Lake Powell Water Database, new format!

Looks good. One thing I liked to do is go back in time to a specific date so I can see the levels. I use it to give me an idea where to camp. Like with the water level where it is today, I’ll go back a few years and check the month that I was there (usually October) and see if the water level is the same. Then I can check my pictures that year and have an idea of where to check. This year we’re going next week and last week I checked the levels and found when it was close to this elevation and I have some good ideas now where to check to camp that we were at a few years ago. The chart used to let you do that. Is there a way to do that still? It would be cool if there was a way to search dates by the level. So if it’s 3520 I can quickly see what years it was about there. I do like how the graph is one color. Being colorblind graphs that give multiple data points and differentiate the points by color don’t do me any good.

Edit. I’m not complaining about anything. Just asking if there is a way. Love the info I’ve got over the years from that site. Looking forward to it for years to come too. THANKS!
 
fish&peace said:
Why ??
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I'm guessing he wanted to make the site more "usable" on a mobile device. Personally, I prefer the old format and would rather just use my fingers to zoom in to see the data when I'm on mobile. This new format makes it very difficult to evaluate the information because there is so much white space.
 
Oh, lots of reasons. It was old, it was unattractive, it was large, involved lots of data and coding, and simply was only being used (for a vast majority of visitors, to look at the trends and know the latest levels. Sure, many did dig deeper on it but was very few. Last month, I have AI systems run roughshod over the system scraping data. 800K hits a day, normally around 50K, maybe over 100K when runoff is at peak. It was because of all the links on the old site (which anyone can still use) which would send these scrapers into a frenzy and it was costing me money. Now, those links are gone and the scrapers will have to go elsewhere.

All things considered. the answer is simple. It was time...
 
Dave--

I like the clean look, and it's easy to read. Thanks for taking the time to do this! That said, I'm one of those people (few as they might be) who rely on the database to look at trends, historic records, compare data, etc., and I'll miss that capability if the site remains as proposed. I think the old version was invaluable for that purpose--a fantastic tool for long-term analysis. You could also drag whole lists of data and drop them onto a spreadsheet, which I did all the time, and created some pretty cool graphs doing that. Again, not possible the way it is is now structured.

I know this is a work in progress, and I appreciate all the work you put in on this. But if there's a way to access the data from the old version of the database, make easy year-to-year comparisons back to 1963, that would be immeasurably valuable to me. Otherwise, it's a bit like a snapshot in time, flying blind.

Those are my initial thoughts...likely will have much more...

thanks again!

But if you plan to keep the old versions at the link you provided a couple of posts up, then that's also fine with me...
 
JFRCalifornia said:
Dave--

I like the clean look, and it's easy to read. Thanks for taking the time to do this! That said, I'm one of those people (few as they might be) who rely on the database to look at trends, historic records, compare data, etc., and I'll miss that capability if the site remains as proposed. I think the old version was invaluable for that purpose--a fantastic tool for long-term analysis. You could also drag whole lists of data and drop them onto a spreadsheet, which I did all the time, and created some pretty cool graphs doing that. Again, not possible the way it is is now structured.

I know this is a work in progress, and I appreciate all the work you put in on this. But if there's a way to access the data from the old version of the database, make easy year-to-year comparisons back to 1963, that would be immeasurably valuable to me. Otherwise, it's a bit like a snapshot in time, flying blind.

Those are my initial thoughts...likely will have much more...

thanks again!

But if you plan to keep the old versions at the link you provided a couple of posts up, then that's also fine with me...
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Old version is still available at Lake Powell Water Database
 
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