WebMapping
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Map-o-Rama! widget
There is a Konfabulator/Yahoo! Widgets widget that uses www.maporama.com. I had a couple of the undergrads at the lab whip up a map service based widget back in July, but […]
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News Map – Google Maps and Reuters News
If you want to see where news is happening, this Google Maps app, called News Map, links recent Reuters News stories to the locations where they take place. Via Digg.com
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“data providers do hold all the cards just now”
Adena over at AllPointsBlog states “While we try to understand the implications of the new offerings [from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!], let’s not forget that geospatial apps run on data […]
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So THAT’S how they did it……..
I was checking out the MapPoint magazine website this morning, and I came across this video from back in August. It the “real” story behind the making of Virtual Earth. […]
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Putting Shapefiles into Virtual Earth
We received an email from a Redmond employee who created a Virtual Earth shapefile loader. This has been pointed to by several sites including James at Spatially Adjusted. If I […]
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OpenStreetMap – open source web mapping project
This is an ongoing open source project based in the UK that I read about on Mappinghacks.com, whose main goal is to provide free geographic data to anyone. openstreetmap was […]
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Online navigating changing our lives
Wired has an interesting article/commentary about how online maps are changing the way we interface our entire lives. I think the next to the last sentance sums up the concerns […]
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Google Maps out of Beta; Now Google Local
Google announced today that Google Maps is no longer in beta and has been merged with Google’s local search technology. It is now known as Google Local and is now […]
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Panoramio -Photos linked to Google Maps locations
Using Panoramio, you can browse photos from different places in the world or add your own. They don’t have a lot of photos yet, but a cool site. Check out […]
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Earth Contest – Google Earth game
This free game uses Google Earth to play a kind of geocaching, where you launch the game from within Google Earth and follow the clues to various location checkpoints. If […]
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