Maps and Figures

Problem

Identify shortfalls in the South Dakota Wildlife Damage Management program (location of staff stations, amount of damage staff, hotspots locations, etc.) through identifying drive times and hotspot locations.

Maps

Figure 1.The first map is of the hotspots across the state by district with the Wildlife Damage Specialist duty locations. This is meant to give a basic overview of the hotspots before visualizing the routes.

Figure 2.The second map is of the hotspots across the state by district with the Wildlife Damage Specialist duty locations with the route analysis done. The red routes show hotspots that require over an hour's drive time, the green under an hour.

Figure 3.The second map is of the hotspots across the state by district with the Wildlife Damage Specialist duty locations with the route analysis done. This one only shows those routes that are over an hour.

Figure 2.The second map is of the hotspots across the state by district with the Wildlife Damage Specialist duty locations with the route analysis done. This one only shows those routes that are under an hour.

Improvements:

Different color for the district delineation
The placements of map objects could be better (scale, legend, etc.)
Threshold for determining a hotspot
Projection
District Labels
- I am wary about this because of how messy it makes the map and the difficulty in see the hotspots/routes. Perhaps a blank map with just the districts for reference could be helpful.
Overall clean-up

Figures

I am currently in the process of creating tables for the average drive times and distances for each district. I will be placing this next to a map of each district in a map series if time permits. As for improvements I will figure that out as I go along and hone in what information needs to be added/deleted.

Progress Update

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The basic maps are already visualized
The figures need to be visualized
The existing visualizations need a strong edit job due to their rushed nature caused by a technical issue

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