What is QuickCategory?
QuickCategory is a geospatial services API that acts as an aggregator for many spatial datasets, giving developers a single, uniform interface to access and query them.
The core idea is straightforward: there is a lot of valuable geospatial data out there — administrative boundaries, environmental risk layers, infrastructure datasets, land use classifications, and more. Each dataset comes with its own schema, its own quirks, its own query interface, and often its own auth system. Integrating even a handful of them into a single application is a significant amount of repeated, low-value work.
QuickCategory eliminates that work. You integrate once against our API. We handle normalisation, hosting, and keeping data up to date. You query any dataset in our catalogue with the same endpoint, the same filter syntax, and the same GeoJSON response shape — every time.
Who is it for?
QuickCategory is designed for developers and product teams who need to work with geospatial data as part of a larger application — not as the core of their business. If you’re building a property tool, an environmental monitoring dashboard, a logistics platform, or any application that needs spatial context, we can save you a significant amount of integration work.
How it works
Every dataset in the catalogue is normalised into a common entity model. Queries use a shared filter schema — spatial filters, attribute filters, and combinations of both. Responses are always standard GeoJSON. Vector tile endpoints are available for every dataset so you can render data directly in a web map client with zero preprocessing.
Under the hood, QuickCategory is built in Go on top of PostGIS. It’s designed to handle high query volumes and to serve tiles efficiently at scale.
Where we are
QuickCategory is currently in alpha. The core API is functional and we’re actively expanding the dataset catalogue. We’re a small UK-based team and we’re building this in the open — feedback and early adopters are very welcome.