Internet Mapping
| February 2, 2012Google Maps Loses Unfair Competition Lawsuit in FranceInternet MappingA French court has determined that Google has abused its position with its Google Maps application by engaging in unfair competition practices. The lawsuit was brought in 2010 by French company, Bottin Cartographes, which lodged a complaint against Google France claiming that by providing free mapping services to some companies, it was undercutting competition. Bottin Cartographes ... read more January 23, 2012 WorldMap: An Open Source Software PlatformInternet Mapping, SoftwareHarvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis recently released WorldMap, an open source mapping application designed to make it easier for researchers to upload large GIS datasets and to create online maps using thousands of geographic layers available to them from the Worldmap Library. WorldMap is built using open source software (access the WorldMap source code via github.com) and is hosted on Amazon’s EC2 cloud ... read more December 29, 2011 Open MapQuestInternet MappingGoogle’s recent enforcement of Google Maps API usage, resulting in charges for those exceeding the stated free usage quotas, has led some web sites to jump ship in search of less expensive online mapping options including Open MapQuest. Ed Freyfogle of Nestoria, a property search engine, recently posted on Nestoria’s blog about “Why (and how) we’ve ... read more December 5, 2011 Data Appeal: 3D Visualization of GIS DataData, Internet MappingDataAppeal is data visualization service that takes GIS data one step further with 3D visualizations. The underlying premise of DataAppeal is the use of more artistic design to represent point geospatial data. Instead of flat 2D layers, the data is symoblized using a 3D and animated data visualization tool (EarthAppealTM). DataAppeal’s Nadia Amoroso explains: DataAppeal uses art ... read more December 1, 2011 Fabric Engine: 3D LiDAR Rendering Via Web BrowsersData, Internet MappingFabric Engine enables developers to create compute-intensive web applications with comparable performance to native, multi-threaded applications. Fabric Engine achieves this by tapping into all of the processing power of the user’s computer – something that normal web-based applications cannot do. For the GIS market, this means that any web programmer can develop solutions for visualizing ... read more November 24, 2011 Center for Geospatial PoetryGIS News, Internet MappingWant to know where selected Washington poets have written about different locations around the state? Poet Katherine Whitcomb has combined works of poetry with a GIS file showing the locations of specific locations of Washington state based poetry. Whitcomb’s work in progress is entitled “A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology” which a ... read more November 17, 2011 Creating Maps for Wikipedia and Printed Materials with ShareMap.orgInternet MappingThe availability of simple online mapping tools (such as what Google Maps offers) allows those with limited geospatial technical knowlege to design simple maps via a web browser without using any external professional tools. These tools open up mapping to anybody who wanted to create a map of their neighborhood, holiday trip, and any other ... read more October 30, 2011 Geo Roundup: Google Map API Usage Limits, GPS for Military Use Report, Earthquake Timeline MapGIS News, GPS, Internet MappingGoogle recently introduced limits to its Google Maps API usage. Starting October 1, 2011, free usage is limited to: “up to 25,000 map loads per day for each API” or “up to 2,500 map loads per day that have been modified using the Styled Maps feature.” Non-profits and those map applications determined by Google to be “in ... read more October 13, 2011 Google MapsGLInternet MappingGoogle’s LatLong blog posted about GoogleMapsGL which combines Google Maps and Web Graphics Library (WebGL) in order to step up the visual display and animation of its web mapping application. The technology brings 3D graphics to web browsers without the need to install 3D software. Supported browsers for WebGL are Chrome 14+ or Firefox Beta and the ... read more October 1, 2011 New EPA Map – Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) DatabaseData, Internet MappingThe Environmental Protection Agency has released a new online mapping application that maps out all EPA and state enforcement actions for air, waste, and water programs covering the years 2009-2011 as part of the agency’s Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) database. Data on the map is updated monthly and covers 800,000 facilities across the United ... read more |
