Maps - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about maps.
- Crime Mapper
- Attorney-General's Department. "Crime Mapper shows the geographic distribution of offences recorded by police in South Australia. Data for five consecutive calendar years is presented..."
- Walking Access Mapping System
- New Zealand Walking Access Commission's online public access mapping system. WAMS has been designed to assist the public to identify land in New Zealand open to recreational access on foot.
- Map Icons Collection
- by Nicolas Mollet. "Map Icons Collection is a set of more than 600 free icons to use as placemarks for your POI (Point of Interests) locations on your maps. You can use them on Google Maps with the "My places / My maps" feature or automatically by using the Google Maps API..."
- National geoportal releases new version
- ePractice.eu, 17 June 2011. Country Luxembourg; Domain eGovernment; Topic Services for Citizens, Infrastructure, Legal Aspects, Multi-channel Delivery, Regional and Local, User-centric Services. "The national geoportal, which acts as a single entry point for all official geodata in Luxembourg, launched several new features in May 2011: a mobile version, route planning, a third dimension (altitude) display and advanced printing..."
- New Heat Map Creator app makes heat maps easy
- Bing Maps Blogger, 15 June 2011. This is a guest post by Steve Milroy, CEO of OnTerra Systems. "Bing Maps offers the capability to visualize data in various manners. Viewers are, of course, always looking for ways to better understand their data. Showing data on a map alone—customer locations for monthly sales, for example—provides quick and easy insights. However, it doesn't allow you to see trends, like volume of sales. Advanced map-based visualizations like thematic and heat maps allow for greater extrapolation of such data. The focus of this blog is on heat maps, specifically a new heat map app that we recently released..."
- Bahrain launches National e-Atlas
- By Clarice Africa. FutureGov, 14 June 2011. "As part of the Government's effort to respond to the growing demand for spatial information, the Central Informatics Organisation (CIO) of the Kingdom of Bahrain has just recently launched the 'Bahrain e-Atlas', an online GIS map which allows users to view various Points of Interests within the kingdom..."
- Seoul launches mobile map service
- By Clarice Africa. FutureGov, 7 June 2011. "The Seoul Metropolitan Government has just recently launched the 'Smart Seoul Map', the South Korean capital's smartphone app service that consists of 124 basic maps and enables users to locate 782 types of Point of Interests in the city..."
- Google Maps now tracks public transportation
- While Google's software can't make the trains run on time, it can now tell you just how late they'll be, By Brad Reed - Framingham. Computerworld, Thursday, 9 June, 2011. "While Google's software can't make the trains run on time, it can now tell you just how late they'll be.
That's because Google has partnered with four U.S. cities and two European cities to add a new live transit feature to Google Maps that can tell you whether your train or bus is running late..."
- Spanish Election Results on Google Maps
- Posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. "... The map presents the 2011 Spanish electoral results in the context of historical electoral results and a vast range of demographic indicators. Using the map you can view electoral results since 1987 and discover how the electoral and socio-economic landscape of Spain has evolved over the last few decades..."
- Melbourne council in online mapping project
- By Luke Hopewell, ZDNet Australia, May 27, 2011. "The City of Melbourne has invited several small focus groups to test a new municipal mapping system that's currently in development. The new mapping system is designed to display community points of interest like parks and healthcare centres, for example, and has been in the works for the last 18 months according to the council..."
- Singapore adds new services on OneMap portal
- By Clarice Africa. FutureGov, 19 May 2011. "Singapore has just recently added two new services, 'Property Prices' and 'Space2lease' on the OneMap portal to help individuals interested in the residential property market information and businesses in search of commercial space.
OneMap is a high-resolution one-stop map which enables the public to access location-based services and information of government agencies..."
- Vietnam to launch online mapping service
- By Clarice Africa. FutureGov, 16 May 2011. "The Vietnam Mapping and Measurement Bureau will be finalising plans for its project to put Vietnamese maps online later this year..."
- New York Dope Arrests on Google Maps
- Posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Monday, May 2, 2011. "WNYC has used Google Maps to show the 19 New York City precincts with the highest arrest rates for the lowest level marijuana possession misdemeanours. The map was created to accompany two WYNC stories..."
- Real-Time Parking on Google Maps
- Posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Tuesday, May 3, 2011. "The San Francisco Municipal Authority has released a Google Map to help improve car parking in the city. The new map displays real-time information about where parking is available so drivers can quickly find open spaces..."
- Excess Federal Properties Interactive Map
- The White House. "The Federal Government is the biggest property owner in the United States, and billions of taxpayer dollars are wasted each year on government properties that are no longer needed. The President has proposed a Civilian Property Realignment Board to help the Federal Government cut through red tape and politics to sell or get rid of property it no longer needs, saving taxpayers $15 billion over the first three years after the Board is fully up and running.
There are roughly 14,000 buildings and structures currently designated as excess and thousands of others that are underutilized. These properties range from sheds to underutilized office buildings and empty warehouses. Over 7,000 of these properties are plotted on this map, zoom in to see Excess Properties in your state and around the country... This map visualizes a sampling of over 7,000 of the total 12,000 buildings and structures currently designated as excess..."
This category last updated: 7 December 2011