Description

Retrieve attribution & data provenance for the datasets used by the Vector Charts API.

This can be used in a user interface to display the date that ENC data was loaded for informational purposes.

Authentication

This endpoint requires a valid API token. Pass it as a token query parameter or an Authorization: Bearer <token> header. See Authentication.

Response Schema

The endpoint returns an array of objects, each object representing one data source used by Vector Charts. Each data source will have the following fields:

• id: A unique textual identifier for the data source.
• shortDescription: A one-liner title / short textual description of the data.
• longDescription: A longer description of the data.
• sourceUrl: A URL to the original data, if available.
• dataSourcedAt: The timestamp that the data was downloaded from the source at, in milliseconds since unix epoch.
• dataProcessedAt: The timestamp that the data was processed into the Vector Charts system, in milliseconds since unix epoch.

Example Request
GET https://api.vectorcharts.com/api/v1/datasets/attributions?token=299ce9bf4f244300a96f3926240f9c0d

Example Response
Status Code: 200 OK
Response Body:
[
  {
    "id": "noaa-enc",
    "shortDescription": "NOAA ENC: United States Nautical Charts",
    "longDescription": "NOAA ENCs are created and published by the United States Government, and cover the contiguous US, Alaska, Hawaii, and US Territories.",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/charts/noaa-enc.html",
    "dataSourcedAt": 1757941524239,
    "dataProcessedAt": 1757941524239
  },
  {
    "id": "basemap",
    "shortDescription": "Background Data",
    "longDescription": "Background Data sourced from the Natural Earth dataset.",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.naturalearthdata.com/",
    "dataSourcedAt": 1757941524239,
    "dataProcessedAt": 1757941524239
  }
]