This repository contains the Open Water Foundation (OWF) dataset for Colorado agricultural ditches, in particular those tied to services areas containing agricultural production. This is a foundational dataset that provides unique identifiers and other data for ditches. The identifiers can be used to link other datasets, such as urban/agricultural water rental programs. OWF has created and is maintaining this dataset to facilitate work on various data analysis and visualization projects in Colorado.
The repository contains the following:
.gitignore Git configuration file to ignore files that should not be committed to the repository.
.gitattributes Git configuration file indicate repository configuration, in particular handling
of line-ending and binary files.
build/
Folder used by TSTool to create products for publication.
data/ Folder containing data files.
?.xlsx Simple Excel file containing core data.
?.csv The Excel file contents converted to a csv file, useful for automated processing.
doc/
? Additional documentation for the dataset.
TSTool/ TSTool software command files to process data into useful forms.
README.md Explanation of TSTool command files used to process the core data into other products.
The core Excel workbook that serves as the master data contains the following, which is also listed in the ? worksheet:
- Kristin fill out...
The data sources for this dataset are listed below.
- Kristin include list and links.
The Colorado agricultural ditches dataset is intended to provide a complete statewide list of agricultural ditches assembled from multiple sources. There are several unique identifiers for each ditch and the dataset allows cross-referencing the identifiers so that other datasets can be joined. For example, another dataset is being created containing 1+ water district identifiers for each ditch.
The Excel or csv forms can be used as tabular datasets as is, or to link to other datasets.
The license is being determined. All the data are public so there are not really any restrictions on use.
The Open Water Foundation is currently working on an initial release of the dataset to support a data visualization project in the South Platte Basin of Colorado. If you use the dataset and have comments, please contact the maintainers and/or use the GitHub issues to provide feedback.
Kristin Swaim (@kswaim, kristin.swaim@openwaterfoundation.org) is the primary maintainer at the Open Water Foundation.
Steve Malers (@smalers, steve.malers@openwaterfoundation.org) is the secondary contact.
None yet, other than OWF staff.