WebMapping

October 1, 2006Cartography, general, WebMapping

TeleAtlas MapInsight – users help improve data accuracy

TeleAtlas has a new service in limited release – MapInsight – where users can report errors in TeleAtlas’ addressing data layers. After a year of all those stories about drivers […]
September 27, 2006general, WebMapping

NYC Subway By Smell

The sense with the greatest memory is said to be your sense of smell. A mere whiff of something can take you back decades. Unfortunately, there haven’t been too many […]
September 26, 2006general, Human Geography, WebMapping

SoundAboutPhilly – off-the-beaten-path podcast tours of Philadelphia

SoundAboutPhilly is a project, funded in part by the Pew Charitable Trusts, to generate podcast tour guide for lesser known areas of Philadelphia, historical tours, and other special topics. According […]
September 22, 2006general, WebMapping

Way Cool Web Mapping Application

The National Geographic has their new Map Machine web mapping service up and online. Since it’s put together by ESRI, it’s a safe bet they used some combination of ArcIMS […]
September 5, 2006general, WebMapping

Google Maps vs. Yahoo Maps

Continuing some of the ideas from our podcast (and Farallon’s as well, apparently), this site features an interesting side by side comparison of Yahoo Maps and Google Maps. When I […]
September 5, 2006general, GeographyBlogs, WebMapping

Farallon Podcast talks mashups

Apparently the guys over at Farallon had the same thought that we did for their last podcast as they speak on Mashups the same week we revisit the Webmap APIs. […]
September 1, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

Google Earth Now For Booking Flights

British Airways is now using Google Earth to help book flights. It’s a pretty simple concept – you use Google Earth to zoom to where you want to go and […]
August 30, 2006general, WebMapping

Skylab Mobilesystems WMS Crawler

If you’re looking to incorporate OGC-compliant WMS layers into your web mapping applications, check out Skylab Mobilesystems’ WMS Crawler – which crawls for keywords that may indicate a WMS link, […]
August 28, 2006general, WebMapping

Is that my house??

Ever been playing around on Flickr and wonder where that picture was taken? Well now you can find out. Flickr has added the ability to geotag your photos with the […]
August 22, 2006Data, general, Programming/Dev, WebMapping

SensorMap from Microsoft Research

I’ve been waiting awhile to check this out, but Microsoft Research has finally gotten their SensorMap project portal up and running as part of their larger SenseWeb project. Basically, SensorMap […]