GIS Day 2021 - Collecting Geodata via API for Location-based Applications using Python

Application programming interfaces (API) are software interfaces, and protocols that offer a service to another piece of software. As geographic information systems (GIS) evolve from desktop packages to distributed solutions APIs have become a popular method for incorporating spatial data. GIS APIs provide a communication protocol to handle client requests and return a processed response, back from a server that provides GIS functionalities.