keithamoss / locate

Resources for developers want to working with Landgate's Locate service (http://www.locate.wa.gov.au/)

Resources for developers want to work with Landgate's Locate map service.

If you've stumbled upon this page without first reading out developer documentation please head over there first for a lot of useful information about Locate and how to access SLIP Future.

layers.json

Contains the list of layers in Locate, along with their layerIds, layerKeys, datasourceIds, URIs for their datasources, and some additional useful metadata.

{
  layerId: /* A globally unique ID used to refer to this layer */
  layerKey: /* The layer key - For the GMaps JS Lib. Not unique. */
  name: /* The layer name */
  description: /* The layer description */
  bbox: /* An array of four numbers (west, south, east, north) which define 
    the rectangular bounding box covered by the layer as latitude and longitude in decimal degrees */
  datasourceType: /* The type of layer - one of "table" or "image" */
  datasources: /* The path to the GME API resource of the more specific version of this asset. 
    Used for querying features and only applies to datasourceType "image". */
}

For easier viewing of layers.json try the JSONView Chrome extension or the free online JSON Visualisation tool.

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Accessing Locate's Data

How you access Locate's data depends on the API endpoints that you're using.

The GME API & WFS

Accessing data via the Google Maps Engine API or WFS is at the datasource-level and requires a datasource assetId to be provided.

GME API: https://www.googleapis.com/mapsengine/v1/tables/{assetId}/features?version=published&key={your-api-key}

WFS: https://clients6.google.com/mapsengine/wfs_experimental/wfs/{assetId}/?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WFS2.0&assetVersion=published

Google Maps JavaScript API

The Google Maps JavaScript API has two ways of accessing data in Google Maps Engine:

1. Via the layerId (recommended), or
2. By supplying a mapId and a layerKey.

Locate's mapID: 09372590152434720789-00913315481290556980

WMS & WMTS

WMS and WMTS access to Locate only require the mapId.

Locate's mapID: 09372590152434720789-00913315481290556980

WMS Capabilities | WMTS Capabilities