Catskill Weather was asking if I could make up a map of lands that the NYC Department of Environmental Protection - Water Division had acquired in the Catskill Mountains over the past twenty years. I had my doubts, but then I found out that Greene County had hosted on their county REST/services a copy of the NYC DEP map. It's a few years out of date but still an interesting visualization.
This interactive map shows the elevation of the Catskill Park, broken up into 500 foot intervals. The Catskill Park ranges from a portion near Kingston that is less then 500 feet above sea level to the high peaks region where a few weeks exceed 4,000 feet.
Data Source: Digital Elevation Models created by NYSDOT, converted to ranges using Reclassify by Table, then Polygonize Tool, then simplified using v.generalize.
Continuing my exploration of terrain using digital elevation models, today we look at the Catskill Escarpment and the Hudson River.
