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Service details and metadata
Set the title, description, license, contact and layer titles shown on your OGC API landing page.
Service details are the human-readable metadata of your API. They appear on the landing page and in the API's JSON responses, and they help people (and search engines) understand what the data is and whether they may reuse it.
| Field | Where it shows |
|---|---|
| Title | Landing page heading and API title |
| Description | Landing page and API description |
| License | License link on the landing page |
| Keywords | API keywords |
| Contact name, email, organisation | Provider and contact on the landing page |
| Layer titles | Collection titles (the collection id stays the table name) |
When you create a project from a GeoPackage, Waystones fills in the title from the file name, readable layer titles from table names, and the contact from your account. You can edit any of it, or Skip for now.
Editing later
Open the project, then Settings → Service details, change what you need and Save.
Running services pick up changes on their next deploy: open the project's Deploy page and deploy again to the same slug.
From the command line:
waystones-cloud model update-metadata <project-id> --file meta.json
where meta.json holds the fields to change, for example:
{
"license": "CC-BY-4.0",
"contactEmail": "[email protected]",
"keywords": ["roads", "transport"]
}
Choosing a license
| License | Meaning |
|---|---|
| CC BY 4.0 | Anyone may reuse the data if they credit you. A common default for open data. |
| CC0 1.0 | No rights reserved — public domain. |
| CC BY-SA 4.0 | Reuse with credit; derived data must use the same license. |
If you leave the license unspecified, users cannot tell whether they may reuse the data.
More metadata
For richer metadata — INSPIRE themes, update frequency, temporal extent, AI-written descriptions — design the model in the Waystones designer and send it to Cloud.