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The goal of the New Mexico Water Data Initiative is to make available to the public data collected by multiple agencies about water resources in New Mexico in a common format. Many (but not all) agency data are already published online through services such as ESRI web maps, excel files, or in some cases public APIs. However, important aspects for a given data type (such as water table level measurements from wells) such as data/time formats, geospatial projections, column names, and units vary from agency to agency and even from dataset to dataset within agencies. In order to allow the public to access data from multiuple agencies in one format, the NMWDI architecture will route all agency data through one Web API standard with one corresponding underlying data model that references one common statewide water data controlled vocabulary.
