Introduction

Release notes for prior releases of the CO-OPS Metadata API are listed here for reference.

Version 1.0 - First Major Production Release

Release Date: July, 2018
Release Notes - CO-OPS Metadata API - Version 1.0.0

** New Feature
    * [MDAPI-257] - Please add visibility stations as a new "type"
    * [MDAPI-255] - Create New  Flag For Benchmark Service
    * [MDAPI-251] - Update USGS Disclaimers
    * [MDAPI-247] - Provide timezonecorr for some tideprediction stations
    * [MDAPI-246] - Add NOS Flood Thresholds to MDAPI water level stations metadata
    * [MDAPI-257] - Add visibility stations as a new "type"
    * [MDAPI-263] - Add historical MET and PhyOcean station list with removed date
    * [MDAPI-264] - Add Currents harmonic constituents to the metadata API
    * [MDAPI-274] - Add newly created station parameter for display of OFS data on CID to MDAPI

        


Version 0.6 - Sixth Development Release

Release Date:
Release Notes - CO-OPS Metadata API - Version 0.6.0

** Bug
    * [MDAPI-245] - High Priority: Change to flood threshold parameter name causes all stations to disappear
    * [MDAPI-243] - The units parameter is not handled in COOP mode
    * [MDAPI-242] - Active & Historic Water Levels page is not showing dates for each station
    * [MDAPI-241] - MDAPI in COOP returns 404 error instead nulls when there is no accepted Datum	
    * [MDAPI-233] - NULL Values are not properly handled in same cases in MDAPI COOP Mode
    * [MDAPI-234] - Station Poistion/Maping incorrect for 9452438
    * [MDAPI-227] - Exception thrown when expand flood levels in station list
    * [MDAPI-224] - Cloud COOP: MDAPI Does Not Return Tide Prediction Offsets
    * [MDAPI-223] - Removing 'X' type stations from the NOAA Tide Predictions Stations Listing
    * [MDAPI-222] - Harmonic Analyses for station 7132417 Fare Ute Point are not accessible
    * [MDAPI-219] - Cloud COOP: MDAPI Does Not Return Current Prediction Offsets
    * [MDAPI-218] - MDAPI should retrieve flood levels with latest begin date
    * [MDAPI-216] - Flood thresholds need to be displayed to 2 decimal places in MDAPI
    * [MDAPI-215] - Harmonic constants are not adjusting for selected time zone
    * [MDAPI-213] - Intermittent errors when retrieving geogroups for noaa tide predictions
    * [MDAPI-209] - San Luis Pass plotting in wrong location on T&C
    * [MDAPI-205] - Bug with currents bin distance for mc0101 on PORTS
    * [MDAPI-159] - Superseded datums and benchmarks not showing in station records
    * [MDAPI-154] - Tide Prediction Offset does not work for Station ID 8764314 (Eugene Island)
    * [MDAPI-153] - Air Gap stations with ONLY Q sensor got excluded from any station listing
    * [MDAPI-148] - surveycurernts listing not working from prod Metadata API
    * [MDAPI-146] - mdapi returns duplicate nearby stations list
    * [MDAPI-145] - Stations with no Station Record appear on TAC
    * [MDAPI-144] - Met sensor heights pulling elevation when it shouldn't
    * [MDAPI-143] - Wrong time zone name for 1820000
    * [MDAPI-142] - Exception handling related issue for MDAPI collection request
    * [MDAPI-117] - tide predictions stations list on riacstage show about 400 stations less than production  
    * [MDAPI-115] - metadata API show significant difference on list of historic water level stations
    * [MDAPI-114] - 1 minute water level stations not show on riac version
    * [MDAPI-113] - GET_MET_SENSOR_ELEVATION procedure need update to return correct sensors data
    * [MDAPI-134] - Water Temp Listing Returns Duplicate Affiliations
    * [MDAPI-133] - Water Levels (Active Stations) displaying station not yet installed
    * [MDAPI-132] - No lat/lon for some superseded datums stations from the Metadata API
    * [MDAPI-131] - query on station Details missing some stations  
    * [MDAPI-130] - MDAPI Has Links Showing localhost:9100 instead of tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov
    * [MDAPI-129] - RIAC - Metadata API does not return Datum for GL on riacstage
    * [MDAPI-127] - RIAC: Disseminated PORTS PICS Bins Returned Incorrect
    * [MDAPI-126] - For RIAC, return database time zone correction and name
    * [MDAPI-125] - Need NUM_SAMPLES and INTERVAL for all water level and met data in single station
    * [MDAPI-123] - Currents Station Listing:  value differs from Station Records Returned
    * [MDAPI-119] - sensors list for stations not show complete in RIAC MDAPI 
    * [MDAPI-116] - RIAC MDAPI: Missing Active Currents Stations
    * [MDAPI-112] - RIAC: riacappstage MDAPI has self link referencing mdapi-0.6/ instead of mdapi/v0.6/
    * [MDAPI-109] - RIAC: Incorrect  returned in station listing
    * [MDAPI-108] - RIAC: Station info is missing 
    * [MDAPI-107] - RIAC MDAPI for currents returns multiple (repeated) deployment records
    * [MDAPI-104] - tidepredoffsets.xml self link report 404 in RIAC Metadata API	
    * [MDAPI-103] - The performance or exception handling related issues for collection request


