft_ or _bottomLeft_) used as the origin for numbering tile rows and columns. This corner is also a corner of the (0, 0) tile.
type: string
enum:
- topLeft
- bottomLeft
default: topLeft
pointOfOrigin:
allOf:
- description: Precise position in CRS coordinates of the corner of origin (e.g. the top-left corner) for this tile matrix. This position is also a corner of the (0, 0) tile. In previous version, this was 'topLeftCorner' and 'cornerOfOrigin' did not exist.
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/2DPoint'
tileWidth:
type: number
description: Width of each tile of this tile matrix in pixels
format: integer
minimum: 1
multipleOf: 1
tileHeight:
type: number
description: Height of each tile of this tile matrix in pixels
format: integer
minimum: 1
multipleOf: 1
matrixHeight:
type: number
description: Width of the matrix (number of tiles in width)
format: integer
minimum: 1
multipleOf: 1
matrixWidth:
type: number
description: Height of the matrix (number of tiles in height)
format: integer
minimum: 1
multipleOf: 1
variableMatrixWidths:
description: Describes the rows that has variable matrix width
type: array
items:
description: Variable Matrix Width data structure
type: object
required:
- coalesce
- minTileRow
- maxTileRow
properties:
coalesce:
description: Number of tiles in width that coalesce in a single tile for these rows
type: number
format: integer
minimum: 2
multipleOf: 1
minTileRow:
description: First tile row where the coalescence factor applies for this tilematrix
type: number
format: integer
minimum: 0
multipleOf: 1
maxTileRow:
description: Last tile row where the coalescence factor applies for this tilematrix
type: number
format: integer
minimum: 0
multipleOf: 1
crs:
title: CRS
oneOf:
- description: Simplification of the object into a url if the other properties are not present
type: string
- type: object
oneOf:
- required:
- uri
properties:
uri:
description: Reference to one coordinate reference system (CRS)
type: string
format: uri
- required:
- wkt
properties:
wkt:
allOf:
- description: An object defining the CRS using the JSON encoding for Well-known text representation of coordinate reference systems 2.0
- type: object
- required:
- referenceSystem
properties:
referenceSystem:
description: A reference system data structure as defined in the MD_ReferenceSystem of the ISO 19115
type: object
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
templated:
type: boolean
description: This flag set to true if the link is a URL template.
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 such that it can be used as a human-readable identifier.
example: Trierer Strasse 70, 53115 Bonn
length:
type: integer
2DBoundingBox:
description: Minimum bounding rectangle surrounding a 2D resource in the CRS indicated elsewhere
type: object
required:
- lowerLeft
- upperRight
properties:
lowerLeft:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/2DPoint'
upperRight:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/2DPoint'
crs:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/crs'
orderedAxes:
type: array
minItems: 2
maxItems: 2
items:
type: string
parameters:
tileMatrixSetId:
name: tileMatrixSetId
in: path
description: Identifier for a supported TileMatrixSet
required: true
allowEmptyValue: false
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/tileMatrixSets'
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
responses:
TileMatrixSetsList:
description: List of tile matrix sets (tiling schemes).
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
tileMatrixSets:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/tileMatrixSet-item'
text/html:
schema:
type: string
ServerError:
description: A server error occurred.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/exception'
text/html:
schema:
type: string
TileMatrixSet:
description: tile matrix set
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/tileMatrixSet'
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
x-refined-from:
- ogc-maps-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-maps-1-bundled.json
- ogc-tiles-part1-1-0-openapi-ogcapi-tiles-1-bundled.json