As of March, the United States was home to nearly 2,400 craft breweries. Check out Mapping The Rise of Craft Beer. Click on one of the state or brewery data categories and hover over the map for more info.
Hello California GIS users.
We wanted to make everyone aware of several map services that USGS supports. These allow you to view nationwide data from The National Map in your GIS software. To use these in ArcGIS – select Add Data button then choose GIS Server from the list, then “add ArcGIS Server”
To add the tiled map cache (these are background topographic map images, including topo maps with and without imagery), use: http://basemap.nationalmap.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services
If you want raster data services, use: http://raster.nationalmap.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services
And if you want vector data services use: http://services.nationalmap.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services
There is also a NED status service (this shows availability and resolution of USGS digital elevation models) at: http://igskmncnvs526.cr.usgs.gov/arcgis/rest/services
Hope these help and please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks,
Carol Ostergren
Drew Decker
USGS Geospatial Liaison for Pacific Region
NSDI Partnership Office, U.S. Geological Survey
4165 Spruance Road, Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92101
619-225-6430
619-225-6101 fax
ddecker@usgs.gov
http://liaisons.usgs.gov/geospatial/California/
http://liaisons.usgs.gov/geospatial/Hawaii/
Data collected by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) onboard the Landsat 8 satellite are available to download at no charge from GloVis, EarthExplorer, or via the LandsatLook Viewer. For more info, click image below.
Google has rebuilt Maps from the “ground up”, with a new interface, search abilities, and faster performance. Check it out at http://maps.google.com/preview .
Google Maps will be based on vector imagery delivered via WebGL. Maps will also include 3D photographic imagery for some locations and user-uploaded photos.
Google has also updated its mobile apps for iOS and Android, which includes traffic alerts with live accident information and rerouting capabilities. An iPad version will also be released this summer.
The Ordnance Survey has a great posting of online resources for map design. Resources for colors, fonts, symbols, and inspiration. Check it out.
Android and iPhone users can now use their mobile devices as digital topo maps, leveraging USGS maps together with the power of GPS to zoom in on their precise location while hiking, biking, running, or any other activity that benefits from precision navigation.
The type of data that are available includes USGS imagery and topographic maps from The National Map, as well as road and contour layers. For more info, visit http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3580 .
Kenneth Appel, who used a computer to solve the four color map problem, dies at 80.
Check out UCLA Library’s collection Maps of Los Angeles, California, the United States, and the World.
Check out the new TopoView site. TopoView is intended to serve the immediate need for the older, conventionally printed topographic maps to become easily searched, viewed, and downloaded. The approximately 163,000 maps available through this interface were scanned by the USGS Historical Topographic Mapping Collection (HTMC) project.
Using a site that tracks dollar bills (Where’s George?), a theoretical physicist noticed that our state boundaries are rather arbitrary, but that money tends to stay within new, more realistic boundaries. Read the story here.
