Losing more public data under Trump 💾

I have been doing some digging around about the disappearing SNODAS snow depth web coverage service (WCS), that allows you to download and and process new-real time raster data regarding snow depth.

Apparently, it is yet another victim of the Trump administration gutting federal agencies.

• WCS – delivers raw geospatial data (e.g., satellite imagery, elevation grids) as coverages that clients can query, subset, or process. It’s data‑centric and lets you retrieve the actual values.
• WMS – returns pre‑rendered map images (PNG, JPEG, etc.) that are styled for display. It’s visualization‑centric; you get a picture of the data, not the data itself.

This builds on the loss of data with the disappearance of the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) that showed the location of hospitals and police stations, and other datasets such as removal of public statistics on Black Lung Disease deaths.