Beta 100m Bathymetry WMS

API change history

The beta Seabed Mapping 100m Web Map Service (WMS) is a simple HTTP interface for requesting georeferenced map images of the seabed around the UK derived from over 5,000 open bathymetric data sets which have been conflated into a single 100m resolution gridded surface. The surface represents a data point every 100m where data is available. The source data has not been interpolated this meaning that the WMS is not a continuous surface as only the tiles which contain source data are returned by the service.

Why is it a beta service? The ‘beta’ label means you’re looking at the first version of the new service. During this phase, we will be continually testing and improving the service. More information on what beta means can be found here.

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WMSServer

Passthrough operation for the WMS service.

Try it

Request

Request URL

https://admiraltyapi.azure-api.net/bathy-tile-service-100m/ows?SERVICE={SERVICE}&REQUEST={REQUEST}[&FORMAT][&TRANSPARENT][&STYLES][&VERSION][&LAYERS][&WIDTH][&HEIGHT][&CRS][&BBOX]

Request parameters

SERVICE

string

Indicates the service requested is WMS.
REQUEST

string

The type of the WMS request.
FORMAT (optional)

string

The format of the output map image for GetMap. Output format for service metadata for GetCapabilities.
TRANSPARENT (optional)

string

Sets background colour to transparent.
STYLES (optional)

string

Styles in which layers are to be rendered.
VERSION (optional)

string

The WMS version.
LAYERS (optional)

string

List of Layers to display, for this API only 'caris:Level 2' is supported. Any other values supplied will be overridden and replaced with 'caris:Level 2'.
WIDTH (optional)

string

Output image width.
HEIGHT (optional)

string

Output image Height.
CRS (optional)

string

Spatial Reference.
BBOX (optional)

string

The bounding box coordinates.

Request headers

Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key

string

Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile.

Request body

Responses

200 OK

Ok - The response returned depends on the 'REQUEST' value specified. The WMS service also returns this when it is unable to process your request due to invalid parameters specified.

400 Bad Request

Bad Request - Your REQUEST value was not recognised or not allowed.

401 Unauthorized

Token Authentication Failed

403 Forbidden

Forbidden.
This will be because:
- you have no permission to use this API

429 Too many requests

Too many requests - rate limit of 30 calls per 30 seconds exceeded

500 Internal Server Error

Internal Server Error

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X GET "https://admiraltyapi.azure-api.net/bathy-tile-service-100m/ows?SERVICE={SERVICE}&REQUEST={REQUEST}?FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT={string}&STYLES={string}&VERSION=1.3.0&LAYERS={string}&WIDTH={string}&HEIGHT={string}&CRS={string}&BBOX=-425988.3826589292,6390953.66876267,161047.99457094132,6677439.650775372"
-H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"

--data-ascii "{body}"

using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
        
        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            // Request headers
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");

            // Request parameters
            queryString["FORMAT"] = "image/png";
            queryString["TRANSPARENT"] = "{string}";
            queryString["STYLES"] = "{string}";
            queryString["VERSION"] = "1.3.0";
            queryString["LAYERS"] = "{string}";
            queryString["WIDTH"] = "{string}";
            queryString["HEIGHT"] = "{string}";
            queryString["CRS"] = "{string}";
            queryString["BBOX"] = "-425988.3826589292,6390953.66876267,161047.99457094132,6677439.650775372";
            var uri = "https://admiraltyapi.azure-api.net/bathy-tile-service-100m/ows?SERVICE={SERVICE}&REQUEST={REQUEST}&" + queryString;

            var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
        }
    }
}

// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

        try
        {
            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://admiraltyapi.azure-api.net/bathy-tile-service-100m/ows?SERVICE={SERVICE}&REQUEST={REQUEST}");

            builder.setParameter("FORMAT", "image/png");
            builder.setParameter("TRANSPARENT", "{string}");
            builder.setParameter("STYLES", "{string}");
            builder.setParameter("VERSION", "1.3.0");
            builder.setParameter("LAYERS", "{string}");
            builder.setParameter("WIDTH", "{string}");
            builder.setParameter("HEIGHT", "{string}");
            builder.setParameter("CRS", "{string}");
            builder.setParameter("BBOX", "-425988.3826589292,6390953.66876267,161047.99457094132,6677439.650775372");

