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Potatoes Suitability Categories

Crop suitability assesses how well an environment supports specific agricultural activities by analysing geo-referenced climate, soil, and terrain data. The method used for these layers is adapted from Kidd et al. (2015), and uses GIS rules and simplified parameter ranges to estimate suitability. It translates biophysical attributes into suitability indexes for crops, considering factors like temperature and soil pH. Suitability classes (well-suited, suitable, marginally suited, and unsuitable) are assigned based on these indexes, with the overall suitability determined by the worst limiting factor. Experts refine these rules through iterative evaluations to ensure sensible spatial patterns. The soil information is derived from a combination of S-map and the fundamental soil layers (FSL), both from Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research. The soil data is resampled on a 500x500m grid. The climate data is the 5x5km Virtual Climate Station Network (VCSN) grid from NIWA.

Yield information can be accessed in the GET REPORTS panel by dropping a pin on the map. Yield ranges for each suitability class are estimated by crop experts, with well-suited yields based on maximum observed field yields in New Zealand, suitable yields on national averages, and marginally suited yields varying by environmental conditions. Unsuitable areas predict zero yields or uneconomic harvests.

This dataset was produced as part of the Land Use Opportunities: Whitiwhiti Ora research programme funded by the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge. Further information about this layer and links to download the data, can be found at the Whitiwhiti Ora Data Supermarket.

N.B. The information provided here is not sufficiently accurate for detailed farm-scale use.

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Add features of interest to generate a report

To draw a custom area on the map
  • Click multiple times around the map to create a custom area
  • To close your selection area, double click on the map or click on your starting point

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Custom features

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Predefined features

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Add features from the "Feature report" pane to get details reports.
You will find all saved features here.

The layers in this category (e.g. cartographic text, transport and water) can be overlaid on your map as contextual information.

Potatoes Suitability Categories

Crop suitability assesses how well an environment supports specific agricultural activities by analysing geo-referenced climate, soil, and terrain data. The method used for these layers is adapted from Kidd et al. (2015), and uses GIS rules and simplified parameter ranges to estimate suitability. It translates biophysical attributes into suitability indexes for crops, considering factors like temperature and soil pH. Suitability classes (well-suited, suitable, marginally suited, and unsuitable) are assigned based on these indexes, with the overall suitability determined by the worst limiting factor. Experts refine these rules through iterative evaluations to ensure sensible spatial patterns. The soil information is derived from a combination of S-map and the fundamental soil layers (FSL), both from Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research. The soil data is resampled on a 500x500m grid. The climate data is the 5x5km Virtual Climate Station Network (VCSN) grid from NIWA.

Yield information can be accessed in the GET REPORTS panel by dropping a pin on the map. Yield ranges for each suitability class are estimated by crop experts, with well-suited yields based on maximum observed field yields in New Zealand, suitable yields on national averages, and marginally suited yields varying by environmental conditions. Unsuitable areas predict zero yields or uneconomic harvests.

This dataset was produced as part of the Land Use Opportunities: Whitiwhiti Ora research programme funded by the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge. Further information about this layer and links to download the data, can be found at the Whitiwhiti Ora Data Supermarket.

N.B. The information provided here is not sufficiently accurate for detailed farm-scale use.
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The extent of your map is shown by the blue box. Click on the box and drag it around to change the geographic location of your map.

Changing the scale or paper size will affect the amount of detail or the size of the geographic area that will appear on the map.

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This is an experimental feature.

Our Environment can display third party maps that are served with the Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) protocol or Esri ArcGIS REST API.

WMTS (Web Map Tile Service)

What it is:

"A Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) is a standard protocol for serving pre-rendered georeferenced map tiles over the Internet. The specification was developed and first published by the Open Geospatial Consortium in 2010" (source)

The WMTS standard defines a capabilities document which describes the parameters of a tiled web map. If you have the URL of a capabilities document, Our Environment can try to display your map. For example, click here to use the layers from Manaaki Whenua's Web Map Services.

This feature works best with maps that are in the NZTM projection but we try to re-project on the fly if the maps are in a different projection. The WMTS service obviously needs to provide maps that cover or fall entirely within New Zealand. You will see an error message if the map coverage is outside of New Zealand.

ArcGIS REST API

Our Environment can display some maps hosted by ArcGIS REST API Services. The URL for the service should end with:

  • /MapServer - for example NZ Imagery
  • /MapServer/{a number} e.g. /MapServer/0 /MapServer/1 /MapServer/2 etc.
  • /ImageServer

You can find some compatible maps at:

  • data.govt.nz - when you select a dataset, choose the Esri REST API option, then paste the URL of the resource into the text box above.
  • Living Atlas - when you click on a layer, you will be shown a page with information about the layer. To import this into Our Environment, copy the links that are in the section titled Layers.

Errors encountered

Our Environment encountered some problems while trying to parse the capabilities document. Some layers have been excluded from this list because of the following reasons:
  • The layer doesn't cover New Zealand.
  • The layer is missing the Style attribute that is required by the WMTS standard.
  • The layer is not available in the EPSG:2193 map projection which is used in Our Environment

Layer types

Context - Displayed on top of the map
Science / Content - In the middle, between base and context layers.
Base layer - A backdrop for other layers.

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