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USGS National Water Information System #87

Open nickrsan opened 7 years ago

nickrsan commented 7 years ago

Name: USGS Water Data for the Nation Organization: USGS Description URL: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis Download URL: File Types: Size: Status:

johncronan commented 7 years ago

Prior to October 1, 2007: https://ida.water.usgs.gov/ida/ October 1, 2007 to present:

including ... a daily values web service, a site service that returns information about USGS hydrologic sites, a groundwater levels service, water quality data service and a statistics service

It looks big. 1.6M sites! cf inventory.

johncronan commented 7 years ago

This is dup of #30.

nickrsan commented 7 years ago

Thanks for flagging the dupe - keeping this one open and closed the other. From experience working with this data, I think it'd be a huge lift to mirror it. Some work could be done using their HTTP API (a few Python packages exist that can communicate with it - PyUlmo and usgs-api), but it'd probably be best to subset the data to the most important, or contact USGS. I don't consider this dataset highly threatened though, due to it being less directly about climate change (even if it has usefulness and implications for climate).

jsta commented 7 years ago

There is also this R package to pull from NWIS: https://github.com/USGS-R/dataRetrieval

JeremiahCurtis commented 7 years ago

reason for removing the no mirrors" status?