Thursday, July 31, 2008

OneGeology

BBC has a couple of articles about the OneGeology project (here and here), intended to provide geologic map coverage of the entire planet online. The initial target is to get 1:1,000,000 coverage, with higher resolution as allowed. OneGeology is a project of IUGS-CGI, The International Union of Geological Sciences Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information. As best as I can tell from their website's home page, they don't actually have maps available yet- lots of information about the project, but no maps (again, as best as I can tell). The "showcase" page does have links to online resources that illustrate the various uses of geologic maps; that'll have to do for now.

As a longtime fan of geomaps, I look forward to this project being implemented in full. Geologic maps can be found on the web, but they're scattered all over the place.

Follow-up: Maps here. Haven't figured it out yet, but playing around...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

you have to look at the portal link and click 'add map' button.