Updates to SoilWeb Mobile: Distance from Nearest Map Unit Boundary

March 16, 2011
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(This article was first published on dylan's blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

Working on some new ideas on how map unit data can be summarized on small screens-- particularly for our mobile version of SoilWeb. The distance from the nearest map unit polygon boundary is now printed above mini soil profile sketches. This gives the user a little more information that can be used to judge a relative degree of confidence in the returned soils data; the closer you are to the boundary the less likely you are actually standing in displayed map unit.

 
Here is an example:

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