Supporting APIs

These endpoints are currently on the physical weather server’s Postgres database. They are subject to change, based on the effectiveness (or cost) of implementing them in Directus:

• https://developweather.covercrop-data.org/mlra?lat=39.032056&lon=-76.873972
  Outputs the Major Land Resource Area (MLRA) information at the given lat/lon coordinates:
  name, mlrarsym, lrrsym, lrrname

• https://developweather.covercrop-data.org/mlra?lat=39.032056&lon=-76.873972&polygon=true
  Outputs MLRA information, along with its (multi)polygon:
  name, mlrarsym, lrrsym, lrrname, polygon, polygonarray

• https://developweather.covercrop-data.org/mlra?mlra=136
  Outputs MLRA information for the given mlra code, including a list of all counties and states within the MLRA:
  name, mlrarsym, lrrsym, lrrname, counties, states, state_codes, county_fips, state_fips
  (This endpoint also accepts the &polygon=true parameter.)

• https://developweather.covercrop-data.org/county?lat=39.032056&lon=-76.873972
  Outputs county information at the given lat/lon coordinates:
  county, state, state_code, countyfips, statefips
  (This endpoint also accepts the &polygon=true parameter.)

• https://developweather.covercrop-data.org/watershed?lat=39.032056&lon=-76.873972
  Outputs watershed information at the given lat/lon coordinates:
  huc12, name, huc10, huc10name, huc8, huc8name, huc6, huc6name, huc4, huc4name, huc2, huc2name, areaacres, areasqkm
  There are additional columns, but I’m unsure of their purpose.
  (This endpoint also accepts the &polygon=true parameter.)

• https://developweather.covercrop-data.org/watershed?huc=020700100804
  Outputs watershed information for the given HUC.
  Given a HUC12, it outputs a single record. For HUC2, HUC4, etc., it outputs all HUC12 records within their watersheds.
  (This endpoint also accepts the &polygon=true parameter.)

• https://developweather.covercrop-data.org/vegspec/characteristics?state=AL&output=html
  Outputs state characteristics data.

• https://developweather.covercrop-data.org/vegspec/props
  Outputs known properties for parameters.

• https://developweather.covercrop-data.org/vegspec/symbols
  Outputs a list of all PLANTS symbols.

• https://developweather.covercrop-data.org/vegspec/records?output=html
  Listing of PLANTS tables, number of records, and table sizes.

• https://developweather.covercrop-data.org/vegspec/structure?output=html
  Outputs the PLANTS schema.

• https://developweather.covercrop-data.org/vegspec/state?state=TN&output=html
  Outputs a state’s “exceptions” data, including MLRA and CPS.

• https://developweather.covercrop-data.org/plantstable?table=plant_growth_requirements&output=html
  Outputs a PLANTS database table.

Directus endpoints (obsolete)

Trevor Puckett imported the original Access database into Directus, and these endpoints have public read-only access.

Note that these endpoints are case-sensitive, and these were based on the MLRAs active at the time, some of which may have changed:

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/Codes

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/Conservation_Species

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/Conservation_Species_MLRA

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/Conservation_Species_Practices

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/Conservation_Species_StateCommonName

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/Conservation_Species_States (currently empty)

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/data_LRR_MLRA_States

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/data_Pollinators

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/data_ReleaseTable

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/lookup_PLANTS

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/LRR-MLRA

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/MLRA-States

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/Releases-Species_with_Unmatched_Plant_Symbols

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/Seeds_Per_Pound

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/Species-State-MLRA_wSciName (currently empty)

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/States-Practices_Adjustments

• https://data.vegspec.org/items/States_Progress

By default, Directus outputs 100 records, but you can output the entire dataset by appending ?limit=-1