Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 7 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready

Amazon SageMaker Geospatial APIAPIs for creating and managing Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities including earth observation jobs an...76.6 ArcGIS API for PythonThe ArcGIS API for Python provides a Pythonic interface for GIS capabilities including data management, spa...75.0 ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScriptThe ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript enables web developers to build compelling 2D and 3D mapping application...75.0 ArcGIS Server OGC Web ServicesArcGIS Server publishes any map or feature service through the OGC interfaces - WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS and KML...75.0 Esri ArcGIS Platform APIThe Esri ArcGIS Platform API is a set of REST APIs and SDKs from Esri, provider of the ArcGIS GIS suite. It...75.0 Google EarthAccess Google Earth geospatial data and imagery analysis capabilities for developers.73.6 Maps Datasets APIUpload, manage, and serve custom geospatial datasets for use with Google Maps Platform.73.6

Strong 10 Solid coverage with minor gaps

Terrain Pro APITerabase Energy's terrain analysis and solar site-planning API, used by the Terrain Pro application for ele...63.3 Swisscom Dwell Times APIMobility Insights API returning a frequency distribution of observed dwell times per 500m x 500m tile per d...59.7 Swisscom Heatmaps APIMobility Insights API returning estimated population density per 100m x 100m tile per hour across the whole...59.7 Swisscom Origin Destination APIMobility Insights API estimating the number of trips people make between two Swiss regions for weekdays and...59.7 Second Life Map APIEmbeds an interactive map of the Second Life world into a web page. A Leaflet-based JavaScript component (S...59.5 Consumers Energy Outage Map ArcGIS REST APIConsumers Energy publishes its outage map data as an anonymous Esri ArcGIS Server 11.5 REST Services Direct...56.9 Moody's Location Intelligence APILocation Intelligence API delivers more than 100 data layers across multiple kinds of data including hazard...55.8 SYNTHORA Live World Map APIPublic, credential-free JSON behind the mundo.hergertsynthora.com 3D globe: GET /mapstate returns the live ...54.5 Hexagon GeoCloud GraphQL APIThe federated GraphQL API behind Hexagon GeoCloud (formerly HxDR / Reality Cloud Studio) for uploading, pro...54.4 Hexagon GeoCloud MCP ServerA remote Model Context Protocol endpoint served from the Hexagon GeoCloud web property and discoverable thr...54.4

