Putting Maps Online
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A long time ago, when Web 2.0 was just Web 1.0, we had to ask people for directions, copy them down, and hope we had a foldable map to help us find our way. Then along came MapQuest, followed by Google Maps in 2005.
Great Open Source Map Tools for Web Developers
WordPress - Map List Pro
An Easy to use, fully featured, map and location listing Wordpress Plugin Map List Pro for Wordpress lets you quickly display locations in, in a paged, sortable, searchable, and filterable list. It comes ready to go with 25 styles and is fully customisable.Google's Map API is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries on the web, used by more than 350,000 websites. And with good reason – it's powerful and for six years was absolutely free. It spawned a wave of map mashup websites (who initially hacked the then-private API, which Google not only tolerated but encouraged).
The top seven alternatives to the Google Maps API
maps.stamen.com
For over a decade, Stamen has been exploring cartography with our clients and in research . These maps are presented here for your enjoyment and use wherever you display OpenStreetMap data. Toner
Unlike the average Sat Nav, the Mud Map app for the iPhone reaches parts of the country where other GPS powered apps fail and to anyone who loves the great outdoors; this is an app that is worth its weight in gold! This app uses the latest data from Ordnance Survey to ensure that the user gets to where they are going and back, even if there are no roads to follow. These are the details and features for the brilliant Mud Map app for the iPhone; MUD MAP transforms your iPhone into a powerful handheld GPS for the outdoors. Unlike most navigation apps that just give up where the road ends, MUD MAP keeps navigating ON or OFF the beaten track.
Mud Map GPS iPhone App | TechMASH Tech Gadget & Geeky News
OSGEO Stack
FLOSS Map Servers
OpenStreetMap
WMS
Mapbox
Wax
Wax is your gateway into putting maps on the web. It makes it easier to use APIs like Modest Maps and Leaflet , and documents, from the very start, the basics of web maps. ↓ Download Wax 6.4.0 BSD-licensed, ~16KB
Three.js: render real world terrain from heightmap using open data
Three.js is a great library for creating 3D objects and animations. In a couple of previous articles I explored this library a bit and in one of those examples I showed you how you can take GIS information (in geoJSON) format and use D3.js and three.js to convert it to a 3D mesh you can render in the browser using javascript. This is great for infographic, but it doesn't really show a real map, a real terrain.Subway Map Visualization jQuery Plugin » TechBubble
I have always been fascinated by the visual clarity of the London Underground map. Given the number of cities that have adopted this mapping approach for their own subway systems, clearly this is a popular opinion. At a conference some years back, I saw a poster for the Yahoo! Developer Services. They had taken the concept of a subway map and applied it to create a YDN Metro Map .
jQuery plugin for creating Google Maps from semantic markup This plugin is designed for quick development of a page that implements a Google Map with a list of the locations that are specified within the HTML. The plugin tries to allow as much graceful degradation as possible by having the HTML be as semantic as possible.
