UFFDA
◆ A short guide

How this works.

A handful of open ag data layers in one map — each labeled with who owns the data and what you can do with it. Glad you found it. Poke around.

No account needed to look. And if you want to go further — join, add a layer, ship something — the path is below.

◆ 01 — How you use it

Look around. Go further if something sparks.

  1. Look

    ◆ No account needed

    Open the map and pan to a field you know. Pull up what we have on it — rotation history, soils, drought, a weather card. Each layer is labeled with who owns the data and what you're allowed to do with it.

  2. Dig in

    ◆ No account needed

    Click a field. The sidebar shows what we’ve got on it. Group a few fields into a farm and pull combined stats. Export a CSV. Head to Sources and see which datasets you can actually use, with the license spelled out in plain English.

  3. Join

    ◆ Pioneer Access (closed beta)

    Request an invite, or redeem a code from a friend. Once you're in, you get a handle, member pages, and access to the parts of the site still forming. UFFDA is growing slowly on purpose.

  4. Build

    ◆ Pioneer Access

    Ask for a layer that's missing. (The wishlist is already embarrassingly long — in the best way.) Claim a Sandbox tile and ship something — a widget, a mini-game, a linked dataset. Dig into the open repos if you work in code. What gets added here gets added by people who use it.

◆ 02 — How it gets built

Built with AI. Decided by people.

Most of what you see here — code, copy, data pipelines — was drafted by an AI agent and reviewed by a person before it shipped. That includes this page.

That's not a disclaimer. It's how a small team keeps pace with a large problem. The AI does the legwork; the human makes the calls that matter — what to build, what to cut, what to say.

The data itself comes from public sources we didn't generate. We're the layer on top: fetch, label, decode, display. Every source is listed in the catalog, with the license spelled out in plain English.

◆ Auto-replies

When you request access or send a message, the immediate reply is automated — AI-drafted, then reviewed and approved once. Anything after that is a person. If something feels off, hit reply.

◆ One ask

If something on UFFDA doesn't make sense, doesn't load, or doesn't feel right, tell us →

We read every message. Pioneer feedback is what reorders the roadmap; everyone else is how we find the rough edges before they get there.