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Although it's not as customizable based on fine-grained location, the USGS (not Ray Wells, the geologist who compiled the map, but his colleagues) are working o

Although it's not as customizable based on fine-grained location, the USGS (not Ray Wells, the geologist who compiled the map, but his colleagues) are working on making what they call geonarratives or story maps (which is an ESRI trademarked product). These are interactive webmaps that also have a lot of narrative content (prose and pictures) that you can read through in a start-to-finish type of way, or browse the map and click on spots, seeing that part of the narrative. They are focusing right now on making these that describe geologic hazards such as Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes and attendant 'secondary perils' such as tsunamis, landslides, and liquefaction, all of which have different geographic distributions and types of impacts. The big hold-up with this is not really technological, it's that it takes a lot of time to write the damn content, make the maps and charts, and edit the photos. But on the (information) technical side, there are still a lot of cool things that can be done within webmaps or similar interfaces, showing interactive geologic events and having sliders for different times, or whatever.

mncharity 6y ago
Interesting - thanks. > story maps (which is an ESRI trademarked product) For the curious, given the phrase's use various settings, the trademarks are "Story Map Basic, Story Map Cascade, Story Map Crowdsource, Story Map Journal, Story Map Shortlist, Story Map Spyglass, Story Map Swipe, Story Map Series, Story Map Tour". > it takes a lot of time to write the damn content Indeed. One can imagine infrastructure and tooling to make it easier at scale, or even to enable broad collaboration, but fundable project scope is so much narrower. A related challenge is when site preservation, and neighbor relations and access, depend on location obscurity (I'm in Boston). That doesn't mesh well with "immersive field trip on the web" and "see geology near you - a national field trip wiki". > a lot of cool things that can be done within webmaps or similar interfaces Nod. Especially if XR provides an infrastructure for integrated geolocated content. "Roadside geology" guides might become more like current leaf identification apps - "point at leaf, get story of tree" become "point at rock or rock face, get story of continents". Hmm, neat, there's a bunch of current research on ML rock type identification, even with mobile nets.

mncharity 6y ago

Interesting - thanks. > story maps (which is an ESRI trademarked product) For the curious, given the phrase's use various settings, the trademarks are "Story Map Basic, Story Map Cascade, Story Map Crowdsource, Story Map Journal, Story Map Shortlist, Story Map Spyglass, Story Map Swipe, Story Map Series, Story Map Tour". > it takes a lot of time to write the damn content Indeed. One can imagine infrastructure and tooling to make it easier at scale, or even to enable broad collaboration, but fundable project scope is so much narrower. A related challenge is when site preservation, and neighbor relations and access, depend on location obscurity (I'm in Boston). That doesn't mesh well with "immersive field trip on the web" and "see geology near you - a national field trip wiki". > a lot of cool things that can be done within webmaps or similar interfaces Nod. Especially if XR provides an infrastructure for integrated geolocated content. "Roadside geology" guides might become more like current leaf identification apps - "point at leaf, get story of tree" become "point at rock or rock face, get story of continents". Hmm, neat, there's a bunch of current research on ML rock type identification, even with mobile nets.