Mapserver rewrite

APIs

Old API (v1)

Example:

/api/map/?bbox=-180,-90,180,90&split=1048576000&part=0

New API (v2)

The new API is a HTTP-GET API (you can probably call it RESTfull)

All URLs which are supported:

URL	Description	Example
/api/v2/areas	Defaults to json output of all areas
/api/v2/areas/:responseformat	Defaults to json output of all areas	/api/v2/areas/json
/api/v2/download/bbox/:xmin/:xmax/:ymin/:ymax
/api/v2/download/bbox/:xmin/:xmax/:ymin/:ymax/:format
/api/v2/download/area/id/:id/
/api/v2/download/area/id/:id/:format
/api/v2/download/area/name/:areaname
/api/v2/download/area/name/:areaname/:format
/api/v2/filesize/bbox/:xmin/:xmax/:ymin/:ymax/		/api/v2/filesize/bbox/-180/180/-90/90/
/api/v2/filesize/bbox/:xmin/:xmax/:ymin/:ymax/:format		/api/v2/filesize/bbox/-180/180/-90/90/planet.bin
/api/v2/filesize/area/name/:areaname	Outputs the filesize of the downloadable area given by its area name. Defaults to json
/api/v2/filesize/area/name/:areaname/:responseformat	Outputs the filesize of the downloadable area given by its area name in the supplied response format
/api/v2/filesize/area/id/:id	Outputs the filesize of the downloadable area given by its id. Defaults to json
/api/v2/filesize/area/id/:id/:responseformat	Outputs the filesize of the downloadable area given by its id in the supplied response format

Parameter:

Parameter	Value
:responseformat	json | xml
:format	bin | bin2 | a UTF-8 filename ending with ".bin|.bin2"
:areaname	The name of an area from the area list (names should be static but can change so if a name does not work anymore look into the area list -> /api/v2/areas)
:id	The ID of an area from the area list. IDs will change on every map update so make sure to look them up before you download a map in order to get the newest available map.
:xmin | :xmax	Any value between -180 and 180
:ymin | :ymax	Any value between -90 and 90