Why?
We built a Groundwater Management web app because in 2014, California signed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) into effect to help develop a framework that will put the management of groundwater basins into the hands of local and regional groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs). The Department of Water Resource (DWR) created the Sustainable Groundwater Management Strategy Plan (SGMSP) to explain guidelines and regulations to help aid these GSAs with their water management.
The SGMSP requires GSAs to conduct groundwater assessments by developing a groundwater sustainability plan (GSP). The problem with GSPs is that the guidelines and water codes required are not always simple and that's where SGMAsolutions steps in.
I will be writing a technical write up in how I went about converting shapefiles to and from their binary format to display on a user friendly map. Below is a bit of our marketing material about the product. Demo: Sgma Demo
Who is SGMAsolutions?
The application brings forms, templates, data imports, and mapping tools into one workflow for groundwater sustainability agencies. The interactive map lets users draw boundaries and export shapefiles.
The shapefile editor article shows that part of the application in action.