Flanders Marine Institute

The Flanders Marine Institute (Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee, VLIZ) is the Belgian coordination and information platform for marine research, and the operator of Marine Regions, the World Register of Marine Species gazetteer infrastructure and the EMODnet data portals. Its geospatial estate is one of the largest openly callable marine OGC surfaces in Europe.

Flanders Marine Institute publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Geospatial, OGC, WMS, WFS, and Open Access.

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5.9/100 minimal Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

1 APIs

Geospatial OGC WMS WFS Open Access GIS

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Composite quality — 5.9/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Flanders Marine Institute OGC Web Services (WMS / WFS)

OGC-standard web services served from a GeoServer instance. Verified anonymously on 2026-08-20: a WMS 1.3.0 GetCapabilities document declaring 1146 layers and a WFS 2.0.0 GetCap...

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Company 1

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: flanders-marine-institute
name: Flanders Marine Institute
type: Index
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-20'
modified: '2026-08-20'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flanders-marine-institute/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
description: The Flanders Marine Institute (Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee, VLIZ) is the Belgian coordination and information
  platform for marine research, and the operator of Marine Regions, the World Register of Marine Species gazetteer infrastructure
  and the EMODnet data portals. Its geospatial estate is one of the largest openly callable marine OGC surfaces in Europe.
x-ogc-member:
  level: Explorer
  member_type: Non-Profit
  country: Belgium
  source: https://portal.ogc.org/services/srv_active_members_csv_new.php
tags:
- Geospatial
- OGC
- WMS
- WFS
- Open Access
- GIS
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://geo.vliz.be/
apis:
- aid: flanders-marine-institute:ogc-web-services
  name: Flanders Marine Institute OGC Web Services (WMS / WFS)
  description: 'OGC-standard web services served from a GeoServer instance. Verified anonymously on 2026-08-20: a WMS 1.3.0
    GetCapabilities document declaring 1146 layers and a WFS 2.0.0 GetCapabilities document declaring 651 feature types returned
    HTTP 200 and is saved here verbatim. These GetCapabilities documents are the machine-readable contract for this surface
    — there is no OpenAPI for the classic OGC services.'
  humanURL: https://geo.vliz.be/
  baseURL: https://geo.vliz.be/geoserver/ows
  tags:
  - Geospatial
  - OGC
  - WMS
  - WFS
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: GetCapabilities
    url: openapi/flanders-marine-institute-wms-capabilities.xml
  - type: WMS
    url: https://geo.vliz.be/geoserver/ows?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.3.0
  - type: GetCapabilities
    url: openapi/flanders-marine-institute-wfs-capabilities.xml
  - type: WFS
    url: https://geo.vliz.be/geoserver/ows?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities&version=2.0.0