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Publishing Desktop Maps Online with Bing Maps
With a wide range of online mapping toolkits and services, it is usually relatively easy to produce a web map that displays data from a desktop system. For example, data points can be plotted as...
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Technical Overview: Yahoo’s Placemaker Service
Yahoo’s Placemaker™ service is a geo-parsing web service that attempts to identify locations in unstructured and atomic content (eg. news articles and feeds). As such it promises to be a powerful and...
View ArticleGeospatial Data Management, Catalogs, and Spatial Data Infrastructures
Anyone browsing the OSGeo software lists will find a number of catalog and infrastructure applications. They look to be mature and active projects, but they simply fail to grab the attention that...
View ArticleOverview: CloudMade
CloudMade have been receiving a lot of publicity recently, and is often talked about as if it is the commercial wing of OpenStreetMap. Whilst CloudMade’s founders founded OpenStreetMap (Steve Coast) or...
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Technical Overview: Ordnance Survey OpenSpace
The Ordnance Survey is the UK’s national mapping agency. They have a history of leading the way in surveying technology and digital map products. However, their digital products also have the...
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Polar Maps and Projections: Part 1, Overview
With the success of my earlier series on global equal area map projections (starting with this overview), I received a number of requests to produce a similar how-to article for polar maps. The first...
View ArticlePolar Maps and Projections: Part 2, Implementation
The first part of this article looked at different ways of producing polar maps and surveyed a number of different azimuthal projections that are often used for polar maps. In this second part, I...
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Technical Overview: MapGuide
MapGuide is a web-based map platform that includes both server and client components. It is currently available in two forms: “MapGuide Open Source” from the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)...
View ArticleTechnical Overview: Google Maps Data API
The Google Maps Data API is a web service that allows client applications to view, store, and update map data for Google Maps, using the Google Data API. Data is stored in the form of individual...
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Dracones, a Component Framework for MapServer
In this article, Christian Jauvin describes the Dracones Framework for MapServer, and the DraconesPH application that is based on this framework. MapServer is a widely used open source GIS platform,...
View ArticleTechnical Overview: GeoNames
GeoNames is a series of web services to an extensive geographical database of over 8,000,000 names. The database is also available for “bulk” download. Both access methods are under the Creative...
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Technical Overview: OpenScales
OpenScales is an open source mapping framework for ActionScript 3 and Flex. Supporting a range of OGC data protocols, it has many similarities to the OpenLayers framework but uses Flash rather than...
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An Overview of OpenAddresses.org
The aim of OpenAddresses.org is to establish a copyright-free database of geocoded addresses, using donations and voluntary help. Such a database has a wide range of applications including spatial...
View ArticleInitial thoughts on Web Mapping and the iPad
The iPad makes a very tempting platform for geoweb applications. This a short post on my initial findings after a week of using 3G iPad. I intend to follow it with further articles and commentaries...
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Using Microsoft MapCruncher with Google Maps
Previously I have demonstrated how to use Microsoft Research’s MapCruncher tool to create map tiles from custom bitmaps for Bing Maps (nee Virtual Earth). That particular example used an ASTER...
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Generating Google Map Heatmap Mashups from your geo-related data
de/numerics have released a web service for creating heatmap translucent color overlays of geographic-based data on Google maps. No programming is required, but this service can be accessed using a...
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Technical Overview: GeoCommons
GeoCommons is provided by FortuisOne and builds on their software products to provide a free and public community service. GeoCommons currently provides two easy-to-use free services based on open...
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Technical Overview: Marble
Marble is an open source digital globe application that is capable of displaying a number of local and Internet data sources. Intended for educational applications, Marble could be likened to an “open...
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Product Overview: MPExporter
Those looking to migrate their Microsoft MapPoint maps to the geospatial web may want to look at MPExporter, an add-in from Mapping-Tools.com. Although it had seen few updates over the years,...
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Product Overview: Caliper Maptitude
Although Caliper®’s Maptitude® product is usually considered a desktop GIS system, it does implement a number of web-based features, allowing it to be used as a web map viewer. Maptitude is Caliper’s...
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