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API for USDA Plant Hardiness Zone or bulk download of Map shapefiles? #40

Open webmaven opened 9 years ago

webmaven commented 9 years ago

The Plant Hardiness Zone data is currently only availiable for lookup by zipcode and protected by a CAPTCHA, and the shapefiles are not available to the public for download and re-use.

Can the data be made available via an API or perhaps the shapefiles made available for bulk download by the public for reuse?

bbrotsos commented 9 years ago

@webmaven I'll forward this question on to USDA's Plant Hardiness team, and request that they post back here any additional information.

webmaven commented 9 years ago

Thanks @bbrotsos, :+1:

webmaven commented 8 years ago

@bbrotsos, any response?

emplums commented 8 years ago

+1 for this! 😄

bbrotsos commented 8 years ago

@emily-plummer This data is owned by Oregon State University Prism project http://prism.oregonstate.edu/ and USDA licenses the data through them. I've talked to several people related to this project, and USDA cannot make it available at this time for bulk download which is the terms of the cooperative agreement. You will need to contact OSU or http://www.climatesource.com/PHZM/main.html for licensing rights.

I wish I had a better response.

Schwad commented 8 years ago

Thanks for leaving this issue open. @emily-plummer @webmaven shall we coordinate a communication with OSU?

webmaven commented 8 years ago

@Schwad, I am not sure that talking with OSU will help, as they have delegated control over the data (which was partially funded by various USG agencies, including the USDA) to Climate Source corporation.

Unless there is some chance of getting access to either an API for lookups more precise than by zip code (needed for microclimates), or to the bulk data, under terms that won't restrict use or redistribution, there probably isn't much to discuss.

More details in this thread from 2012 (yeah, I have been worrying at this particular bone for a while): https://plus.google.com/+MichaelBernstein/posts/aPkbUjny65b

Schwad commented 8 years ago

Am I reading this correctly that the best avenue to pursue this is via Climate Source corporation, focusing on precise API lookups in a meaningful way?

Thanks for posting the thread, I'll have a good read through.

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@Schwad https://github.com/Schwad, I am not sure that talking with OSU will help, as they have delegated control over the data (which was partially funded by various USG agencies, including the USDA) to Climate Source corporation.

Unless there is some chance of getting access to either an API for lookups more precise than by zip code (needed for microclimates), or to the bulk data, under terms that won't restrict use or redistribution, there probably isn't much to discuss.

More details in this thread from 2012 (yeah, I have been worrying at this particular bone for a while): https://plus.google.com/+MichaelBernstein/posts/aPkbUjny65b

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waldoj commented 7 years ago

For folks following this issue—I've built an API around the new OSU bulk data. You can download the software and run it yourself, or just query the API at phzmapi.org by ZIP code (e.g., phzmapi.org/20001.json). That live API is a CloudFront distribution atop S3—basically just a pile of static files behind a proxy—so it costs pennies for me to host, which is to say that you're welcome to use it in production if you don't want to deploy your own copy.

webmaven commented 7 years ago

@waldoj, your API only does lookups by zipcode, correct?

If so, perhaps the zipcodes missing from the data are ones in which there is more than one zone, and therefore you would need to specify a more precise geolocation to disambiguate?

waldoj commented 7 years ago

Maybe! I don't know how PRISM generates their ZIP data files, so I can't say.

ryenski commented 7 years ago

Not sure if this is relevant, but PRISM does provide shapefile, metadata, and zip code listings for download here: http://www.prism.oregonstate.edu/projects/plant_hardiness_zones.php

jlt0022 commented 6 years ago

@waldoj Thanks for putting this together and hosting it!

c0bra commented 5 years ago

I've put an api up on stdlib.com: https://c0bra.api.stdlib.com/zipcode-to-hardiness-zone?zipcode=64108