Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Extreme Weather, Natural Disaster, Weather Warning, Climate Change Maps, GIS Shapefiles & Resources

Scientists say solar activity is decreasing. Does this mean a new ice age is coming?

The weather this winter and spring has been quite dramatic around the globe. I've gathered some resources that you can use to help prepare yourself for and understand these extreme climate events. Some of these include space weather, climate change impact assessments, natural disaster shapefiles, extreme weather maps, NOAA national warning maps...

Click here to access extreme weather maps, shapefiles and resources.

Mike Meuser

GIS Project Development, Data Research and Custom Shapefile Creation
Free GIS Software, Shapefiles, Maps and Tutorials
Free GPS, Aerial, TOPO Maps and News

If you have data, GIS project or custom shapefile needs send me an email

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Free International ArcGIS Shapefiles & Adobe Illustrator Maps Updated - Download Now

Cloudmade has recently updated their international shapefiles. These are derived from the Openstreetmap project. Each country set contains seperate shapefiles for the following:

  • highways (roads, footpaths)
  • natural, (park and forest area polygons
  • points of interest (amenity and tourist attraction points)
  • administrative boundaries
  • coastlines
  • water bodies.
Cloudmade also provides free:
  • OSM XML extracts by country
  • Garmin Map Files (OSM.err edition)
  • Osmosis country bounding polygon
  • Navit maps by country
  • GPX POI by country
  • TomTom POI by country
  • OSM XML feature extracts by country
  • Adobe Illustrator format country maps
Download Free Cloudmade OpenStreetmap GIS Shapefile Map Layers of the World by Country. Mike Meuser GIS Project Development, Data Research and Custom Shapefile Creation Free GIS Software, Shapefiles, Maps and Tutorials Free GPS, Aerial, TOPO Maps and News If you have data, GIS project or custom shapefile needs send me an email Premium Shapefiles: ZipCode, Indian & Federal Lands, School Districts, Tornadoes, Dams, Climate Change & Global Warming

Monday, June 13, 2011

Maps for Wildfire Season

All the precipitation in the West means increased fuel for wildfires. We've collected quite a few resources that should be of interest. Here's an example maps:



Check here for more wildfire related mapping and GIS resources

Mike Meuser

GIS Project Development, Data Research and Custom Shapefile Creation
Free GIS Software, Shapefiles, Maps and Tutorials
Free GPS, Aerial, TOPO Maps and News

If you have data, GIS project or custom shapefile needs send me an email

Premium Shapefiles: ZipCode, Indian & Federal Lands, School Districts, Tornadoes, Dams, Climate Change & Global Warming