Share, describe and discuss maps and mapping tools in this group for land surveyors who love maps!
1) The Land Information Explorer
A new interactive map from non-profit Shared Assets can help you find out key information about any area of land in the UK. Land ExplorerĀ uses open data to provide information at the click of a mouse button about lan
Read moreā¦If you are a land surveyor who would either like to better communicate withĀ land surveyors from other countries, this map may make that a bit simpler for you.
LocalLingualĀ is a new global map which allows you to listen to how people speak around th
Read moreā¦Topographic Map Symbols are used by professional Ā Land Surveyors everyday. Ā If you are hoping to learn more about the meaning behind these symbols, feel free to download the attached USGS Topographic Map Symbols guides.
There's a new tool worth checking out for GIS in your Browser. Ā DropchopĀ is a browser based GIS built with Mapbox and Turf.js. It allows you to perform quite sophisticated spatial queries on mapped data without a server and in your choice of interne
Read moreā¦Line of SightĀ was another very popular interactive map this week which seemed to cover some familiar ground. There are already a number of maps which allow you to track the real-time position of satellites orbiting the Earth. However the futuristic
Read moreā¦Many surveyors are experimenting with surveying using aerial drones these days, but we of course must be careful where we fly. Mapbox has published a No Fly Zones map compiled from Federal Aviation data as a starting point to building your own No Fly
Read moreā¦View a brief timeline that highlights the key points of cartography progress and development since ancient times.
Access a large online bank of cartography resources focused on old and out of print maps, along with
Read moreā¦Esri's New ecological land units world map is some piece of work!
Dive into ...
āThis map provides, for the first time, a web-based, GIS-ready, global ecophysiographic data product for land ma
Read moreā¦There is a new mapping tool which i figured I'd try out and found it to be pretty amazing. Ā It's called Wordmap and you can search any word to find out how it translates across the planet into any language.
Give a tryĀ searching for the word 'surveyo
Read moreā¦If you are a fan of browsing and downloading Landsat data and satellite imagery, you'll love Libra!
LibraĀ provides a really neat and easy to use interface for sorting and downloading from more than 275 Terabytes of open Landsat imagery. There are no
Read moreā¦A Microsoft Excel Application for
Automatically Building Historical Geography GIS Maps
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Michael Polczynski, Mark Polczynski
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Transactions in GIS, 17:1, 148-157, 2012
The ability to visualize location and time information on satellite-generated maps
Read moreā¦Google Maps is one of most powerful map services on the web. Customizing the map can be easily done using map styles API control. But it requires one to understand javascript programming a bit.Try this brand new Google Map Builder, a tool to easily c
Read moreā¦Take a look and be amazed at the new USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer Tool. This is a great way to explore the growth of US cities using USGS historical maps. Its a terrific tool for the mapping toolbox for surveyors.
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Read moreā¦Land surveyors and explorers alike are no stranger to compasses. GoogleCompass has gone through some major changes lately and still is a great Google Maps toolĀ that enables users to plot and record compass bearings, distances and magnetic declination
Read moreā¦The map combinesĀ three layers: theĀ 1814 publish
The government shutdown jeopardizes the paychecks of more than 800,000 federal workers who were sent home. The federal government has almost 2 million employees. Civilians who remain on the job will be entitled to their salaries, but might not be pai
Read moreā¦An article in American Surveyor Magazine called Uncertain FutureĀ indicates retirement in the near future for many land surveyors in the United States.
It turns out that the average age of a land surveyor in the United States is 54.
So when I ran a
Read moreā¦Sometimes a map is not enough. What if instead of just showing roads and boundaries, it was a 3D model you could manipulate and explore?
The mountain ranges you see here are not natural geography but the landscape of Tweets ā billions of them, visua
Read moreā¦I recently ran across a pretty cool map tool that helps with finding historic county boundaries in all US states. Ā This tool (found on Randy Major's mapping site) can be incredibly valuable to land surveyors for research purposes. Ā The historical cou
Read moreā¦Google Maps currently doesn't include a method to copy/move featuresĀ between maps, however as you can import and export features using KMLĀ files you can easily use this to achieve this task. Ā Ā
Restrictions Ā and Gotchas to Keep in Mind
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