Thursday, May 3, 2007

Mapping Nevada
















With the technology that exists today mapping and mapping Nevada have endless possibilities. People have mapped out the road sytems of Nevada. People have mapped the railroads. the mountainous terrain has even been mapped. One area of mapping Nevada still is under the radar and that is the caves of Nevada. there are not many known maps of the underground. I think it would be interesting to make a complete index with full maps of each of the known caves in the state of Nevada. Using todays technology we could have 3-dimensional models of each cave and also paper maps that are complete and accurate. Although cavers are very secretive about the exact locations of caves this would be a great collection for licenced caving clubs to have. This type of map could incorporate google earth pro and could have a flyby over nevada to each of the cave locations. What would be really cool would be fly thoughs of each cave. It would be similar to google pro fly overs. I have become very interested in three dimensional fly overs and fly throughs during this class and this might be something to pursue as a project in the coming semesters.

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