Basemaps

Hi everyone,

I built a basemap package for my own design work.  I’m now offering it as a service and would appreciate some feedback.  


This is a standardized map set that I use as the foundation for land planning and design work. It pulls together, in one coherent dataset:

Data layers

     -USGS LiDAR–derived elevation and terrain layers (slope, aspect, hillshade, color relief)

     -Hydrology extracted from surface topography (streams, watershed basins, flow accumulation, wetness index)

    -NRCS soils (soil series, hydrologic group, drainage class, depth to watertable, depth to restrictive layer, root zone available water storage, NCCPI, soil organic carbon, and engineering layers)

    -Land cover including parcels, buildings, and roads when available

    -Clean, smoothed contours

Delivery formats

    -A full QGIS project with map themes and atlas layouts

    -Google Earth Pro overlays for easy viewing

    -DXF export for people working in CAD

    -PDFs


This is not a design or a survey, it is just the starting point for design.  I would expect folks to take these basemaps and build their designs on them, whether in GEPro, QGIS, Illustrator, CAD, Overyield, etc.  


I'm just looking for honest feedback:

Is this actually useful?

Would you use something like this yourself, or point clients toward it?

Are there layers you would like to see that aren’t here?

Are there maps here that feel like noise?

Is it worth $150?


I’m happy to answer questions!

Check it out at www.forestshepherd.farm/basemaps

-Greg

Cool work!

The link you posted didn't work. I was able to get to this page which might be what you meant? https://www.forestshepherd.farm/basemaps

I do love maps and think this is cool, but I would probably not pay $150 for a map because it's fun enough to dig around the freely available tools and I like doing that. I could imagine there might be people who want the info and don't enjoy nerding out themselves to find what they need.

Thanks Kimi for the feedback!

Actually I took a second look (I only noticed the first page last night, and I was in a hurry to give you the link info in case others had a hard time finding).

This has so much more than I realized. The water info is so detailed. I wonder if that would work in a place like ours, which has trickles, gullies, and arroyos on almost every square foot, but water running in the main arroyos only 0-8 days per year? The water info would probably be the most interesting to us, although the slope aspect is also so useful. And if I gave it a half-hour peruse instead of 10 minutes, I would probably find more.