Download the seamless Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD)

Source: R/downloading_tools.R

This function downloads and decompresses staged seamless WBD data. Please see: https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/Hydrography/WBD/National/GDB/WBD_National_GDB.xml for metadata.

The national archive is roughly 3 GB, so this function has no example. The "hydrogeofetch Data Access Overview" article works through a download in its Watershed Boundary Dataset section.

download_wbd(
  outdir,
  url = paste0("https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/",
    "Hydrography/WBD/National/GDB/WBD_National_GDB.zip"),
  progress = TRUE
)

Arguments

outdir

The folder path where data should be downloaded and extracted

url

the location of the online resource

progress

boolean display download progress?

Value

character path to the local geodatabase