WebMapping

• October 4, 2008general, GeographyAwareness, WebMapping

  Map-making mania

  The Globe and Mail has an interesting article on the new cartography aka neogeography. You might want to head over and check it out. globeandmail.com: Map-making mania

• September 26, 2008general, WebMapping

  Schmap.me – share your map

  Schmap continues to do things right. I have been interested in their Guides and excited about the iPhone implementation of the Guides (still love the rotate to map UI). Their […]

• September 15, 2008general, WebMapping

  How walkable is your neighborhood?

  Our reader Ed always sends me links to cool sites, and walkscore is no exception. It’s a Google Maps mashup site that calculates the walkability (using a 0-100 scoring system) […]

• September 2, 2008general, WebMapping

  Behind the Scenes look at Google Map Maker

  Google has posted a nice 3-minute video giving you an inside look at Google Map Maker, the company’s new tool that allows users to contribute and edit map data for […]

• August 26, 2008general, WebMapping

  London’s Met Police Crime Mapping site now live in beta

  Based on Google Maps, the Metropolitan Police’s new Crime Mapping Test Site is now up and running in beta and, while the functionality is just pretty basic display of crime […]

• August 15, 2008general, WebMapping

  RoofRay – Find out your roof’s solar energy potential

  I haven’t blogged about a mashup in awhile, but I was catching up on some news and saw a link to RoofRay, a Google Maps app that calculates the solar […]

• July 2, 2008general, Programming/Dev, Software, WebMapping

  UK government wants you to show them a better way

  If you live in the UK (or are just interested in improving their access to data), you can now add your idea to a growing movement to make more public […]

• June 26, 2008general, WebMapping

  Who Loves Nine Inch Nails – Google Earth knows

  The band Nine Inch Nails has posted a cool new visualization of the 1,400,000 downloads of their latest album, The Slip, that they have released as a KML file. The […]

• May 28, 2008general, LBS, WebMapping

  Mobile location apps are poised

  Information has begun to roll out about the companies that have received support from the iPhone venture capital funding announced back in January…all two of them so far. Whrrl, a […]

• May 12, 2008general, Travel, WebMapping

  Schmap for the iPhone/iPod Touch

  We have talked to the folks at Schmap a couple of times and I was pretty interested in what they do on the web and the desktop, but their iPhone/iPod […]