U.S. Daily Water Usage (2000, 2005, 2010)
(in Mgal/d: million gallons per day)
(in Mgal/d: million gallons per day)
About the Project: This web mapping app is a solution to look at water data across time and space. Often, there are great data that are helpful and a great deal of information can be extracted from it. However, there are two issues with this. First, these data are often huge sets and difficult to understand for the normal layman. Also, geo-spatial interpretation is nearly impossible with a spreadsheet. Our web mapping app is a solution to this. We are showing some water quality and usage figures. However, instead of just looking at numbers, the viewer user can observe geographic phenomenon as well. We want this app to be simple enough for nearly anyone to use. It uses functions that are pretty common, but the information that an be viewed is extensive.
The data we used in this map is abbreviated. When we took the raw data there were many sub categories. We removed several categories such as the details about population of counties, public supply of water to counties, and some categories such as livestock and mining. The reasoning is because figures like population were in different units than the water and would be difficult to visualize in a normalized fashion with the water units. Also, uses like livestock and mining are not widespread enough to analyze on a national level; on a state level these could be considered. As a result, we included commonly used water uses that we consider most useful to the most people, while keeping the map app reasonably easy to read and gain insights from.
About the Team:Project supervisor: Dr. Liping Yang (Course Instructor for Geog 485L/585L Internet Mapping)
Team Member: Allan Mai (allanmai3@gmail.com)
Team Member: Leah Boley (lboley7@gmail.com)
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