Amy Johnson wrote:
I'm looking for some input from people on an idea I have to develop a
website that catalogs watersheds.
Wow! what a great idea ( below) An Open Watershed Map aggregator
would be an extremely useful resource. As you mention below, lots of
regional groups are working within watersheds as the natural basic
boundary for local ecologic restoration and management, rather than
political boundaries which arbitrarily cross habitats and ecosystems.
I wonder how much of watershed boundries could be generated
algorithmically along topographic ridges and high points. If you don't
mind, I am cross-post this to the geowanking list of GIS hackers, who
will definitely have some great ideas on how to do this - technically.
http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
Open Street Map, is an already existing international cooperative
mapping movement to create a free map of the world, that has focused, so
far mostly on urban street maps, but is definitely a kindred group. many
contributors might be interested in joining your project and sharing
hard earned expertise in grassroots map making.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
Cheers!
Mike
Mike Liebhold
Senior Researcher
Institute for the Future
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Amy Johnson wrote:
My initial thinking is to start with North America (mostly because
that's where I live) and put together boundaries for watersheds as
communities define them. For instance, in Portland, Oregon, there are
several groups that monitor watersheds. There is the Columbia Slough
watershed organization, the Johnson Creek watershed organization, etc.
These are managed on the local level, then on the city level, then
state wide there are management plans that affect them, and the
federal government also affects them.
The way I would catalog the watersheds would be on a web mapping
service, so they would be available online for people to use in their
own mapping applications through a web service.
My hope is to provide the beginnings of a way to look at data for this
particular organizational boundary, possibly allowing it to extend to
different scales as overlapping information becomes available.
I am a programmer with a keen interest in ecosystems, so I am probably
missing a lot of the nuances on the earth science side of things and
need some advice on whether this would be useful.
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