While I don’t expect this news to be greeted with thundering applause, CalTopo subscriptions are now live. Based on feedback from y’all, I moved to a two-tier pricing model: You can still create, share and print maps for free, but prints will be limited to 5 pages of 8.5×11 and KMZ and MBTiles exports will […]
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 […]
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