openapi: 3.0.2 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 APIs agency-codes latest-field-measurements 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: - description: 'Field measurements are physically measured values collected during a visit to the monitoring location. Field measurements consist of measurements of gage height and discharge, and readings of groundwater levels, and are primarily used as calibration readings for the automated sensors collecting continuous data. They are collected at a low frequency, and delivery of the data in WDFN may be delayed due to data processing time. ' name: latest-field-measurements paths: /collections/latest-field-measurements: get: description: 'Field measurements are physically measured values collected during a visit to the monitoring location. Field measurements consist of measurements of gage height and discharge, and readings of groundwater levels, and are primarily used as calibration readings for the automated sensors collecting continuous data. They are collected at a low frequency, and delivery of the data in WDFN may be delayed due to data processing time. ' operationId: describeLatest-field-measurementsCollection parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/f' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lang' responses: '200': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/Collection '400': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/InvalidParameter '403': $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden403' '404': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/NotFound '429': $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests429' '500': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/ServerError summary: Get Latest field measurements metadata tags: - latest-field-measurements /collections/latest-field-measurements/items: get: description: 'Field measurements are physically measured values collected during a visit to the monitoring location. Field measurements consist of measurements of gage height and discharge, and readings of groundwater levels, and are primarily used as calibration readings for the automated sensors collecting continuous data. They are collected at a low frequency, and delivery of the data in WDFN may be delayed due to data processing time. ' operationId: getLatest-field-measurementsFeatures parameters: - description: The optional f parameter indicates the output format which the server shall provide as part of the response document. The default format is GeoJSON. explode: false in: query name: f required: false schema: default: json enum: - json - html - jsonld - csv type: string style: form - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lang' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/bbox' - description: The optional limit parameter limits the number of items that are presented in the response document (maximum=50000, default=10). explode: false in: query name: limit required: false schema: default: 10 maximum: 50000 minimum: 1 type: integer style: form - $ref: '#/components/parameters/crs' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/bbox-crs' - description: The properties that should be included. The parameter value is a comma-separated list of property names. explode: false in: query name: properties required: false schema: items: enum: - id - field_measurements_series_id - field_visit_id - parameter_code - monitoring_location_id - observing_procedure_code - observing_procedure - value - unit_of_measure - time - qualifier - vertical_datum - approval_status - measuring_agency - last_modified - control_condition - measurement_rated - year - month - day - time_of_day type: string type: array style: form - $ref: '#/components/parameters/skipGeometry' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/wda_sortby' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/offset' - $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/parameters/datetime - description: 'A universally unique identifier (UUID) representing a single version of a record. It is not stable over time. Every time the record is refreshed in our database (which may happen as part of normal operations and does not imply any change to the data itself) a new ID will be generated. There may be multiple readings occurring at identical times during a single field visit; to uniquely identify a set of readings over time, use the `field_visit_id` field. ' explode: false in: query name: id required: false schema: description: 'A universally unique identifier (UUID) representing a single version of a record. It is not stable over time. Every time the record is refreshed in our database (which may happen as part of normal operations and does not imply any change to the data itself) a new ID will be generated. There may be multiple readings occurring at identical times during a single field visit; to uniquely identify a set of readings over time, use the `field_visit_id` field. ' format: uuid title: Record identifier type: string style: form - description: 'A unique identifier representing a single collection series. This corresponds to the `id` field in the `field-measurements-metadata` endpoint. Collection series are defined as the set of field measurements at a given monitoring location for a single parameter code using a single reading type. ' explode: false in: query name: field_measurements_series_id required: false schema: description: 'A unique identifier representing a single collection series. This corresponds to the `id` field in the `field-measurements-metadata` endpoint. Collection series are defined as the set of field measurements at a given monitoring location for a single parameter code using a single reading type. ' title: Field measurements series ID type: string style: form - description: 'A universally unique identifier (UUID) for the field visit. Multiple measurements may be made during a single field visit. ' explode: false in: query name: field_visit_id required: false schema: description: 'A universally unique identifier (UUID) for the field visit. Multiple measurements may be made during a single field visit. ' format: uuid title: Field visit ID type: string style: form - description: "Parameter codes are 5-digit codes used to identify the constituent measured and the units of measure. A complete list of parameter codes and associated groupings can be found at [https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/parameter-codes/items](https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/parameter-codes/items).