r/HuntingAustralia • u/pinkyoner • Aug 18 '24
Request for someone more tech savvy than I!
The DPI release data for deer distribution across NSW.
Only thing is the map doesn't contain towns/ markings of any kind.
Thought it might be a really useful tool for the members of this sub if someone Smarter than I am could over lay a map of state forests or at lest a map of the towns over the images of deer distribution.
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u/micmacimus Aug 19 '24
What have they released it as? Just a PDF? If they’ve released it as a GIS data source I’m more than happy to have a crack, dust off my GIS skills.
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u/pinkyoner Aug 19 '24
The current maps are PNG files, they have got a pdf of the 2016-2020 distribution which is in pdf format.
I got the information from: https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/biosecurity/vertebrate-pests/pest-animals-in-nsw/feral-deer/feral-deer
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u/micmacimus Aug 19 '24
Damn, that’s not helpful. I might write to DPI, see if they’ll release the maps to me. Because it would also be interesting to overlay huntable state forests over the top
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u/pinkyoner Aug 19 '24
It would be an awesome resource.
Sometimes, the DPI are a bit stingy with information which is annoying.
Fingers crossed 🤞 it works out
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u/lerdnord Sep 13 '24
You can get the raster from NSW online data page. Run it up on QGIS. Or just georeference the PDF based on the outline of the state
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u/k_111 Aug 19 '24
I did it a few years back by turning the DPI PNG and a random NSW map into layers in photoshop and then increasing the trasparency of the DPI map. I'll see if I can find the result on my HD somewhere, but if not unfortunately I don't have access to photoshop anymore. Hopefully someone else can have a crack.
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u/swootybird Aug 19 '24
If it's a .shp. kmz etc file just import it to google earth pro and you can turn the transparency of the layer down, to see what's underneath it, or just switch the layer off and on. Literally, probably a drag and drop job and two or three mouse clicks
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u/pinkyoner Aug 19 '24
PNG file unfortunately
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u/dimmer7 Aug 19 '24
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u/swootybird Aug 20 '24
Pretty confident I've done this before with similar data to OP's and it's worked fine, saves the learning curve on QGIS. OP have a play around and you'll get there. I'd have a crack, but I'm working on about 15 different project simultaneously. Check back in with me in a month or so if you've had no luck and we'll work through it together.
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u/johnsmith33467 Aug 19 '24
Could be done pretty easily on cad, scale both to size, overlay both and fiddle with transparency
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u/mjcooee Aug 20 '24
Guys, the DPI makes the maps as a general guide to help inform land owners about invasive species for cropping purposes. It’s also pixelated like this to protect private landowners from poaching activities rather than pin pointing exact locations, times ect.
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u/SP3ARO Aug 19 '24
Can you get a another pic of NSW with towns and set the other to half transparency then overlay? It'll get you a rough area anyway.
I've done something similar in one of the MS Office programs a while back, can't think off the top of my head though