Who am I?

Edd Lewis

BGS Open Standards Lead (& FOSS advocate)

8 years Geologist in MinEx/Mining

5 years in Government (Data Standards & Governance/Capacity Building/Mineral Promotion/Resource Policy)

BGS

• National geological survey founded in 1835
• UK custodian of geoscientific information
• Independent
• 600 staff
• Part of UKRI, a not-for-profit public sector research establishment
• Funded by Government & external income
• Offices at Keyworth, Wallingford, Edinburgh & Cardiff

Data Delivery

• Online Portals
• Data Download (.shp/.gpkg + others on request)
• WMS
• WFS (INSPIRE & OneGeology OGC GeoSciML service)

OGCAPI-Features

• Initially our OGL Data Products
• Supported on ESRI & QGIS
• Needed to run as infrastructure as code
• Use our private cloud infrastructure on Kubenetes
• pygeoapi selected for the task

Architecture

Architecture

pygeoapi Summary

• Easy to setup
• Lightweight
• Customisable
• Supports multiple OGCAPI standards
• Well supported dev community