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. Login, and navigate to About & Status > About GeoServer and check Build Information to determine the exact version of GeoServer you are running.

2. Visit the website download <download> page, change the Development tab, and locate the nightly release that corresponds to the GeoServer you are running.

   Follow the Community Modules link and download ogcapi-coverages zip archive.

   • {{ version }} example: ogcapi-coverages

   The website lists active nightly builds to provide feedback to developers, you may also browse for earlier branches.

   Warning

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

3. Extract the contents of the archive into the WEB-INF/lib directory in GeoServer.

4. Restart GeoServer.

5. 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.