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CUAHSI / HydroDesktop

HydroDesktop is a free and open source GIS enabled desktop application that helps you search for, download, visualize, and analyze hydrologic and climate data registered with the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System. HydroDesktop is part of the legacy CUAHSI toolkit and is not under active development. Click the "releases" link below to download the latest installer for Microsoft Windows.
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Add NHD HUC8 and hydrolines #111

Open xhqiao89 opened 6 years ago

xhqiao89 commented 6 years ago

katmckee[CodePlex]
In the dropdown list of basemaps there is one hydrologically related one - ESRI HydroBasemap - that barely approximates the HUCs in my region. It does a pretty good job of hydrolines, areas, cities and roads for reference purposes.

Since this is a hydrologic desktop tool I strongly recommend the addition of HUC8 layer to the NorthAmerica project default... see http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/huc.html

Also please add a smaller scale waterbodies/hydrolines to NorthAmerica project that could come into view when we are sub-national view. The world lakes and world rivers are irrelevant once you get down to a few states.

Can't wait til there is a scale ratio (e.g. 1:200,000) AND scale bar on the map...

thanks

xhqiao89 commented 6 years ago

danames[CodePlex]
For the first cut, we'll have our newest team addition, Stephen, find the 2 digit, 8 digit, and 12 digit HUC shapefiles and see how big they are and if they are reasonable we will add them with the default U.S. data set project.

xhqiao89 commented 6 years ago

twhitvine[CodePlex]
Kathleen,

Are you talking about adding to the online basemaps which are just for display, or adding to the shapefiles included with HD so that you can use them as the area in a search?

For online basemaps, I recommend adding the capability to add map services to the map. For example, since I know the URL of a HUC map service that draws from 2-digit to 12-digit based on zoom level, I'd like to click an Add button and supply the URL: http://apps.fs.fed.us/ArcX/rest/services/EDW/EDW_Watersheds_01/MapServer

If you want more local data added, I think access to standard datasets like HUCs and NHD rivers would be good. This would make for a huge initial download of HydroDesktop, so what I suggest is one of these two options: A. Let the user Get More Spatial Data, which would operate something like the extension manager. They can peruse a list of available shapefiles not included with the installer and click to download them, making them available locally. Or, B. Rather than download the whole dataset through the extension manager, present an interface like EPA Basins (which Dan Ames should know a lot about) that just grabs the datasets within the user's study area.

xhqiao89 commented 6 years ago

cuylerfris[CodePlex]
Leaving marked as proposed in order to discuss what layers should and should not be included on the North America sample project.