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Open Route Service using Open Street Map Data

Posted: July 9th, 2008, 5:37pm CEST

Tags: Map

OpenRouteService.org is taking OpenStreetMap Data and making use of the Street Data and creating Full Descriptive Routes from it. *Currently only for Germany Blue Line represents the calculated...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
Satbeams Map

Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 9:31pm CEST

Tags: Map

Satbeams Map Satbeams generates transparent polygons on the fly for each selected satellite 'beam'. This example shows signal strength (useful for finding out receiver dish/antenna...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
Firefox 3 - Pledge Map

Posted: June 16th, 2008, 6:00pm CEST

Tags: Map

Firefox 3 released update 17/06/2008 Firefox 3 is now available to download (if you download today you contribute to a world record...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
BBC Broadband Speed Map

Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 4:50pm CEST

Tags: Map

BBC Broadband Speed Map The BBC has a UK Broadband Map that is visually showing people the 'actual' speeds they are getting via their broadband connection. The shows (when zoomed in) the current...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
PGA Ryder Cup Tour Map of Wales 2008

Posted: May 26th, 2008, 6:20pm CEST

Tags: Map

PGA Ryder Cup Tour Map of Wales 2008 All golf courses and airports have been mapped in Adobe Flex for the PGA Golf Tour of Wales 2008. "This application was built using Adobe Flex, an open source...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
DEFRA Noise Maps (England)

Posted: May 16th, 2008, 6:20pm CEST by Mapperz

Tags: Interactive Map

DEFRA Noise Maps (England) Defra Map of Bristol day time road noise levels. Noise maps only cover cities, but cover day noise (Lden) and night time (Lnight) noise levels 4 Layers are available -...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
SchMap - Interactive Maps and Guides

Posted: May 11th, 2008, 3:00am CEST

Tags: Interactive Map

SchMap - Interactive Maps and Guides Maps and guides that are interactive and pull up information based on the area that you are exploring. "Exploring a Schmap Guide is a uniquely interactive...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
No Street Names Map (OSM)

Posted: May 6th, 2008, 5:15pm CEST

Tags: Map

No Street Names Map (OSM) This is a good map highlighting area that need attribution for streetnames in the OpenStreetMap data."Dave Stubbs built it as we have many features traced from aerial...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
BBC Local Election Map (Results)

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 1:00pm CEST

Tags: Map

BBC Local Election Map (Results) BBC now updating their interactive election map every few minutes, London Mayor results are due in the evening of 2nd May 2008. *Map based in flash. This post...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
OpenStreetMap Data in GlobalMapper - Fast!

Posted: April 30th, 2008, 6:32pm CEST by Mapperz

Tags: Open Street Map

OpenStreetMap in Global Mapper 9.0.3 - Fast! OpenStreetMap Data (.osm) can now be loaded directly into GlobalMapper. Global Mapper has had an update (now GlobalMapper v9.0.3) You would think...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
BBC Jam Cams using Ordnance Survey Maps

Posted: April 27th, 2008, 3:54pm CEST by Mapperz

Tags: Interactive Map

BBC Website using Ordnance Survey Maps "View our Jam Cams by using our new interactive map" The map is dynamic (generated in flash) and shows clusters, the larger the circle the more cameras...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
Olympic Torch Relay Map

Posted: April 6th, 2008, 4:01pm CEST

Tags: Map

update 07/04/2008 : A more interactive map (actually a gadget) It is suppose to reach Paris today, more high security? source and link to the...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
The Worst (Data) Map Ever?

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 1:01pm CEST

Tags: Map

The Worst (Data) Map? (There is a good example here too) *A slight change in direction for this blog but this is to prove a point! A news article from the Telegraph titled 'Met police map reveals...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
BBC School Report Map 2008

Posted: March 13th, 2008, 2:01pm CET

Tags: Map

BBC School Report Map using Microsoft Virtual Earth "This is a map of schools taking part in School Report 2008. Navigate and zoom by using the buttons at the top left of the map. Click on a marker...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
UK Earthquake Map

Posted: February 27th, 2008, 9:31am CET

Tags: Map

Update 28/02/2008
From the comments
[virtualtourism.blogspot.com]

UK Earthquake Map

View Larger Map

"The British Geological Survey recorded an earthquake with a magnitude of
5.2 ML 4 km north of Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, at 00:56 GMT. The BGS has
been inundated with calls from the public, media and emergency services
throughout England. By 7 am this morning, over 1,400 felt reports had been
received via the online questionnaire on the BGS website.
There is a report of one person having been injured.
Reports indicate that the earthquake has been felt widely across England, with reports
of damage to chimneys in the epicentral area. Earthquakes of this size occur in
the mainland UK roughly every 30 years, although are more common in
offshore areas. This is the largest earthquake in the UK since the magnitude
5.4 ML Lleyn Peninsula."

