Mar

9

This is quite an ambitious and interesting project. With the identification and efficient utilization of the earth's resources being amongst the proposed goals.

Alas, I have been in working in Nicaragua for the past month. There, a "show" of petroleum was reported recently in the papers at a location just outside of Managua (old timers claim it was well known in the Somoza era). Nicaragua is a country with some electric generation from geothermal resources (San Jacinto) and a mining district where gold is found. Ignimbrites are quarried and used extensively for building stone and materials. Nicaragua is an example of a developing country with a wide variety of geological resources and hazards. It might benefit from the mapping project.

At any rate the objective of the world geologic map:

  1. The project's aim is to create dynamic digital geological map data for the world!
  2. The target scale is 1:1 million. But the project will be pragmatic and accept a range of scales and the best available data.
  3. The geological map data will be made available as a distributed web service, using the latest web feature mapping approach.

International Rock Stars Meet to Create Geological Map of the World.


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