GooseWatch is one-part teaching tool and one part springtime diversion.

It is a collaboration between Mapping, Analysis, and Design and the Student Success Office

On the educational front, it is an application which demonstrates the following tasks often encountered in teaching geospatial/geoweb courses:

• How to build a webmap using Mapbox-GL
• How to render vector tiles
• How to build a routable network from OpenStreetMap data
• How to build an interface for crowdsourcing
• How to manage administration and approvals of geospatial data

On the technical level, it is an application which:

• crowd-sources goose nesting locations during mating season
• provides routes between locations on campus that avoid goose nests
• customizes routes based on a user's comfort level around nesting geese
• gives goose nest etiquette tips to keep everyone living in harmony

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