Applications, libraries and tools that use Macrostrat's data and services, built by us and by others. Archived entries stay listed as history.
Apps
Rockd
A mobile field book, Macrostrat style. Explore the geology around you and record what you see.
Macrostrat map interface
The world's geologic maps, integrated and explorable with columns, fossils and literature.
Mancos
Explore Macrostrat and the Paleobiology Database on iOS.
Macrostrat's geologic map and columns, with PBDB fossils.
Mapboard GIS
Draw topologically consistent geologic maps on an iPad with an Apple Pencil.
Shares its map topology engine with Macrostrat's map compilations.
Backseat Geologist
A geologist riding along. Macrostrat's map units, read aloud as you travel.
Reads aloud the Macrostrat map units beneath your route.
rmacrostrat
Macrostrat's data in R, for analysis and plotting.
A client for the v2 API, covering columns, units, maps and definitions.
StraboField
Macrostrat's geologic map as a field basemap.
iMineralogist
A Macrostrat geology overlay, with map-unit details for a tapped point.
Mindat
A Macrostrat geology layer on its maps, and regional geology on locality pages.
iNaturalist
Links each observation's location to Macrostrat's map.
Gaia GPS
A worldwide Bedrock Geology map layer from Macrostrat.
Mineralienatlas
A geologic map page built on Macrostrat's tiles.
BerkeleyMapper
A Macrostrat geology overlay on specimen maps.
Symbiota
A Macrostrat geologic map layer in every portal's mapping interface.
PaleoSphere
A Macrostrat geology basemap for occurrence maps.
JupyterGIS
Macrostrat's map in its layer gallery, ready to add to a notebook map.
Planarian
A Macrostrat geology layer on cave maps.
RockHound GO
A Macrostrat bedrock overlay on its rockhounding map.
deeptime
Pulls geologic timescales from Macrostrat's API for its plots.
Sift
The v1 explorer for Macrostrat's columns, units and names. Superseded by the v2 site.
Flyover Country
A glass-bottom jet. Geology and fossils along your flight path, offline.
Macrostrat's geologic map along your flight path, saved for offline use.
velociraptr
Downloads timescales, places and paleogeography from Macrostrat's API.
Add your app
Built something on Macrostrat? Add an entry to Site/data/apps.yml in the
documentation repository and open a pull request:
a name, a sentence, a link, who made it, and optionally a logo. That is the whole
process.
