Twin Knobs Recreation Area and Campground

August 15, 2019 by Leave a Comment

Hiker Sheltowee Trace North map
Size: 700 acres
Fee: yes
Accommodations: 213 tent and RV sites
Amenities: Beach, electricity, drinking water, waste disposal, boat ramp, bath houses, camp store
Open seasonally: spring – fall
Ownership: Daniel Boone National Forest, USFS

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Beach area for swimming

Twin Knobs and Zilpo campgrounds can be seen from each other and are separated by Cave Run Lake. Twin Knobs is a little easier to access and is larger and more forested than Zilpo. It also can be much busier. The Twin Knobs Trail is an excellent trail to explore the unique knob topography in this region.

Twin Knobs trail
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Zilpo Recreation Area and Campground

August 14, 2019 by Leave a Comment

Hiker Sheltowee Trace North map
Size: 355 acres
Fee: yes
Accommodations: 166 sites, 12 cabins
Amenities: Beach, electricity, drinking water, waste disposal, boat ramp, bath houses, camp store
Open seasonally: spring – fall
Ownership: Daniel Boone National Forest, USFS

Buy Sheltowee Trace North Trail Map

Zilpo camp store

This campground has an excellent beach and great views of Cave Run Lake. A shoreline trail weaves through the campground providing access to most camp amenities. A vigorous 2.5-mile loop hike ascends Zilpo Mountain with a panoramic view of the lake.

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Dedicated beach for swimming
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Woodland Art Fair time!

August 12, 2019 by Leave a Comment

Come down to the Kentucky Art Market and Woodland Art Fair this Saturday and Sunday,  August 17 and 18, 2019. We have new t-shirts of the Red River Gorge.

The fair runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., or thereabouts.

Our booth location and coordinates are shown on the below map. We’ll be between Troublesome and Difficulty Creeks, at least spirit! Find us on the Woodland Christian Church side of the fair at the shady bottom of the hill.

Filed Under: Maps, News, Red River Gorge, Sheltowee Trace

Toward a scenic trail index

August 12, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Sheltowee Trace, Daniel Boone National Forest, and Big South Fork scenic trail index
Visit the web page

Over the years we’ve pursued some measure that reveals the character of 900+ miles of trail here. Often we talk about a trail’s length or steepness with other dimensions gleaned from the base map. In this experiment, we are creating zones at discreet locations along trails and estimating the character of that location.

Over 14,000 polygons are shown on this 3D Mapbox map. The color indicates the type of scenery and height shows how much relief is the area. Future additions to this map include adding a searching tool and summary statistics for each trail.

Filed Under: Big South Fork, NRRA, Cave Run Lake, DBNF, Free Maps, homepage, Maps, Maps Archive, News, Red River Gorge, Sheltowee Trace

Time-lapse animation

July 21, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Downtown Lexington, Kentucky in July evening
Filed Under: homepage, News

Red River Gorge t-shirt

July 10, 2019 by 4 Comments
T-shirt front

Looking for a new fashion statement?

We’ve printed a map of the Red River Gorge on a 100%-cotton, heavy-weight t-shirt.

This double-sided t-shirt will be first available at the Kentucky Art Market, which is adjacent to the Woodland Arts Fair. This August 2019.

T-shirt back
Filed Under: homepage, Maps, News, Red River Gorge, Sheltowee Trace

West Sixth Farm trail map

June 16, 2019 by Leave a Comment

Took an afternoon to GPS map the trail network at the West Sixth farm outside of Frankfort, Kentucky. You can download the map here https://www.westsixth.com/farmtrailmap.

West Sixth Farm trail map
Preview of the map

The farm maintains a mountain bike trail with technical features and one-way trails. Enjoy a ride and then a brew.

lidar point cloud render
View an interactive 3D map of the area

As an experiment, we added a 3D map from a lidar point cloud viewable here: https://outragegis.com/pointclouds/w6.

Filed Under: Free Maps, homepage, Maps, Maps Archive, News

OSM highways

May 13, 2019 by Leave a Comment
OpenStreetMap highway lines
Using QGIS layer blending mode to imply population density

Selected attributes symbolized from the North American extract: download.geofabrik.de/north-america.html

Filed Under: homepage, News

New Maps Plus projects

May 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

Visit the full-screen map.

I began teaching at New Maps Plus in October 2015. Students have made many awesome maps since then. This ‘map of maps’ shows projects going back to early 2017. Many of the early projects utilized CartoDB (now CARTO), which has evolved considerably over the years. While technology and visualization techniques change, a map is also an artistic pursuit and perhaps can withstand the ebb and flow of tech design styles.

Filed Under: Free Maps, homepage, Maps, News

Time-lapse animation

May 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Chalkboard exercises
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Courthouse Rock animation

April 15, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Journey to Courthouse Rock in lidar point cloud
Filed Under: Red River Gorge, Sheltowee Trace

Downtown Lexington building heights

April 14, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Lidar point cloud of downtown Lexington, Kentucky
Measuring downtown buildings using lidar data

Lidar point cloud interactive visualization of downtown Lexington, Kentucky, and selected building heights. Visualization uses the Potree library, http://www.potree.org

outragegis.com/pointclouds/lex

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Lexington’s Legacy Trail

April 13, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Lidar point cloud interactive visualization of Lexington's Legacy trail
3D map of alignment

Lidar point cloud interactive visualization of Lexington’s Legacy trail with a custom 100-ft buffer applied to the trial. outragegis.com/pointclouds/legacy

Filed Under: News

Bird’s-eye view of Cumberland Falls

April 11, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Rendered in a lidar point cloud
Filed Under: News, Sheltowee Trace

New images and data from GOES-16

December 29, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Visit the page to view and download imagery

Over Christmas break, it was time to automate collecting and displaying the incredibly detailed imagery from the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager. A problem that plagued previous efforts was not accessing the raw data, a netCDF formatted file for the contiguous U.S. which can be downloaded freely from a variety of cloud data hosts. With the raw data, one can project, modify and use it in web mapping libraries like Leaflet.

This page offers a slippy map of grayscale and color imagery and is updated every 15 minutes. You can download GeoTIFFs of rendered layers that can be used in GIS applications.

Filed Under: Big South Fork, NRRA, Cave Run Lake, DBNF, Cumberland Gap, NHP, Free Maps, Great Smoky Mountains, homepage, Maps, News, Red River Gorge, Sheltowee Trace, Weather
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