map assistance needed for GMF

[Molly Danielsson]

Hello People who I hope can help me or at least tell me if my project is impossible. 

I am working on preparing the inside map for the Grassroots Mapping Forum (Public Lab 5 year anniversary woo!), but I'm a graphic designer not a GIS specialist.

The inside map will be of BL1, one of the sites in Barataria Bay that was mapped last year. 

To make the map more useful to viewers, I need some instructions or advice on how to do the following: (see the attached ROUGH jpg for a mock up of what I want to do). 

1. I want to use a US GS underlay underneath the Public Lab map (and have it actually lined up so a pro-mapper doesn't get offended. I just screen shot a slide of Google maps)

2. Make sure my scale is accurate (I eyeballed this)

3. feature three tiny zoom outs to help people get  a sense of where the BL1 is in relation to the Gulf ( I just screen shot some maps for the mock up attached, my first zoom out from google is too pale to really be readable...it'd be nice if the zoom outs were actually all clear with better contrast)

And I want to make sure I'm using all imagery that's okay to print in regards to ownership, etc.

I am using Adobe InDesign CS6 to do these layouts. I'm not even sure this is possible for me to do these things using InDesign, but if the layers were at least 'eye ball' lined up instead of perfectly lined up that would be great.

Let me know if this is out of my league (I do not have a background in GIS) and I should abandon this cause or if you can help me out or give me some pointers. 

 The other option is to just feature the map with no scale, and no underlays for reference (which I think really doesn't help viewers understand where they're at and waht they're looking at).

-Molly

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[Liz Barry]

Hi Molly, 

I'll try to take a look at this later today, but i'm thinking that for your first two requests: 

1. I want to use a US GS underlay underneath the Public Lab map (and have it actually lined up so a pro-mapper doesn't get offended. I just screen shot a slide of Google maps)

2. Make sure my scale is accurate (I eyeballed this)

...i bet someone with QGIS installed can knock this out super fast! 

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[Molly Danielsson]

That would be amazing if someone with QGIS could help. 

I really think the Public Lab maps will pop more overlayed next to a lower resolution US GS map.

[Liz Barry]

Molly, 

just to clarify, you want low res USGS? or the highest resolution USGS offers?

Maybe you could visit the National Map, and search for Barataria Bay, and look at the imagery options, and let me know. 

http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/

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[Eymund Diegel]

Molly,

You can also download reasonable resolution maps of Louisiana wetlands loss here, with USGS base mapping

http://lmvmapping.erdc.usace.army.mil/Landloss.htm  (Use GL 87 13 index)

If they are useful, I can georeference them for you.  (purple is wetland loss on attached sample)

This is a good spot for downloading USGS maps (but missing some spots..)

http://libremap.org/data/state/louisiana/drg/  (Unfortunately Barataria / Wilkinson Bay Quad missing..)

also missing on this site:

https://www.topoquest.com/find/state.php?state=LA

Eymund

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[jessibreen]

Hi Molly,

I've got QGIS skillz and can help. If you want to send me the imagery you want georeferenced and a link to the basemap you want to use, I can do bit in QGIS. Then we can figure out which spots you want to make insets of and I'll cut those out and send them back to you with the appropriate scales.

Cheers,

Jessi

[Liz Barry]

<3 jessi!!!!

[Molly Danielsson]

Hi Jessi! 

That would be amazing.

For the basemap that the public lab BL1 map is over: 

I would like: the highest res imagery from http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/  I just need the part that lines up with the bounding box: (29.4416 N, -89.905 E). It'd be great if the US GS map had a resolution less than 4.32 cm/px so that the Public Lab will look better in contrast.

For the insets, just a map similar to what I featured in my mock up would be great. Could be a photo map for the first zoom out, but I think the second zoom out could be a photo map or just vector shapes.

for the third zoomout I'd like it to just point to where in Louisiana Barataria Bay is so I think map boundaries would be best (like in my mock up). 

I don't know much about mapping at all, so feel free to contact me if this is unclear.

Thank you!

Molly