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Featured Sites

• Wisconsin Local Government Web Mapping Sites [Updated 12/8/11]
  Most county governments in Wisconsin (67 of 72 or 93%) have developed publicly accessible, interactive web mapping sites. An additional two counties have sites in development. A growing number of municipalities and towns (30 of 1,851) are implementing interactive web mapping sites. This web site provides a means to access those that are available to the public and to track those sites in development.

• Applied GIS Workshops in Urban and Regional Planning
  Applied GIS workshops are offered during the Spring semester in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UW-Madison. The workshops allow students to apply GIS to urban and environmental planning issues. Past topics include planning support systems and mapping mashups in Spring 2009, land use inventory and analysis in the Historic Fifth Ward of Milwaukee in Spring 2007, and rethinking New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in Spring 2006.

• Hydrologic Dashboard for the Fox-Wolf Watershed
  The hydrologic dashboard links web mapping and data visualization in a Flash interface to explore the pattern of rainstorm events in the Fox-Wolf River watershed in Wisconsin.

• Wisconsin Coastal Guide
  The Great Lakes Circle Tour leads you around the largest freshwater system on the planet ?but the main route often takes you far from the water's edge. The Wisconsin Coastal Guide shows you where to pull off the highway for a quiet beach, a hidden lighthouse, or a secluded park.

• Wisconsin's Lake Superior Coastal Mapping Portal
  The Lake Superior Coastal Mapping Portal promotes the development of a 'dynamic and distributed GIS' to support integrated coastal management along the Lake Superior coast of Wisconsin.

• Visualizing Coastal Erosion on the Great Lakes
  Information collected about coastal processes is often very technical in nature and difficult for coastal landowners to understand. This project integrates animation, aerial photography, pictures, charts, and text to help the public better understand: (1) the natural process of coastal erosion; (2) how local land development decisions impact coastal erosion; and (3) the case for scientifically-based coastal development setbacks. It examines coastal processes for a location just south of Concordia University in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin.

• Great Lakes Coastal Community Planning Resource
  The Great Lakes Coastal Community Planning Resource provides a toolkit to support comprehensive planning and sustainable development along the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior coasts of Wisconsin.

• Great Lakes Bathymetry Explorer
  An educational web site that citizens and coastal decision-makers can use to gain a better understanding of underwater features in Lake Michigan and Lake Superior and make a connection between the lakes and their watershed.

• 3D Visualization of Coastal Resources
  A demonstration of 3D visualization software to better understand coastal erosion processes and coastal development setbacks.

• Shoreland Management GIS Application and Training Exercise
• Coastal Erosion GIS Application and Training Exercise
• GIS Tools to Support Stormwater Management
  GIS training exercises for coastal management issues.

Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Steenbock Library, Room B102
550 Babcock Drive
Madison, WI 53706

(608) 263-5534 (voice)
(608) 262-2500 (fax)

URL: http://www.lic.wisc.edu

University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute
Goodnight Hall, 2nd Floor
1975 Willow Drive
Madison, WI 53706


(608) 262-6515 (voice)
(608) 262-0591 (fax)

URL: http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu