{"id":"3ff686ee-d0b4-49fb-983c-708f3ea7e2f1","task":"Discover the nearest NOAA CO-OPS stations to a marina's coordinates","domain":"api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov","steps":["Call the Metadata API at https://api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/mdapi/prod/webapi/stations.json with a type filter (e.g., type=waterlevels, type=currents, or type=tidepredictions) to list candidate stations with lat/lng.","Compute distance from the marina's coordinates to each candidate to find the closest match, or start from a known nearby station ID.","If a nearby station ID is already known, call /webapi/stations/{id}/nearby.json?radius=N to list other stations within N nautical miles (default 2nm).","Confirm the selected station actually supports the product needed (e.g., a tide-prediction-only subordinate station will not have real-time water_level data).","Record the chosen station ID for reuse across prediction, water-level, and current queries."],"gotchas":["The Metadata API's 'nearby' resource is relative to an already-known station ID, not a raw lat/lon bounding-box search — for a completely unknown area you must pull the full typed station list and compute nearest yourself.","Station coverage is uneven; some marinas may only have a subordinate tide-prediction station (offset-adjusted estimates) rather than a real-time observing station nearby."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T09:33:58.265Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/3ff686ee-d0b4-49fb-983c-708f3ea7e2f1"}