MapAction API Documentation

Introduction

MapAction Maps and Data API makes MapAction’s maps and data programically accessible for third partys.

The Map and Data Repository is based on the data sharing platform CKAN, hence the MapAction API is inherited from the CKAN API with a number of adaptations. One of the main adaptations of interest to third party’s is that we have made extensive use of the fact that CKAN allows for customisation of the schema used to describe the various protucts it serves. This is achieved using CKAN’s schemimg extension.

The CKAN API is already well doucmented and we are not attempting to reproduce that here. This document focuses on the specific adaptations for MapAction.

Versions

This document is for the current MapAction schema version 0.1 (release 0.1b1), which is hosted on and CKAN v2.5.5.