Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Activity tagged “maps”
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cGPSmapper - Your Tool For Creating Maps
Download custom maps to Garmin GPS devices. Dunno if this'll work with my older Garmin, but if it does that'd be sweet.
National TIGER/Line Shapefiles
TIGER/Line data in SHP format. Importing this into a GeoDjango site is easy-peasy.
cascadenik: cascading sheets of style for mapnik (tecznotes)
Awesome idea - this should help make mapnik configuration easier.
Flickr's Burning Man Map Uses Open Street Map - O'Reilly Radar
Radar covers the Flickr/BurningMan/OSM collaboration. I happen to know that this uses the GIS add-on to a certain popular web framework; I expect to hear more about that side of things at DjangoCon.
About our maps / The EveryBlock Blog
Paul explains a bit about how the maps on EveryBlock work. I hope he'll give more details in the future; fitting all these bits together can be difficult, and EveryBlock's implementation of the Open Source geo stack is the prettiest to date.
Google apps for your newsroom at Matt Croydon::Postneo
Matt points out an important trend here at the J-W. Google really is making working with data online much easier, and we're taking full advantage.
Geodesic Polylines - Map Overlays - Google Maps API - Google Code
Ohshit - looks like Google added this feature when I wasn't looking! Rock on.
Great Circle Mileage Calculator and Display
Someone, at least, has figured out how to draw great circle lines on Google Maps. Time to give this a stab myself, I suppose…
Home - Garmin Developer
Garmin's new developer website. APIs, device communication toolkits, services… must investigate further…
FlightAware - Free Flight Tracker - IFR Flight Status, Tracking, History, Maps
*The* source for flight geekery
Harpers Ferry Center: NPS Maps
This page contains the standard cartographic symbols and patterns used on National Park Service maps.
Windows Live Local
Extra-slow for that authentic Microsoft feel
Google Maps API - Sign Up
I always forget where this page is!
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