Imagery Atlas - I Made A Fast Lidar, Mining Claims, Topo, Aerial, Geology, Survey, Geophysics Mapper

[jasong]

Had downtime recently and wanted to stay busy. My goal was to build a few novel new mining research apps, but I needed to build a mapping interface first and it turned into a project. This is it. It occurred to me that people might find just the mapping interface alone to be useful? My goal was simple, clean, fast, and the most common layers I use in one place without switching between 2-3 sites. 

Check it out here: www.imageryatlas.com I highly recommend a mouse with scroll wheel, and a desktop or laptop with larger monitor. Not for mobile devices (yet). 

Most the commonly used layers like LIDAR, claims, topos, aerials, geology, land ownership, etc are right out front and no digging through menus or opening multiple sites. 

With Geology enabled - click the map to get data on the formations (multiples if more than 1 map was used as data). 

I also made a feature where you can type township, range, section and it will take you to that spot on the map, for quick navigation while reading papers, claims, etc. ("Go to TRS" box). 

Caveats:

1. Mining claims are just images (not clickable). Mines/prospects is not working great, so consider them a placeholder for now which will be improved. I am working on including claims details such as filings, names, etc.
2. Not designed for phone/mobile use. Fixed - should work on mobile and tablets now. 
3. I have only tested on Chrome. Seems to work on all major browsers. 
4. Some layers may be slow or not load at all when BLM/USGS servers go down.
5. For now this is mostly just US-only. Aerials and Geology are global though. Some low res Lidar may work in Canada/Mexico, haven't checked. 

Hopefully this winter I will have some interesting apps built into this mapper beyond just map layers - these will be new research tools that don't exist anywhere else yet, intended more for serious prospectors to industry geologists, but potentially useful or interesting for everyone.  If anyone runs into problems with this mapper (other than slow/not loading layers) where it throws an error, let me know. 

An example mashup of topos, LIDAR, geology, and open mining claims. 

[strick]

Cool I was able to find the spot where I wish I was right now...Nice to have the lidar and topo buttons so handy...good job!

strick

[flakmagnet]

Jasong,

This is CRAZY-good! Thank you for putting all these possibilities in one app. It's such a time saver and it's accurate, at least for the areas I haunt. (I hunt those areas too)

Nice job and I'm sure it was time consuming.

[Zephyr]

Well done!

thank you for sharing your work with us. I know I will appreciate using it.

[Chet]

Jason

Great work, thank you,

Chet

[jasong]

Thanks everyone for the kind words!

I will continue to improve it this fall/winter too. I've been back into prospecting mode again so I'm using up the remaining good weather outdoors, and then when the snows hit this will be a good project for me to work on more. 

I have gathered up about 2 terrabytes of various historic and non-copyrighted data related to mining/prospecting (and this doesn't include the mining claims database). And I'm looking at interesting various ways to make this all more accessible and useful visually since a map shows us all what is immediately relevant to us personally rather than reading 2 lifetime's worth of stuff in areas we don't go to. That is the goal of most the add-on apps I plan to connect to the mapper. My programming skills need to first catch up to my imagination though. 🙂 

When I do any noteworthy updates I'll drop them into this thread later on, for anyone curious. 

[Guys gold]

Thank you,This helps a fellow that’s somewhat of a techno-tard Thanks again!!!

[Phillips_R]

Thank you .  Very nicely done sir. 

 

[mn90403]

How much is AI helping you find the content?