How to Use Web Soil Survey Online Help
type: Dataset
description: You can access context-specific online help throughout Web Soil Survey, by clicking the question-mark icon. This opens up help for the particular feature or group of features where the icon is located. When you open a help item, the question-mark icon turns upside-down. To close the help item, you can click the upside-down question-mark icon. Or click the Close button at the upper right of the open help item. Many help items are divided into sections, which can be opened and closed. To open a closed section, click the plus-sign icon. To close an open section, click the minus-sign icon. Web Soil Survey Web Soil Survey links with additional documents Other Documents to Reference: Web Soil Survey Brochure Web Soil Survey Brochure in Spanish Getting Started in Web Soil Survey Using Web Soil Survey in 4 Basic Steps How to Use Web Soil Survey 3.0 Guide on downloading SSURGO from Web Soil Survey Web Soil Survey Tips and Shortcuts Web Soil Survey Known Problems and Workarounds Web Soil Survey Frequently Asked Questions Web Soil Survey Help Online Web Soil Survey Accessibility Features Defining an AOI for Web Soil Survey on a Mobile Device Web Soil Survey Adding a Multi-part AOI feature Using Google Earth Pro to create multiple AOIs for Web Soil Survey Web Soil Survey Version Release History Documents Web Soil Survey Guide to Maps, Reports, and Tables Web Soil Survey - Soil Data Explorer Tab Using Web Soil Survey YouTube Videos
issued: 2025-06-23T17:05:10+00:00
modified: 2025-06-23T17:05:11+00:00
publisher: GeoPlatform ArcGIS Online
keyword: FGDC
keyword: GDA
keyword: NGDA
landing page: https://ngda-soils-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/documents/geoplatform::how-to-use-web-soil-survey-online-help

CSDGM
type: Distribution
description: Metadata description in FGDC CSDGM format
format: XML
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866117
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.860938
access URL: https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/b90d887a27ab429f90fae887b803372f/info/metadata/metadata.xml

Metadata description in Dublin Core+ format
type: Distribution
description: Metadata description in Dublin Core+ format
format: XML
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866120
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861018
access URL: https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/b90d887a27ab429f90fae887b803372f/info/metadata/metadata.xml

ArcGIS Hub Dataset
type: Distribution
format: HTML
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866130
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861871
access URL: https://ngda-soils-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/documents/geoplatform::how-to-use-web-soil-survey-online-help

DCAT 2.0.1 Metadata Description
type: Distribution
description: Metadata description in DCAT 2.0.1 Implementation format
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866126
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861514
access URL: https://ngda-soils-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/api/feed/dcat-ap/2.0.1
media type: text/json

RSS Metadata Description
type: Distribution
description: Metadata description in RSS 2.0 Implementation format
format: RSS
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866128
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861663
access URL: https://ngda-soils-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/api/feed/rss/2.0

OGC API - Records Item
type: Distribution
description: Provides an OGC API - Records item compliant representation of this resource in JSON format.
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866129
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861770
access URL: https://ngda-soils-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/api/search/v1/collections/dataset/items/b90d887a27ab429f90fae887b803372f
media type: text/json

North American Profile
type: Distribution
description: Metadata description in North American Profile of ISO 19115 2003 format
format: XML
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866121
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861131
access URL: https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/b90d887a27ab429f90fae887b803372f/info/metadata/metadata.xml

ISO 19139-3.2 Metadata Description
type: Distribution
description: Metadata description in ISO 19139 Metadata Implementation Specification GML3.2 in XML Format
format: XML
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866124
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861361
access URL: https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/b90d887a27ab429f90fae887b803372f/info/metadata/metadata.xml

ESRI ArcGIS Metadata Description
type: Distribution
description: Metadata description in ESRI ArcGIS XML Implementation format
format: XML
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866124
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861411
access URL: https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/b90d887a27ab429f90fae887b803372f/info/metadata/metadata.xml

Metadata description in Inspire format
type: Distribution
description: Metadata description in INSPIRE Metadata Directive format
format: XML
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866120
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861077
access URL: https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/b90d887a27ab429f90fae887b803372f/info/metadata/metadata.xml

ISO 19139 Metadata Description
type: Distribution
description: Metadata description in ISO 19139 Metadata Implementation Specification in XML format
format: XML
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866122
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861257
access URL: https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/b90d887a27ab429f90fae887b803372f/info/metadata/metadata.xml

OGC API - Records API Definition Page
type: Distribution
description: This resource describes how to use the Search API to programmatically query, filter, search and retrieve resources.
format: JSON
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866128
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861712
access URL: https://ngda-soils-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/api/search/definition

ISO 19139 HTML Metadata Description
type: Distribution
description: Metadata description in ISO 19139 Metadata Implementation Specification in XML format
format: XML
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866123
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861309
access URL: https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/b90d887a27ab429f90fae887b803372f/info/metadata/metadata.xml

DCAT 1.1 Metadata Description
type: Distribution
description: Metadata description in DCAT 1.1 Implementation format
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866125
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861463
access URL: https://ngda-soils-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/api/feed/dcat-us/1.1
media type: text/json

Feed API - Definitions Search Page
type: Distribution
description: Provides access to the API Definition page for this resource to programmatically filter DCAT US 1.1, DCAT AP 2.0.1, DCAT AP 2.1.1, DCAT 3.0.0, and RSS 2.0 compliant API's
format: JSON
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866130
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861820
access URL: https://ngda-soils-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/api/search/v1/collections/dataset/items/b90d887a27ab429f90fae887b803372f

ISO 19115
type: Distribution
description: Metadata description in ISO 19115 format
format: XML
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866122
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861199
access URL: https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/b90d887a27ab429f90fae887b803372f/info/metadata/metadata.xml

DCAT 3.0.0 Metadata Description
type: Distribution
description: Metadata description in DCAT 3.0.0 Implementation format
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866127
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861613
access URL: https://ngda-soils-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/api/feed/dcat-ap/3.0.0
media type: text/json

ArcGIS GeoService
type: Distribution
format: ArcGIS GeoServices REST API
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866131
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861922
access URL: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2022-09/WSS-Help-Online.pdf

DCAT 2.1.1 Metadata Description
type: Distribution
description: Metadata description in DCAT 2.1.1 Implementation format
issued: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.866126
modified: 2025-12-09T21:19:19.861564
access URL: https://ngda-soils-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/api/feed/dcat-ap/2.1.1
media type: text/json