Mapping the Grenadine Islands: This Time It's Terrestrial

Recent Middlebury College grad and geographer, Aly DeGraff, has a blog...Carto-island-graphy ... documenting her Compton Mentor Fellowship year working on a participatory mapping project in the Grenadines. If you had any interest in my work in 2009-10 in the Grendadines or like reading about mapping in the developing world, I encourage you to check out Aly's work. She sprinkles maps and photos throughout her posts that will make you pine for the Caribbean. 

Aly's mentor on her project is the PhD candidate, Kim Baldwin and project leader on Grenadines MarSIS, whom I worked with by helping assemble the KML of Kim's marine-based dataset. Aly will be collecting and collating the terrestrial-based GIS dataset and exporting that data into a KML. A table of some of the datasets is shown below.

I gave a talk on my Grenadines Google Earth project for the Woodin Colloquium at Middlebury about a year ago and Aly was a very enthusiastic undergraduate in attendance. She wanted to do a mapping project similar to mine and wanted to be in the Caribbean. I'm so thrilled that the work that I participated on through the Fulbright program is living on in Aly. Not a bad place to do some fieldwork!

Flood Map: Is Your House On High (Enough) Ground?

This Flood Map (in Beta) map helps to visualize where the flood-prone areas are in the event of sea level rise. I am not sure of the accuracy of the map and data, but it is pretty fun to play with. Here is a right-click on Central Park and then putting in a sea-level rise of 20 meters.  One should be okay there but the rest of Manhattan and the five boroughs look pretty dodgy. Put in your home address and rise the sea level then prepare to be shocked.

Heard about this from a Buzz from @DonMeltz.

shhh...there's a new mystery map...

Here's the scoop...just posted a new mystery map on the OnLocation blog. Go check it out:

Mystery Map IX

Can you figure out what it is?