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Introduction⚓︎

The documentation for the Data Access building block is organised as follows…

  • Introduction
    Introduction to the BB - including summary of purpose and capabilities.
  • Getting Started
    Quick start instructions - including installation, e.g. of a local instance.
  • Design
    Description of the BB design - including its subcomponent architecture and interfaces.
  • Usage
    Tutorials, How-tos, etc. to communicate usage of the BB.
  • Administration
    Configuration and maintenance of the BB.
  • API
    Details of APIs provided by the BB - including endpoints, usage descriptions and examples etc.

About Data Access⚓︎

The Data Access building block provides feature-rich and reliable interfaces to geospatial data assets stored in the platform, addressing human and machine users alike.

The builing block combines capabilities from two complementary libraries

Capabilities⚓︎

Data access⚓︎

  • Support for retrieval of features via OGC API Features and OGC WFS
  • Support for retrieval of coverages via OGC API Coverages and OGC WCS
  • Support for visualization of coverages and features via OGC API Tiles, OGC WMTS, OGC API Maps, OGC WMS
  • Support of assets persisted via common storage technologies including S3-comptabile object storage, HTTP, file system
  • Support for multidimensional data formats for data access and visualization

Data administration⚓︎

  • Administration User Interface

Configuration and integration⚓︎

  • Dynamic specification of which datasets should be delivered with which data access services
  • Designed that it can be integrated as embedded capability into the APIs other building blocks