Mobile maps for reserve and national park staff
Managing and improving nature reserves as well as coordinating the activities of staff using interactive maps and eLiteMap technology. Interactive maps in the eLiteMap application for managing and improving reserves and national parks, and coordinating staff activities.
Managing natural parks is very effort consuming, as this is not only about preserving unique natural sites, rare animal and plant species, but also protection, monitoring and studying the state of the environment, and arranging educational and touristic activities. All these tasks are carried out by a huge staff of employees, whose activities need to be regulated as well.
Mobile map of your reserve for employees
With mobile maps, you can provide your staff, including inspectors, researchers, ecologists, economic and tourist departments with all the necessary information about your natural park.
A professional map of your national reserve can be prepared in the desktop extension eLiteMap Creator and after that used via the free mobile app eLiteMap. Depending on your tasks, with eLiteMap Creator you can create the mobile map of the whole territory or just a specific part of it. The ready maps can be shared with any number of users, at that it is possible to limit access to your data using password, watermark, expiration date, and device ID, if needed.
The mobile map can be used as a tool for monitoring condition of all the park facilities, or for planning activities to clean up or restore the territory after a storm or careless visitors, for example. Or, you can use it for keeping records of the birds nesting sites and plants distribution areas. Besides, all the tasks can be marked on the maps and distributed between the responsible employees.
Glacier National Park
Large set of tools for work with the map
- Add points, polylines, polygons, and graphic notes to your map to mark location of the unique plant species, hazardous objects, or fire hotspots;
- Add freehand shapes, texts or arrows to the map to mark locations of the garbage removal;
- Attach photos, videos, and audio files to the created features to accurately define the nesting sites of rare species or characterize the vegetation;
- Record GPS tracks of your inventory, map trails and routes;
- Navigate in monotonous forest or water areas while guiding, searching for or rescuing tourists and explorers;
- Measure distance to decide on the optimal travel method and define your route duration, calculate areas of sites requiring restoration;
- Share collected information with your colleagues and inspectors to set and assign tasks, keep records of work performed, etc.
Screenshot of the Glacier National Park map in eLiteMap app
Offline work with the map
The fully functional work with the created maps and use of all the tools provided in eLiteMap app are available even in offline mode. So, you and your staff can access and use the mobile map of your reserve anywhere you go to navigate and explore the area. All you need is to install eLiteMap on your smart phone or tablet and download the map to your device.
Touristic maps for reserve visitors
Arranging touristic and ecological-educational activities is another important direction of national parks work. With the detailed tourist map of the natural park on your device, it is much easier to conduct excursions, accompany visitors, place information posters, develop routes, update information about the park territory and its inhabitants. eLiteMap Creator allows you to convert a professional cartographic project to a user-friendly mobile map of any size, content and purpose depending on your needs. Such map can be a compact mobile guide for the park visitors, providing all the necessary information about places of interest, including available trails, camping sites, mountaintops, streams, rivers and waterfalls, habitats of rare animal species, and places of growth of unique plants.
National parks and reserves attract thousands of visitors who can explore the territory with detailed interactive travel guide on their mobile devices. Paper maps become a thing of the past, and administration of many protected areas and reserves are going digital. Take advantage of using mobile geoinformation technologies to optimize your everyday work and provide your park visitors with detailed information about the territory.
Screenshot of the Glacier National Park map in eLiteMap app
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eLiteMap team