By Danny Dotson, Interface Committee
Did you know that the Geoportal has maps from various themes? Not all of these are in the same "collection" as they are provided by different universities, but are in a way a collection as well. This blog entry will be covering polar maps.
The Geoportal has many maps related to areas at or near the poles. For example, 145 maps are flagged with place name Greenland. This includes a scan of a map from 1750.
In the same area, there are 19 maps of the place Arctic.
Searching for Antarctica would get many more, probably due to the prominence of research on our coldest continent. There are 261 items for Antarctica, but this time some of them are datasets and websites! But more specifically, you'll see areas of Antarctica, like:
So what happens if you were to just search for Polar? Well, you'd get a good number of these – but maybe not all. This would get 142 Greenland and 258 Antarctica maps.
These numbers are likely to change as we add more content.
Did you know that the Geoportal has maps from various themes? Not all of these are in the same "collection" as they are provided by different universities, but are in a way a collection as well. This blog entry will be covering polar maps.
The Geoportal has many maps related to areas at or near the poles. For example, 145 maps are flagged with place name Greenland. This includes a scan of a map from 1750.
In the same area, there are 19 maps of the place Arctic.
Searching for Antarctica would get many more, probably due to the prominence of research on our coldest continent. There are 261 items for Antarctica, but this time some of them are datasets and websites! But more specifically, you'll see areas of Antarctica, like:
- Antarctica--McMurdo Dry Valleys
- Antarctica--Victoria Land
- Antarctica--Marie Byrd Land
- Antarctica--McMurdo Sound
- Antarctica--Ross Island
So what happens if you were to just search for Polar? Well, you'd get a good number of these – but maybe not all. This would get 142 Greenland and 258 Antarctica maps.
These numbers are likely to change as we add more content.