Access Geoconnex reference features

Many organizations publish data about the same real-world things. (e.g. watersheds, monitoring locations, dams, bridges, etc.)

The Geoconnex Reference Feature Server refers to these features with persistent identifiers so they are standardized across organizations. This allows users to ask:

• what is the identifier and spatial geometry for this thing? Does it exist?
• what features are hydrologically related?
• What datasets are available about a given feature?

The endpoint for the Geoconnex Reference Feature Server can be found at reference.geoconnex.us and is an implementation of OGC API - Features using pygeoapi.

The reference feature server is used by the Geoconnex graph to link crawled data with consistent identifiers.

📄️ Access in Browser

OGC API compliant servers, such as reference.geoconnex.us, serve HTML representations of all features in the server. This means all Reference Features have an HTML landing page with related information, making it easy to explore and access data without specialized software.

📄️ Access with QGIS and ArcGIS

You can easily add and explore data from OGC API - Feature servers in both QGIS and ESRI ArcGIS. OGC API compliant servers, such as reference.geoconnex.us, allow seamless integration of geospatial data into your GIS workflows.