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Land Atlas – soil, farmability, and crop analysis for land listings

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Re: Land Atlas – soil, farmability, and crop analysis for land listings

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Post by L3dge »

I built Land Atlas, a web application for analyzing the agricultural potential of land listings. The main goal is to answer: What is the quality of the soil? How farmable is the property? Which crops are best suited to its soil and growing conditions? Most property listings contain price, acreage, photographs, and a short description, but provide little structured information about agricultural viability. Land Atlas combines listing and geospatial data with: Soil type and texture Soil productivity indicators pH and organic matter Drainage and water capacity Slope and terrain Flooding and ponding Climate and growing conditions Crop requirements The application attempts to convert those inputs into: Soil-quality assessments Farmability scores Property limitations Crop-suitability rankings One difficult part has been accurately resolving rural listings. Postal cities, listing labels, coordinates, and physical parcel locations frequently disagree. I recently changed the location hierarchy to prioritize parcel identifiers and listing-provided coordinates over ordinary address geocoding. I would appreciate feedback on: Soil-scoring methodology Crop-suitability modeling Parcel-level versus point-level analysis Communicating uncertainty Global agricultural datasets Normalizing data between jurisdictions Demo: https://land-atlas-production.up.railway.app/

Re: Land Atlas – soil, farmability, and crop analysis for land listings

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Post by johnnylambada »

L3dge wrote: post #2

I built Land Atlas, a web application for analyzing the agricultural potential of land listings. The main goal is to answer: What is the quality of the soil? How farmable is the property? Which crops are best suited to its soil and growing conditions? Most property listings contain price, acreage, photographs, and a short description, but provide little structured information about agricultural viability. Land Atlas…

I checked it on a property I own in Temecula CA. It gave me great stats but not being a farmer I didn’t talk know what I was looking at. Tooltips or links to definitions would help a lot. The property scores 64 overall.

Re: Land Atlas – soil, farmability, and crop analysis for land listings

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Post by _blk »

oulipo wrote: post #4

We're in need of more local, non-pesticide based farming

The project doesn't seem to be about enforcing philosophies on how to form or what do to with land but providing an objective assessment. Your statement depends on whose perspective you take. I don't disagree from a health standpoint and I think even economically this GMO all you can out of a piece of dirt is not long term viable but others disagree.. Don't like it, don't buy it. Capitalism at its best.

Re: Land Atlas – soil, farmability, and crop analysis for land listings

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Post by jasonvorhe »

_blk wrote: post #5
oulipo wrote: post #4

We're in need of more local, non-pesticide based farming

The project doesn't seem to be about enforcing philosophies on how to form or what do to with land but providing an objective assessment. Your statement depends on whose perspective you take. I don't disagree from a health standpoint and I think even economically this GMO all you can out of a piece of dirt is not long term viable but others disagree.. Don't like it, don't buy it. Capitalism at its best.

In reality it's more of a "if you don't like it, pay more to not have to buy it".

Re: Land Atlas – soil, farmability, and crop analysis for land listings

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Post by ecommerceguy »

Former GIS guy here, I've modeled and mapped hundreds of rural jurisdictions so I'm familiar with what you are trying to accomplish. Not sure how comprehensive USDA soil surveys are these days as soil conditions can be hyper local (down to the feet).

Many of large ranch lands and farms are going to be listed exclusively by a certain broker which may require website scrapping at minimum and or heads up data entry at worst.

Colorado:

https://www.ranchland.com/

For general usability, I'd suggest at a minimum adding State and County lines, and further, census place points for labeling.

You've included some interesting filters that's for sure.

And of course my usual plug for a great mapping book - How to Lie with Maps - https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo274005...

I'd be willing to give you input.

Re: Land Atlas – soil, farmability, and crop analysis for land listings

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Post by jeffbee »

It's nice to have a better UX the the USDA WSS offers, but I feel that this hides too much information. If I click, I am getting soil information at a point, but that might be a minor component and doesn't tell me about the overall area of interest. Also, as a Californian I feel that is irrelevant bordering on useless to display the non-irrigated capability class, as everyone irrigates. Looking at a parcel I am intimately familiar with, it is "4 of 8" but it is class 1 irrigated farmland, prime land of high value.
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