<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><br></div>Hi<br><br></div>The main page for the fdsn dataselect and station web services say that you should use network, station, location and channel. But the examples sometimes use abbreviations like "sta". This example on the main fdsn station page uses "network" but also "sta".<br>
<br><a href="http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/station/1/query?starttime=2013-01-01&network=IU&sta=ANMO&level=channel&nodata=404">http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/station/1/query?starttime=2013-01-01&network=IU&sta=ANMO&level=channel&nodata=404</a><br>
<br></div><div>Another point of confusion is that the docs for the fdsn event services allow minlat instead of minlatitude, but the station docs seems to say latitude must be spelled out in full.<br><br></div><div>The spec at <a href="http://www.fdsn.org/webservices/FDSN-WS-Specifications-1.0.pdf">http://www.fdsn.org/webservices/FDSN-WS-Specifications-1.0.pdf</a> allows these abbreviations, so I am guessing they are allowed for all services. Can you clarify what abbreviations are allowed and update the web pages to reflect this? I would rather form and send shorter urls, but don't want to do that if things like "sta" are artifacts of the implementation and might cease to work in the future.<br>
</div><br>It would also be really nice if the fdsn web service pages had links to the actual FDSN web service spec. Since you are trying to implement that, people might as well refer to it.<br><br>thanks<br></div>Philip<br>
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