Mapping The High Plains Aquifer

Thirty per centum of H2O used to irrigate U.S.A. of America agriculture comes from the High Plains Aquifer. Unfortunately much of the aquifer is inwards decline.

The High Plains Aquifer underlies 8 U.S.A. of America states. National Geographic's A Vanishing Aquifer: What Happens When the Water Runs Out illustrates the province of affairs of the aquifer nether each of these states amongst an interactive map.

As y'all scroll through Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Vanishing Aquifer the map automatically updates. Page scrolling is used to zoom into the map, add together overlays & map labels as well as to highlight areas on the map. The article equally good uses cascading page elements to switch betwixt the article text, charts, illustrations as well as the interactive map.

The map itself is custom made yesteryear National Geographic. However it is possible to replicate the scrolling map interactions used inwards the article amongst some of the pop mapping libraries. Users of CARTO (previously CartoDB) tin purpose Odyssey.js. Esri has Story Maps and, if y'all similar Mapbox, y'all tin purpose the fly to a place based on scroll position testify inwards the Mapbox Examples.