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Find and use Esri REST services

Koordinates offers a range of APIs and web services for more technical users, including Esri-compatible REST services. REST services are a common and popular standard for programmatically accessing and using data. They enable you to easily integrate data published on Koordinates sites into your application.

Use of Esri-compatible REST services also ensures that you don’t have to download data manually regularly to maintain up-to-date data.

Note: At this stage, Koordinates only offers Esri-compatible REST feature services for vector data. 

1. Navigate to your chosen data layer

Click on the thumbnail or title of your chosen data layer.

2. Select Services and API

From the About page for that data layer, navigate to the Services & APIs tab. You will then be provided with a list of services & APIs for that data layer.

3. Create or Assign your key (if required)

You may be asked to create a key to access Esri REST services. The key simply lets external applications, such as your GIS, access your account without you having to provide your password.

Click the link provided to create your key.

Once created, assign the appropriate key.

4. Copy the URL

Finally, copy and paste the URL from your chosen data layer into your map, app or desktop GIS.

All APISs supported on Koordinates

Esri-Compatible REST Services

This is a popular way to programmatically access and use data within an Esri environment. Esri REST is commonly used as a data interchange standard in the GIS sector, including for visualisation, geoprocessing tasks and desktop GIS data access. These web services allow users to extract vector and tabular data layers from a Koordinates site.


WFS Web Services

Koordinates supports WFS 1.x and WFS 2.x OGC web services. These web services are commonly used as data interchange standards in the GIS sector, including for geoprocessing tasks and desktop GIS data access. These web services allow for users to extract vector and tabular data layers from a Koordinates site.


WFS Changesets

Koordinates provides support for a WFS Changeset Service which gives access via WFS 1.x and WFS 2.x to data updates between dates for a particular ‘versioned’ vector layer or tabular data layer. This allows applications to update local copies of data layers on an ongoing incremental basis, and is particular useful for users of data layers that are regularly updated.


OGC Catalogue Service for Web

Koordinates supports the OGC Catalogue Service for Web (CSW) web service. This is a common open standard for federating XML metadata information between different data catalogues.


XYZ and OGC Web Map Tiling Services (WMTS)

Koordinates provides XYZ and OGC Web Map Tiling Services (WMTS). Tile services can be administered by Data Administrators and published in NZTM and Web Mercator for compatibility with common New Zealand professional GIS uses and Google Maps-style interactive maps.


For vector data layers, and sets of vector data layers, administrators can use the web interface to define one or more complex cartographic styles. These can be published as separate tile services for use in external desktop applications, websites and mobile applications.