<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">since some weeks I'm doing some mapping by aerial images in USA, south<br>
east corner of Wyoming. My attention to do so was drawn by the recent<br>
"Operation Cowboy" event.<br>
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Now I stumbled about some objects and was guessing, what their purpose<br>
may be, and I was directed to this list to ask about.<br>
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Examples:<br>
<a href="http://binged.it/TR2kXm" target="_blank">http://binged.it/TR2kXm</a><br>
<a href="http://binged.it/TR2EoV" target="_blank">http://binged.it/TR2EoV</a><br>
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I guess, this are some kind of petroleum wells? Or maybe gas wells?<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>The type is in the following data.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Maybe even fracking gas wells?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>(Sigh). Maybe even 'frack-ed' wells, hard to tell because these seem to be production wells, and the fracking equipment would probably be removed with hte exploration rig. :-)<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>See:<br>USGS "Geodatabase of Wyoming statewide oil and gas drilling activity to 2010<br>By Laura R.H. Biewick" at <a href="http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/625/">http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/625/</a><br>
<br></div><div>Datasets at h<a href="ttp://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/625/DownloadableGISdata/">ttp://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/625/DownloadableGISdata/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>MetaData at <a href="http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/625/Documentation/WYwells2010.txt">http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/625/Documentation/WYwells2010.txt</a><br>
"Abstract: The Wyoming statewide oil and gas wells feature class was developed to provide a historical perspective of drilling activity for the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI). These data originated from the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (WOGCC), were processed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and are now available as online resources in a geographic information system (GIS), a published map file (PMF), and a PowerPoint slideshow. ... (more)"<br>
<br></div><div>Table at <a href="http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/625/">http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/625/Documentation/Table1.pdf </a>is helpful. <br></div><div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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So my question is, could you confirm this? </blockquote><div><br></div><div>The two examples you gave are:<br><br></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">SITE PAD001 PAD002<br>OBJECTID 86342 86133<br>
APINO 2321828 2321539<br>COMPANY KERR-MCGEE OIL & GAS ONSHORE LP CHEVRON USA INC<br>FIELD_NAME WILSON RANCH WILSON RANCH<br>LAND_TYPE 30 11<br>LAT 41.685148 41.69028<br>LON -110.080931 -110.10972<br>
WELL_CLASS G G<br>STATUS PG PG<br>STATUSDATE 20050413 19990630<br>RN FRONTIER <br>COAL_BED N N<br>FORM2STAT FL FL<br>FORM2MON 4 4<br>FORM2YEAR 2010 2010<br>wellsymb 2 2<br>
Start 2005 1999<br>Stop 2010 2010<br>First_Comp 20050228 19990525</span><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
And how to map and tag these objects? </blockquote><div> </div><div>Ummm ... it varies by locale. The pad polygon itself could be classified
as you suggest, but these pads are usually leased from the landowner,
so the entire (this is Wyoming) parcel of several thousand acres
wouldn't be dictated by the 1/2 acre pad, it would be open range, or
farm land, or agriculture. There might be several existing classification depending if it is Federal BLM, State Public, or private land. <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I would propose to maybe map as a node, tagged as<br>
man_made:petroleum_well and additionally map the area as landuse:industrial?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div></div><div>Let me run this up the flag pole ( and I admit I haven't read all the email archives for all the working groups yet): Rather than re-inventing tagging schema, would it hurt to look first to see if there is already an existing one? Like the LBCS Standards of land uses across five dimensions. For local planning purposes, LBCS calls for classifying land uses in the following dimensions: Activity, Function, Structure Type, Site Development Character, and Ownership <a href="https://www.planning.org/lbcs/standards/">https://www.planning.org/lbcs/standards/</a> . I mean, some reasonably intelligent people figured out a way to have a unified nomenclature that fits across the entire United States, and it even matches some of the other countries. <br>
<br></div></div>Lest one say 'it's too complicated, the question "man_made:petroleum_well and additionally map the area as landuse:industrial/" shows that it is probably already happening. :-)<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">Michael Patrick<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Data Ferret<br></div></div>