Geo 4422/5408 - Fall 2024 Professor: Dr. Yihong Yuan Lab Instructor: Pingping Wang
Hurricanes are escalated tropical cyclones, known for their potential to create vast areas of destruction and loss of life. Understanding hurricanes and their past impacts is important to learning how to deal with them moving forward. Hurricanes have featured prominently in the news within the past few months with devastation caused by Hurricane Helene rocking states like Florida, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Georgia. As climate change continues to become a more relevant topic in our day-to-day lives, the ability for the public to access climate information and understand the impact it has increases. Data accessibility is important to providing education and the ability to visualize the changing patterns of our climate for everyday people.	In the past decade, Texas has faced rapid population growth and with that intensifying energy demands. To address this, new power plants have been constructed, prompting essential questions regarding optimal site selection, viable energy sources, and power output. Our project aims to develop an interactive web map showcasing these facilities' locations, types, and power outputs in megawatts (MW).
Spatial data is a powerful tool when made easily accessible. In our application we use layers created by Texas parks and wildlife to create a geolocator tool for public use. The primary spaces included are Federal, state and San Marcos local trails. Public spaces are often difficult to locate and utilize on a case-by-case basis. So, we wanted to provide a tool that gives users easy access to each park's website.	The Texas Safety Rest Areas Map is a web mapping tool designed to help travelers locate safety rest areas across Texas. These rest areas provide clean facilities, 24/7 restrooms, drinking water, picnic tables, and overnight parking. Some newer rest areas also feature interactive displays, playgrounds, and gardens.
This project presents an interactive web mapping application designed to visualize the median age of populations in U.S. counties for the year 2010, utilizing census data from the U.S. Census Bureau.