Map of Life: Computer demo at TDWG 2011

An overview of Map of Life presented by John Wieczorek and Gaurav Vaidya at the TDWG Annual Meeting 2011 in New Orleans, USA. Find out more about Map of Life at http://www.mappinglife.org/

1. Map of Life John Wieczorek*, Aaron Steele, Walter Jetz, Rob Guralnick, Andrew Hill, Gaurav Vaidya* & Dan Rosauer 1
2. The Big Dream 2
3. The Big Dream T o use maps 2
4. The Big Dream T o use maps to make better maps 2
5. The Big Dream T o use maps to make better maps of where species ACTUALLY are. 2
6. The Big Dream Make it easy for experts to: Edit maps that are wrong. Find data that has been entered incorrectly. Do biodiversity analyses. 3
7. What’s important Any taxon. Available data. My data. Share it. 4
8. Integration Will support all kinds of maps: Expert ranges. Ecoregion checklists. Protected area checklists. Species occurrences and uncertainties. Environmental data. 5
9. A demonstration 6
11. Ctenomys sociabilis Pearson & Christie, 1985 8
12. A demonstration (again) 9
15. Found! 12
16. Back to the demonstration 13
22. Back to the demonstration (no more interruptions!) 17
24. Boom. June 13, 2011 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=50996 19
26. Add my map: species ranges based on where they actually are. Add my own data layers: Overlay the volcanic plume. Share it: Argentinian and US governments, now. Satellite imagery by MODIS/Aqua: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=50862 21
27. The Big Dream T o use maps to make better maps of where species ACTUALLY are. 22
28. Map Of Life Get a grip on your mapping problems http://www.mappinglife.org/ 23