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Google Maps Mania: How to Add 3d Buildings to a Campus Map. At the most basic level a university campus map should allow visitors to quickly find and identify their destination within a university. One of the most effective ways to help visitors identify individual buildings on a campus map is to provide extruded building footprints. One way to achieve this is to use a custom overlay on top of an interactive map. The University of Oklahoma online campus map is a great example of using a custom overlay with the Google Maps API. The university has used a custom map of the campus overlaid on top of the normal Google Maps tiles.

The custom map image is nicely integrated with the underlying map tiles so that the custom map integrates seamlessly with the Google road map. The university's custom map includes 3d building footprints, which provides a great navigational aide for visitors to the university. While a custom map overlay can be very effective it is only possible if you have a great custom map of the campus to begin with. Geospatial PDF. Discovered something I had no clue existed. Within Adobe Reader (which is free), there are tools for geospatial analysis. I opened a pdf that I had created by exporting a map in Arcgis. Sure enough, I could measure different things and get latitude and longitude coordinates.I did some quick research and discovered that a pdf can be a geospatial pdf. Add these analysis tools to the various comment tools (annotations, drawing markups) and you have a decent mapping platform. I suppose the hardest part is to obtain/create a geospatial pdf.

It appears QGIS does NOT have this capability yet. Here are some links I found: Disability Mapping with OpenStreetMap. Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. We’re gathering map data related to disabilities within OpenStreetMap, and because the map is openly editable, you can help! Edit the map of your neighbourhood to add details on wheelchair accessibility, and the presence of things like tactile paving for blind people. Details of the world which we may not imagine to be important, can be very useful things when presented on a map to help people with a variety of disabilities. We have OpenStreetMap “tags” for them all, from gluten-free food outlets, to more simple things like steps and toilets. It’s a lot of detail, but with thousands of people all mapping their own neighbourhoods we can map the world for disabled people.

A number of projects are delivering very interesting custom map applications, of a kind which would only be possible with free open access to raw geo-data: Researchers at the University of Heidelberg have produced a prototype wheelchair routing service. Spatial@ucsb - UCSB Center for Spatial Studies. Making our daily environments smart through technologies has been on research and political agendas for more than three decades, with a primary interest in the outdoor environments of cities. Smart city projects are now found worldwide, focusing on sustainability, e-governance, transportation, health, etc. by deploying innovative technologies for sensing, social networking, and knowledge integration.

To some extent, campuses can be seen as “small cities,” raising similar concerns for a particular kind of population. Additionally, smart campuses have their own challenges and opportunities, e.g., the support of creativity and interdisciplinary collaboration in science or the involvement of technologically savvy students. Spatial thinking and computing are thought to be key enablers for all these aspects of smart campuses, but this case needs to be made more effectively with university administrators and domain scientists. Participants will address three general categories of questions: I.

uMap. Interview with Suzanne Blier on WorldMap, Easy-to-Use GIS. Suzanne Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is an historian of African art and architecture in both the History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies Departments. She also is a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. She is Co-Chair of an Electronic Geo-Spatial Database AfricaMap, a site that expanded into WorldMap. WorldMap is an open source GIS tool that enables anyone anywhere in the world to create their own maps and overlay them with data for free.

GIS has been transformed in the last 20 years. We began with Africa. Why not just use Google maps engine or ArcGIS? You can go into WorldMap, create a project there, and upload it to Google Earth. ArcGIS is a terrific product. In some ways, WorldMap can be more easily grasped by the less technically astute among us, whether a landscape architect, planner, historian, or student. Like this: Like Loading... Welcome! - WorldMap. Geojournalism Handbook. Do a Map. jQuery Mapael. jQuery Mapael - Build dynamic vector maps #Overview jQuery Mapael is a jQuery plugin based on raphael.js that allows you to display dynamic vector maps.

For example, with Mapael, you can display a map of the world with clickable countries. You can build simple dataviz by setting some parameters in order to automatically set a color to each area of your map and generate the legend. As Raphaël, Mapael supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Chrome 5.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+. To download mapael, go to the GitHub repository. Key features based on jQuery and raphael.js Interactive. #How to use Mapael Here is the simplest example that shows how to display an empty map of the world : <div class="container"><div class="map">Alternative content</div></div> Result : #Examples #API reference (version 0.7.0) All options are provided as an object argument of the function $.fn.mapael(Object options).

Parameter 'options' : #Update the map data #Extend Mapael #Zoom feature #How to create new maps ? GISC. 50 JavaScript Libraries and Plugins for Maps. Mapping Chicago’s shooting victims | News Apps Blog. This week we launched Chicago shooting victims, which tracks where and when people are shot in Chicago, a city that’s seen more than 1,000 people shot in the first six months of 2013. This project coincided with a detailed story that ran in the Chicago Tribune written by the very reporters gathering the data. First, let me explain what the data represent and where these numbers come from. In Chicago, if six people are shot at one time, the police record the data as just one shooting.

For instance, if six people are shot during a drive-by shooting, then it counts as one shooting, even if it has six victims. Our Chicago Breaking News desk started keeping track of every victim shot in late 2011 because they wanted to have a complete record of how many people were struck by gunfire, because the city doesn’t provide that data. With about a week to go before heading to print, Alex Bordens, Ryan Mark and I set to work turning the spreadsheet into usable data we could visualize. Like this: Signalétique et pictogrammes : préconisations à l'usage des professionnels. L’accès à l’information est une composante essentielle de la politique d’accessibilité du cadre de vie voulue par le législateur.

Ainsi l’arrêté du 1er août 2006 relatif à l’accessibilité des établissements recevant du public précise que les informations fournies aux visiteurs par le moyen d’une signalisation visuelle ou sonore doivent "pouvoir être reçues et interprétées par un visiteur handicapé" et que les éléments de signalisation doivent être "visibles", "lisibles" par tous et "compréhensibles" notamment par les personnes atteintes de déficience mentale. Lorsqu’elles se déplacent sur un site, les personnes handicapées mentales rencontrent fréquemment différents obstacles : absence d’homogénéité quant à l’utilisation des pictogrammes et de la signalétique, rupture de la chaine de déplacement, dimension artistique des pictogrammes, localisation du plan et de la signalétique, compréhension de l’information, etc. Create beautiful dynamic data driven maps | CartoDB.

GIS in the Cloud | GIS Mapping Software | Visualize & Publish Maps. Pricing | CartoDB. Pap_1894.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Official Map for the University of Cambridge.