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Source: Programmable Web, February 26, 2008

Environmental Activists Discover Mashups

Excerpt below:
"Environment-related mashups cover a broad spectrum of topics, including pollution, hurricanes, climate change, industrial activity, and “green” hotels. There are currently 24 mashups tagged “environment” and 13 mashups tagged “green” on ProgrammableWeb.

The USGS fact sheet on Antartica:

Coastal-Change and Glaciological Maps of Antarctica

Excerpts below:

The entire set of street maps are now up on the lightblueline Flickr site:

Santa Barbara Street Maps

This map is from SEDAC at Columbia University.

GO here to view all the maps: LOW ELEVATION COASTAL ZONE (LECZ) URBAN-RURAL ESTIMATES

The NASA data center at Columbia University (SEDAC) has posted a great new resource: maps of the 10 meter coastal zone (with urban and rural estimates) for large parts of the planet:

GO here to view the maps: LOW ELEVATION COASTAL ZONE (LECZ) URBAN-RURAL ESTIMATES

Summary:

This is a screen shot of the PDF file, which you can get here:
Santa Barbara Seven Meter

This is a screen shot of the PDF file, which you can get here:
Santa Barbara Downtown Seven Meter

This is a screen shot of the PDF file, which you can get here:
Carpinteria Seven Meter

This is a screen shot of the PDF file, which you can get here:
Goleta Seven Meter

The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets has published a set of coastal inundation maps for several regions of the planet. NOTE: the datasets are not high-res enough to paint lines. They also have Google Map layers for the same data!

You can see these resources here:

Sea Level Rise Maps and GIS Data

BELOW: an example (downsampled) for Southeast United States.