Creepy Music

Local Designers

Clay Township Design Co.

BirdsEyeDesign

Sylvia Prats 

Cesilee Axtell Designs 

Prairie Sky Design 

Logo Contestants

Paddling in Iowa

Skunk River Paddlers

Story County Facilities

IA DNR Water Trail Maps and Brochures

IA DNR where to Paddle

My County Parks

The Logan Abandoned Mine Land (AML) site

Was just reading about The Logan Abandoned Mine Land (AML) site.

Iowa Learning Farms will host a monarch butterfly conservation field day Thursday, September 7th from 10:00am-12:00 pm at the Logan Abandoned Mine Land Site near Bussey.  The field day is free and open to the public and includes a complimentary meal. Please, RSVP to ensure adequate space and food. Contact Liz Juchems at 515-294-5429 or email ilf@iastate.edu.

The field day will be held at the Logan Abandoned Mine Land Site near Bussey. From Bussey, head east on Co Hwy G71/310th Street for 5.5 miles. Turn left to go north on Elba Avenue for 0.3 miles. The site is on the west side of the road and will be marked with field day signs.

41.209567, -92.775597

Article 

Article 

NASA Remote Sensing Toolkit

Geoawesomeness Article

Remote Sensing Toolkit

Using World Imagery Wayback Machine

ESRI blog entry on Wayback Machine

Adding basemaps QGIS 3.2

One of my favorite QGIS plugins has always been the 'Open Layers'.  But after installing QGIS 3.2, discovered it wasn't there.  I am giving the 'QuickMapServices' plugin a try.

Here are some links discussing it:

Nextgis article 1

Nextgis article 2

Plugin repository

Manual 


to add Google Maps and much more simply:

1. Go to 'Web' menu in QGIS 3.2
2. QuickMapServices 
3. Settings
4. 'More services' tab
5. click the 'Get contributed pack' button

Zillow

If I ever need to introduce GIS to someone that has never seen or heard of it...I mention Zillow.

Beyond being a great site and service, Zillow allows for the download of data. 

https://www.zillow.com/research/data/