SSURGO-GIS-Downloader

A Python tool to download SSURGO data from the UC Davis Soil Web API

Dependencies

mechanize
BeautifulSoup
arcpy

How to use

1. Instantiate AOI:

  # AreaOfInterest(lon1, lat1, lon2, lat2, resolution)
  # Coordinates in DDS, resolution in meters
  a = AreaOfInterest(-120.0, 37.0, -120.05, 37.05, 1000)

2. Fetch soil data for AOI

  # MakeSoilData_multi(number-of-threads) 
  # Ideal number of threads depends on resolution and AOI size
  a.MakeSoilData_multi(25)

3. Export shapefile from data

  a.MakeFeatureClass()

Sample test script===

from SoilExplorer import AreaOfInterest

a = AreaOfInterest(-120.0, 37.0, -120.05, 37.05, 50)
a.MakeSoilData_multi(200)
a.MakeFeatureClass()
print "Complete."