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The Islands Trust, which focuses on preserving island communities in British Columbia, have just launched MapIT as a means to explore island properties and ecosystems for better land-use planning and resource management. The Islands Trust Area covers the islands and waters between the British Columbia mainland and southern Vancouver Island, including Howe Sound and as [...]
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Today at the ILMF event in Denver, Wesley Newton from the U.S. Geological Survey discussed the use of lidar for wildlife habitat modeling. The USGS works to assess the quality of habitat, population demographics, species survival, and why wildlife are found in specific habitats. The group works to model and explain the mix of wildlife [...]
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The Solar Panels Suitability Checker provided by Solar Panels UK provides a unique visual representation of a homeowners roof, and its potential for solar panels. The individual rooftop view indicates the direction that panels should be positioned to achieve maximum energy collection. The site uses high-resolution GeoEye imagery along with a sunlight density overlay. Solar [...]
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Thomson Holidays, a UK-based travel agency, has developed an interactive map-based weather site that is aimed at helping travelers pick their holiday destination. Users simply enter in their planned month of travel, and their desired temperature and sunlight, and the application delivers places within Europe that fit the criteria. The application covers the climate of [...]
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The Wildlife Conservation Society has just released a report that raises alarm bells regarding threats to great American wildlife migrations. The society credits new GPS collars and geolocators for providing a much greater understanding of animal movements, as well as the impediments to their migration. Under threat are five terrestrial animal migrations and three flight-based [...]
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Today, National Geographic and Esri reveal a new multi-scale general reference map of the world for use by the public and for education purposes. The map uses the familiar cartographic styling that National Geographic developed over more than 100 years of map making, and offers multiple scales of viewing from global all the way down [...]
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Pastmapper is a new online mapping interface that provides views of the past. Instead of trying to keep up with ever-increasing map updates, this site aims to answer “What was here?” The site is launching with a prototype that presents San Francisco circa 1853 overlayed onto a current Google Maps. The ability to visualize both [...]
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