2012 USGS Track, Improving NHD User Resources, Kathy Isham

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U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. Geological Survey

Improving

National Hydrography Dataset

User Resources Kathy Isham

1870 2012

2006 2012

Outline

What is the NHD?

Demo the NHD Viewer

Demo the User Guide

NHD Applications

Collaborate using Social Media

The National Map and the NHD

Orthoimagery

Elevation

Geographic Names

Hydrography Boundaries

Transportation

Structures

Land Cover

What is the NHD Used for?

Mapping Analysis/Modeling

NHD Features

Organized into Hydrologic Units

Watershed Boundary Dataset

Editing the NHD to keep up with change How to maintain constantly changing features in the NHD

USGS ALABAMA

KANSAS

MAINE

COLORADO

ARKANSAS

CALIFORNIA NEW YORK

UTAH

U.S.

FOREST

SERVICE

Bureau

Land

Management

CITY OF

NEW YORK

STATE

ENGINEER’S

OFFICE

DEPARTMENT

ENVIRONMENTAL

QUALITY

SAN FRANCISCO

BAY ESTUARY

INSITUTE

How we are changing

Improved NHD Viewer

User Guide

Increased Collaboration

NHD Complexity

Why improve user resources?

Expand and support the NHD Community!

Provide helpful information to our wider

audience.

Access the NHD – NHD Viewer

NHD Viewer

Other Features and Functions

Add NHD Service to ANY map Viewer.

Add your own services to the NHD Viewer.

Map Annotation.

Save and Send a map.

Provide User Support

Appeal to different learning styles

Video Demos

Interactive Tutorials

Access to User Help

User Guide

Collapsible

Layers of

information

Search

Capability

Increase Collaboration through

Social Networking

Web 2.0

Wide audience

Share news and information

The power of social networking

“We have the technology, finally, that

for the first time in human history

allows people to really maintain rich

connections with much larger

numbers of people.” Pierre Omidyar, Ebay founder.

Facebook

Facebook Community – 32,939

Youtube

Twitter -681 followers

Tweets

Followers

Retweets

Hashtags

How the NHD does it

NHD TWEETS: “NHD Update Tools and

Model 2.1 released!”

Follower “A”

Retweets

Follower “B”

Retweets

Follower “C”

Retweets

Follower “G”

Retweets

Follower “F”

Retweets

Follower “E”

Retweets

Follower “D”

Retweets

Follower “H”

Retweets

Result – 681 Followers

“Activate your fans, don’t just collect

them like baseball cards.”

~ Jay Baer, Convince & Convert

Discussion

Training with Jeff Simley! WOHOO!

NHD Mentions

Chutlina River, Alaska

AWRA Information!

Who NHD Followers are NHD Expert Community

NHD Experts

???.....

NHD/Water Resources

Community

GIS Community

Other??

Our Hydro Community

Our GIS Community

Where do Tweets appear?

Twitter

On the NHD Homepage

NHD Applications – Involving the

Community

Where NHD is headed in the future

Updated User Support Pages

Increase video library

Interactive Tutorials

Feature Catalog

More attribute information and examples

Social Networking

Blog

Continued expansion of Twitter

Additional Information

Nhd.usgs.gov

Kathy Isham

krisham@usgs.gov

Follow us on Twitter @USGSNHD and Like us

on Facebook!

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