[OSM-talk] virtual san francisco mapping party?
Dan Putler
dan.putler at sauder.ubc.ca
Sat Apr 12 17:55:15 BST 2008
They are actually the old Cargill Salt Corporation salt evaporation
ponds. The water in these ponds is many times saltier than sea water,
the pink to red color is due to brine shrimp and microbes that live in
these ponds. There is a massive restoration project just underway that
will restore this area to the original tidal marshes that were there.
The upshot for tagging is that they are water, but they are man made,
and in a number of years they will disappear.
To get the full story on this, here are a couple of sites:
http://www.southbayrestoration.org/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2003/03images/saltpond/saltpond.html
Dan
On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 11:27 +0100, Andy Allan wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Peter Miller
> <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:
>
> > Btw, if anyone knows what is going on in the bay just north of Mountain View
> > and the Googleplex then please do some suitable tagging. There seem to be
> > loads of shallow ponds with weird colours (particularly weird on google
> > aerial photography). I have tagged them as 'natural' and 'water' but I don't
> > think it is really natural and it might not even be water!
>
> Using the flickr maps thingy, it appears to be some Salt Flats as per
> http://flickr.com/photos/40055757@N00/117376408
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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Dan Putler
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University of British Columbia
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