builds.opws.org

Periodically-updated flatfiles of compiled OPWS data

Using these files

The generally recommended way to use these files is to request https://builds.opws.org/v0.1/latest/bundle.json initially, and then periodically check https://builds.opws.org/v0.1/latest/BUILD_TIMESTAMP.txt against the BUILD_TIMESTAMP property of the JSON bundle to see if there's been an update (thus skipping the entire bundle download when there's been no update).

If you only want/need data for a specific profile, you can request it directly, as either compiled JSON or the source YAML.

If you're in a legacy browser environment that doesn't support CORS for whatever reason, you can also request each file via JSONP, by including the file with a .js extension as a script in your page. These JSONP scripts will call a global function, to be defined by your implementation, with the signature opws_jsonp_response(content, metadata), where content is the JSON content of the file, and metadata is an object containing the filename, so that multiple concurrent invocations of the function for two separate files can be distinguished from one another (as their order otherwise is potentially ambiguous).