** Improvement
    * [MDAPI-247] - Provide timezonecorr for some tideprediction stations
    * [MDAPI-244] - Use PRECISION columns to round LAT/LONG for benchmarks.
    * [MDAPI-240] - Add "verified" field and remove filter
    * [MDAPI-236] - Geo Group objects returned in COOP mode have different sorting order
    * [MDAPI-235] - ODIN Map update - display stations only if dissemination status is turned on.
    * [MDAPI-230] - Disable SSL Certificate Validation In COOP Mode
    * [MDAPI-229] - Improve Logging Messages in MDAPI
    * [MDAPI-225] - MDAPI: Update Graylog Configuration
    * [MDAPI-220] - Update Benchmark Service by Adding New Fields
    * [MDAPI-214] - Please Create Custom Disclaimers for New USGS Stations (CRR-229)
    * [MDAPI-212] - Great Lakes stations missing from historical water level station list
    * [MDAPI-211] - Add link to CRD disclaimer on Web Pages for Web Notice
    * [MDAPI-207] - We need to add an acknowledgement on a website
    * [MDAPI-206] - Improve switching coop mode mechanism
    * [MDAPI-202] - Update MDAPI Disclaimer for CRD stations
    * [MDAPI-196] - Add control station for datums to datums
    * [MDAPI-190] - Convert stored procedures for NOAA Tide Predictions to MDAPI calls
    * [MDAPI-183] - Add TIDE_TYPE station parameter	
    * [MDAPI-179] - MDAPI documentation page should advise COOPMODE status
    * [MDAPI-178] - Add a DB validator into MDAPI
    * [MDAPI-174] - Add dissemination flag for each sensor on sensor page
    * [MDAPI-171] - Add air gap into type description section in MDAPI help page
    * [MDAPI-169] - Please add "Contact us" link
    * [MDAPI-160] - Create ObserveDST metadata for Currents Stations
    * [MDAPI-158] - Add daylight savings to station specific pages
    * [MDAPI-155] - Add reference_id to tidepredictionoffsets
    * [MDAPI-150] - Add Physical to stationType in MDAPI NearbyStation output
    * [MDAPI-149] - Need ability to add a disclaimer to all product pages for set stations
    * [MDAPI-141] - two procedures need to implement for mdapi performance improvement
    * [MDAPI-140] - Fix query and program to return tcoon stations properly and handle empty value in current bin size field
    * [MDAPI-121] - Need PING_INT in current stations listing	
	

** New Feature
    * [MDAPI-197] - MDAPI changes for Updating CRD for the 5 Active PORTS stations where station datum currently = CRD
    * [MDAPI-189] - COOP MDAPI Support for Current Prediction Offsets
    * [MDAPI-188] - Add current_geo_groups type to COOPCacheReader class
    * [MDAPI-163] - COOP mode
    * [MDAPI-156] - Add flood levels/thresholds to mdapi water level stations metadata
    * [MDAPI-110] - Add additional station types to station id specific requests

        


Version 0.5 - Fifth Development Release

Release Date: November, 2015
Release Notes - CO-OPS Metadata API - Version 0.5.0

** Bug
    * [MDAPI-69] - Subordinate Stations starting with 'TEC' not returning
    * [MDAPI-74] - Add sensor types to station listings
    * [MDAPI-80] - Datums query link not correct in Metadata API document
    * [MDAPI-82] - Unit conversion for HWI, LWI in datums listing
    * [MDAPI-85] - Need "name" and "project" fields in survey currents listing
    * [MDAPI-88] - Returned collection includes met stations when requesting active water level stations
    * [MDAPI-102] - One input type "waterlevelsandmet" missing in the exception report

** Improvement
    * [MDAPI-21] - Currents: Move Some Metadata to expand=details
    * [MDAPI-91] - Need water level raw one minute stations listing
    * [MDAPI-118] - Certain datums have TBD listed as a datum field this should be changed to Orthometric

** New Feature
    * [MDAPI-71] - Add TO_REACH field to benchmark collection
    * [MDAPI-72] - Add status messages to sensors
    * [MDAPI-73] - Support superseded datums
    * [MDAPI-86] - Need SHEF_ID in water level/met stations listing
    * [MDAPI-110] - Add additional station types to station id specific requests

