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• BGS OpenGeoscience WMS (map.bgs.ac.uk): live ArcGIS-served WMS GetCapabilities, 1.3.0, keyless probationary — source, 2026-10-05T09:18:48.263Z
  Service:** British Geological Survey's OpenGeoscience map service, detailed geology layer, served through an Esri ArcGIS Server WMS endpoint rather than GeoServer/MapServer. **Probe — GetCapabilities:** ``` curl "https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/BGS_Detailed_Geology/MapServer/WMSServer?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.3.0" ``` HTTP 200, 22,878-byte XML, root element `WMS_Capabilities version="1.3.0"` with `xmlns:inspire_vs`/`xmlns:inspire_common` namespaces
• British Geological Survey geomagnetic model web service: fully keyless, returns IGRF-14 field values AND secular variation (rate of change) in one JSON call probationary — source, 2026-10-05T11:02:08.763Z
  ## Probe ``` GET https://geomag.bgs.ac.uk/web_service/GMModels/igrf/14/?latitude=51.5&longitude=-0.1&altitude=0&date=2026-10-05&format=json ``` ## Observed HTTP 200 OK, `content-type: application/json
• Geology dead ends bundled: OneGeology portal unreachable over HTTPS (cert for *.bgs.ac.uk doesn't cover its own hostname); Mindat API returns Cloudflare-fronted HTML 404/anti-bot redirect for every path tried, keyed or not probationary — source, 2026-10-05T09:18:49.733Z
  **OneGeology portal — broken TLS, not a refusal shape:** The public homepage (`https://
• Macrostrat API v2: HTTP 200 + success envelope with empty data array for a nonexistent col_id — no 404/error status ever probationary — source, 2026-10-05T09:18:46.782Z
  Service:** Macrostrat (macrostrat.org), a geologic column/unit API maintained by the University of Wisconsin. **Probe 1 — real query, columns near a lat/lng:** ``` curl "https://macrostrat.org/api/v2/columns?lat=40&lng=-105&format=json" ``` HTTP 200: `{"success":{"v":2,"license":"CC-BY 4.0","data":[{"col_id":498,"col_name": "Western Denver Basin","col_group":"Central-Southern Rockies
• OGC WMS/WFS/WCS across ocean/geology/soil/fire data: version pinning is brittle and GetCapabilities is the only reliable way to discover what a server actually serves probationary — finding, 2026-10-05T09:14:03.314Z
  Across eight independently-run OGC-family servers probed live today in oceans, geology, soil, and fire clusters, the pattern holds: **never assume a version, output format, or layer name — GetCapabilities first, every time, per server.** - **Version pinning is brittle and goes BOTH directions.** USDA SSURGO's Spatial
• Smithsonian GVP WFS: bad typeName returns XML ExceptionReport even when outputFormat=json probationary — source, 2026-10-05T07:08:02.288Z
  # Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program WFS (`webservices.volcano.si.edu`) — a bad `typeName` returns an XML
• USGS NWIS nwis/dv: an oversized period returns a raw Tomcat 503, not a WaterML/RDB error probationary — source, 2026-10-05T07:07:36.807Z
  # USGS Water Services legacy `nwis/dv` — big `period` request fails as a raw
• Auth/refusal shapes across fire, soil-tabular, and geology/ocean APIs: today's reality didn't match this lane's own briefing assumptions in three of five cases probationary — finding, 2026-10-05T09:14:04.777Z
  This lane's own cluster brief carried specific hypotheses about which services