Source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news
/2008/02/27/nquake527.xml

data source:
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ous/STORE/
X2008nyae/ciim_download.html

Mapperz News Blog
TIGER,TIGER OpenStreetMap

Posted: February 18th, 2008, 4:30pm CET by Mapperz

Tags: Open Street Map

TIGER, TIGER in OpenStreetMap

Well ahead of schedule TIGER data (USA) has been successfully imported to OpenStreetMap

Clean, attributed data in OpenStreetMap

"OpenStreetMap (OSM) has completed the bulk import of comprehensive street and highway data for the United States, months ahead of the project's original estimates. The massive data set originated with the US Census Bureau's public domain map database, and importing it required a dedicated upload process running around the clock since August 2007. The imported data will still require human editing and error-correction, but the completed task is a major milestone for the OSM project."

How was this done so fast?
Once happy with the results, the project began importing the data into the main OSM system using three dedicated daemons running concurrently. Requiring all of the imported data to go through the OSM server's API just like manually collected GPS trace data meant it was a time-consuming process, but it was safer than attempting to bypass the API and alter the database directly.

Quadtiles to the rescue...
At the beginning of the process, the predicted completion date hovered between late May and early June 2008. Luckily, admin Tom Hughes found a way to re-index the database using quadtiles, resulting in greatly shortened database lookup times.

"Quadtiles recursively split each quadrant of the map into four sub-quadrants, allowing for better space efficiency by only subdividing those quadrants that require more detail -- a quadrant containing only ocean and therefore no roads, for example, would not require subdivision, whereas a metropolitan city center would."

Community Help
Now the real work begins, and you can help
The TIGER data set covers 6% of the Earth's surface. Its successful import does not mean that the work is finished. Users who have collected their own GPS logs in areas covered by the TIGER maps and uploaded the resulting data report sporadic problems with TIGER's information. Problems include misalignment of roads, missing features (including the regular absence of on-ramps and access roads, and representation of divided highways as a single road), and occasional confusion on features such as cul-de-sacs. Since the TIGER map data was produced from aerial photography, and was originally intended to assist Census Bureau officials in the field, such problems are bound to occur and are unlikely to have undergone official correction.

History
"OSM has performed one other bulk data import. In July 2007, AND Automotive Navigation Data donated a comprehensive road map of the Netherlands and highway system maps of India and China. The Netherlands import was completed last fall, but the data for the India and China import has yet to be released to the project.

Future
Although other prospects for large-scale map donations have been discussed, none are on the horizon. The addition of the AND and TIGER information gives the OSM project a helpful boost, but the bulk of the future work remains in the hands of individual users, each contributing their input toward the whole."

Some Random Places
Mountain View, Santa Clara
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.3873&lon=-122.0877
&zoom=12&layers=B0FT

Seattle
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.60933&lon=-122.33515
&zoom=15&layers=B0FT

Orlando
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.6276&lon=-81.3724
&zoom=12&layers=B0FT

Mapperz News Blog
Popular Baby Names World Map (Beta)

Posted: February 8th, 2008, 1:03am CET

Tags: Map
Popular Baby Names World Map (Beta)

[www.babynamemap.com]

Guy Davis has updated a very clear and fast map of popular names around the world.

"I wanted to send out a big Thank You to the Google Maps developers for creating a great tool and making it easy to build applications upon. Ever since the API was announced I've been looking for an opportunity to build something useful with Google Maps. When I found out that my wife and I were expecting our first child, my searches for popular baby names yielded a bunch of sites with boring old static HTML tables of data.
So instead, I've aggregated popular baby name statistics and show them on a Google Map which makes exploring this dataset a lot more interesting. If you're interested, check out the Baby Name Map at: http://www.babynamemap.com

Hopefully others will find the map useful as well. Keep up the great work on the API. I look forward to incorporating more new features into the map. "
From the Google Maps API forum and receiving lots of positive responses

New features are:
Floating windows
- Tab panes
- Dynamic trees
- Interactive data tables
- Flags of the world (tree directory)
"The new tree of countries makes it easy to navigate around the map and let me make use of some more interesting features of Google Maps. Now I need to update the map with some of the recent 2007 statistics."
Mapperz suggestion - Google Maps API with Google Chart API might work very well with this type of information, comparing names and statistics with location.
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BBC Correspondents Map (v2.5)

