Code in Full - J. Albert Bowden II • Posts Tagged ‘maps’

Modest Maps is a BSD-licensed display and interaction library for tile-based maps in Flash (ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0) and Python.
Modest Maps’ intent is to provide a minimal, extensible, customizable, and free display library for discriminating designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects. Modest Maps provides a core set of features in a tight, clean package, with plenty of hooks for additional functionality.

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Modest Maps is a BSD-licensed display and interaction library for tile-based maps in Flash (ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0) and Python.

Modest Maps’ intent is to provide a minimal, extensible, customizable, and free display library for discriminating designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects. Modest Maps provides a core set of features in a tight, clean package, with plenty of hooks for additional functionality.

Source: modestmaps.com

Matthew Ericson’s slides from his presentation on how the NY Times graphics department uses maps to explain the news and help readers better understand what’s happening in the world around them.

A must read for all aspring data-journalists.

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Matthew Ericson’s slides from his presentation on how the NY Times graphics department uses maps to explain the news and help readers better understand what’s happening in the world around them.

A must read for all aspring data-journalists.

Source: ericson.net

GPSFileDepot is a source for GPS files including custom maps, points of interest, ximage hosting, articles and tutorials and tools to help with mapping projects.

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GPSFileDepot is a source for GPS files including custom maps, points of interest, ximage hosting, articles and tutorials and tools to help with mapping projects.

Source: gpsfiledepot.com

OSGeo - Open Source GeoSpatial Foundation

The OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Foundation) was created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. Their goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects.

OpenLayers - Open Source JavaScript Mapping Library

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. OpenLayers has been developed to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. OpenLayers is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under a BSD-style License (also known as the Clear BSD).

OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. OpenLayers implements a (still-developing) JavaScript API for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth APIs, with one important difference — OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software community..

Furthermore, OpenLayers implements industry-standard methods for geographic data access, such as the OpenGIS Consortium’s Web Mapping Service (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS) protocols. Under the hood, OpenLayers is written in object-oriented JavaScript, using components from Prototype.js and the Rico library. The OpenLayers code base already has hundreds of unit tests, via the Test.AnotherWay framework..

As a framework, OpenLayers is intended to separate map tools from map data so that all the tools can operate on all the data sources. This separation breaks the proprietary silos that earlier GIS revolutions have taught civilization to avoid. The mapping revolution on the public Web should benefit from the experience of history.