In preparation for subscriptions and credit card handling, CalTopo now supports secure https connections. Because all requests from an https page must also be in https, there are a few features that don’t work quite right yet, most noticeably the land management, fire activity and fire history layers, but that’s all I’ve found so far. […]
I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about the future of CalTopo. While I’d love to claim that I started with some kind of genius original vision, the truth is that it started as an offshoot of a hobby project I’d been working on for SAR, and grew organically from there. As with any […]
At 8pm on Tuesday, I got paged out for a typically inconvenient mutual aid SAR: pack everything I need for a 72-hour deployment, sleep a couple hours, wake up at 3:45, drive 6 hours, fly into the middle of the Sierra backcountry, and hike out 40 miles. Thanks for the lift, SEKI H-552 When I […]
Since the beginning, CalTopo has had the ability to make maps publicly visible, i.e. someone can find the map without knowing its URL. However all this did was add the map to an obscure page that few visited other than Google. Today that changes with the introduction of the shared maps layer. It’s available as an overlay […]
Elevation profiles are one of the few remaining gaps people have noticed when comparing CalTopo to desktop software. No more. There are now two profile modes – the existing interactive one that uses Google elevation data, and a full-page version that builds on the terrain statistics dialog with CalTopo sourced elevation data. You can get to the […]
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