---
title: "British Geological Survey (@bgs)"
description: "British Geological Survey APIs: e.g. the AGS4 file utilities tool and OGC data services."
account: "bgs"
---

# British Geological Survey

British Geological Survey APIs: e.g. the AGS4 file utilities tool and OGC data services.

## APIs

3 public APIs with a stored document.
Each links to its markdown overview; the same address with
`/llms.txt` in place of `.md` lists its operations.
Changes across these APIs: https://skmtc.dev/bgs/feed.md

- [BGS AGS4 File Utilities Tool](https://skmtc.dev/bgs/apis/bgs-ags4-file-utilities-tool.md): Geotechnical data: validate AGS4 files, convert to and from XLSX, export boreholes and graphical logs
- [SensorThings v1.1](https://skmtc.dev/bgs/apis/sensors-sensorthings.md): Environmental sensing: query sensors, things, datastreams, observations and locations over OGC SensorThings
- [BGS OGC API Service BETA](https://skmtc.dev/bgs/apis/opengeoscience-ogcapi.md): Geology: query OGC API collections for geological maps, boreholes, earthquakes, landslides and offshore survey data