Ever dreamed of viewing Earth from space? You want to become an astronaut? You think our Planet has changed in last twenty years?
You feel Global Warming and Climate Change?
You live in Europe and still curious about Gulf Stream? You remember Katrina and Hurricane season 2005?
Well, Planet is changing, we are now more than 6,5 billion residents in 2006 and chances are good, that you will experience 10 billion.
NASA says 2005 was hottest year for last hundreds if not longer. When global temperature rises another single degree °C next decades the 400,000 years old record from Holocene is outranged.
About three million years ago during the Middle Pliocene Earth was only 2,3°C warmer than today and sea level was 25-35m higher.
Nearly 50 percent of all humans live near coast. A sea level rise of one meter will force millions of people from Bangladesh, Netherlands and New York to leave their homes and triggers global migration and economic issues.
What will happen to all coast dwellers when Greenland’s icecap melts?
Actually, nobody can say Climate Change is human made, but whether or not, will it be comfortable in future?
Former World Bank chief economist Sir Nick Stern put $5.5 trillion as price tag on the economic consequences of untackled Global Warming. These are 20 percent of the world’s total economic output.
Are we allowed to manipulate planet’s climate to achieve better conditions? Can we predict all consequences, if we do?
Scientists say there are ten years to fulfil a turnaround. After this period consequences are unpredictable or unmanageable.
Global Warming has the potential to change every single aspect of human life. It is time to inspect the way we work, travel, dwell and consume.
The problem is no longer considered as a political one, it concerns to everybody of planet Earth’s 6.5 billion inhabitants.
Climate Change is the most complex challenge we are facing. Even scientists can not know all aspects, but is that a reason to continue business as usual?
In any case you may want to stay informed what public and private organisations are planning, publishing and detecting.
This site is dedicated to our Planet and will help to keep him livable. All is about information and here you will find a lot.
An advanced map interface with near realtime extensions, satellite photos and thousands of other maps illustrate hurricanes, tropical storms and earthquakes when they happen.
The range of maps is overwhelming, raster and vector, Satellite and Orthos from cities, regional and cross-national, infrared or magnetic instruments, all in different resolutions and quality.
Some are hand painted others show specific objects only. You’ll see population, bathymetry, shaded reliefs, vulcanoes, mean temperature, vegetation and plate boundaries to mention only some of them.
You are lucky, if you are living in a place NASA’s near realtime MODIS Terra / Aqua service captures every day. The data is available since 2004-12-25 and the earth views category collects all blog entries with events visible from space.
ExploreOurPla.net uses external webservices and latest Web 2.0 technologies like AJAX and JSON to present information as easy and fast as possible.
In collaboration with geonames.org we developed online placenames even for Satellite maps, so you’ll never get lost while browsing the planet.
Placenames are on-map linked to wikipedia. Useful background information like population is only one-click away.
The extension architecture is quite open and mashs up the map with multimedia, near realtime information and news.
Listen to mp3 audio from the FreeSound Project, explore NRT Earthquakes from USGS or watch geotagged videos from youtube.com and VlogMap.org.
ExplorerOurPla.net gives you access to all 6.5 millions placenames saved at geonames. Blog, Map and Toponym search are located in the sidebar.
It is a good idea to check out the geo- or permaLink feature: Every time you change your map view an unique link is generated. It matches exactly your current view.
All parameters like geo-position, altitude, placename visibility and active map, overlays or extensions are included. You can bookmark them and come back to continue your research or send them via mail to your friends and colleagues.
Registered users have some advantages, they get informed about updates, can save geoLinks, use the full screen map interface and manage their private list of RSS news feeds.
If this site is useful for you or you want to see specific information here, do not hesitate and contact us. Donations of any amount are welcome to keep server running.
Thank you for your time.
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