Posted: January 29th, 2008, 11:30pm CET

Tags: Map
update: 02/02/2008
The BBC Correspondents Map gets an Official blog post from Google Lat/Long
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/02/
all-news-thats-fit-to-map.html

1 February 2008 [v4.0]
- Moved up to new version - with shiny new photos and RSS links to the latest three articles on the BBC News website. Enjoy!
31 January 2008 [v3.2]
- Fixed layout bug in Firefox - thanks to it being entirely developed on BBC computers (and therefore in non-compliant Internet Explorer 6), it didn't display in browsers which are standards-compliant. This issue has now been fixed.
- Design change to move the black bar to the top of the page instead of the bottom.
30 January 2008 [v3.1]
- Fixed bug where correspondents based in bureaux were not displayed in the list.
30 January 2008 [v3.0]
- Changed info bubbles to tabs - one for each correspondent - in preparation for future features.
- Added links to BBC News search in order to find stories from the city, country and correspondent.
update: 31/01/2008
The BBC has taken a liking to this site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/01/
bbc_reporters_mashed.html

"For more great news and maps mash-ups, take a look at this blog."
blog post by Darren Waters

Mapperz hopes that the BBC takes this on, as Geo-Spatial content is and will be a powerful media representation for BBC News.
maybe add latitude and longitude to RSS feed to get GeoRSS - http://www.georss.org
google already support this functionality
http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/03/
kml-and-georss-support-added-to-google.html

"News has location and can be mapped." Mapperz

BBC Correspondents Map (v2.5)

Version 2.5 of the BBC Correspondents sees new features based on user comments & feedback

A Great Mashup a few days old and moves on at a great pace...
Todays changes:
- A distinction between correspondents and stringers, as requested by users
- A full list of correspondents, stringers and bureaux, for users who have a name but not a location
- 4 RSS feeds for others to mash up
- Still to come: - More info on each correspondents- Links to correspondents' work on the BBC News Website from their location bubble
- More as I (Stuart) thinks of features
Version History:
29 January 2008 [v2.5]
Added a full, clickable list of correspondents, stringers and bureaux.
Introduced 4 RSS feeds which makes use of all the data.
Added an information link to explain more about the map.
Added this version history!
27 January 2008 [v2.0]
Added a comments link for feedback.
Added stringer distinction following feedback on the comments.
Databased the correspondent data up, to make it easier to update and in preparation for future features.
Slight redesign of the bottom bar to accommodate new feature links.
22 January 2008 [v1.2]
Added plenty of new correspondents to the map.
21 January 2008 [v1.1]
Added key to the map and the 'Jump to' section to go straight to a specific region of the world.
20 January 2008 [v1.0]
Map launched.

The Mapper - Stuart Pinfold, Media Co-ordinator, Newsgathering Traffic.

"works in the department (unique to the BBC) which intakes calls from every BBC correspondent and either records their despatches for use across all radio and TV outlets (including the World Service) or connects them to the TV or radio studio for live two-way interviews with the anchor."

The Map Link:
[www.stuart-pinfold.co.uk]
(and look out for new features, see 'Version History')

other useful links:
[googlemapsmania.blogspot.com]
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18 items tagged "Map"

Posted: July 9th, 2008, 5:37pm CEST

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Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 9:31pm CEST

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Posted: June 16th, 2008, 6:00pm CEST

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Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 4:50pm CEST

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Posted: May 26th, 2008, 6:20pm CEST

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Posted: May 16th, 2008, 6:20pm CEST by Mapperz

Tags: Interactive Map

Posted: May 11th, 2008, 3:00am CEST

Tags: Interactive Map

Posted: May 6th, 2008, 5:15pm CEST

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Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 1:00pm CEST

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Posted: April 30th, 2008, 6:32pm CEST by Mapperz

Tags: Open Street Map

Posted: April 27th, 2008, 3:54pm CEST by Mapperz

Tags: Interactive Map

Posted: April 6th, 2008, 4:01pm CEST

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Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 1:01pm CEST

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Posted: March 13th, 2008, 2:01pm CET

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Posted: February 27th, 2008, 9:31am CET

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Posted: February 18th, 2008, 4:30pm CET by Mapperz

Tags: Open Street Map

Posted: February 8th, 2008, 1:03am CET

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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 11:30pm CET

Tags: Map