# FedData 2.5.6
* Built-in access to the Soils Data Analysis query service to remove dependency on
soilDB package.

# FedData 2.5.5
* Fixed issue (#41) that occurs when mosaicking NLCD tiles that are not cropped. 
When they aren't cropped, the NLCD data is never read into memory, and the temporary 
file that the raster was created from gets destroyed.
Solution: Force NLCD data into memory prior to mosaicking.
* Added (non-CRAN) test for issue #41

# FedData 2.5.4
* Fixed issue in downloading NED tiles.

# FedData 2.5.3
* Added httr to package imports.

# FedData 2.5.2
* Updated NHD HUC4 to copy stored on Github.
* Fixed bug in ITRDB that caused some chronologies not to be read.

# FedData 2.5.1
* Switch to laze-loading data.
* Updated NHD paths to new National Map directory structure.

# FedData 2.5.0
* Added functions for the National Land Cover Database.

# FedData 2.4.7
* SSURGO fixed test where supplying an unavailable survey area now returns NULL instead of an error.
* SSURGO zip directory encoding changes as of late October 2017 forced changes in the FedData:::get_ssurgo_study_area function.
* Fixed issue where NHD template wouldn't load because they added a jpeg preview to the directory.

# FedData 2.4.6
* DAYMET functions now do *not* operate in parallel. This was breaking the download functions.
* Final update for version 2 of FedData.
* Accepted to ROpenSci! Migrating to the ROpenSci organization on GitHub.

# FedData 2.4.3
* writeOGR for SSURGO and NHD were failing on Windows when the `extraction.dir` included a trailing slash. Paths are now normalized to remove the trailing slash.

# FedData 2.4.2
* Updated the `get_ned` function to provide more useful errors and warnings when downloads are unsuccessful.

# FedData 2.4.1
* Added pkgdown site.
* SSURGO functions (e.g., `get_ssurgo`) now doesn't bomb on large (> 1 billion sq meter) requests. Now, the area of interest is broken into smaller chunks to build the download list.

# FedData 2.4.0
* Added a `NEWS.md` file to track changes to the package.
* Updated DAYMET functions to fix a bug that downloaded only one tile at a time.
* Linted all code.