Animation of the geological evolution of geosites - a new layer in the map application Interesting Geosites of the Czech Republic

Přehled lokalit s animací jejich vývoje — Author: Vajskebrová Markéta

20.6.2024 Markéta Vajskebrová

The Czech Geological Survey have been publishing the visual animations of selected geosites and their geological evolution on the CGS YouTube channel. Now they are situated in a map and create a new layer in a map application Interesting geosites of the CR. Most of the animations have English subtitles, thereby appealing to people interested in geology throughout the world. The animations are based on intensive geological research conducted by our specialists in a given area.

Interesting geosites

Map application Interesting geosites of the CR was created in order to promote geology to a broad public and it describes 1571 geologically interesting sites in the CR in several categories:
•    Natural geological outcrops (1011)
•    Remains of human activities (494)
•    Caves and karst phenomena (32)
•    Animations of the geological evolution (23)
•    National geoparks (11)

Additional layers are:
• Decorative stones with basic information about quarries (305) and their use in buildings (510) with links to more information (not fully translated yet)
• Orthophoto map and 5th generation digital elevation model

The application works online in common modern web browsers regardless of operating system and device. Its main advantage is easy use in the field, as it is adapted to display on mobile devices.

Maintenance of the application and data is part of the internal project of the CGS "Important geological localities of the Czech Republic", which is financially supported by the Ministry of the Environment as part of the Long-term concept for the development of the research organization (DKRVO) 2023–2027.