GET /{serviceName}/MapServer/identify

noaa.gov:noaa-ocean-api

Summary: Identify features
Operation ID: identifyFeatures
Auth: none
Description

Identify features at a specific location

Parameters (6)

geometry (string, query, required)

Geometry in JSON format

geometryType (string, query, required)

Geometry type

Constraints: {'enum': ['esriGeometryPoint', 'esriGeometryMultipoint', 'esriGeometryPolyline', 'esriGeometryPolygon', 'esriGeometryEnvelope']}

layers (string, query, optional, default: all)

Layers to identify (all or layer IDs)

mapSR (integer, query, optional)

Map spatial reference

serviceName (string, path, required)

MapServer service name

tolerance (integer, query, optional, default: 5)

Tolerance in pixels

Examples (3)

TitleTypeURLAction
Identify ocean features at a point location curl https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/multibeam_datasets/MapServer/identify?geometry=%7B%22x%22%3A-122.5%2C%22y%22%3A37.8%2C%22spatialReference%22%3A%7B%22wkid%22%3A4326%7D%7D&geometryType=esriGeometryPoint&layers=all&tolerance=5
Identify with specific layers and custom tolerance curl https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/oceans/MapServer/identify?geometry=%7B%22x%22%3A-100.0%2C%22y%22%3A25.0%2C%22spatialReference%22%3A%7B%22wkid%22%3A4326%7D%7D&geometryType=esriGeometryPoint&layers=0%2C1%2C2&tolerance=10&mapSR=4326
Identify bathymetry data with polygon geometry curl https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/bathymetry/MapServer/identify?geometry=%7B%22rings%22%3A%5B%5B%5B-120.0%2C35.0%5D%2C%5B-120.0%2C40.0%5D%2C%5B-115.0%2C40.0%5D%2C%5B-115.0%2C35.0%5D%2C%5B-120.0%2C35.0%5D%5D%5D%2C%22spatialReference%22%3A%7B%22wkid%22%3A4326%7D%7D&geometryType=esriGeometryPolygon&layers=all&tolerance=3

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-03-23 10:49:07.708595 404 676ms
2026-03-23 09:38:33.730081 404 786ms
2026-03-23 09:06:31.807782 404 1799ms

Response Changes

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2026-03-23 09:38:33.730081 5c5ecae39c00 8def29bc66a9
2026-03-23 10:49:07.708595 8def29bc66a9 e80de90ec898