We've hinted at it in previous blog posts, but now it's time for the big reveal: the GeoSeer API is live!

Designed to allow you to integrate the power of GeoSeer's search into your business's Web GIS or other application, the API allows your users to easily and seamlessly search for datasets without having to leave their normal tooling. There's an entire-page with information about it here.

As well as including all the features you're used to in the web-search, the API also includes some cool new features:

• Bounding Box Search - Search for datasets that are within, disjoint, or intersecting a given bounding box, while also using a search term. Ideal for searching for layers that overlap the user's current viewing area.
• Lat/Lon Search - Easily find datasets that intersect a specific point. Your user selects a location and now they can find data that intersect it. Simple.
• Service Type filter - Only find datasets that are of the OGC service type(s) that you're interested in. Does your application only support WMS and WFS for instance? Then filter results to only search those service types.
• Service Search - The GeoSeer web search only allows users to search datasets/layers, but the API also allows searching by service. Readily find services hosted by anyone from local government, through to global spanning organisations like the World Food Programme and everyone between.

We've created the snazzy GeoSeer API WebGIS that demonstrates the API in action, giving you a feeling for what you can do with it and how it could integrate with your own application(s).

The API has several plans to cover various needs, and the Enterprise plan allows for considerable customisation so you can get exactly what you need. So take a look and find out more about the API

We thought we'd welcome in 2019 with a slight update to the look of the site to improve usability. In particular, the GeoSeer website should now be much better behaved on mobile devices. There's also now more consistency in page navigation to help you find where you're going, and we've tweaked the search results page to better expose meaningful information, including the service's url.

The changes are not just cosmetic, we've also improved the search functionality to try and provide better results for multi-term queries. So searches for things like tree preservation orders will now preferentially try and find results where the words are next to each other without your having to put quotes ("") around it. We've also done a fair amount of work to the location assignment service (the bit that decides what area of the planet a bounding box covers) so you should be getting better results there too.

And as if all that wasn't enough, there are a couple of new features - this blog now has an RSS feed so you can better keep up with our posts.
But we've been keeping the best until last - we now have an API! It's still in beta for the next few weeks but if you're interested in using it, do let us know. There's an entire page with information about the API on it, and we'll be doing a blog post about it when we launch it.