\n Split parameters are enabled for this field, so you can supply multiple values separated by commas." explode: false in: query name: parameter_code required: false schema: description: "Parameter codes are 5-digit codes used to identify the constituent measured and the units of measure. A complete list of parameter codes and associated groupings can be found at [https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/parameter-codes/items](https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/parameter-codes/items).\n Split parameters are enabled for this field, so you can supply multiple values separated by commas." title: Parameter code type: string style: form - description: "A unique identifier representing a single monitoring location. This corresponds to the `id` field in the `monitoring-locations` endpoint. Monitoring location IDs are created by combining the agency code of the agency responsible for the monitoring location (e.g. USGS) with the ID number of the monitoring location (e.g. 02238500), separated by a hyphen (e.g. USGS-02238500).\n Split parameters are enabled for this field, so you can supply multiple values separated by commas." explode: false in: query name: monitoring_location_id required: false schema: description: "A unique identifier representing a single monitoring location. This corresponds to the `id` field in the `monitoring-locations` endpoint. Monitoring location IDs are created by combining the agency code of the agency responsible for the monitoring location (e.g. USGS) with the ID number of the monitoring location (e.g. 02238500), separated by a hyphen (e.g. USGS-02238500).\n Split parameters are enabled for this field, so you can supply multiple values separated by commas." title: Monitoring location ID type: string style: form - description: A short code corresponding to the observing procedure for the field measurement. explode: false in: query name: observing_procedure_code required: false schema: description: A short code corresponding to the observing procedure for the field measurement. title: Observing procedure code type: string style: form - description: Water measurement or water-quality observing procedure descriptions. explode: false in: query name: observing_procedure required: false schema: description: Water measurement or water-quality observing procedure descriptions. title: Observing procedure type: string style: form - description: 'The value of the observation. Values are transmitted as strings in the JSON response format in order to preserve precision. ' explode: false in: query name: value required: false schema: description: 'The value of the observation. Values are transmitted as strings in the JSON response format in order to preserve precision. ' title: Value type: string style: form - description: A human-readable description of the units of measurement associated with an observation. explode: false in: query name: unit_of_measure required: false schema: description: A human-readable description of the units of measurement associated with an observation. title: Unit of measure type: string style: form - description: "The date an observation represents. You can query this field using date-times or intervals, adhering to RFC 3339, or using ISO 8601 duration objects. Intervals may be bounded or half-bounded (double-dots at start or end).\nExamples:\n\n - A date-time: \"2018-02-12T23:20:50Z\"\n - A bounded interval: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n - Half-bounded intervals: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/..\" or \"../2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n - Duration objects: \"P1M\" for data from the past month or \"PT36H\" for the last 36 hours\n\nOnly features that have a `time` that intersects the value of datetime are selected. If a feature has multiple temporal properties, it is the decision of the server whether only a single temporal property is used to determine the extent or all relevant temporal properties.\n" explode: false in: query name: time required: false schema: description: "The date an observation represents. You can query this field using date-times or intervals, adhering to RFC 3339, or using ISO 8601 duration objects. Intervals may be bounded or half-bounded (double-dots at start or end).\nExamples:\n\n - A date-time: \"2018-02-12T23:20:50Z\"\n - A bounded interval: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n - Half-bounded intervals: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/..\" or \"../2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n - Duration objects: \"P1M\" for data from the past month or \"PT36H\" for the last 36 hours\n\nOnly features that have a `time` that intersects the value of datetime are selected. If a feature has multiple temporal properties, it is the decision of the server whether only a single temporal property is used to determine the extent or all relevant temporal properties.