            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
            request.setHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");


            // Request body
            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
            request.setEntity(reqEntity);

            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) 
            {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSSample</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var params = {
            // Request parameters
            "FORMAT": "image/png",
            "TRANSPARENT": "{string}",
            "STYLES": "{string}",
            "VERSION": "1.3.0",
            "LAYERS": "{string}",
            "WIDTH": "{string}",
            "HEIGHT": "{string}",
            "CRS": "{string}",
            "BBOX": "-425988.3826589292,6390953.66876267,161047.99457094132,6677439.650775372",
        };
      
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://admiraltyapi.azure-api.net/bathy-tile-service-100m/ows?SERVICE={SERVICE}&REQUEST={REQUEST}&" + $.param(params),
            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
                // Request headers
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
            },
            type: "GET",
            // Request body
            data: "{body}",
        })
        .done(function(data) {
            alert("success");
        })
        .fail(function() {
            alert("error");
        });
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    
    NSString* path = @"https://admiraltyapi.azure-api.net/bathy-tile-service-100m/ows?SERVICE={SERVICE}&REQUEST={REQUEST}";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                         @"FORMAT=image/png",
                         @"TRANSPARENT={string}",
                         @"STYLES={string}",
                         @"VERSION=1.3.0",
                         @"LAYERS={string}",
                         @"WIDTH={string}",
                         @"HEIGHT={string}",
                         @"CRS={string}",
                         @"BBOX=-425988.3826589292,6390953.66876267,161047.99457094132,6677439.650775372",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
    // Request headers
    [_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"];
    // Request body
    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    if (nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
        
        if (nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }
        
        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }
        
        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }
    
    [pool drain];

    return 0;
}

<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://admiraltyapi.azure-api.net/bathy-tile-service-100m/ows?SERVICE={SERVICE}&REQUEST={REQUEST}');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
    'FORMAT' => 'image/png',
    'TRANSPARENT' => '{string}',
    'STYLES' => '{string}',
    'VERSION' => '1.3.0',
    'LAYERS' => '{string}',
    'WIDTH' => '{string}',
    'HEIGHT' => '{string}',
    'CRS' => '{string}',
    'BBOX' => '-425988.3826589292,6390953.66876267,161047.99457094132,6677439.650775372',
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);

// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");

try
{
    $response = $request->send();
    echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
    echo $ex;
}

?>

########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'FORMAT': 'image/png',
    'TRANSPARENT': '{string}',
    'STYLES': '{string}',
    'VERSION': '1.3.0',
    'LAYERS': '{string}',
    'WIDTH': '{string}',
    'HEIGHT': '{string}',
    'CRS': '{string}',
    'BBOX': '-425988.3826589292,6390953.66876267,161047.99457094132,6677439.650775372',
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('admiraltyapi.azure-api.net')
    conn.request("GET", "/bathy-tile-service-100m/ows?SERVICE={SERVICE}&REQUEST={REQUEST}&%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'FORMAT': 'image/png',
    'TRANSPARENT': '{string}',
    'STYLES': '{string}',
    'VERSION': '1.3.0',
    'LAYERS': '{string}',
    'WIDTH': '{string}',
    'HEIGHT': '{string}',
    'CRS': '{string}',
    'BBOX': '-425988.3826589292,6390953.66876267,161047.99457094132,6677439.650775372',
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('admiraltyapi.azure-api.net')
    conn.request("GET", "/bathy-tile-service-100m/ows?SERVICE={SERVICE}&REQUEST={REQUEST}&%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://admiraltyapi.azure-api.net/bathy-tile-service-100m/ows?SERVICE={SERVICE}&REQUEST={REQUEST}')

query = URI.encode_www_form({
    # Request parameters
    'FORMAT' => 'image/png',
    'TRANSPARENT' => '{string}',
    'STYLES' => '{string}',
    'VERSION' => '1.3.0',
    'LAYERS' => '{string}',
    'WIDTH' => '{string}',
    'HEIGHT' => '{string}',
    'CRS' => '{string}',
    'BBOX' => '-425988.3826589292,6390953.66876267,161047.99457094132,6677439.650775372'
})
if query.length > 0
  if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
    uri.query += '&' + query
  else
    uri.query = query
  end
end

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body