Map data mash-ups gallery | Web services
Mash-ups reuse, repurpose and combine existing data, art or content to create something new, or add value in some way.
We encourage non-commercial users to mash-up OpenGeoscience material with their own data in new and innovative ways by adding new functionality or interfaces.
We can draw inspiration and know-how from mash-ups from the developer community to help us develop robust new products for the benefit of society. Contact us if you create something new and innovative that could benefit others: using BGS data
Example Mash-ups
Gallery below of mash-ups using geological map data at different scales and applications such as: ArcGIS Explorer, ArcGIS Server, ArcWatch, Google Maps, KML, MapInfo and Ordnance Survey OpenSpace.
- developer community
- our research partners
- BGS developers
- teaching resources
- Embed a UK geology or earthquakes map
Developer community
Geopark Way Newent app for iOS and Android by BrooksDesigns
The app guides your walk along the Newent to Huntley section of the Abberley and Malvern Hills Geopark Way - a 109 mile walk running between Bridgnorth in Shropshire England to Gloucester Cathedral. The trail is divided into 17 sections and there will be an app for each section. Includes BGS geology WMS services.
Awila Android app by Augmented Technologies Ltd
Awila is a new way to visualise location based information on the move, utilising Augmented Reality. BGS geology maps, along with data from other sources, are painted on the ground as you look through your phone's camera.
Grower's Nation
Combining BGS (and CEH) soil data with climate and growing conditions information to provide a list of fruit, vegetable and other crops which
are suitable to grow in your area. The app will show you when to sow, plant out and harvest your crops.
Bracknell District Caving Club
Combining BGS geology with cave information and Google Maps in the Mendips area.
Historic fenlands mashup by Andrew Zolnai
Combining land cover data from H C Darby's publications, geographic data from the Ordnance Survey, geology data from BGS and coastline data from NGDC GSHHS to create a geographic history of land cover and surface geology of East Anglia since Domesday.
OpenStreetMap mashup by Tlatet
BGS data with crowdsourced geographic data — OpenStreetMap.
QuakeWatch iPhone app by LateNightProjects
A reference guide to the latest magnitude 1.0 and larger earthquakes from around the world as provided by seven worldwide sources including the BGS, the US Geological Survey and the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre. Find out when they happened, where they happened, how big they were, and more. All in an easy-to-use interface!
Earthquake Lite app for iPhone/iPad and Android by Mobeezio, Inc.
A free appl that delivers live earthquake date to your phone using data from numerous services including the U.S. Geological Survey, GeoNet and the British Geological Survey among others.
EarthObserver iPhone app by Columbia University
Explore your planet as never before with the mobility of EarthObserver. Use your fingertips to travel through terrestrial landscapes and across the ocean floor. Visit frozen icecaps, study geological maps, scout mountains to climb and trips on coastal waters and exploit a rich atlas of other earth and environmental imagery.
UK Quake for Android by Ear to Ear Oak
Maps up to the last 50 days worth of earthquakes in and around the UK, displaying location, magnitude and depth with links to more detailed information at the British Geological Survey.
UK Onshore Geophysical Library
The Library manages the archive and official release of 2D and 3D seismic data recorded over landward areas of the UK. Its interactive map uses BGS geology web services to present background imagery.
Relief mapping in Bucklebury, West Berkshire by Nick Hopton
An example of combining BGS geology data provided via WMS with Ordnance Survey OpenData (© Crown copyright and database right 2011) using QGIS.
Using BGS data in ArcGIS Explorer by ESRI
"The BGS site is a good example of publishing the same content in a variety of different ways, for public users via a Web app, KML, and also the building block data so it can be used and combined with other data for further GIS use." ArcGIS Explorer Blog.
Using BGS data in Quantum GIS (QGIS) by Faunalia
Here you can find instructions on how to install and load BGS WMS data into Quantum GIS (commonly known as QGIS) - Free and Open Source Software.
Using BGS data with Ordnance Survey OpenSpace by Geo-Tag.Info
Combining BGS geology with the Ordnance Survey OpenSpace service. Notes for developers.
Our research partners
OneGeology portal
OneGeology is an international initiative of the geological surveys of the world. Its aim is to create dynamic digital geological map data for the world.
BGS data is also available via the OneGeology-Europe partner project.
NERC Soil Portal
The NERC Soil Portal provides a gateway to discover, view and download large-scale soils property datasets from across NERC research centres.
It aims to bring together resources to improve our understanding of soils and to help answer key, policy led questions.
BGS developers
Google Maps with WMS
Combining our geological WMS services with Google Maps.
This example uses our 1:625 000 scale data. View the source code to see how we did it.
ArcGIS Server extension for Google Maps
Demonstration of how our geology map services can be used in web applications developed using the ArcGIS Server JavaScript extension for the Google Maps API. Notes for developers are provided.
ArcGIS Server API for JavaScript
Demonstration of how our geology map services can be used in web applications developed using the ArcGIS Server API for JavaScript. Notes for developers are provided.
BGS desktop GIS examples
Ready-made project and layer files for loading our street level 1:50 000 scale geology WMS web service into ArcGIS, MapInfo and Google Earth software. Combine it with other data at the click of a button.
Teaching resources
ESRI ArcWatch — Investigating the UK's geology using GIS
Including a new lesson in the ArcLessons library Geologic Investigation of the UK with GIS which discusses how to use the resources made available in OpenGeoscience.
Earth Learning Idea
Opening geological maps to the world. Using the Geology of Britain web browser to explore how geological features appear on maps and how the formations are linked to relief features.
Opengeoscience 1: igneous intrusions and lavas.
Opengeoscience 2: tilted and folded rocks
