<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><br></div>Hi<br><br></div>Is this the expected way for the station comments to be used? I guess these technically are legitamate "station comments", but I worry a bit about the large increase in verbosity, especially when getting things at the "station" level. There are 1744 lines in the xml, of which all but 25 are "comments". Generally clients asking at this level are doing simple things like plotting on a map or discovering that stations exist. These comments seem more along the lines of "show me known data problems at this station" which might be better as a separate service. I don't know if this station is particularly prone to lots of comments, but if all stations were this verbose it would be a significant bandwidth issue.<br>
<br>Also, because of the way the xml schema is structured, all of the comments must come first, which the more traditionally useful stuff, like lat and lon, are all the way at the bottom. Other than memory usage, that is less of a problem for automated clients, but can be for a person looking at it.<br>
<br><a href="http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/station/1/query?network=II&station=AAK&level=station&nodata=404">http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/station/1/query?network=II&station=AAK&level=station&nodata=404</a><br>
<br></div>thanks<br>Philip<br></div>