Mapalomalia lets geologists create and visualize 3D geological models from their browsers. It’s a free to use geological modeling platform. I hope people will use it to convey information about our planet that helps humankind to tackle big problems and at the same times makes geological modeling easier. I have developed it with input from many geologists, and by releasing it early I hope to receive more input from many more geologists. Just sign up here to start creating models.
Ever since I have seen those fantastic geological cross sections cutting straight through the alps, I am fascinated by geological models, be it 1D, 2D or (nowadays most popular) 3D. Three dimensional geological models play a huge role in several sectors of geosciences, but honesty, their main application is connected to resource exploration.
Most of our readers probably came along the sites of stackexchange or stackoverflow. But most questions regarding geosciences are discussed in local forums or with friends but not on an international level as far as I know. But here comes area51…
In some countries, such as the USA and Spain, there is a very nice law that makes life easy for geoscientists. This law guarantees free access to a broad range of geospatial data like DEMs, satellite imagery, aerial photographs, ground use data, hydrological information and so on. In most cases, these data are made public via web-based GIS applications. These are generally rather slow, but allow to display a lot of different datasets. I did both my diploma thesis and my PhD in Spain and I really needed to find out about all the data available. I knew that they…
