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Features

describe the feature collection with id `collectionId`

get/collections/{collectionId}

Path parameters

collectionIdstring required

local identifier of a collection

Response

Information about the feature collection with id collectionId.

The response contains a linkto the items in the collection (path /collections/{collectionId}/items,link relation items) as well as key information about the collection. This information includes:

A local identifier for the collection that is unique for the dataset;
A list of coordinate reference systems (CRS) in which geometries may be returned by the server. The first CRS is the default coordinate reference system (the default is always WGS 84 with axis order longitude/latitude);
An optional title and description for the collection;
An optional extent that can be used to provide an indication of the spatial and temporal extent of the collection - typically derived from the data;
An optional indicator about the type of the items in the collection (the default value, if the indicator is not provided, is 'feature').

idstring required

identifier of the collection used, for example, in URIs

titlestring

human readable title of the collection

descriptionstring

a description of the features in the collection

itemTypestring

indicator about the type of the items in the collection (the default value is 'feature').

crsstring[]

the list of coordinate reference systems supported by the service

Example response

{
  "id": "address",
  "title": "address",
  "description": "An address.",
  "links": [
    {
      "href": "http://data.example.com/buildings",
      "rel": "item"
    },
    {
      "href": "http://example.com/concepts/buildings.html",
      "rel": "describedBy",
      "type": "text/html"
    }
  ],
  "extent": {
    "spatial": {
      "bbox": [
        [
          -180,
          -90,
          180,
          90
        ]
      ]
    },
    "temporal": {
      "interval": [
        [
          "2011-11-11T12:22:11Z",
          null
        ]
      ]
    }
  },
  "crs": [
    "http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84",
    "http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326"
  ]
}