USGS Water Services

USGS Water Services Combined Metadata API

This endpoint combines metadata from timeseries and field measurements collections by site.

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Operations 8

GET /collections/combined-metadata Get Combined metadata metadata #
GET /collections/combined-metadata/items Get Combined metadata items #
OPTIONS /collections/combined-metadata/items Options for Combined metadata items #
POST /collections/combined-metadata/items Get Combined metadata items with CQL2 #
GET /collections/combined-metadata/items/{featureId} Get Combined metadata item by id #
OPTIONS /collections/combined-metadata/items/{featureId} Options for Combined metadata item by id #
GET /collections/combined-metadata/queryables Get Combined metadata queryables #
GET /collections/combined-metadata/schema Get Combined metadata schema #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/docs/

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/usgs-water/refs/heads/main/openapi/usgs-water-combined-metadata-api-openapi.yml

Other Resources

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Website
https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/

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OpenAPI Specification

usgs-water-combined-metadata-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  contact:
    name: US Geological Survey - Water Data for the Nation
    url: https://waterdata.usgs.gov
    x-ogc-serviceContact:
      addresses: []
      emails:
      - value: wdfn@usgs.gov
      hoursOfService: pointOfContact
      links:
      - href: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/questions-comments/?referrerUrl=https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov
        type: text/html
      name: WDFN Support
  description: These APIs provide OGC-compliant interfaces to USGS water data, letting you download continuous sensor measurements, discrete field measurements, metadata about monitoring locations, and more.
  license:
    name: US Government work in the public domain
    url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
  termsOfService: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
  title: USGS Water Data OGC Combined Metadata API
  version: 0.56.0
  x-keywords:
  - geospatial
  - data
  - api
  - hydrology
  - USGS
servers:
- description: 'These APIs provide OGC-compliant interfaces to USGS water data, letting you download continuous sensor measurements, discrete field measurements, metadata about monitoring locations, and more.

    '
  url: https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0
tags:


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