Subject: ‘web mapping’
April 12, 2012 Mapping Emancipation Events during the Civil WarData, MapsUniversity of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, with Azavea, a geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company, has launched “Visualizing Emancipation,” the first interactive map showing the end of American slavery during the U.S. Civil War. The application displays more than 3,000 geographically tagged emancipation events, such as reports of African Americans helping the Union, fugitive slave notices, ... read more  Titanic MappingDataApril 15th marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean. Esri has created a map story that looks at the geography, class, and fate of the passengers on the ship. The online mapping application geocoded the hometowns of all passengers (Titanic’s crew was not included) and identifies them by ... read more April 2, 2012 Watch the Where 2012 Keynote Sessions LiveIssues in GISThe Where 2012 conference started this morning in San Francisco. Even if you weren’t able to make this annual geospatial event, you can still watch the Where 2012 keynotes live on Tuesday, April 3 and Wednesday, April 4 right here on this page (see below). The keynotes sessions kick off Tuesday morning. All times listed are ... read more March 28, 2012 MapCite: Web Mapping and Excel Location Intelligence ApplicationsWeb MappingMapCite is a geographic data visualization company that offers both a web mapping and Excel interface for users to analyze their location data. MapCite is a relatively new company and current clients include the NHS and Vodafone in the UK. Oliver Jones, Head of Business Development, who led me through the demo, cautioned that MapCite ... read more March 9, 2012 OpenStreetMap Continues to WinWeb MappingOpenStreetMap gained two new big services recently with the disclosure by FourSquare and Apple that have picked up the crowdsourcing map favorite. This news also marked the departure from Google Maps for these two companies as their mapping source. Foursquare made its announcement on February 29th, stating: Starting today, we’re embracing the OpenStreetMap movement, so all the ... read more February 6, 2012 TileMill: Open Source Mapping Now for WindowsSoftware, Web MappingTileMill is built on open source libraries (Mapnik, node.js, backbone.js,express and CodeMirror) and uses CSS styling with its map styling language Carto to render beautiful that can either be exported as image and PDF files or uploaded and displayed online. For an idea of what you can do with TileMill, the Chicago Tribune demonstrated some of its capabilities as ... read more January 23, 2012 WorldMap: An Open Source Software PlatformSoftwareHarvard’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 ... read more December 1, 2011 Fabric Engine: 3D LiDAR Rendering Via Web BrowsersDataFabric 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 June 7, 2011 Every Tree Counts: Using PhillyTreeMap for Collaborative Urban ForestryGIS NewsBy Mary L. Johnson and Deborah Boyer Introduction Philadelphia, like many American cities, has a wealth of urban trees. Collectively known as the “urban forest,” these are the trees that line our city streets and river banks and adorn our urban parks and private lawns. Healthy trees improve the look and feel of city neighborhoods ... read more May 21, 2011 The National Map: Using the National Geospatial ProgramWeb MappingSo, what is the National Geospatial Program? The National Geospatial Program is a project by the U.S. Geological Survey that provides standards for geospatial coordination by the people and groups involved in its Geospatial Liaison Network. The NGP has allowed for the creation of an accurate National Map, located at http://www.nationalmap.gov, which allows users to ... read more |
