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Check Snow Depths with Google Maps

Posted by Jaybird on January 30, 2011 at 6:56pm in Surveying Field Tips and Tricks

If you live in an area with frequent snow fall, you might like to see how deep the snow is where you are working before heading out to survey.  This is a handy Google Map Mashup for checking out snow depth which will make this task easier (found via).

The map uses colored map markers to show at a glance the depth of the snow at different resorts. If you click on a resort's map marker you can click through to view a full snow report for the selected resort.

The same site also provides a Google Map of the current weather conditions.



View other handy Google Maps Mashups for land surveyors here on Land Surveyors United
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  • Ty Olinghouse February 3, 2011 at 8:33pm
    is this for european ski resorts only?
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    Skip Farrow February 3, 2011 at 3:33pm

    1201151094?profile=original?width=221At times, surveyors may need to know whether the clouds above might interfere with their GPS work.  Below is a site which canhelp you plan for such annoyances.

    Daylight Map

     

    See your own weather from above! The view at right is a mosaic of satellite cloud images from one of the following sources (my server tries each in order):

    1. Google Earth's Weather layer, sourced from the US Naval Research Lab (updated hourly)
    2. NASA's Earth Science Office(global imagery updated every 6 hours)
    3. xplanet's cloud layer (updated every 3 hours)
    4. A full-screen version is also available.

     

    http://www.daylightmap.com/clouds/
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