A new aerial viewer

[manumuskin]

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=42.0523&lon=-71.283&z=17
I believe these are just google earth aerials but a new viwer for those who don't like to download programs.
Al

 

[manumuskin]

http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=42.0523,-71.283&t=T
another

 

[MarkBNJ]

Both those sites are pretty damn cool. The second one is the best topo site I've used, in terms of load speed.

 

[manumuskin]

was searching sites on the megalithic portal site and they had links to them for each site.

 

[Ben Ruset]

The Acme mapper site is what inspired me to make NJPB Live Maps.

As far as the topo maps go, Acme is just loading maps from MyTopo. I can make NJPB Live Maps fetch topos from there instead of Terraserver.

 

[woodjin]

I heard that the Acme mapper was originally developed to help coyotes locate roadrunners in the western united states.

 

[Ben Ruset]

*rimshot*

 

[MarkBNJ]

The Acme mapper site is what inspired me to make NJPB Live Maps.

As far as the topo maps go, Acme is just loading maps from MyTopo. I can make NJPB Live Maps fetch topos from there instead of Terraserver.

I didn't realize you were using Terraserver. I've always found it slow, and MyTopo does seem a lot faster.

 

[Ben Ruset]

I put in a request with the MyTopo guys last night. Hopefully it won't be too hard to implement.

Moving to the Google Maps API v3 would really help too, but my Javascript is very poor (I'm not a programmer) so moving over to it, which will probably require a re-write of the app, will be hard.

 

[Boyd]

NJGIN also offers the USGS 24k topo's via WMS: https://njgin.state.nj.us/NJ_NJGINE...&sName=PUBLIC_BROWSE&mode=&loggedIn=undefined

This Web Map Service (WMS) layer serves a seamless copy of Digital Raster Graphics (DRG) of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle maps.Original DRG'S supplied by the USGS were reprocessed by removing the collar information and reprojecting into NAD83 NJ State Plane Feet.Each raster entity or pixel contains a color index from 0 through 12 referencing a color palette of RGB values from 0 through 255 in which the standard colors used in the DRG are defined.

I am waiting to see what the New Jersey "US Topo" maps are going to look like myself. The USGS is converting all of their 24k maps to a digital vector-based format as part of an ambitious project. Much of the US is already complete with NJ scheduled for rollout in 2011. More info here: http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/index.html

 

[Ben Ruset]

The NJGIN servers are pretty slow too. I think for now I'll wait until the MyTopo guys get back to me.

 

[manumuskin]

Hooray! I finally live in a red state!

 

[Ben Ruset]

New Jersey is blue on the map...?

 

[manumuskin]

so it is,shiftwork will do that to you:-( Hey so is Wva and I know they ain't no blue state,Montana too.MY world has been turned topsy turvy.Well I do like Tennessee,I can still move there.Thought I was going to get to stay in the barrens for a bit there
Al

 

[Ben Ruset]

Move to Alaska, there's no color, just anarchy.

 

[manumuskin]

Anarchy huh? Might take a trip there and get used to it,it's coming here eventually.