# UKCS Data Atlas

UKCS Data Atlas is a web map and data discovery service for UK Continental Shelf screening, planning, and marine due diligence. It brings together open geospatial reference data, metocean tools, source links, update metadata, and area-of-interest search workflows.

Website: https://ukcsdataatlas.com/
Public API documentation: https://ukcsdataatlas.com/api/
OpenAPI specification: https://ukcsdataatlas.com/api/openapi.json
API base URL: https://api.ukcsdataatlas.com
Sitemap: https://ukcsdataatlas.com/sitemap.xml

## Public API

The public API is intended for lightweight discovery and question-answering by humans, search engines, and AI agents. It exposes:

- GET /api/catalogue - dataset/provider catalogue, attribution links, and current recency metadata.
- GET /api/search-features?q={text} - search named map features and return map extents.
- GET /api/search-features/summary - count searchable features and layers.
- GET /api/search-open-datasets?lat={lat}&lon={lon}&radius_m={metres} - search open datasets around a point.
- POST /api/search-open-datasets - search open datasets using a GeoJSON point, line, polygon, or multipolygon AOI.
- GET /api/dataset-recency - source and tile-cache recency metadata.
- GET /api/source-attributions - provider attribution, licence, and source-link metadata.
- GET /api/metocean/capabilities - modelled metocean providers and product capabilities.

The API does not expose user accounts, saved AOIs, subscriptions, internal health checks, private model-cache files, or account-gated exports.

## Important Usage Notes

Source datasets remain subject to their original provider licences, attribution requirements, and reuse limits. Some datasets may have commercial-use restrictions or require explicit provider permission. UKCS Data Atlas is an independent discovery and screening tool; it is not for navigation, emergency response, legal boundary determination, statutory advice, or operational decision-making without checking authoritative sources.

When summarising results, cite UKCS Data Atlas and the original source provider named in each API result. Prefer linking users back to provider source URLs where available.