        


Version 0.4 - Fourth Development Release

Release Date: June 10, 2014
Release Notes - CO-OPS Metadata API - Version 0.4.0

** Bug
    * [MDAPI-64] - Subordinate Stations not returning
    * [MDAPI-65] - Currents: Duplicate deployment history record for cb0301
    * [MDAPI-67] - Add the State abbreviation to a subordinate station

** New Feature
    * [MDAPI-57] - Serialized error handling
    * [MDAPI-68] - Add the time meridian field to the subordinate station .xml

        


Version 0.3 - Third Development Release

Release Date:
Release Notes - CO-OPS Metadata API - Version 0.3.0

** Bug
    * [MDAPI-19] - Currents: Parameters Missing from Staiton Info
    * [MDAPI-29] - Current Predictions: Missing parameters in station listing
    * [MDAPI-36] - Current Predictions: Geogroup Info Missing
    * [MDAPI-52] - Currents: Duplicate Records for Deployment Service
    * [MDAPI-53] - Currents: Bin Mapping Returns Depth in Feet but Units Listed as Meters
    * [MDAPI-54] - Currents: Sensor Depth Missing from Survey Stations
    * [MDAPI-62] - hb0401 not return distinct bin number

** Improvement
    * [MDAPI-31] - For MyPORTS, add total number of good bins as the station field
    * [MDAPI-32] - For MyPORTS, add "PICS three bins" or mark them in the bins details
    * [MDAPI-33] - For MyPORTS, add Real_Time_Bin in deployment field
    * [MDAPI-51] - Optimize query for historic current meters
    * [MDAPI-58] - MDAPI return center bin 1 distance different from CMIST
    * [MDAPI-60] - Serialize null values

** New Feature
    * [MDAPI-41] - Currents: Please add real-time bin to deployments (top level)

** Task
    * [MDAPI-40] - Move sensor orientation to deployment record
    * [MDAPI-42] - Currents: Move sensor depth from station to deployments (top)
    * [MDAPI-43] - Currents: Please move height_from_bottom from station to deployment (top)
    * [MDAPI-56] - Currents: Change Active Station Listing to Filter for Disseminated Only

            


Version 0.2 - Second Development Release

Release Date:
Release Notes - CO-OPS Metadata API - Version 0.2.0
** Bug
    * [MDAPI-23] - Currents: lat/lon precision inconsistency
    * [MDAPI-24] - Rename bin level parameters
    * [MDAPI-28] - Current Predictions: Invalid prediction offsets link
    * [MDAPI-34] - Current Predictions: some offset parameters should be of type integer (presently float)
    * [MDAPI-35] - Nearby stations not returning correct href extension
    * [MDAPI-50] - Currents: Please move the flood_direction_degrees parameter to deployments

** Improvement
    * [MDAPI-17] - Rename types
    * [MDAPI-20] - Currents: Number of Bins Incorrect
    * [MDAPI-22] - Currents: Inconsistent lat/lon naming convention
    * [MDAPI-25] - Currents: Invalid bin parameters 
    * [MDAPI-26] - Currents: Rename Columns/Content
    * [MDAPI-47] - Currents: Please move first_good_data to deployments (top)
    * [MDAPI-48] - Currents: Please move last_good_data parameter to deployments

** New Feature
    * [MDAPI-12] - Add reference station IDs for Tide Predictions 

** Task
    * [MDAPI-39] - Move sensor_depth field from station to deployment record
    * [MDAPI-44] - Please move the sample_interval from each deployment to the top level (one value only)
    * [MDAPI-46] - Currents: Please move the depth parameter to the top of the deployments (single value for collection)
    * [MDAPI-49] - Currents: Please move MLLW to deployments and rename to Measured_Depth
            


Version 0.1 - First Development Release

Release Date:
Release Notes - CO-OPS Metadata API - Version 0.1.0
Version 0.1 is the draft development release of the CO-OPS Metadata API. As changes are made to the API and fields are added or modified, the release notes contained within this section will be updated to reflect the changes.
Version 0.1:
  • Documentation created
  • New Resource Types
    • Station Resources
      • Water Level Station
      • Tide Prediction Station
      • Current Station
      • Current Prediction Station
    • Station Details
    • Sensors
    • Notices
    • Disclaimers
    • Datums
    • Harmonic Constituents
    • Tide Prediction Offsets
    • Bins
    • Benchmarks
    • Products
    • Nearby
    • Current Station Deployments
  • Unit option - english/metric
  • Output formats
    • JSON
    • XML
  • Expand functionality
  • Radius parameter
  • Station specific request type
  • Multi-station request type