If you ever find yourself wishing you for a bird-eye view of the Michigan’s Upper Peninsula’s shoreline you are now in luck.
(And you and I have a lot in common)
The Superior Watershed Partnership and Land Trust just launched the Great Lakes Shoreviewer, which is an online database full of photos and maps of every inch of the peninsula’s coast.
Photo: Superior Watershed Partnership and Land Trust
The Shoreviewer was originally conceived as a tool for city and township officials, but will also be used to assist tourism campaigns, help paddlers plan kayaking and canoe trips, and give Great Lakes nerds like yours truly another reason to procrastinate at work.
The maps highlight natural features like wetlands, dunes, and hills, giving direction to conservation and protection efforts.
And, of course, for those of you who are just dying to check out the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on the go, there’s a Shoreviewer app coming soon.
Which is significant, not only for its novelty, but also because it will be the first app this reporter has ever downloaded.
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Great resource! Photos are taken every few hundred feet, and maps have topography, soils, vegetation, and more.
You need to zoom in on the map to get the closely-spaced photos.