Issue with rcode in API request?

[nolantownsend]

• StreamStats version: 0.1.5
• Python version: 3.8.11
• Operating System: Windows 10

Description

I was using streamstats to get different basin characteristics in watersheds in GA. If I understand correctly, there is a function within the package that determines the state the lat/long coordinate is in so it can make an API call with that rcode. However, I think that the rcode technically coincides with the streamgrid that the lat/long coordinate is near.

See the stream grids here: https://streamstatsags.cr.usgs.gov/StreamGrids/directoryBrowsing.asp

What I Did

There was a particular lat/long coordinate that falls within Florida, but the streamgrid for Georgia actually extends down into this area of Florida.

To confirm this I tried running the coordinates through the StreamStats Service Documentation (https://streamstats.usgs.gov/docs/streamstatsservices/#/).

I tried both of the following REST Query URLs:
https://streamstats.usgs.gov/streamstatsservices/watershed.geojson?rcode=FL&xlocation=-82.12233534&ylocation=30.26887137&crs=4326&includeparameters=false&includeflowtypes=false&includefeatures=true&simplify=true

and:
https://streamstats.usgs.gov/streamstatsservices/watershed.geojson?rcode=GA&xlocation=-82.12233534&ylocation=30.26887137&crs=4326&includeparameters=false&includeflowtypes=false&includefeatures=true&simplify=true

I found that the GA rcode garners a response but the FL one gives an error. In my mind I think one solution would be downloading all the stream grids for each state and then creating a polygon for each of those based on the extents. Those polygons would essentially be the states you would want those lat/long coordinates fall into and determine the rcode based off of.

As a test I ran the following code:

lat, lon = 30.43632736, -82.28711271
ws = streamstats.Watershed(lat=lat, lon=lon)
print(ws)

I got the following error:

RetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='streamstats.usgs.gov', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /streamstatsservices/watershed.geojson?rcode=FL&xlocation=-82.28711271&ylocation=30.43632736&crs=4326&includeparameters=True&includeflowtypes=False&includefeatures=True&simplify=False (Caused by ResponseError('too many 500 error responses'))

Please disregard or correct me if I am incorrect!

[amedenblik]

StreamStats has not been developed for Florida, so that is the reason for the error.