Comments for ECan GIS Beta

Comment on Feedback – ECan Internet Mapping Tools by David Hendrikz

David Hendrikz — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:56:08 +0000

It would be useful to have Surface Water Abstraction Points,flow measurement sites and bores which where ECan regularly measures water level, all with links to background data.

Comment on Feedback – ECan Internet Mapping Tools by mike

mike — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:31:28 +0000

I use the site all the time for professional and private purposes. I agree with comments about scale, it can be difficult to find the correct area. Also be useful to have query ability, and the graphics tools are limited, be useful to have better graphics ability.

Comment on Keep an eye on your Bus during Xmas by Daryn Hanright

Daryn Hanright — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:21:23 +0000

This looks awesome!! Is there any way to get a KML/KMZ file that a user could import into google maps under “My Maps”? Would that function in the same way as this excellent tool?

The real value of this would be if people could also use it on their own google maps – would allow things like iphones etc access I reckon!

Comment on Feedback – ECan Internet Mapping Tools by Ben

Ben — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:53:27 +0000

What i would find very useful is the ability to display and select by SQL queries, i.e search for wells that are AE + greater than 25 m deep within a certain radius or area. Find this mapping serice pretty good though compared to others

Comment on Feedback – ECan Internet Mapping Tools by Erith Boyd

Erith Boyd — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:14:13 +0000

I use the site in relation to Environment assessment. The scale is difficult to use, as can only get a small window of what would like to view. Perhaps the maps could be broken up into catchments/geographical and then would be able to view a larger, in-depth portion. Do you run training sessions on using your mapping site?

Comment on Swimming Water Quality by John

John — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Great work!
And suggest that it would be helpful for the user to know how up-to-date the water quality is? Providing some basic metadata would be nice – or at least linking to information elsewhere on your site, such as http://ecan.govt.nz/services/online-services/monitoring/swimming-water-quality/Pages/how-why-we-test.aspx.

Similarly, I would repeat this suggestion re providing at least some basic metadata for http://www.ecan.govt.nz/ecanmapping/ as well.

Comment on Feedback – ECan Internet Mapping Tools by Ryan Elley

Ryan Elley — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:59:31 +0000

The Landuse and Category details associated with the landparcels layer in the online GIS are derived from the Valuation records for the land. The rules governing these codes are described in Rating Valuation Rules 2008 document found on Land Information New Zealand’s web site (http://www.linz.govt.nz/valuation/rules-and-regulations/DocumentSummary.aspx?document=226).

However, the values indicated in the layer should be considered indicative only, as their current-ness and implementation varies from Territorial Authority to Territorial Authority (which is where we source the data from).

As an aside we intend to include much more information about the layers within the online GIS ast part of any future redevelopment project. This will give much more meaning to the layers in the GIS, and definitely make the information available within it much more useful.

Comment on Feedback – ECan Internet Mapping Tools by Alan

Alan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:39:56 +0000

On the Land Parcel layer, the information on a parcel inclused the property Category and Landuse. Both of these contain coded values. I have searched without success for the description of these codes.

Comment on Feedback – ECan Internet Mapping Tools by Esther

Esther — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:21:27 +0000

It would be very useful to heve a direct link on the wells/bores to the well cart instead of looking them up in a different window. Sort of a hyperlink or similar.
Otherwise I agree with the other remarks, roads should be visible in the begin-screen. It’s very hard to figure out where you have to zoom in, especially when one is not that familiar with the region.
Looking forward to the new GIS Viewer!!

Comment on Feedback – ECan Internet Mapping Tools by Traci

Traci — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:43:34 +0000

Use GIS mapping regularly, at least a few times a week, as I work for a Māori environmental consultancy company and whenever we receive publicly notified Resource Consent applications from Council, I have to do a thorough property check. Always having issues with NZAA sites being greyed out – I have discovered that if you zoom out a little, this can help or if I take the legal descriptions off as well, that also helps, but sometimes you need to be zoomed in enough to locate the actual property that you are dealing with. I always use the following features:
Land Parcels and Ngāi Tahu Settlement Areas, as well as Springs, Silent Files and NZAA Sites. It would help if springs (shown as a small blue dot) and NZAA sites (small grey square, I think it is) are made a lot larger, as you basically need a magnifying glass to be able to locate these on the map.