Geoportal

Project overview: Develop a new Yosemite Geoportal as a one-stop hub for external collaborators, students, Tribal partners, and the public to access online maps, spatial data, and geographic information resources. 

How your support helps: The geoportal project was the first to make Yosemite National Park’s geographic information system (GIS) — a system that analyzes and displays geographic data — publicly accessible. Beginning in 2023, this project began modernizing, streamlining, and centralizing Yosemite’s public spatial data and online map sharing on the new Yosemite Geoportal. This change will allow all external stakeholders — from students to scientific collaborators to Tribal partners and the public — to easily use or view the park’s spatial data. Once finalized, the geoportal will be able to accommodate more data and maps, as the park continues to expand its geographic information resources. 

This year: In 2025, the park’s public information map — a space for park alerts, road closures, work zones, evacuation notices, and more — will be migrated to a new web-application platform due to the existing platform being retired at the end of 2025. To ensure all maps and data associated with the Yosemite Geoportal will pass audits for these new requirements, we will also address new agency mandates for public GIS data, maps, and web applications. 

Project partner: Yosemite National Park