Here are some links to maps and map apps related to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. I'll add more as they are released. From Google - Japan Crisis Response Map and Japan Crisis Response Info Page ESRI Japan Incident map - click here to read a story from Voice of America about crisis mapping that describes how info gets fed into ESRI's Japan Incident map. ESRI … [Read more...]
ChesapeakeView
Maurie Kelly and her team at PASDA (part of the Penn State Institute of Energy and the Environment) have just released ChesapeakeView, a website that provides free access to remotely sensed data about the Chesapeake Bay region. The website currently holds 263 datasets related to the Chesapeake Bay region - including remotely sensed data as well as habitat, land use, … [Read more...]
Libya crisis map
Click here to check out the new Libya Crisis Map. Courtesy of Adena Schutzberg over at AllPointsBlog: OCHA, UNOSAT and NetHope have been collaborating with the Volunteer Technical Community (VTC) specifically CrisisMappers, Crisis Commons, Open Street Map, and the Google Crisis Response Team over the past week. The CrisisMappers Standby Task Force has been undertaking a … [Read more...]
WikiWatershed – Model My Watershed
WikiWatershed is another exciting project under development by the team at Azavea. The project - a collaboration between the Stroud Water Research Center, Azavea, University of Pennsylvania's Cartographic Modeling Lab and Millersville University - features a suite of web-based mapping and analysis tools designed for use by students and concerned citizens in sharing … [Read more...]
PhillyHistory + augmented reality as a smartphone app
This is the first in a series of posts about several exciting new projects that my old friends and Philly GIS happy hour buddies are up to at Azavea. The first is funded by an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant that was awarded to the Philadelphia Department of Records to create a smartphone app that will enable users to view historic photos from PhillyHistory.org draped … [Read more...]