\n" title: Time type: string style: form - description: 'This field indicates any qualifiers associated with an observation, for instance if a sensor may have been impacted by ice or if values were estimated. ' explode: false in: query name: qualifier required: false schema: description: 'This field indicates any qualifiers associated with an observation, for instance if a sensor may have been impacted by ice or if values were estimated. ' title: Qualifier type: string style: form - description: 'The datum used to determine altitude and vertical position at the monitoring location. A list of codes is available at [https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/altitude-datums/items](https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/altitude-datums/items). ' explode: false in: query name: vertical_datum required: false schema: description: 'The datum used to determine altitude and vertical position at the monitoring location. A list of codes is available at [https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/altitude-datums/items](https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/altitude-datums/items). ' title: Vertical datum type: string style: form - description: 'Some of the data that you have obtained from this U.S. Geological Survey database may not have received Director''s approval. Any such data values are qualified as provisional and are subject to revision. Provisional data are released on the condition that neither the USGS nor the United States Government may be held liable for any damages resulting from its use. This field reflects the approval status of each record, and is either "Approved", meaining processing review has been completed and the data is approved for publication, or "Provisional" and subject to revision. For more information about provisional data, go to [https://waterdata.usgs.gov/provisional-data-statement/](https://waterdata.usgs.gov/provisional-data-statement/). ' explode: false in: query name: approval_status required: false schema: description: 'Some of the data that you have obtained from this U.S. Geological Survey database may not have received Director''s approval. Any such data values are qualified as provisional and are subject to revision. Provisional data are released on the condition that neither the USGS nor the United States Government may be held liable for any damages resulting from its use. This field reflects the approval status of each record, and is either "Approved", meaining processing review has been completed and the data is approved for publication, or "Provisional" and subject to revision. For more information about provisional data, go to [https://waterdata.usgs.gov/provisional-data-statement/](https://waterdata.usgs.gov/provisional-data-statement/). ' enum: - Provisional - Approved title: Approval Status type: string style: form - description: The agency performing the measurement. explode: false in: query name: measuring_agency required: false schema: description: The agency performing the measurement. title: Measuring agency type: string style: form - description: "The last time a record was refreshed in our database. This may happen due to regular operational processes and does not necessarily indicate anything about the measurement has changed.\nYou can query this field using date-times or intervals, adhering to RFC 3339, or using ISO 8601 duration objects. Intervals may be bounded or half-bounded (double-dots at start or end).\nExamples:\n\n - A date-time: \"2018-02-12T23:20:50Z\"\n - A bounded interval: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n - Half-bounded intervals: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/..\" or \"../2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n - Duration objects: \"P1M\" for data from the past month or \"PT36H\" for the last 36 hours\n\nOnly features that have a `last_modified` that intersects the value of datetime are selected.\n" explode: false in: query name: last_modified required: false schema: description: "The last time a record was refreshed in our database. This may happen due to regular operational processes and does not necessarily indicate anything about the measurement has changed.\nYou can query this field using date-times or intervals, adhering to RFC 3339, or using ISO 8601 duration objects. Intervals may be bounded or half-bounded (double-dots at start or end).\nExamples:\n\n - A date-time: \"2018-02-12T23:20:50Z\"\n - A bounded interval: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n - Half-bounded intervals: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/..\" or \"../2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n - Duration objects: \"P1M\" for data from the past month or \"PT36H\" for the last 36 hours\n\nOnly features that have a `last_modified` that intersects the value of datetime are selected.