Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Vector Tiles API

The Vector Tiles API from Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) — 12 operation(s) for vector tiles.

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Operations 12

GET /tiles Retrieve a list of available vector tilesets for the dataset #

GET /tiles/{tileMatrixSetId} Retrieve the vector tileset metadata for the whole dataset and the specified… #

GET /tiles/{tileMatrixSetId}/{tileMatrix}/{tileRow}/{tileCol} Retrieve a vector tile including one or more collections from the dataset #

GET /styles/{styleId}/tiles Retrieve the list of vector tilesets intended for use with a specified style… #

GET /styles/{styleId}/tiles/{tileMatrixSetId} Retrieve a vector tileset intended for use with a specified style of the whole… #

GET /styles/{styleId}/tiles/{tileMatrixSetId}/{tileMatrix}/{tileRow}/{tileCol} Retrieve vector tiles intended for use with a specified style #

GET /collections/{collectionId}/tiles Retrieve a list of available vector tilesets for the specified collection #

GET /collections/{collectionId}/tiles/{tileMatrixSetId} Retrieve the vector tileset metadata for the specified collection and tiling… #

GET /collections/{collectionId}/tiles/{tileMatrixSetId}/{tileMatrix}/{tileRow}/{tileCol} Retrieve a vector tile from a collection #

GET /collections/{collectionId}/styles/{styleId}/tiles Retrieve a list of vector tilesets for the specified collection intended for… #

GET /collections/{collectionId}/styles/{styleId}/tiles/{tileMatrixSetId} Retrieve the vector tileset metadata for the specified collection, style and… #

GET /collections/{collectionId}/styles/{styleId}/tiles/{tileMatrixSetId}/{tileMatrix}/{tileRow}/{tileCol} Retrieve vector tiles for a specified collection, intended for use with a… #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  version: '1.0'
  title: OGC API - Tiles Vector Tiles API
  description: 'Example API Definition for OGC API - Tiles - 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 - Tiles server
  url: https://maps.ecere.com/ogcapi
tags:


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