SWARS Spatial Analysis, The Book: Present the Result

When you produced something, you need to find a good way to present it.  Pretty maps are always helpful.  Conventional wisdom says a picuture is worth a thousand words.  That, is very much true.

So here, I present you a “slightly fine-tuned” map I made from the priority data we just produced in our Palau SWARS example.

This map shows you not only the overall distribution of the three priority land classes (high, medium, low) across the entire island.  It also illustrates the distribution of the three classes within each watershed.  Better yet, the size of each pie is in propotion to the land area of that particular watershed.  I wish I had another adminstrative polygon layer, something like a village boundary.  Since I don’t, I used the watershed layer to run the stats.

Now, how would you tell this story?