Commencement Bay Stewardship Collaborative Online Interactive Habitat
Map
Map Version 1: Site Boundary Issues and Proposed Changes
The first version of the Online Interactive Map is intended to provide an overview of proposed
changes to site boundaries that were made in order to establish a consistent basis for
representing the 17 NRDA sites that will be stewarded by EarthCorps. Modifications from the
original KML files provided by NOAA were based on property boundaries (parcel layers) and infield and remote (satellite imagery) observations and attempted to create consistent habitat
types across all sites. While future modifications may be expected, the goal of this GIS
rectification is to establish current baseline project boundaries and habitat type management
units that can be used to consistently track and direct stewardship management.
This document provides an overview of the map layout and describes how to navigate the map
and how to provide specific feedback on individual boundary issues that have been highlighted.
The map can be accessed by navigating your web browser to: http://bit.ly/EC-Hab_Map-App
and entering the following credentials:
Username: CBSC
Password: CBSC_maps
Navigating the map:
Basic features for navigating the map include:
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Use the “Bookmarks” dropdown along the top bar to quickly navigate between
sites. You can also click and drag to pan or use your mouse wheel to zoom in and out…
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Turn different map layers on and off
o Original KML – NOAA: this is the original KML file that I received from NOAA
o Selected Parcels: this displays the tax parcels at each location
o Site Outlines: displays the overall boundaries for each site.
o Boundary Issues: these are specific habitat features that I have highlighted that
have been flagged with boundary location questions
o Habitat Outlines: this layer shows just the outlines for all habitat features
o Habitats Fill: same as above except colored for display purposes
Click any feature on the map to get information in a pop-up window (only enabled for the
“Habitat – Outlines”, “Boundary Issues”, and the “Original KML – NOAA” layers). If more
than one layer is turned on, it will be indicated at the left side top bar of the pop-up (1 of
2) for example. You can scroll through data for each layer by using the small arrow in
the top right of the pop-up window bar.
Change the background basemap to display topography or satellite imagery etc.
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Editing and providing comments:
To make edits on individual features,
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Click the “Editor” button in the top left of the map top bar to enable editing
Click a feature from either the [Boundary Issues] layer or the [Habitat Outlines] layer to
bring up the pop-up window.
o Note: if the Selected Parcel, Site Outlines, or the original KML - NOAA
layers are turned on, you may not be able to select features to edit if they
are below these layers. You will need to turn all of these layers off and then
click on the polygon in order to display the pop-up window and provide
comments.
In the pop-up, you can add comments to the [Comments], [Review], and
[Reviewer_Notes] fields.
o Note: if you click on the polygon items in the left hand editor table of
contents, you will be prompted to “click to start drawing” and you can add
new features to the map. To exit this mode, click the “Legend” button in
the top bar to stop editing. Click “Editor” again to return to the pop-up
window editing mode.
To stop editing, click the “Legend” button in the top bar.
Alternatively, you can review the tabular information associated with the GIS (the same
information included in the pop-up windows in the Online Map) in Microsoft Excel. Open the
exported table in Excel and make comments/changes as necessary. This spreadsheet (see
document titled “Habitats_09-08-14”) also summarizes the habitat types and acres for each
site.
Please direct questions or comments to Nelson Salisbury at:
nelson@earthcorps.org
206.322.9296 ext. 214