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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
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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.
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
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 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?
On the NHD Homepage
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
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on Facebook!
