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V1 Marine Depth

Give it a latitude and longitude and it answers with what the nautical chart says about the water there: the depth range of the charted depth area containing the position, the nearest charted sounding and how far away it is, and the chart's own zone of confidence for that area. Parameters go in the query string: this is a GET, there is no body. NOT FOR NAVIGATION, stated first because it is a condition of using the source. This is derived from NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts and redistributed; it is not an official NOAA ENC and does not meet federal chart carriage regulations under 33 CFR 164 or SOLAS chapter V, which only charts from NOAA or a certified NOAA ENC distributor do. Every response repeats this under `disclaimer`. NOAA and NOAA ENC are registered trademarks of NOAA, which does not endorse this service. COVERAGE is 65 NOAA ENC cells of usage bands 3, 4 and 5 over five working areas of southeast and southcentral Alaska: Sitka Sound; Kasaan Bay and Clarence Strait; Metlakatla, Ketchikan and Revillagigedo Channel; Juneau, Gastineau Channel and Lynn Canal; and Cordova with eastern Prince William Sound. It is not statewide, it is not the whole coast, and the small-scale cells that would make it look wider were deliberately left out. The coverage check reads the coordinate, so it runs in the handler after payment rather than in front of the 402: a position off the charts is quoted like any other and then refused with outside_coverage. A refusal does not settle and nothing is charged, but it costs a signature and a round trip, so check the coverage first. Every response repeats it under `coverage`. NOTHING IS INTERPOLATED, and that is the difference between this and GET /v1/elevation. Terrain is a continuous surface and sampling it between pixels is legitimate; a chart is a set of assertions a hydrographer made, and averaging two of them invents a depth nobody surveyed. So `depthAreaMinimum` is DRVAL1 of the charted depth area the position falls inside, the

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V1 Marine Hazards

Give it a latitude, a longitude and a radius in metres and it answers with every charted underwater rock, obstruction and wreck inside that circle, nearest first, each with its charted depth, its water level effect, its name where the chart names it, and the geodesic distance from your position. Parameters go in the query string: this is a GET, there is no body. NOT FOR NAVIGATION, stated first because it is a condition of using the source. Derived from NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts and redistributed; not an official NOAA ENC, and it does not meet federal chart carriage regulations under 33 CFR 164 or SOLAS chapter V. Every response repeats this under `disclaimer`. NOAA and NOAA ENC are registered trademarks of NOAA, which does not endorse this service. COVERAGE is the same 65 cells as GET /v1/marine/depth: bands 3 to 5 over Sitka Sound; Kasaan Bay and Clarence Strait; Metlakatla, Ketchikan and Revillagigedo Channel; Juneau, Gastineau Channel and Lynn Canal; and Cordova with eastern Prince William Sound. Not statewide and not the whole coast. The check reads the coordinate, so it happens after payment; a position off the charts is refused with outside_coverage, which does not settle. Every response repeats the coverage under `coverage`. WHAT AN EMPTY ANSWER MEANS, because this is the one that can hurt: an empty list means the chart shows nothing there, not that the water is clear. Read the zone of confidence from GET /v1/marine/depth for the same position before you read anything into a clean result. Zones C, D and U mean the area was never fully searched and NOAA says so; in zone D large depth anomalies may be expected. Only three S-57 classes are searched -- UWTROC, OBSTRN and WRECKS -- so a charted danger that is a buoy, a cable, a fish haven area, a spoil ground or a restricted area is not in this store and will not appear. WHICH CHART ANSWERS, and why it is not just one: the largest-scale cell covering each part of the search wins, applied per location ra

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