Fire managers and the public can access online maps of current wildfire locations, thanks to a web-based mapping application provided by the USGS and its partners.

Day or night, users can access electronic mail, bulletin boards, interactive discussion forums, data bases, maps, photographs, video clips and even sound files.

Gerswin set up the modifications he needed, then accessed the official and unofficial maps of Lidora.

The astronaut can access checklists, protocols, photographs, diagrams, maps and more on the cuff, making the system interactive and efficient.

According to the official OBIS web site, the OBIS Portal "accesses data content, information infrastructure, and informatics tools - maps, visualizations, and models - to provide a dynamic, global facility in four dimensions (the three dimensions of space plus time).