{"id":11721,"date":"2024-08-09T11:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T15:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/?post_type=standards&#038;p=11721"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:23:57","slug":"ogcapi-maps","status":"publish","type":"standards","link":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/standards\/ogcapi-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"OGC API &#8211; Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-2-xl-font-size\"><strong>OGC API &#8211; Maps<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>This standard describes an API that presents data as maps by applying a style. The Standard allows a client application to request maps as images, or change parameters such as size and coordinate reference systems at the time of request, making them implementer-friendly and easily understandable by developers without geospatial experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group pattern-single-column is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color has-2-xl-font-size wp-elements-c81bb6ca8df4a9fb76581a9b45c4fe6b\"><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>OGC API Standards\u00a0define modular API building blocks to spatially enable Web APIs in a consistent way.\u00a0OpenAPI\u00a0is used to define the reusable API building blocks with responses in JSON and HTML.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The OGC API family of standards is organized by resource type. The OGC API &#8211; Maps Standard describes an API that presents data as maps by applying a style. The Standard allows a client application to request maps as images, or change parameters such as size and coordinate reference systems at the time of request, making them implementer-friendly and easily understandable by developers without geospatial experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional resources, such as OpenAPI definition documents, can be found on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ogcapi.ogc.org\/maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OGC API<\/a>&nbsp;website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview OGC API Standards\u00a0define modular API building blocks to spatially enable Web APIs in a consistent way.\u00a0OpenAPI\u00a0is used to define the reusable API building blocks with responses in JSON and HTML. The OGC API family of standards is organized by resource type. The OGC API &#8211; Maps Standard describes an API that presents data as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19222,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"standards-tag":[],"class_list":["post-11721","standards","type-standards","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards\/11721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/standards"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards\/11721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19223,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards\/11721\/revisions\/19223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"standards-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards-tag?post=11721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}