If I know the USGS HUC code of a given watershed, can I create a project with this watershed as a geographic area, without having to draw it. Thx

Hi @hb100 , welcome to the forum! I converted your topic to a General question, since the functionality already exists to be able to do this. The USGS watersheds have not been added to the iNat Places data as a complete set, and I’m guessing likely never would be, given the massive new indexing and…

I was just today trying to figure out how to create a watershed place. I have the watershed as a shapefile, but I don’t have access any more to ArcGIS which could convert it to a kml. Is there someplace that will do that?

QGIS ( https://www.qgis.org ) is a free and open source alternative to ArcGIS and can do the conversion.

Google Earth can also convert. I would also double check that your final file has only a single feature in it – if it has multiple features, iNat will only use one of them.

In Google Earth Pro (now a free download at google.com/earth/versions ): File ==> Import (choose type: ESRI Shape) (do you want to apply a style template ==> No) In the list of layers, under Temporary Places, keep expanding the new .shp layer until you are seeing individual feature(s) in the list R…

Thanks, @jdmore ! I use Google Earth Pro all the time and I knew it would export .kml but did not know it would import a shapefile. That’s great.

New feature ? It would be great to have a feature that creates easily a place, given the USGS HUC code of a watershed. The impact would be tremendous on the environment. Watershed projects would be easily created. The general public would be more aware of the concept of watershed and more likel…

[image] hb100: It would be great to have a feature that creates easily a place yes, but the key question in cases like this is who has to do the work? it looks like you could probably extract shapefiles from here ( https://usgs.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f158df0740cb4bd3b6171b28860dadd9 )…

@kueda @pleary just a shot in the dark here, but the question in this topic makes me wonder, might there be a way for iNat to interact with external public REST map services to allow spatial selections of iNat observations, without as much system load as internal place polygons would create? Just a…

[image] jdmore: might there be a way for iNat to interact with external public REST map services i think it would be nice to give users a way to add ad hoc layers to the stock iNaturalist maps. in some cases, i think that might be more useful than actually adding new places to iNaturalist. in…

How to create project for a watershed, knowing its USGS HUC code

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hb100 January 18, 2020, 11:56am 19

Thanks.
I’d like to use the Lawrence Brook Watershed, in central New Jersey.
Its USGS Hydrologic Unit Code is # 02030105130.

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