Max Tardiveau writes "We've just released what we believe to be the first-ever GIS for the iPhone/iPod platform. We focused on the geology of California for this initial release, but it contains a fair amount of information:
- complete geological map from the U.S. Geological Service
- states outline of California and adjacent states
- land elevation from NASA
- ocean bathymetry from the U.S. Geological Service
- all 3,156 California earthquakes in recorded history with a magnitude of 4.0 or greater
- recent faults and plate boundaries
- county lines, USGS quadrangles, townships and ranges
- urban areas, hydrological features
- cities, roads and railroad tracks
- active and abandonned mines and quarries
- almost 2,500 potassium/argon dates
All this information is contained in the application and can therefore be access out in the field, with no cell phone coverage.
We're hoping this is one more step towards making GIS available to the general public.
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I'm not sure this app should really be called a 'GIS' since it doesn't seem to offer much in terms of geodata processing and analysis.
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