Natural Resources Conservation Service

Natural Resources Conservation Service Spatial API

The Spatial API from Natural Resources Conservation Service — 2 operation(s) for spatial.

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Operations 2

GET /Spatial/SDMWGS84Geographic.wfs WFS endpoint (WGS84) #
GET /Spatial/SDM.wms WMS endpoint #

Specifications

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OpenAPI Specification

natural-resources-conservation-service-spatial-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: USDA NRCS Soil Data Access Query Spatial API
  description: OpenAPI description of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Data Access (SDA) web services. SDA exposes a public REST POST endpoint that accepts SQL queries against the Soil Data Mart database and returns tabular data in XML, JSON or plain text. SDA additionally provides SOAP, WFS and WMS endpoints which are referenced here but not fully modeled in this specification. The REST endpoint is open and does not require authentication.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: API Evangelist
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
servers:
- url: https://SDMDataAccess.sc.egov.usda.gov
  description: USDA NRCS Soil Data Access
tags:
- name: Spatial
paths:
  /Spatial/SDMWGS84Geographic.wfs:
    get:
      summary: WFS endpoint (WGS84)
      description: OGC Web Feature Service 1.1.0 endpoint with soil features in WGS84 (EPSG:4326). Supports GetCapabilities, DescribeFeatureType and GetFeature operations via standard OGC query parameters.
      operationId: wfsWgs84
      tags:
      - Spatial
      parameters:
      - name: service
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - WFS
      - name: request
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - GetCapabilities
          - DescribeFeatureType
          - GetFeature
      - name: version
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          default: 1.1.0
      - name: typeName
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OGC response.
          content:
            application/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
  /Spatial/SDM.wms:
    get:
      summary: WMS endpoint
      description: OGC Web Map Service 1.1.1 endpoint for soils map imagery. Supports GetCapabilities, GetMap, GetFeatureInfo, DescribeLayer and GetStyles operations via standard OGC query parameters.
      operationId: wmsSoils
      tags:
      - Spatial
      parameters:
      - name: service
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - WMS
      - name: request
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - GetCapabilities
          - GetMap
          - GetFeatureInfo
          - DescribeLayer
          - GetStyles
      - name: version
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          default: 1.1.1
      - name: format
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - image/jpeg
          - image/png
          - image/gif
          - image/svg+xml
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OGC response.
          content:
            image/png:
              schema:
                type: string
                format: binary
            application/xml:
              schema:
                type: string