This is a web & mobile app for fishermen and other recreational and commercial users of Virginia waterways. It presents relevant info, such as weather & tide data, navigational maps, points of interest, and links to other sources, in a map format.
It was developed by a team from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality for the Commonwealth Datathon on August 21-22, 2014.
The live application is hosted at DEQ. Please consider it in beta state.
- VGIN ESRI address geocoding service
- DEQ ESRI geometry service
- Open Street Map base layer
- DEQ water assessments estuary layer
- Virginia hospitals data layer (TODO: source?)
- VDGIF Maintained Boating Access Locations, 8/21/2014, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
- VGIN aerial imagery layer
- VGIN locality boundaries layer
- NOAA marine navigational charts layer
- NOAA estuarine bathymetry layer
- VDOT road construction projects data layer
- NOAA RIDGE weather radar layer
- NOAA CO-OPS tide stations layer
It also uses the SunCalc javascript library for determining moon phase and sunrise/sunset times.
- Bobby Whittemore, DEQ
- John Tragesser, DEQ
- Peter Meiller, DEQ
- Tony Gambone, DEQ
- Zach Kaplan, FIRST Robotics Team 1086 Blue Cheese