Developing 26 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Landmark Geodata Web Map Tile Service (WMTS)On-demand raster mapping tile service delivered against the Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Tile Service...54.1 Landmark Planning API (powered by Barbour ABI)RESTful planning-application data API combining Barbour ABI project information with Landmark geospatial da...54.1 INRIX Fuel Stations APIFuel station locations, brands, amenities and current fuel prices by grade, searchable by bounding box, rad...51.8 Mapbox Tilequery APIThe Mapbox Tilequery API allows you to retrieve data about specific features from a vector tileset, based o...50.7 Mapbox Uploads APIThe Mapbox Uploads API transforms geographic data into tilesets that can be used with maps and geographic a...50.7 TELUS Insights Location APIThe TELUS Insights Location API exposes de-identified, aggregated geo-intelligence derived from the TELUS m...49.0 Kinetica Database REST APIPOST-only JSON REST API exposed by every Kinetica deployment on port 9191. Endpoints cover SQL execution (/...48.8 TomTom WMS / WMTS APIThe WMS / WMTS API from TomTom — 3 operation(s) for wms / wmts.48.2 SPP Price Contour Map ArcGIS REST ServicesAn Esri ArcGIS Server REST directory serving the geospatial layers behind SPP's price contour map. Confirme...47.0 CARTO Maps APIServes vector tables, SQL-query-backed tilesets, tileset sources, and raster/H3/quadbin tilesets for visual...45.8 OpenStreetMap Overpass APIThe Overpass API is a read-only database engine for complex geospatial queries against the OSM dataset. Acc...45.5 Foursquare Studio Data APIAPI for managing datasets, maps, and visualizations within Foursquare Studio for geospatial analytics.45.1 Statistics Finland Geographic Data Interfaces (WMS/WFS)Open geographic data of Statistics Finland served over OGC WMS and WFS from GeoServer at geo.stat.fi.44.6 ASCE GIS REST ServicesThe ASCE ArcGIS Server instance at gis.asce.org publishes the hazard map, image and geoprocessing services ...44.3 WingtraCLOUD APIThe versioned REST API the WingtraCLOUD browser client at cloud.wingtra.com calls — sites, flights, drones,...44.2 Cognite Geospatial APIThe Geospatial API allows to model a problem domain when data has a geometric or geographic nature. The geo...43.3 Stadia Maps Geospatial APIThe Geospatial API from Stadia Maps — 1 operation(s) for geospatial.43.2 Aristocles Pty Ltd Geospatial APIProvides a lookup for all Australian postcodes, mapping them to suburbs, states, and precise latitude/longi...42.8 Kinematica APIHTTP/JSON API for Advanced Navigation's Kinematica cloud GNSS/INS post-processing kinematic (PPK) service. ...42.1 Texas A&M IT ArcGIS REST ServicesPublic Esri ArcGIS Server operated by Texas A&M IT, serving campus base maps, ADA routes, construction, dep...41.3 BLM Geospatial Business Platform (GBP) HubThe BLM Geospatial Business Platform is a public tool and publication platform for exploring and downloadin...41.2 BLM National and State ArcGIS REST / OGC WMS ServicesBLM's own ArcGIS Server estate, operated on blm.gov infrastructure rather than a hosted platform: thirteen ...41.2 MapTiler Elevation APIThe Elevation API from MapTiler — 1 operation(s) for elevation.40.3 DataBC Public OGC Web Services (WMS/WFS)DataBC's public OGC endpoint serves the spatial half of the BC Data Catalogue: 895 queryable WMS 1.3.0 laye...39.8 AlphaGeo Data APIPublic REST API for programmatically accessing AlphaGeo climate risk scoring data for global locations and ...39.3 USDA ERS Geospatial APIsIntegrate ERS map layers into the GIS package of your choice, on their own or mashed up with other geospati...39.3

