Saturday, June 23, 2007

CORE GIS--maps for Sightline and the Washington Trails Association


A couple of months ago I did some analysis and cartography for the Sightline Institute. They've been working on the actual and potential impacts of Measure 37 in Oregon, which effectively exempts many parcels from the celebrated land use restrictions that have been in place in Oregon since the 1970s.

The maps have just been published in their new book Cascadia Scorecard 2007, and they've also posted the maps to their website here, here, and my favorite, here.

I also made a map showing temperature changes in the Northwest between 1950 and 2003. I did not do the analysis on this one--the data came from the U.S. Historical Climate Network and were processed by Phil Mote, the Washington State Climatologist.

For another recently completed project, I created a series of maps for the Washington Trails Association documenting the extensive damage to trails and roads as a result of an exceptionally powerful storm that hit western Washington last November. Those maps were printed in their monthly magazine, and my buddy Josh Livni made a very cool web-map with the same base data that WTA will use to update the trails and roads conditions as they are repaired over the summer.

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