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Manage all code to map and import state's data into WaDE 2.0
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South Dakota Water Development Districts #191

Open amabdallah opened 1 year ago

amabdallah commented 1 year ago

I emailed SD POC to see if they can make this shapefile public.

South Dakota Water Development Districts https://opendata2017-09-18t192802468z-sdbit.opendata.arcgis.com/maps/4a057946640c487d824eaee7ec5e6107/about

Legal description and history (when established) for the 7 districts https://law.justia.com/codes/south-dakota/2011/title46a/chapter03a/

amabdallah commented 12 months ago

@rwjam would you download a shapefile copy from our ESRI account? I think through ArcGIS desktop. I vaguely remember you did something like this before. I copied the shapefile to our account. Once you download it, please delete it so it doesn't consume ESRI storage credit. https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?layers=4a057946640c487d824eaee7ec5e6107

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amabdallah commented 12 months ago

so there are 7 districts where each district has one or many sub-polygons (i.e., reporting units). I'm guessing each district could've been divided based on the county they span. There is no metadata in the shapefile so we need to spell out the district name based on the first two letters from the web. Then add more metadata from the web. Here are the seven district names and their info. Four of them have websites to reference. https://www.sdarws.com/wdd.html

This is interesting.

Water development districts have no regulatory authority.

We still include them because they still offer an organizational structure that oversees water management.

Based on the analysis we want to work on here, we may want to revise the use of "regulatory" and generalize it to be more inclusive. Or we may change the description and disclaimer to indicate that overlays may not have regulatory authority such as in South Dakota Water Development Districts. We'll ask Tony and Michelle for their advice on this later. https://github.com/WSWCWaterDataExchange/WaDE-Side-Projects/tree/main/RegulatoryOverlays

amabdallah commented 12 months ago

A eureka moment, we could call them "Policy Overlays." that's a much more inclusive term

rwjam commented 11 months ago

use this link instead: https://opendata2017-09-18t192802468z-sdbit.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/4a057946640c487d824eaee7ec5e6107_0/explore?location=44.277534%2C-100.253400%2C8.61