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The PLOTS Archive

Welcome to the Public Laboratory's open data archive. To better fulfill our goal of producing new open-source data sets, this site serves as the repository of those sets online, and as a starting point for the discourse we hope they will spark.

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Maps and available formats

Location Capture date License
Arroyo Mocho Neighborhood. Livermore, CA October 8, 2011 geoTiff jpg tms Public Domain
Arroyo Mocho Neighborhood. Livermore, CA October 8, 2011 geoTiff jpg tms Public Domain
Engineers Without Borders Meetup. Henderson, Nevada March 12, 2012 geoTiff jpg tms Public Domain
Rooftop 2. Santiago, Chile April 22, 2012 geoTiff jpg tms Public Domain
Rooftop. Santiago, Chile April 22, 2012 geoTiff jpg tms Public Domain
Uzhorod, Ukraine April 9, 2009 geoTiff jpg tms Creative Commons Attribution
Landfill Incinerator. Saugus, Massachusetts October 10, 2011 geoTiff jpg tms Creative Commons Attribution
Save The Bay. Providence, Rhode Island. October 8, 2011 geoTiff tms Public Domain
Save The Bay. Providence, Rhode Island. October 8, 2011 geoTiff tms Public Domain
Save The Bay. Providence, Rhode Island. October 8, 2011 geoTiff jpg tms Public Domain

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Recent comments

I added a timelapse video of
warren

I added a timelapse video of Stewart stitching this map...

Rectifying shifting waterways
warren

Alex Kolker from LUMCON (Louisiana Universities Marine...

Wow!!! Looks great, esp. with
warren

Wow!!! Looks great, esp. with the new blending. Let's...

How do I correct the Capture Date?
cfastie

Somehow the capture date was entered wrong for this map...

Google Earth
cfastie

Speaking of Google Earth, this map is georeferenced...

Thanks Chris I changed the
gonzoearth

Thanks Chris I changed the date. I must have used that...

Thanks
cfastie

Thanks for organizing all these notes Stewart!