Our project with the Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, “How Clean is Your Water” was featured on NPR yesterday, June 24. This Project includes five separate interactive maps with varied themes as well as numerous resources and additional information.

Congratulations to everyone who worked on the project and helped us achieve such a great result!

Click Here to view and/or listen to the coverage.

Thanks to an idea given to us by our good friend Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen,  IMRivers has created a site dedicated to marking key points effected by the BP oil spill. With his support and hard work, as well as the hard work of a few dedicated volunteers, we have been able to keep track of the extent of the spill daily as well as provide you with original images from the spill site. If you are interested in volunteering to help with this map site or if you have any relavant data that you would be willing to lend us, please contact Wansoo Im at im@vertices.com. IM Rivers is also offering to provide any organization or group  interested in doing their own Gulf Coast Oil Spill related map with a free map site.

For more information:

Visit the Gulf Coast BP Oil Spill Map Page

Visit the Gulf Coast BP Oil Spill Website

The IM Rivers staff has been focusing much of our energy on improving the existing Interactive Mapping Application to better suit your needs. Users now have the ability to embed their interactive map directly into and existing website while retaining the Layer Control function provided on the main map site. Check out Chester River Association’s project to see an example of this new capability:

Hi IMRiver friends!

I just wanted to share with you a little bit about what we’ve been up to and the projects we’ve been working on lately.

Our Holiday Event

As many of you know, this season we had a special Holiday Event where we gave away one year free IMRivers application licensing. We were overwhelmed bythe number of proposals we received and couldn’t choose just one. In the end decided to create a customized project with the Puget Soundkeeper and to help the rest of the applicants create their own standard interactive maps.

While our main project with the Puget Soundkeeper took a little longer than expected, we are proud to say that we are quickly approaching the finish line. We hope to be sharing this new site with you very soon! In the meantime, check out Fraser Riverkeeper’s IMRivers site to see an example of what some of the other applicants have done: http://www.imrivers.com/fraserriver

Other Exciting News!

The folks at IMRivers are currently working on upgrading the IM Rivers mapping application to provide users with the ability to create their own variables. With this new capability, you guys will be able to customize the application even further and express your particular data more easily. To see an example of this, visit our Mapping Application for Chatham High School’s Water Quality Project:
http://www.communitymap.net/chatham

If you’re interested in creating your own IMRivers application and site, get in touch with us! We would love to hear your ideas and work with you on a project. Interactive Maps are a great way to engage your community and get them involved in your existing efforts.

IMRivers is a web-based mapping system for River Network Partners to develop community action projects and maps for public viewing and input.

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