License
Data may be reused under the CC-BY license identified below. In all cases, derived works should include a reference to waterlevel.ie, and to the disclaimer above.
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Data is licensed under the Creative Commons By Attribution (CC-BY) version 4.0 license - see here for a summary.
This is in line with Irish Government PER Circular 12 of 2016 and policy on Open Data (data.gov.ie).
As a courtesy, we request that you inform OPW at this email address of your intention to access the data in this way, and of the ip address and url of your server(s): waterlevel@opw.ie
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Note: Only monitoring stations with reference numbers between 00001 and 41000 are suitable for republication, data from stations with reference numbers outside this range should not be used or republished without express permission from OPW.
Cached and dynamic data
This site consists of some cached data and some dynamic data. Users who wish to access the data using an automated process should use the following pre-generated data only. Users are welcome to link to any page from their own site, subject to the License above.
Note that we use a 5 week (35 day) period, but call this a 'month'. This is for our own convenience.
- Home page http://waterlevel.ie/
- Geojson file with co-ordinates, station name & station ref - http://waterlevel.ie/geojson/
- Geojson file with latest readings - http://waterlevel.ie/geojson/latest/
- Html Latest readings page http://waterlevel.ie/last/
- CSV files for day, week and month http://waterlevel.ie/data/<period>/<station_num>_<sensor_num>.csv where <period> is day, week, or month, <station_num> is 5 digits. <sensor_num> is either 4 digits or case sensitive e.g. OD.
- http://waterlevel.ie/data/month/25017_0001.csv
- http://waterlevel.ie/data/month/25017_OD.csv
- CSV files for groups, see http://waterlevel.ie/group/list/ for the index of each group. E.g. Shannon gauges are at http://waterlevel.ie/data/group/group_2.csv. Note that groups may be readily assembled by users from individual data files.
To guarantee the latest data, use a parameter at the end of the url, e.g. the current timestamp - ?2014062417250000.
Sensors
The following are the main data sets available on this site.
- Water level - 0001
- Ordnance datum (may be Poolbeg or Malin, check station page) - OD
- Temperature (may be subject to significant heating in warm weather - not representative of waterbody temperatures) - 0002
- Battery voltage - 0003
- Other parameters are collected by some of our sensors.
Refresh interval
Please do not take a bulk upload more frequently than once every 15 minutes. Data on the website is updated approximately every 5 minutes, and new data for each station is added approximately every 15 minutes. Data takes some time to be added - not all observations are reported within 15 minutes because of differences in clock times, latency in the mobile phone network etc.
We reserve the right to block any users who put undue loads on our servers or generate excessive traffic.
Encoding
All our data is encoded in UTF-8.
Timezone
Data is always reported in UTC / Greenwich Mean time, please note that local time in