Filtering my farm map

Owned by Lite Farm
Last updated: Feb 17, 2021

Central to how we’re thinking about farm maps in the near, medium, and long term is the idea of layers and filters. In the Winter 2021 release, there are no filters and only two layers: Google maps and fields. Moving forward, users will have very granular control over how they visualize their farm maps. Lets talk about how this control will evolve over time.

 

Short term (Spring 2021 release)

Users will have the ability to filter by https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/658178056 - that is the “types” of areas and structures on a farm. For example, a farm worker might be tasked with checking the current condition of the fencing throughout the entire farm. To accomplish this, they could easily filter to only show fences and gates and nothing else. By doing this, the worker is able to view what’s important to their work and nothing else.

 

 

Medium term (Summer 2021 release)

In the medium term, we’d like to introduce a bit more nuance into our filtering. In addition to filtering by “type” of area or structure on the farm, we would like for users to be able to selectively display certain attributes or states of https://lite-farm.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LITEFARM/pages/658178056 as well. For example, an organic certification verification officer may be interested in seeing all fields on the farm, but differentiated in some way (e.g. shading, colour, tone, symbol, etc.) by whether they are organic or not. A few of the nuanced filters top of mind are:

 

Longer term (Fall 2021 and beyond)

In the longer term, we’d like to use maps as a means to impart new and insightful information to the user. In this third wave, we’re using the farm map as a means to generate insights for users over time - that is trends in data on their farm. For example, a farmer might be interested to know the soil organic matter content for their fields over time or the yield per given area for a specific crop according to field and management plan.