Tennessee Landforms

Geoprivacy, while defined as "individual rights to prevent disclosure of the location of one's home, workplace, daily activities, or trips," should also extend to "things that people have on their property." If we consider further, it should also extend to protecting those who have no voice, like the forest, the plains, our natural spaces, and their inhabitants. The knowledge of location information is a double-edged sword. At once it satisfies our insatiable curiosity of "what's over there?" but also allows for abuse of secret, hidden, and sensitive places. How then should a landform website, whose objective is to share location information, handle such a moral conundrum? I have carefully crafted a mission statement so that I can refer back to it when forgetful and be held accountable when questioned. The mission of Tennessee Landforms is to serve the outdoor and scientific communities and facilitate the responsible documentation and s

Snoopers Rock Sunrise; Kelli Lewis-Sutherland This is the inaugural post of the Tennessee Landforms Blog. I'll be using this medium (among others) to relay relevant news regarding the website, its updates, and featured content. If you don't know me, my name is Chuck Sutherland. I have taken over (will be taking over, depending on your perspective) Tennessee Landforms from Tom Dunigan. Tom has other things going on right now which are more important than his well loved website. We had spoken several years ago about when this moment would come and how he wanted to handle it. He has passed the backend data of his old website to me at this point (March of 2024), and I've spent the last month or so building out an ESRI Hub Site using Tennessee Tech University's (TTU) organization subdomain. I teach Theory of GIS I and Theory of GIS II at TTU, and students are actively involved in the development of the datasets and website. As I build out the new website,