This map was developed using existing data found in "The Impacts of Highway Construction in the Ocmulgee Old Fields Reserve and The History of the Ocmulgee Old Fields Reserve in Carbon-Dated Peat Soils" by Dr. Brian Rood and Dr. Laura Lackey. The original study, compiled in 2001, contained a similar map showing various habitat types along three transects running from I-16 into the Old Fields. In order to modernize the existing map, a satellite image was combined with a topographic map via georeferencing, which proved to be much more difficult than originally anticipated. Individual layers were then added to represent the 11 different habitat types, with the end result displayed above.*
*Ideally, information contained in a metadatabase could have been added showing types of soil and plant life along the same transects, however this process would have been long and arduous and would not have been complete by the due date. Additionally, because the topographic map contained purple coloring over the buildings, some structures in the map still appear to be purple, potentially distracting from the various multi-colored habitat types.