Thin 50 Limited public surface area

OneAtlas Basemap APIOneAtlas Basemap API is a geospatial service that provides access to high-resolution satellite imagery and ...37.9 OneAtlas Data Living LibraryOneAtlas Data Living Library is a platform that provides users with access to a diverse range of geospatial...37.9 OneAtlas Data Pay-Per-Order APIThe OneAtlas Data Pay-Per-Order API is a powerful tool that enables users to access and purchase high-resol...37.9 OneAtlas Data Pay-Per-Order Tasking APIThe OneAtlas Data Pay-Per-Order Tasking API allows users to directly request high-resolution satellite imag...37.9 OneAtlas Radar APIOneAtlas Radar API is a powerful tool that allows developers to access and integrate radar satellite data i...37.9 BPA GIS Data Hub APIThe BPA GIS Data Hub provides publicly available geospatial data from Bonneville Power Administration. The ...37.3 USGS Site ServiceSearches and retrieves metadata for millions of USGS hydrologic data collection sites including streams, sp...36.4 Embassy and Consulate LocationsPublic ArcGIS Feature Service listing every U.S. embassy, consulate general, consular agency and virtual pr...34.7 FSGeodata Enterprise Data Warehouse Map ServicesThe Forest Service enterprise ArcGIS REST server. A self-describing services directory (currentVersion 11.5...34.1 FSGeodata Research Data Warehouse Map ServicesA second Forest Service ArcGIS REST server carrying the research data warehouse folders — RDW_AdminAndOwner...34.1 U.S. Forest Service Geospatial Data Discovery (DCAT-US catalog)The agency's Geospatial Data Discovery site publishes a machine-readable DCAT-US 1.1 / Project Open Data ca...34.1 EOC Basemap Web Coverage Service (WCS)OGC Web Coverage Service for DLR basemap and reference datasets including the SRTM X-SAR global digital ele...33.6 EOC Basemap Web Map Service (WMS)OGC Web Map Service providing basemap and core geospatial reference layers from DLR including global mosaic...33.6 EOC Imagery Web Coverage Service (WCS)OGC Web Coverage Service providing direct download and extraction of coverage data for DLR Earth observatio...33.6 EOC Imagery Web Map Service (WMS)OGC Web Map Service providing visualization layers for DLR Earth observation imagery products including opt...33.6 EOC Land Web Map Service (WMS)OGC Web Map Service providing land cover and land use visualization layers from DLR research, including Wor...33.6 Princeton University Library Maps and Geospatial Data (PUL Map)GeoBlacklight application at maps.princeton.edu (pulibrary/pulmap) serving Princeton's geospatial data cata...33.5 Manitoba Hydro ArcGIS Server Reference DataAn ArcGIS Server 10.91 REST services directory hosted on Manitoba Hydro's own domain at maps.hydro.mb.ca, r...33.3 Manitoba Hydro Current Power OutagesA hosted Esri feature service published by Manitoba Hydro's ArcGIS Online organization (org id QoeQkfdOG126...33.3 Manitoba Hydro Planned Power OutagesA hosted Esri feature service published by the same Manitoba Hydro ArcGIS Online organization carrying plan...33.3 OpenRouteService Isochrones APICalculates areas of reachability from given locations within specified time or distance ranges, supporting ...33.0 Dartmouth Open Data (ArcGIS Hub tenant)Dartmouth's open-data portal, a tenant site on Esri's ArcGIS Hub. The data and the catalog are Dartmouth's;...32.9 Regrid Matched Building Footprints APIAPI delivering building footprint geometries matched to parcel records, including building square footage a...32.9 Regrid Standardized Zoning APIAPI providing standardized zoning data and classifications covering major US metropolitan areas, matched to...32.9 Regrid Tile APITile Map Service (TMS) providing interactive vector and raster map layers of the full Regrid parcel dataset...32.9 Ellipsis Drive API v3The Ellipsis Drive API v3 provides programmatic access to manage, use, and integrate spatial data: accounts...32.8 USDA NASS Crop CASMA APIThe Crop CASMA API provides programmatic access to crop vegetation and soil moisture conditions using NASA ...32.8 USDA NASS CroplandCROS APIThe CroplandCROS API provides access to the Cropland Data Layer (CDL), a crop-specific land cover data laye...32.8 USDA NASS VegScape APIThe VegScape API delivers vegetation condition indices at 250-meter spatial resolution covering the contine...32.8 CMR STAC APISpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) compliant API wrapping the CMR Search API. Organizes the full NASA CMR ...32.5 CMR STAC APIThe CMR SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) API provides a STAC-compliant interface over NASA's Common Meta...32.5 APHIS and AMS Geospatial HubThe APHIS and AMS Geospatial Hub is the public geospatial surface of USDA Marketing and Regulatory Programs...32.1 BLM GIS REST ServicesBureau of Land Management geospatial REST services providing access to federal land status, cadastral data ...31.5 Niantic Spatial Development Kit (NSDK)NSDK 4.x is Niantic Spatial's unified, SDK-first developer platform for Unity, Swift, Android, and ROS 2, e...31.3 Rayonier GIS Services (ArcGIS REST)Rayonier's self-managed ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 server (portalDeploymentType ArcGISEnterprise, single tenant...31.3 BTAA Geoportal — UMD geospatial contributionsThe Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal, a consortium-operated discovery layer for geospatial data to which...31.2 UMD Enterprise GIS — ArcGIS REST ServicesThe university's own ArcGIS Enterprise deployment — ArcGIS Server 12.1.0 and Portal 2026.1 at gis.umd.edu —...31.2 USDA Forest Service Geospatial REST APIArcGIS Server REST API providing access to USDA Forest Service nationwide geospatial datasets including for...30.8 USDA NASS CroplandCROS APIGeospatial API serving Cropland Data Layer (CDL) and related geospatial data at 30-meter resolution coverin...30.8 Statistik Austria open.data Regional Classifications (WMS/WFS)GeoServer OGC services publishing Austrian regional classification boundaries (municipalities, districts, l...30.7 Elevation APIProvides worldwide elevation data via a simple GET endpoint. Free tier allows limited requests per IP; paid...30.3 ATF Federal Firearm Licensee Locations (ArcGIS Feature Service)An anonymous Esri GeoServices REST feature service carrying 77,514 geocoded Federal Firearms Licensee premi...29.7 ATF Office Locations (ArcGIS Feature Service)An anonymous Esri GeoServices REST feature service listing 537 ATF offices and field divisions across the U...29.7 Open Spatial Data Portal (Esri ArcGIS Hub tenancy)TENANT RELATIONSHIP. An Esri ArcGIS Hub site publishing University of Melbourne campus GIS layers — buildin...28.7 Entergy ArcGIS ServerEntergy's electric-network GIS platform at gis.entergy.com, running Esri ArcGIS Server 10.7.1. The service-...28.3 Essential Energy Network Asset Feature ServicesAnonymous, key-free ArcGIS REST FeatureServer endpoints publishing Essential Energy's physical distribution...28.1 ENMAX Power System Capacity ArcGIS Feature ServicesThe machine-readable grid data behind ENMAX Power's public Hosting Capacity, Load Capacity and Service Area...27.0 CER ArcGIS Online Feature ServicesThe Canada Energy Regulator operates its own ArcGIS Online organization (portal neb-gis.maps.arcgis.com, or...26.6 CER Assessments Map Service (Federal Geospatial Platform)The CER's Environmental and Socio-economic Assessments (ESA) layer, published through the Government of Can...26.6 4M WFS APIThe 4M WFS API is an OGC Web Feature Service that streams 4M's validated subsurface utility data (line and ...26.2

