WebMapping

• March 10, 2006Data, WebMapping

  Geographic Names Data for Countries Around the World

  Geographic names databases are pretty important for search spatial data textually. Normally geographic names are published on a country by country basis. Cartography is reporting about this new service Geonames.org […]

• March 10, 2006WebMapping

  Can’t Decide What Free API to Use?

  Batch Geocoding Blog has a nice quick and dirty rundown of the differenences between Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and MapQuest’s APIs. They hit the highpoints of what each offers and […]

• March 9, 2006General, WebMapping

  New Version of MapGuide Open Source

  Autodesk has announced a new version of what used to be Mapserver Enterprise – which was just Mapserver but then combined with Autodesk to be split into Mapserver and Mapserver […]

• March 9, 2006General, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

  Arc Explorer Demo Video

  James over at Spatialy Adjusted pointed out that ESRI have published a demo movie of Arc Explorer in action. The file is in Windows Media Format and runs at ever […]

• March 8, 2006Gadgets, General, Navigation, WebMapping

  GPS Visualizer

  Here’s a pretty cool free application for anyone heavily into using your GPS unit. You can upload your GPS data to via typing in coordinates, street addresses, or uploading a […]

• March 7, 2006Data, GIS_Software, WebMapping

  All Hail Data!

  An interesting blog post at ZDNet talks about an issue we’ve discussed both in the blog and in the podcast. As the blog suggests, data has the upper hand in […]

• March 7, 2006General, WebMapping

  Mapquest Has New API

  All the buzz in the spatial blogs is the new API by Mapquest. From the site, “The MapQuest OpenAPI is a free service that allows you to use JavaScript to […]

• March 7, 2006Groups, WebMapping

  VerySpatial Frappr Community nearing 100!

  I was just checking on our Frappr community page, and we are up to 94 members. I just wanted to give a shout out to everyone who’s joined, and invite […]

• March 6, 2006WebMapping

  TimeDrive

  Developers at Creare, Inc. have worked up a prototype to try to introduce temporal data into Google Earth, called TimeDrive. Their solution is to create time slices from a dataset, […]

• March 2, 2006Events, WebMapping

  MASHUP Camp 2 Already Planned!

  Apparently the MASHUP camp was so successful that they’re already planning a second camp! There’s over 300 people already signed up to the camp. So if you’re interested, I’d at […]