Interactive Features

It’s not just information, maps, and images that you’ll find at LandScope America.The content and interactive features we’re building into the site will create a setting that enables visitors from all 50 states to find data and act on it in one single place.

Finding What You Need

Given the range of people who could benefit from the many types of information available on LandScope America, we’re focused on making the site’s tools easy to use. You’ll be able to navigate the site in many ways, through the dynamic map, through explicit themes, topics and tasks, or through advanced searching functions that streamline your access to what you’re looking for.

Advanced Printing & Distribution Features

LandScope America’s sophisticated printing and downloading features will help you mine data to use in land acquisition or grant proposals, to inform state or local legislative processes, or simply to have fun envisioning and sharing scenarios with your colleagues.

As you collect stories and custom map views while browsing the site, you’ll be able to download them in a single step in much the same way that you’d add items to your online shopping cart. You can also produce presentation-quality maps, selecting from various map data and adding your own titles and descriptions. Craft a personal message to accompany the map and story content you’re tagging and assembling and email them to your colleagues, supporters, and constituents.

Online Community

Online communities are assuming an increasingly powerful role in supporting and enacting social change. LandScope America will leverage the tools that lie at this confluence of technology and new social practices to benefit the work of the conservation community. After creating your own LandScope America profile, you can share your questions and ideas in discussion forums, comment on stories and multimedia, tag content for social bookmarking services, and review and learn from content that other visitors to the site rate highly. Review and share events through state and local conservation calendars events, adding them to your own desktop and web-based calendar services in a single click. Finally, you  can submit your own photos and narratives the site to complement to the site's scientific data, adding your perspective to the conversation around preserving America’s living lands and waters.