Emerging 26 Early or largely undocumented

Geofabrik Overpass APIManaged Overpass API service providing a reliable, low-latency alternative to the public OpenStreetMap Over...25.8 Datafordeler Web Services (REST, WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS)Register web services on Datafordeleren: REST services and OGC map services (WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS) built on ...25.6 PANGAEA Data Download Service - Filter by Geo ParametersREST service for retrieving geoscientific measurements filtered by geographic bounding box, temporal range,...25.6 Hawaiian Electric Grid Data (ArcGIS REST Feature Services)The public Esri ArcGIS Online feature-service catalog Hawaiian Electric serves under tenant gfBpz2hbsVDgru6...25.5 JAXA Earth APIProvides access to over 100 Earth observation satellite datasets from JAXA missions including ALOS, GCOM-C,...25.5 ARC Geospatial APIAnonymous query access to the 108 public hosted feature services in the Appalachian Regional Commission's o...25.2 Geoportal München WFS (gsm_wfs)OGC Web Feature Service 2.0 on the Munich geoportal GeoServer (workspace gsm_wfs), documented on the Open D...23.4 FCA Farm Credit System Map ServicesPublic, anonymous Esri ArcGIS Server 12.0 REST services publishing the geography of the Farm Credit System:...22.2 Aucadastre APIPublic API providing French cadastral and urban planning data.21.9 Transport Canada Canadian Airports ArcGIS REST APIQueryable Esri ArcGIS REST MapServer (currentVersion 10.81) published by Transport Canada through the Gover...21.9 Transport Canada Canadian Airports OGC WMSOGC Web Map Service 1.3.0 endpoint for the same Canadian Airports with Air Navigation Services layer. GetCa...21.9 AFFH Data and Mapping Tool (AFFH-T) ServicesThe ArcGIS Server folder behind HUD's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Data and Mapping Tool, FHEO's o...21.3 Agerpoint Cloud APILive REST/JSON API behind Agerpoint Cloud and the Agerpoint Capture apps, served from cloudapi.agerpoint.co...21.3 Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP) GranteesAn anonymously callable ArcGIS REST feature service publishing the locations, jurisdictions, regions and aw...21.3 Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) GranteesAn anonymously callable ArcGIS REST feature service publishing the locations, components and award amounts ...21.3 Racially or Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty (R/ECAP)An anonymously callable ArcGIS REST feature service publishing census tract polygons flagged as Racially or...21.3 Irth Integration APIRESTful Integration API for the Irthnet / UtiliSphere platform. Secured with a per-integration API key, it ...20.7 Zartico GeoServer OGC Web ServicesZartico operates a public, anonymously readable GeoServer instance at geoserver.zartico.com serving OGC Web...19.3 UNC GIS Open Data Hub (ArcGIS Hub DCAT-US)UNC-Chapel Hill's campus open-data site for geospatial and institutional datasets, published through ArcGIS...18.5 Global Wind Atlas Web Processing ServiceAn OGC Web Processing Service 1.0.0 serving Global Wind Atlas results. The GetCapabilities document names D...17.8 SaskPower Outage Map KML FeedThe KML data feed behind SaskPower's public outage map, referenced directly in the markup of the Outage Map...17.6 SaskPower Smart Meter Installation Map KML FeedThe KML data feed behind SaskPower's Smart Meter Installation Map, requested by the site's own SP.scripts.j...17.6 Rentsync Search APISearch API described on the public Rentsync Partners portal as a way to "query the LIFT platform for specif...17.1 OurAirports Airports DatasetDaily-updated CSV dataset containing information on 85,000+ airports worldwide, including ICAO/IATA codes, ...14.9 OurAirports Runways DatasetDaily-updated CSV dataset describing runway surfaces, dimensions, lighting, and endpoint coordinates for ai...14.9 Vodafone Analytics — Reference QuadKey HelperHelper API for resolving Bing-style QuadKey tile identifiers used as the spatial primary key by Vodafone An...13.3