\n" title: Last modified date type: string style: form - description: 'The state of the control feature at the time of observation. ' explode: false in: query name: control_condition required: false schema: description: 'The state of the control feature at the time of observation. ' title: Control condition type: string style: form - description: 'A qualitative estimate of the quality of a measurement. ' explode: false in: query name: measurement_rated required: false schema: description: 'A qualitative estimate of the quality of a measurement. ' title: Measurement rating type: string style: form - description: 'The calendar year the field measurement was taken. ' explode: false in: query name: year required: false schema: description: 'The calendar year the field measurement was taken. ' title: Year type: integer style: form - description: 'The calendar month the field measurement was taken. If null, the month is unknown. ' explode: false in: query name: month required: false schema: description: 'The calendar month the field measurement was taken. If null, the month is unknown. ' title: Month type: integer style: form - description: 'The day of the month the field measurement was taken. If null, the day is unknown. ' explode: false in: query name: day required: false schema: description: 'The day of the month the field measurement was taken. If null, the day is unknown. ' title: Day type: integer style: form - description: 'The time of day the field measurement was taken. If null, the time of day is unknown. ' explode: false in: query name: time_of_day required: false schema: description: 'The time of day the field measurement was taken. If null, the time of day is unknown. ' format: time title: Time of Day type: string style: form - $ref: '#/components/parameters/filter' responses: '200': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/Features '400': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/InvalidParameter '403': $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden403' '404': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/NotFound '429': $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests429' '500': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/ServerError security: - ApiKeyQuery: [] - ApiKeyHeader: [] summary: Get Latest field measurements items tags: - latest-field-measurements options: description: 'Field measurements are physically measured values collected during a visit to the monitoring location. Field measurements consist of measurements of gage height and discharge, and readings of groundwater levels, and are primarily used as calibration readings for the automated sensors collecting continuous data. They are collected at a low frequency, and delivery of the data in WDFN may be delayed due to data processing time. ' operationId: optionsLatest-field-measurementsFeatures responses: '200': description: options response security: - ApiKeyQuery: [] - ApiKeyHeader: [] summary: Options for Latest field measurements items tags: - latest-field-measurements post: description: 'Field measurements are physically measured values collected during a visit to the monitoring location. Field measurements consist of measurements of gage height and discharge, and readings of groundwater levels, and are primarily used as calibration readings for the automated sensors collecting continuous data. They are collected at a low frequency, and delivery of the data in WDFN may be delayed due to data processing time. ' operationId: getCQL2Latest-field-measurementsFeatures requestBody: content: application/json: schema: $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/cql2/1.0/cql2.json description: Get items with CQL2 required: true responses: '200': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/Features '400': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/InvalidParameter '403': $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden403' '429': $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests429' '500': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/ServerError security: - ApiKeyQuery: [] - ApiKeyHeader: [] summary: Get Latest field measurements items with CQL2 tags: - latest-field-measurements /collections/latest-field-measurements/items/{featureId}: get: description: 'Field measurements are physically measured values collected during a visit to the monitoring location. Field measurements consist of measurements of gage height and discharge, and readings of groundwater levels, and are primarily used as calibration readings for the automated sensors collecting continuous data. They are collected at a low frequency, and delivery of the data in WDFN may be delayed due to data processing time. ' operationId: getLatest-field-measurementsFeature parameters: - $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/parameters/featureId - $ref: '#/components/parameters/crs' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/f' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lang' responses: '200': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/Feature '400': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/InvalidParameter '403': $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden403' '404': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/NotFound '429': $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests429' '500': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/ServerError security: - ApiKeyQuery: [] - ApiKeyHeader: [] summary: Get Latest field measurements item by id tags: - latest-field-measurements options: description: 'Field measurements are physically measured values collected during a visit to the monitoring location. Field measurements consist of measurements of gage height and discharge, and readings of groundwater levels, and are primarily used as calibration readings for the automated sensors collecting continuous data. They are collected at a low frequency, and delivery of the data in WDFN may be delayed due to data processing time. ' operationId: optionsLatest-field-measurementsFeature parameters: - $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/parameters/featureId responses: '200': description: options response security: - ApiKeyQuery: [] - ApiKeyHeader: [] summary: Options for Latest field measurements item by id tags: - latest-field-measurements /collections/latest-field-measurements/queryables: get: description: 'Field measurements are physically measured values collected during a visit to the monitoring location. Field measurements consist of measurements of