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OGC API - Coverages

A OGC API - Coverages based on an earlier specification draft, delivering partial functionality:

  • Collection listing
  • Download in the same formats supported by WCS
  • Spatial and temporal subsetting
  • Mosaic index filtering (GeoServer extension)
  • Domain set description in JSON

Missing functionality at the time of writing, and known issues:

  • Full coverage JSON support
  • Scaling
  • CRS transformation

OGC API - Coverages Implementation status

OGC API - Coverages Version Implementation status
Part 1: Core Draft Implementation based on early specification draft, not yet updated to final version

Installing the GeoServer OGC API - Coverages module

  1. Download the OGC API nightly GeoServer community module from geoserver-2.24-SNAPSHOT-ogcapi-coverages-plugin.zip.

    Warning

    Verify that the version number in the filename corresponds to the version of GeoServer you are running (for example geoserver-2.24.2-ogcapi-coverages-plugin.zip above).

  2. Extract the contents of the archive into the WEB-INF/lib directory of the GeoServer installation.

  3. On restart the services are listed at http://localhost:8080/geoserver

Configuration of OGC API - Covearges module

The module is based on the GeoServer WCS one, follows the same configuration and exposes the same coverages.