Minimal 14 Almost no public developer surface

Companies reaching this through an API (25)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Geospatial” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Score breakdown

Frequency

67.4

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

4.2

spread across providers

Quality lift

25.3

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

14.4

strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

329 providers carry this tag directly, and 475 counting the 4 narrower tags below and the 4 beneath them — 146 more to reach.

OGC 27 providers STAC 14 providers Geocoding 129 providers Remote Sensing 79 providers

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag329

Api tag133

Openapi tag3

Openapi op tag8

Markets provisional

Kin Score markets whose measured providers carry this tag. Share is the fraction of the market's measured providers that carry it — it describes the market, not this tag.

Market	Share of the market's providers
Geospatial and Maps (OGC standards)	85%
Overture Maps Foundation (members + data contributors)	78%
Public Safety and NG911 (first-responder apps, CJIS, 911)	26%
Weather and Climate Data	25%
Space and Satellite (operators, earth observation, ground segment)	24%

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 280 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Geospatial, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers

280

of 329 in the catalog

Mean Kin Score

28.4

+4.3 vs catalog 24.1

Mean Agent Readiness

16.4

+2.3 vs catalog 14.1

Spread

0–79

median 27.5 · σ 17.6

How the 280 split by band

Exemplar 4Strong 21Developing 56Thin 67Emerging 74Minimal 58

Facet averages, against the whole catalog

Facet	This cohort	Catalog	Difference	Scored
Contract Quality	25.8	18.6	+7.2	280
Developer Ergonomics	31.1	24.5	+6.6	280
Discoverability	63.6	59.1	+4.5	280
Contract Governance	12.7	9.7	+3	280
Operational Transparency	15.2	13.2	+2	280
Access Clarity	30.1	30	+0.1	280

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes

Artifact	This cohort	Catalog	Difference
MCP server (any)	15%	18%	-3
MCP server (first-party)	14%	16%	-2
Agent Skills	0%	0%	0
OAuth scopes	15%	13%	+2
Security	97%	99%	-2
Arazzo workflows	3%	1%	+2
Governance rules	48%	36%	+12

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score

1 HERE 79
2 Esri 75
3 Google Maps Platform 73.6
4 SPOTIO 70.4
5 Trimble 65.9
6 Google Earth Engine REST 64.7
7 HOVER 64.6
8 Wherobots 64.4
9 Bentley Systems 63.3
10 Terabase Energy 63.3

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