gage height and discharge, and readings of groundwater levels, and are primarily used as calibration readings for the automated sensors collecting continuous data. They are collected at a low frequency, and delivery of the data in WDFN may be delayed due to data processing time. ' operationId: getLatest-field-measurementsQueryables parameters: - description: The properties that should be included. The parameter value is a comma-separated list of property names. explode: false in: query name: properties required: false schema: items: enum: - id - field_measurements_series_id - field_visit_id - parameter_code - monitoring_location_id - observing_procedure_code - observing_procedure - value - unit_of_measure - time - qualifier - vertical_datum - approval_status - measuring_agency - last_modified - control_condition - measurement_rated - year - month - day - time_of_day type: string type: array style: form - $ref: '#/components/parameters/f' - description: The profile to be applied to a given request explode: false in: query name: profile required: false schema: enum: - actual-domain - valid-domain type: string style: form - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lang' responses: '200': $ref: '#/components/responses/Queryables' '400': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/InvalidParameter '403': $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden403' '404': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/NotFound '429': $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests429' '500': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/ServerError security: - ApiKeyQuery: [] - ApiKeyHeader: [] summary: Get Latest field measurements queryables tags: - latest-field-measurements /collections/latest-field-measurements/schema: get: description: 'Field measurements are physically measured values collected during a visit to the monitoring location. Field measurements consist of measurements of gage height and discharge, and readings of groundwater levels, and are primarily used as calibration readings for the automated sensors collecting continuous data. They are collected at a low frequency, and delivery of the data in WDFN may be delayed due to data processing time. ' operationId: getLatest-field-measurementsSchema parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/f' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lang' responses: '200': $ref: '#/components/responses/Queryables' '400': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/InvalidParameter '403': $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden403' '404': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/NotFound '429': $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests429' '500': $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/ServerError security: - ApiKeyQuery: [] - ApiKeyHeader: [] summary: Get Latest field measurements schema tags: - latest-field-measurements components: parameters: offset: description: The optional offset parameter indicates the index within the result set from which the server shall begin presenting results in the response document. The first element has an index of 0 (default). explode: false in: query name: offset required: false schema: default: 0 minimum: 0 type: integer style: form wda_sortby: description: "Specifies a comma-separated list of property names by which the response shall be sorted. If the property name is preceded by a plus (+) sign it indicates an ascending sort for that property. If the property name is preceded by a minus (-) sign it indicates a descending sort for that property. If the property is not preceded by a plus or minus, then the default sort order implied is ascending (+). \n\nOnly a single page of data can be returned when specifying sortby. If you need more than a single page of data, don't specify a sortby value and sort the full data set after it's been downloaded." explode: false in: query name: sortby required: false schema: items: pattern: '[+|-]?[A-Za-z_].*' type: string minItems: 1 type: array style: form f: description: The optional f parameter indicates the output format which the server shall provide as part of the response document. The default format is GeoJSON. CSV is also available. explode: false in: query name: f required: false schema: default: json enum: - json - html - jsonld - csv type: string style: form skipGeometry: description: This option can be used to skip response geometries for each feature. explode: false in: query name: skipGeometry required: false schema: default: false type: boolean style: form filter: description: "CQL Text filter expression. CQL JSON cannot be used here, only in the body. \nSee also: https://docs.pygeoapi.io/en/latest/cql.html \n\nExample: time_series_id IN ('64ee32f5350a4ec4967435dcd2e364ea', '3e55d9c2d8a54bec9ca5e292b07d5a96')" in: query name: filter required: false schema: type: string lang: description: The optional lang parameter instructs the server return a response in a certain language, if supported. If the language is not among the available values, the Accept-Language header language will be used if it is supported. If the header is missing, the default server language is used. Note that providers may only support a single language (or often no language at all), that can be different from the server language. Language strings can be written in a complex (e.g. "fr-CA,fr;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7"), simple (e.g. "de") or locale-like (e.g. "de-CH" or "fr_BE") fashion. in: query name: lang required: false schema: default: en-US enum: - en-US type: string crs: description: Indicates the coordinate reference system for the results. explode: false in: query name: crs required: false