A Virtual Conference
April 22, 2012.
My role on the HRWT mashup was to reconstruct it to add mouse-over label highlighting, consistent icon/label coloring, more readable layout, and flyable tours. I continue to help the HRWT committee compile and catalog river features beginning with the features from the Google Earth mashup stored in a central Google Doc that stakeholders will be able to view and update.
My ongoing assistance to local entrepreneurial groups provides another option to help with the Huron River Water Trail... namely, to help get some cell phone/tablet apps created that users can use to enhance their experience along the Trail. I envision apps to find paddling partners, locate amenities, report problems, crowd-source new features, and add one's own stories and images. The Water Trail will be another amenity appealing to the young entrepreneurs building a stronger economy here in Ann Arbor and southeast Michigan.
Attached are a couple of screenshots of the Huron River Water Trail Google Earth mashup I helped tweak from one of their staff's initial build.
Here are links about the HRWT:
http://www.hrwc.org/our-work/
http://www.annarbor.com/
After the March 15 Tornado in Dexter, I posted some screen images from a Google Earth mashup of all tornadoes in Michigan from 1950-2008 ... and one of the 3/15 tornado's path... both from the National Weather Service. In addition, I shared an earlier mashup I created from the 1950-2008 tornado data to show what their paths would look like if all originated at their average geographic center.
The Dexter tornado was unusual in two ways: it occurred in March, rare for Michigan, and it traveled southeast rather than the more common east-northeast.
Michigan Tornado Tracks, 1950-2008.
This Solstice cover was honored, February 15, 2012, as it was selected to appear as part of a permanent display of journal covers on the walls of the Shien-Ming Wu Current Periodicals Reading Room at the Shapiro Science Library of The University of Michigan.
Images from that ceremoniy appear to the right and below the Table of Contents.
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| Notes This section is devoted to .kmz files to open in Google Earth, created by the Solstice Editor, in support of a variety of projects. It also contains links to related materials from interested readers of Solstice.
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