Question: Where can we share well water data?

Answers that came in from Twitter: (handles below from Twitter)

From Shadrock Roberts - @Shadrocker : One option would be to put it into @OpenStreetMapUS. I don't know of any community databases exclusively for well water, though. @rrlash @jerry_shannon @rjhale @mattzook ya'll have any ideas?

• Randal Hale - @rjhale : OSM is probably a good place - but you stand the chance of someone deleting/altering it.
• From Matthew Zook - @mattzook: No real ideas besides the ones suggest, OSM would be widely distributed

From Jerry Shannon - @jerry_shannon : How public is it? Is this something for anyone to access or for use by a specific community group? I could imagine using something like @OpenDataKit and @onadata, which gives you a way to dynamically access the data. Or @fulcrumapp, though that has a cost.

• From Jerry Shannon @jerry_shannon : If the goal is to make results easily visible, I'd think about a @LeafletJS map hosted on @github. The dataset could go in the repo and be dynamically updated as results come in. A Shiny app from @rstudio would be another option. Both would have front end technical investment.
• From Public Lab - @PublicLab : Ideally something anyone can access
• From Ona - @onadata : Ona public projects (free!) have map visualizations built in. You can import existing data or view live data as it’s collected. Check out our 2016 holiday card dataset: https://ona.io/onasupport/27458/169955#/map …. You can also view photos and charts — and export raw data (in the Overview tab).

From Coleman McCormick - @colemanm : We'd be glad to talk about how @fulcrumapp Community might be of use here for crowdsourcing / open data collection + publishing

• From Randal Hale - @rjhale : Fulcrum Community is a awesome thing - been using it with one group for over a year.

Hi @stevie - Jumping in here (first-time posting actually :)

You find anything else on this? I'd be interested in learning along with you.

Some reactions / questions: -- It looks like most of the feedback you got from twitter was more about the techs/platforms. In terms of getting the data...

-- Are you looking at private or gov't data? Private could be a company like mytapscore.com or a lab like awslab.com which does the actual testing (mytapscore just packages things). People go to these when they're gov't doesn't offer tests and/or if they're offered but it'd take long / involves beaucracy, etc. If gov't data, I imagine there's variance by state. In CA, local water utilities offer tests and they report certain things up to the state. Not sure exactly what that looks like (yet).

-- Data ownership and privacy issues are involved here... I'm not sure it's clear to anyone whose "data" well water testing belongs to. By default, I think it belongs to the home owner. (My parallel is in the still developing world of healthcare: a test on whether or not you have cancer is first and foremost yours and hospital can't just share that with people without your consent.) The reason this matters: Home / property values go down with bad results; and there are privacy + stigma concerns to consider if you can ID an individual who has, say, lead poisoning. --> So stuff that is released is aggregated enough to not be identifiable. But not everyone releases data. And I think there are different data types / standards among those that do.

-- I'd love to learn more about the Wisconsin zip-code level data you mentioned. Can you share a link?

-- Have you poked around data.gov? https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?q=well+water&sort=score+desc%2C+name+asc&as_sfid=AAAAAAXHiPQ9FtwN-0HoqrEvwh6kl3bWSUVc4ax6nXqURsqKvBjkiMqz9j9N4MZW1D7t3Ts0VQG2msUtfAmiv4beWX8Y_dNnq6niC9w4oCHAvOTatW1vZzGB8mLl-kHRvYJblk4%3D&as_fid=a02557aeae533d07a105850dfc1b6b37b0b757fd

-- Also possibly relevant: http://waterchallenge.data.ca.gov/Data/index.html

Noting that @imvec - @xose and others -- started with https://OdorLog.com for #odor logging, and have over the summer started a more general-purpose logging/mapping project at this address:

https://CitizenLog.com