Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Activity tagged “mapping”

Bookmarks

Google Earth | Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness

BWCA data in KML, specifically entries and portages.

(bwca, gis, kml, mapping, maps)

MnDNR Data Deli

GIS data from the MN DNR.

(bwca, data, gis, mapping, maps)

BWCA maps

Various types of BWCA map data — campsites/portage points, USGS raster maps, etc.

(bwca, gis, mapping, maps)

pgRouting

Geographic routing algorithms on top of PostGIS.

(database, geo, gis, mapping, mapserver, osm, pgrouting, postgis, postgres, postgresql, route)

Cartographer.js – thematic mapping for Google Maps

Heat maps, point clustering, etc. Built on top of Raphael.

(charts, data, drawing, geolocation, google, googlemaps, infographics, javascript, jquery, mapping, maps, raphaël, svg, visualization)

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.

(django, flickr, geo, geodjango, gis, mapping, maps)

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.

(everyblock, geo, gis, mapping, maps)

This American Life: 110: Mapping

I'd forgotten about this episode (from late 1998) until it was re-run this weekend. Very apropos to the current amateur cartography craze. The first act is especially wonderful

(for:holovaty, for:mcroydon, mapping, radio, thisamericanlife)