While scouting some backcountry ski terrain l last weekend, I had trouble identifying a slope. I’d taken a photo and could match that to what I saw on the view from here feature, but the slope itself was unlabeled. I had trouble identifying the nearby peaks – while they were named, entering “abc peak, ca” […]
When you start a new project, you can devote 100% of your time to new, exciting stuff. As the project grows and matures, maintenance and general upkeep take over. Eventually the cool features, the ones you wake up excited to go work on and change the world with, get pushed to the side. Sneaking time […]
It’s a simple question, but one I haven’t found a satisfying answer to: where’s the sun? How do you look at a map and figure out which areas are mostly sheltered from its rays and which ones receive strong midwinter sun? When will your campsite first see direct light in the morning, and will it […]
The lack of recent posts doesn’t mean a lack of development, only that the focus has been on bugfixes and minor improvements – from better compatibility with USB Mass Storage capable Garmins to decimal minute support in the PDF generator. Still, for the last couple months two new layers were lurking in the background, getting […]
I’ve recently added two new layers to CalTopo, both built built on government datasets but with homegrown rendering. Northern California burning The fire history layer shows wildfire activity since 2000. There are some regional datasets that go back much further, but this was the best I could find for national coverage. Fires are color-coded by year […]
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