Previously deployed services use version 1.6, however version 1.8 has been adopted by the NGDS technical team review. Please use the version 1.8 for all future thermal springs services, which will require differentiating the new version in the name of the service. When deploying with ArcMap products, the newest version does not allow "." in names of web services, so the use of "_" has been implemented as such: WVThermalSprings1_8 Please use this naming convention for new Thermal Springs services.

SLDs (Styled Layer Descriptors) can be downloaded from the State Geothermal Data Repository. The legend for the Thermal Springs model is a point-feature color ramp which ranges from green (≤95F) to red (≥ 212F) for each feature.

This spreadsheet indicates the content requested for basic data characterizing a hot spring feature for the AASG geothermal data project. Typically, water temperatures are recorded with other information such as water quality or chemical analysis from a particular spring. The temperature and flow rate reported here are meant to be generalized characterization. Other observation services should be used to report time series of temperature or flow measurements. Chemical analytical data is also reported by a separate observation service. This sheet may be used to compile multiple temperature or flow rate observations for individual springs as well.

The Thermal Spring URI for a particular spring is the cross-referencing link (foreign key) used to associate the spring record, temperature measurements, chemistry and other information from a particular spring.

Each entry is for one spring. Multiple observations (such as: temperature observations, chemical analyses) from the same spring would be entered on separate, appropriate spreadsheets/templates. If these separate observations exist, there should be a link to them entered on the Thermal Spring template, entered under Related Resources.