I aimed to include the original 12 tools from the "Sea the Future" tool, with the addition of updated or new resources. While researching which I might want to include into CASCA, I referenced the Building Capacity: Findings from the 2023 California Coastal Adaptation Needs Assessment from the Coastal Practitioner's Survey. One section of the report in response to a question about what information practitioners and stakeholders use lists several "Preferred Resources for Sea Level Rise Projections & Flooding Information" (p. 38-39, Figure 19.3), and many of these sources are integrated into CASCA.
Some of these resources, like the Adapting to Rising Tides (ART) shoreline maps, were already included from the original 12 "Sea the Future" tool. Others, like the FEMA Flood Hazard Maps were excluded from the original tool for unknown reasons. Hyper-local tools, like FloodRISE, were not referenced in the report, but are included here for historical reference since they were in the original "Sea the Future" tool. Several of the preferred resources mentioned in the report were not included. For obvious reasons, the write-in options such as "private consulting firm" are excluded. Toolkits, such as the Point Blue Conservation Science's Climate-Smart Restoration toolkit, NOAA Climate.gov, and the ICARP Adaptation Clearinghouse, are not included due to being a dataset or collections that don't directly translate into a visualization component. Others, such as the Climate Central screening tool, are closed-license or have no public endpoint (e.g. ArcGIS REST API); they are referenced in the comparison tool but their data is not able to be included on the map.