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USGS EROS has provided the following web services that can be used by the public to build custom applications:

  • Elevation — Use the Elevation Service to obtain elevations from a variety of data sources for the United States, U.S. territories, and parts of North America.
  • Coordinate Conversion — Use the USNG Service to convert between Geographic latitude/longitude coordinates and U.S. National Grid coordinates.
  • Graphics — Use the PDF Service to generate PDF documents composed of WMS map requests.
  • Inventory — Use the Inventory Service to find out which datasets cover a specific geographic area. This service can also provide many characteristics of those datsets including download options, metadata URLs, and WMS information that can be used to request map images.
  • Downloads — Use the Request Validation and Download Services to obtain full resolution data.
Service Name REST (JSON) SOAP (WSDL) Description Additional Info
Download_Service   Link Use the Request Validation and Download Services to obtain full resolution data. Version: 26 Feb 2010

Elevation Service   Link Use the Elevation Service to obtain elevations from a variety of data sources for the United States, U.S. territories, and parts of North America.  
Inventory Service Link Link Use the Inventory Service to find out which datasets cover a specific geographic area. This service can also provide many characteristics of those datsets including download options, metadata URLs, and WMS information that can be used to request map images. Version: 10 Mar 2010

Version: 16 Dec 2009

PDF Service   Link    
Request_Validation_Service   Link Use the Request Validation and Download Services to obtain full resolution data. Version: 07 Nov 2011

USNG   Link Use this service to return an United States National Grid Coordinate for a given latitude/longitude point specified in decimal degrees (WGS 84).  

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