pygeoapi is a Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of standards. The project emerged as part of the next generation OGC API efforts in 2018 and provides the capability for organizations to deploy a RESTful OGC API endpoint using OpenAPI, GeoJSON, and HTML. pygeoapi is open source and released under an MIT license.


Install in 5 minutes
# Python 3.10 required python3 -m venv pygeoapi cd pygeoapi . bin/activate git clone https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi.git cd pygeoapi pip3 install -r requirements.txt python3 setup.py install cp pygeoapi-config.yml example-config.yml vi example-config.yml # edit as required export PYGEOAPI_CONFIG=example-config.yml export PYGEOAPI_OPENAPI=example-openapi.yml pygeoapi openapi generate $PYGEOAPI_CONFIG --output-file $PYGEOAPI_OPENAPI pygeoapi serve # in another terminal curl http://localhost:5000 # or open in a web browser
Features
At a glance:
- Easy to install: install a full implementation via pip or git
- Easy to deploy: via UbuntuGIS or the official Docker image
- Flexible: built on a robust plugin framework
- connect to custom data sources (files, services, databases, etc.)
- serve custom output formats
- implement custom processes and workflows
- deploy via Flask, Django, or any Python framework
- OGC Compliant: pygeoapi is certified OGC Compliant and an OGC Reference Implementation