Category Archives: Maps/Apps/Charts/Data

Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance

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The Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance (IEDA) data facility aims to, “support, sustain, and advance the geosciences by providing data services for observational geoscience data from the ocean, earth, and polar sciences.” The IEDA, which is funded by the US National Science Foundation, is headed by staff at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. On this website, you will find a number of data repositories and data syntheses, which are collections of data sets with a shared area of investigation. Data repositories include information in the fields of Antarctic science, marine geology and geophysics, and geochronology. You can also download the free GeoMapApp, which is a free software tool for creating data visualization. Check it out!

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That’s Amazing! Huell Howser’s Travel Shows

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Huell Howser was an American television personality best known for hosting, producing, and writing California’s Gold, a human interest show that aired on California PBS stations.  He would explore natural wonders, historic landmarks, and quirky destinations in California.

Before he passed away in 2013, he donated his videotaped collection of California’s Gold episodes and others to Chapman University.  The school established the Huell Howser Archives which offers the public free access to the entire digitized collection of his life’s work!

And yes, there is a story map!  Just click on a location to get episode info and a link to the video to watch.  As Huell would say … That’s Amazing!

UPDATE 5/3/2024: After many years, the wonderful app below is no longer working.  Apparently it was created by a GIS consulting company that was not related to Chapman University and now they have gone out of business.

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The Living New Deal

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During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised the American people a “New Deal”.  From 1933 to 1943 a constellation of federally sponsored programs put millions of jobless Americans back to work and helped revive the economy.  The result was a rich landscape of public works projects across the nation.  No city , town, or rural area was untouched.  Hundreds of thousands of roads, schools, theaters, libraries, hospitals, post offices, courthouses, airports, parks, forests, gardens, and artworks – created in only one decade by our parents and grandparents – are still in use today!

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Out With the Old, In With the New National Map Viewer

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At the end of September 2017, the USGS discontinued service to the previous versions of the National Map viewer application.  This was done to move toward frameworks that support HTML5 web environments, improve mobile access, add GIS capabilities, and minimize having to maintain custom viewer code.

The National Map Advanced Viewer application is now an ArcGIS Online viewer for public use.  It was built using ArcGIS Online Web AppBuilder.  Click below and give it a spin!

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The help doc for the new viewer can be found here.

Note that the USGS already has a separate application focused on data download and that download functionality is not part of the new viewer application at this time.