Making a tutorial on creating high detail Permaculture maps digitally

Hey everyone. My wife and I finally bought and moved into our homestead after 9 years of planning, saving, and working towards it. We want an online presence of some sort and I have decided to start with creating some tutorials on youtube and increasing my activity here. I want to actually contribute something new-ish, or at least something that hasn't been done over and again by others. I believe I have some niche areas of expertise to share with the permaculture community.

I studied Computer Science and Geospatial Sciences in college, and while I don't use the geospatial side in my career, I still use it as a hobby and for personal research and design work. When I owned and operated a small permaculture company before going back to school, I was always frustrated by the limited tooling and resources for creating maps for myself and customers. I did a lot of hand sketching, and tried making programs like inscape, and even a few proprietary, conventional landscaping programs work for me but always ended up frustrated. At some point, another permaculture design consultant neighbor of mine who was studying city planning in college showed me QGIS. A geospatial mapping program used by researchers and scientists. I knew that it was what I needed, but it seemed very complicated and I did not understand it, but I was so intrigued by it I eventually decided to study it in college.

So to get to the point, I have begun a Youtube playlist to walk people through creating a highly detailed base map using QGIS (contours, infrastructure, canopy height/cover) with future plans to show how to map your entire watershed, mapping shade coverage at different times of the year, and many others. My biggest problem is, I'm not so skilled at video creation. It takes me a lot of work to prepare and record the videos, and I still think I can improve them a great deal in terms of quality and information. But I don't want to spend my time on something that people won't find of use or are uninterested in. So my question to you all is this

Would you benefit personally, or be interested in such content? The demographic of this website/forum is my target audience. So I'd like to know if you think this is worth my time.

I would also appreciate any feedback on my initial two videos. If I am to continue doing this I need to get better. Which means knowing what I am doing well, and knowing where I need to improve.

Thanks in advance, and below is a link to the initial video in the series... at the time of posting this I only have two.

Good video, my first advice is add timestamps, so folks can Fast Forward to the parts they want.

IE.

Timestamp
00:00 Intro
01:42 Qgis Install and Info
06:16 Using Qgis
13:00 End

Justyn Mavis wrote:Good video, my first advice is add timestamps, so folks can Fast Forward to the parts they want.

IE.

Timestamp
00:00 Intro
01:42 Qgis Install and Info
06:16 Using Qgis
13:00 End

Thanks for the advice. I had planned to get around to this at some point. Now I know to prioritize it!

That's a good video, Riley. I look forward to the rest of your series.

I watched the first two videos and they are great, I'm subscribed.

I am learning QGIS at the moment after going through a similar arc through various software suites.  My background is more in using 3d design software (Solidworks in particular) and I still have a lot to learn about things like QGIS.  Keep up the great videos!

David N Black wrote:I watched the first two videos and they are great, I'm subscribed.

I am learning QGIS at the moment after going through a similar arc through various software suites.  My background is more in using 3d design software (Solidworks in particular) and I still have a lot to learn about things like QGIS.  Keep up the great videos!

Hey thanks!, I plan to get the next one out this week. Been working on a lot of things at once so It hasn't happened as quickly as I originally planned. I appreciate the feedback

Looks like I am a little late to the party but I am new to permaculture and recently watched your two videos & loved them! I'm very interested in learning how to map out permaculture projects with GIS so if you ever do finish these videos I would be excited! In the mean time, does anyone know of other resources to learn how to do this? Many thanks

Another resource is your county assessor parcel search map.  2 that I have bookmarked for my area are Kitsap WA and Pierce WA
This gives you property lines and GIS views are usually available  from within the site.   I am regularly searching for contact information Where mail addresses are not obvious on the ground so the assessor information from the map is very helpful if you are searching for land.  Checking on a missing neighbor I discovered the parcel would be available next month at auction  for taxes.
This is my property on Google earth which gives a lot of detail on where things are located. Qberry Farm