schema: format: uri type: string style: form bbox-crs: description: Indicates the coordinate reference system for the given bbox coordinates. explode: false in: query name: bbox-crs required: false schema: format: uri type: string style: form bbox: description: Only features that have a geometry that intersects the bounding box are selected.The bounding box is provided as four or six numbers, depending on whether the coordinate reference system includes a vertical axis (height or depth). explode: false in: query name: bbox required: false schema: items: type: number maxItems: 6 minItems: 4 type: array style: form responses: Queryables: content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/queryables' description: successful queryables operation TooManyRequests429: content: application/json: examples: rateLimitExceeded: summary: Rate Limit Exceeded value: error: code: OVER_RATE_LIMIT message: You have exceeded your rate limit. Make sure you provided your API key from https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/signup/, then either try again later or contact us at https://waterdata.usgs.gov/questions-comments/?referrerUrl=https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov for assistance. schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' application/xml: example: "<response>\n <error>\n <code>OVER_RATE_LIMIT</code>\n <message>You have exceeded your rate limit. Make sure you provided your API key from https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/signup/, then either try again later or contact us at https://waterdata.usgs.gov/questions-comments/?referrerUrl=https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov for assistance.</message>\n </error>\n </response>" schema: properties: response: properties: error: properties: code: type: string message: type: string required: - code - message type: object required: - error type: object type: object text/csv: examples: rateLimitCsv: summary: Rate Limit Exceeded (CSV) value: 'Error Code,Error Message OVER_RATE_LIMIT,You have exceeded your rate limit. Make sure you provided your API key from https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/signup/, then either try again later or contact us at https://waterdata.usgs.gov/questions-comments/?referrerUrl=https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov for assistance.' schema: type: string text/html: examples: rateLimitHtml: summary: Rate Limit Exceeded (HTML) value: "<html>\n <body>\n <h1>OVER_RATE_LIMIT</h1>\n <p>You have exceeded your rate limit. Make sure you provided your API key from https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/signup/, then either try again later or contact us at https://waterdata.usgs.gov/questions-comments/?referrerUrl=https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov for assistance.</p>\n </body>\n </html>" schema: type: string description: Too Many Requests - Rate limit exceeded. Forbidden403: content: application/json: examples: missingApiKey: summary: Missing API Key value: error: code: API_KEY_MISSING message: No api_key was supplied. Get one at https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/signup/ schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' application/xml: example: "<response>\n <error>\n <code>API_KEY_MISSING</code>\n <message>No api_key was supplied. Get one at https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/signup/</message>\n </error>\n </response>" schema: properties: response: properties: error: properties: code: type: string message: type: string required: - code - message type: object required: - error type: object type: object text/csv: examples: missingApiKeyCsv: summary: Missing API Key (CSV) value: 'Error Code,Error Message API_KEY_MISSING, No api_key was supplied. Get one at https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/signup/' schema: type: string text/html: examples: missingApiKeyHtml: summary: Missing API Key (HTML) value: "<html>\n <body>\n <h1>API_KEY_MISSING</h1>\n <p>No api_key was supplied. Get one at https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/signup/</p>\n </body>\n </html>" schema: type: string description: Forbidden - API key is missing or not authorized for this resource. schemas: Error: properties: error: properties: code: description: Error code such as OVER_RATE_LIMIT, see https://api.data.gov/docs/developer-manual/#general-web-service-errors type: string message: description: Error message type: string required: - code - message type: object type: object queryable: properties: description: description: a human-readable narrative describing the queryable type: string language: default: en description: the language used for the title and description type: string queryable: description: the token that may be used in a CQL predicate type: string title: description: a human readable title for the queryable type: string type: description: the data type of the queryable type: string type-ref: description: a reference to the formal definition of the type format: url type: string required: - queryable - type type: object queryables: properties: queryables: items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/queryable' type: array required: - queryables type: object securitySchemes: ApiKeyHeader: description: Providing your API key gives you higher rate limits when querying our APIs. You can obtain an API key at https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/signup in: header name: api_key type: apiKey ApiKeyQuery: description: Providing your API key gives you higher rate limits when querying our APIs. You can obtain an API key at https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/signup in: query name: api_key type: apiKey