Maps - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about maps.
- Google Maps Mashups from Data.gov.uk
- Posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Tuesday, January 26, 2010. "The British government is currently being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Thanks to the advice of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, amongst many others, the government is finally opening up some public data to the public..."
- Toronto Transit Planner on Google Maps
- Posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Thursday, February 4, 2010. "The Toronto Transit Commission have released a new trip planner to find a route between two addresses in the city..."
- NOAA, Google partner on data visualization project
- Google software will be used to display National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data, By Doug Beizer. Federal Computer Week, January 25, 2010. "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Google have agreed to jointly develop technology that will visualize the agency's scientific data by using Google's software, NOAA officials announced today..."
- Wellington's Public Transit on Google Maps
- Posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Thursday, December 10, 2009. "Greater Wellington's (New Zealand) Public Transport website Metlink has integrated Google Maps into its journey planner tool..."
- Online access to digital map services
- ePractice.eu, 7 December 2009. Country Norway; Domain eGovernment; Topic Services for Citizens, Infrastructure, User-centric Services. "From 1 December 2009, internet users will be able, by clicking on the state map sites, to directly access free-of-charge digital map services..."
- Google Maps of Australian Crime - NSW crime data mashups
- Posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Tuesday, December 1, 2009. "At the recent MashUpAustralia event one dataset that generated quite a lot of interest amongst developers was New South Wales Crimes, which allows access to the data by offence type, month and Local Government Area (1995-2008)..."
- Real-Time Bus Map for Darwin
- Posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Thursday, December 3, 2009. "The Darwin Bus Map is another of the many Google Maps mashups submitted to the recent Mashup Australia Contest. The map displays bus routes and timetables for Darwin, Australia..."
- Bing Maps Steals The Cool Crown From Google
- by Greg Sterling. Search Engine Land, December 2, 2009. "Microsoft has had a collection of mapping tools and assets that haven't been fully utilized or received the play (or usage) of Google Maps. But in an announcement today Bing Maps breaks new ground in online mapping even as it plays a bit of catch up with Google. First, Bing Maps is introducing 'Street Side' in 56 US metro areas, with the ambition to go global eventually. This is the Microsoft answer to Google Street View..."
- OS mapping data: a new landscape unfolds
- Landmark proposal on OS mapping and postcode area information is victory for Free Our Data campaign, by Charles Arthur. The Guardian, Thursday 19 November 2009. "The Free Our Data campaign has scored a major victory, with the announcement by the government that it intends to make Ordnance Survey maps free for use online by any organisation – including commercial ones – at resolutions more detailed than commercial 1:25,000 Landranger maps from April next year..."
- EEA launches the first map of Europe's noise exposure
- ePractice.eu, 4 November 2009. Country EU Institutions; Domain
eGovernment; Topic Infrastructure, Policy. "The European Environment Agency (EEA) has launched a comprehensive map of noise exposure, revealing the extent to which European citizens are exposed to excessive acoustic pollution..."
- Geocoding Using Google Maps
- posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Friday, October 23, 2009. "Google Maps Mania's new Australian contributor Arek of All Things Spatial has just released an address geocoder that uses the Google Maps API to find the latitude and longitude of addresses..."
- NPIA joins up national crime map
- The Home Office and the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) have launched a map with information about policing in England and Wales. Kable, Tuesday 20 October 2009. "The online map provides statistics for burglary, robbery, violence, vehicle crime and anti-social behaviour..."
- New online map service by the Federal Environment Agency
- ePractice.eu, 15 October 2009. Country Germany; Domain
eGovernment; Topic Services for Citizens, Infrastructure, Policy, Regional and Local, User-centric Services. "The Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA) has recently launched an online map service aiming to describe the regional distribution of air pollution in Germany since 2001. At the Geographic Information System (GIS) the visitors are free to enhance the data on air with other geographical information about cities, rivers, and metropolitan areas, and focus on certain characteristics, such as peak loads..."
- Real-Time Traffic on Google Maps
- posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Monday, October 5, 2009. "Developed by two students at the Technical University of Delft, Fileradar.nl shows real-time traffic information for the area in and around Rotterdam, Netherlands..."
- Google Maps Creation Tool
- posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Tuesday, September 29, 2009. "Mapspread is a Google Maps creation service that allows the user to create maps from spreadsheets,, KML, ESRI Shapefiles or MapInfo TAB files..."
This category last updated: 7 December 2011