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Wildlife near roads
When is a wild animal population actually next to traffic? Movebank publishes the raw GPS collars of tracked wildlife; OpenStreetMap publishes the roads.
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When is a wild animal population actually next to traffic? Movebank publishes the raw GPS collars of tracked wildlife; OpenStreetMap publishes the roads. LayEarth puts the two together: every recorded fix of coyotes on the Outer Banks, moose in the Snowy Range and wild boar outside Vienna is matched to its nearest road, and the fixes within 150 m are binned by hour of day. Not a habitat model built from old crash reports: the animals' own positions. The range drift chip asks the longer question: how far a species' occurrence centroid has moved toward the pole per decade since 1980, from GBIF counts divided by the records of its whole class in the same band and decade.
Where the data comes from
Movebank public studies (account-free, owner-waived licence terms), up to 150 GPS fixes per individual; OpenStreetMap roads (motorway to residential) via the Overpass API; recomputed weekly.
Reading the map
Red dots are fixes within 150 m of a road, green ones farther away; zoomed out, each population is a single red dot. The bars in a population's card are the share of that hour's fixes near a road.
Units Distance = metres from each GPS fix to the nearest OSM road segment (local equirectangular projection, point-to-segment). Near = within 150 m. Hour = the fix timestamp in UTC, not local solar time.
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