Credit the foundation
Keep authorship, source reports, datums, versions, and processing history attached to every result.
Geology · GIS · collaborative mapping
Good maps should outlive the project that made them.
Logic Cloud Geo connects published geoscience, transparent web services, and reproducible workflows so geologists can preserve what is known—and make the next interpretation better.
- Source-aware
- Methods visible
- Built to collaborate
A framework larger than a borderThe premise
There is no geologic “state-line fault.” Names and datasets may change at a border, but the rocks and aquifers do not.
A practical approach
Preserve the lineage. Make the logic usable.
Regional frameworks, local refinements, boreholes, rasters, and changing nomenclature all carry part of the story. LCG is a place to keep those relationships explicit instead of flattening them into one final map.
Work across scales
Let a project-specific framework refine a regional one without erasing either interpretation.
Share the method
Pair services with documented APIs, notebooks, and visible assumptions that other geoscientists can examine and extend.
Working public service
LiveTerrain elevation without hiding the source.
Submit one WGS 84 point, an ordered batch, or a line profile. The service returns USGS 3DEP bare-earth elevations with units and source metadata suitable for maps, notebooks, and GIS workflows.
- Input
- WGS 84 latitude / longitude
- Queries
- Point · batch · profile
- Source
- USGS 3DEP bare-earth DEM
- Clients
- Web · Python · Jupyter · GIS
Published foundations
Work meant to be used again.
The Floridan Aquifer System publications demonstrate the principle behind LCG: preserve earlier work, revise it with new evidence, and publish the data needed for the next investigation.
USGS Professional Paper 1807
Revised hydrogeologic framework of the Floridan aquifer system
Lester J. Williams and Eve L. Kuniansky
Open publication USGS Data Series 926Digital surfaces and thicknesses of selected hydrogeologic units
Lester J. Williams and Joann F. Dixon
Open data release USGS Data Series 760Digital borehole geophysical log database
Source logs supporting regional interpretation and correlation
Open log databaseAbout the founder
Lester J. Williams
A professional geologist, groundwater hydrologist, and Python developer with more than 30 years of experience in regional hydrogeologic framework mapping, borehole geophysics, groundwater investigations, and applied GIS.
Logic Cloud Geo is a personal, independent effort to make scientific data easier to use and to reconnect with geologists, hydrogeologists, and developers who believe mapping improves when knowledge crosses institutional and geographic boundaries.
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