Comments on: The Missouri River in 1894 http://blog.epa.gov/bigbluethread/2012/11/the-missouri-river-in-1894/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-missouri-river-in-1894 A blog for Spatial Science and the Environment in America's Heartland Thu, 23 May 2013 17:40:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jrobicha http://blog.epa.gov/bigbluethread/2012/11/the-missouri-river-in-1894/#comment-28 jrobicha Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:18:47 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/bigbluethread/?p=749#comment-28 This is great…even though we are about the farthest you can get in the continental US from a shoreline, both Casey and I are fans. We will have to come up with an excuse to play with this at home. There is a mapping app that does something similar to the NOAA visualization but for the MO River maps…unfortunately it is being updated currently, otherwise I would have tossed it in. I remember ages ago sitting in a meeting where Google was updating us on some of the new capabilities of Google Earth (this wasn’t too long after they acquired Keyhole) and at the end of the day I went back to my hotel (I think this was Annapolis) and spent the night downloading Revolutionary War maps of Yorktown from the Library of Congress, pulling the images in, and trying to push and pull them to fit so I could slide the transparency bar and see what today sat on top of a particular redoubt or line. Thanks for the awesome site. Definitely going to forward onto buddies on the coasts!

]]> By: r_w http://blog.epa.gov/bigbluethread/2012/11/the-missouri-river-in-1894/#comment-27 r_w Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:07:26 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/bigbluethread/?p=749#comment-27 NOAA has something similar – though it only covers coastal areas. Using Google Earth as a backdrop is a great way for many people to see how the landscape has changed.

http://specialprojects.nos.noaa.gov/tools/shorelinesurvey.html

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