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| patcoyle | "Another approach is to look at the elevation shown for the cursor location in Google Earth Pro, as in this example (it is small, hard to see in the..." | Read more » | over 2 years ago | |||
| liz | "cool! thank you " | Read more » | over 2 years ago | |||
| rebeccaMw | "I found a free app for Apple devices that uses the GPS in your phone to determine the altitude of the specific area. It's called "My Altitude." It ..." | Read more » | over 2 years ago | |||
| molangmuir10 | " https://publiclab.org/notes/liz/02-28-2017/calculate-how-much-helium-you-ll-need-to-lift-your-camera " | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | " Ref web.physics.ucsb.edu/~lecturedemonstrations/composer/pages/36.39-helium-filled balloon " | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | " It depends on the weight of what you are trying to lift. At sea level, based on the ideal gas law, the amount you can lift is 1.02 g of pay load..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Toxmap is helpful. the TRI database was down when I checked this evening. thanks for posting " | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "And just connecting back to @marlokeno's question from a little ways back: https://publiclab.org/questions/marlokeno/09-02-2017/how-can-the-public..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| eben | "Here's another option. https://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/ " | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| nshapiro | "www.scorecard.org was an early, but now defunct step towards that. also just my usual reminder that while EJ groups have been able to mobilize TRI ..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| liz | "Is the goal to see these sites on their map, or to pull the information to overlay on our map, or? " | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| smmontgom | "Great work! Can you get GPS signal in the bush or is the canopy too thick? You might check out https://akvo.org/ and http://www.mwater.co/ to see i..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| jbreen | "It's been awhile since I did any hydrologic mapping, but I think you can use <5m resolution digital elevation model (DEM) LiDAR data to predict ..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| liz | "Interesting! @geography76, any ideas from Planet Labs? @jbreen :) " | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| CWells | "Hi Liz, thanks for your reply. Some of the water sources are covered by trees and protected from the equatorial sun and dont dry up, but some are j..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| liz | "Dear Chris, it's inspiring to hear of your vision for Guinea Worm Eradication. To get started thinking about this, can the water sources be seen fr..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "@eustatic -- @shannon mentioned Gulf Monitoring Consortium has a ton of work on this -- do you have some links you could share if you have a moment..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Oh, cool -- this page (https://www.epa.gov/enviro/envirofacts-data-service-api) shows this type of query, starting with a zip code prefix: https:/..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Oh, and maybe Skytruth Alerts is a good place to go? But I'm not sure it does historical data: http://alerts.skytruth.org/ They do have an API: h..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "GitHub lists 7 projects: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=toxics+release+inventory&type= But the EPA site seems only to offer JS..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| yuvalsh | "Hi, Thanks :-) I didn't find yet in leaflet's libraries but will keep looking there and in other places. " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "That's a tough one -- I think you could look around on http://leafletjs.com -- i'm sure it's been done -- and potentially modify Leaflet.Distortabl..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| yuvalsh | "Yes, the main issue is the basemap rotation... " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Could you do this in MapKnitter.org? Or do you mean the basemap would need to be rotated too? " | Read more » | over 6 years ago |