Wikidata:Property proposal/NWIS site ID
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NWIS site ID
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | identifier for a monitoring or sampling site in the National Water Information System |
|---|---|
| Represents | National Water Information System (Q129954770) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | item, USGS National Water Information System site (Q129955851) |
| Allowed values | /^\d{8,15}$/ |
| Example 1 | Delaware River at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, PA (Q129958727)NWIS site ID01467200 |
| Example 2 | HW-047 NC-40 CHAMPION WELL NR CRUSO REGOLITH (Q129958865)NWIS site ID352315082484401 |
| Example 3 | USGS NADP RAINGAGE (MS10) NEAR CLINTON MS (Q129958936)NWIS site ID321804090244200 |
| Source | https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis |
| Planned use | I have a tool (https://github.com/quincylvania/usgs-to-osm) that syncs up NWIS sites to OpenStreetMap. I can modify it to sync NWIS and OSM to Wikidata and also Wikidata back to OSM. |
| Number of IDs in source | 1,756,360 as of 2024-08-27 |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| Formatter URL | https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/$1/ |
| Distinct-values constraint | yes |
Motivation
[edit]There are 1.7 million historic and 13,000 current stream gages and other water monitoring sites in the National Water Information System. Each has a unique ID. I have a tool that can sync these up between Wikidata and OSM (see planned use section). QuincyMorgan (talk) 00:07, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
Discussion
[edit]Comment Do these sites correspond to existing Wikidata items, or are you proposing to add them all (over 1 million), or what is the plan here? ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:39, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- The sites are not in Wikidata from what I could tell. I assume there is somewhere for import discussions here so I would make a proposal first. We could import all historic sites or limit it just to currently active sites. I still think the identifier would be useful regardless of whether people want these bulk imported. QuincyMorgan (talk) 13:28, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
- @ArthurPSmith would you like to give your opinion? Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 20:40, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
- If limited to currently active sites I think this would be fine. 1.7 million records added to Wikidata for the historic sites seems too much. I wonder if that would be better recorded on Commons using the tabular data format? ArthurPSmith (talk) 21:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
- Happy to limit the import to active sites. The NWIS ID can still be available for any historic sites of note that people may want to link up manually. QuincyMorgan (talk) 17:07, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- If limited to currently active sites I think this would be fine. 1.7 million records added to Wikidata for the historic sites seems too much. I wonder if that would be better recorded on Commons using the tabular data format? ArthurPSmith (talk) 21:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
- @ArthurPSmith would you like to give your opinion? Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 20:40, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
- The sites are not in Wikidata from what I could tell. I assume there is somewhere for import discussions here so I would make a proposal first. We could import all historic sites or limit it just to currently active sites. I still think the identifier would be useful regardless of whether people want these bulk imported. QuincyMorgan (talk) 13:28, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
Support Thanks for your sync tool. --Kdkeller (talk) 22:18, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- @QuincyMorgan, Kdkeller, ArthurPSmith:
Done as NWIS site ID (P13020) Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 20:33, 30 September 2024 (UTC)