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Do a Map. Cartodb. Mapillary. GPS Drawing. Interesting Maps. Urban APPs. Plataformas para criar Mapas. Download Power Map Preview for Excel 2013 from Official Microsoft Download Center. Mapnificent - Dynamic Public Transport Travel Time Maps. Interactive Cycling Map Tutorial. Learn What Spatial Analysis Can Do for You. Cities: an interactive data visual. This is an updated and expanded version of the data visual first posted in June 2014.

Cities: an interactive data visual

It draws on a new dataset from the United Nations Population Division. It also covers all cities with 500,000-plus inhabitants, compared to the earlier version that covered cities with 750,000-plus inhabitants. Guide to use To use the above data visual click on the dateline button at the top to slide the scale to the right and advance through the years, enabling you to see how and where cities of 500,000+ inhabitants have grown since 1800, plus predictions for future growth up to 2030.

A summary of the wider global changes taking place can be found at the top, while users who hover their mouse over individual cities can discover precise data regarding those cities. Alternatively, click on the 'grid' view towards the top right of the visual to see a chart of the individual cities and where they rank in terms of population. Listing. Get Lost in These 19 Fascinating Maps. In the simplest sense of the word, a map is a spatial representation of something.

Get Lost in These 19 Fascinating Maps

It provides us with a sense of context, scale and location. Maps began as 2D depictions, but technology and data enable maps to become dynamic, real-time and compelling visualizations of how we live and move. Below, we've rounded up 21 awesome maps from around the web. Some will help you navigate your city, some show the actual mapmaking process and some are just mindblowing visualizations of people flowing throughout cities. No matter what kind of map it is though, it hammers home the exciting pulse and pace of urban life. 1. New York City's MTA transports approximately seven million people every day.

Kartograph – rethink mapping. GeoCommons. The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s mapping empire. Om·ni·pres·entadjective \-zənt\: present in all places at all times This definition of omnipresent sums up many facets of society.

The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s mapping empire

Fast food chains? Everywhere. Reality TV shows? The density grid underlying that map for Esquire. Eric Fischer álbuns no Flickr. Online Maps with Leaflet. So you want to make a webpage with a Leaflet.js map:

Online Maps with Leaflet

Leaflet: Past, Present, Future. Maps Wiki. Geo Search. Vidmap - Geotagging for Videos. TargetMap - Create & share customized data maps on Googlemaps. Free Online Mapping tool. Scribble Maps - Draw on google maps with scribblings and more! MapAList - Create and Manage Maps of Address Lists. Create your own Street View. Have you ever tried to convey the feeling of walking through your favorite park?

Create your own Street View

Or have you wanted to create an interactive tour of a memorable journey? Well, starting today, it's now possible for you to build your own Street View experiences to do just that. Using a new feature in our Views community, you can easily connect your photo spheres to create 360º virtual tours of the places you love, then share them with the world on Google Maps. Creating Street View from your photo spheres is as easy as connecting the dots into what looks like a “constellation” of stars. You can even connect your photo spheres to our own Street View panoramas. To get started, just create photo spheres using your Android phone or a DSLR and then share them on Views. I built this Street View experience from photo spheres I created with both my Android phone (Nexus 4) and my DSLR camera. We are excited to see the different types of Street View experiences that everyone will contribute. Thematic Mapping Engine - thematicmapping.org.

Tour. Mapbox Custom Maps Easy map customization We built Mapbox streets with customization in mind: change colors, show and hide features, and even configure the language used in labels.

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Style presets. Using Participatory Photo Mapping (PPM) to Engage Communities - Part 1. OpenStreetMap. Where is this?

OpenStreetMap

Reverse Directions. Metro Extracts. Gephi. Indoor Positioning. Science Hack Day / NightISS. Image classification of night time images taken from the International Space Station Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel, et al.

Science Hack Day / NightISS

Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Image classification: Right now there are around 1.800.000 images at the Johnson Space Center database (The Gateway of the Astronauts). Around 1.200.000 images were taken aboard the ISS (date 20/02/2014). Our main objective it's to study the light pollution that came from the cities. Moreover, on the research of night time images they also interesting those containing star fields (Zamorano et al. 2011).

Automatic classification techniques of images: Classification based on the ISS nadir position: The vertical of the ISS it is a point called Nadir. Although, these positions are only a first approximation and the place that have been captured can be beyond 300 km (187 miles). This position can be used to classify the images taken from the ISS. Classification based on the statistics of the image (histogram): MapQuery. GmapGIS - A web based GIS application to draw on Google maps: polygons, lines, markers and labels. Put history in its place! Polymaps. MapBox. CartoDB. Making a Genealogy Map Using the Google Maps API.

Introduction I wanted to try out using the Google Maps API for a project, so I decided I’d try to use it in conjunction with some genealogy data to see what I could come up with.

Making a Genealogy Map Using the Google Maps API

The result is a family tree which is mapped out spatially rather than chronologically; once rendered, the following visual data is revealed: Migration paths - see where particular people suddenly moved a large distance Geographical density/immobility - see which areas the most family members were from Most popular places - see which villages or cities successive generations lived in Example Click on the image below to view a live example of the project (using real data from my family tree) and then read on for an explanation of how the program works: Features. Favourite maps from 2013. Everyone and their dog tends to publish their own 'best maps of...'. Given I spend most of my time on this blog haranguing bad maps during the year I thought I might try it myself this year so here goes, in no particular order...my favourite 10 maps of 2013. Our Favorite Maps of 2013. The digital maps we loved in 2013 didn't simply illustrate novel or useful information (how people travel, where they live, what it means to live without much money).

They did it in ways we'd never seen before, manipulating time, dimensions, perspective, even the atmosphere. The 200 Best Maps of 2013. For centuries New Year's Eve has been known as a time of quite reflection. A time when people around the world spend a quiet abstemious night in perusing over old maps. Mapas mundiales curiosos. Bienvenidos, adicional a las clasificaciones de mapas que ya conocen como mapas mundiales,políticos, topográficos, demográficos, etc, Hoy veremos otros diferentes que quizá no has visto. Mapa de los países más y menos acogedores para los extranjeros. Personas de pelo rojo. Vías de comunicación España y Portugal - Geocatalogo. Search Engine OGC. Bathymetry Data Viewer - NOAA.

●Contact Us Navigating the map Click and drag or use arrow keys to pan Mouse scroll forward or use + key to zoom in Mouse scroll backward or use - key to zoom out Identifying features You have several options to identify features within visible layers: Single-click on the map Or, choose another tool from the "Identify" menu: Click on to draw a rectangle Click on to draw a polygon Click on to enter coordinates for a bounding box A popup will appear with a list of the selected features. Mouse-over the list of files within an instrument folder to highlight features on the map (blue line). Click the magnifying glass icon. Free GIS mapping, ArcGIS shapefiles, tools, news, geography maps and resources. Sponsors Welcome - We've been online since 1996 providing free and open source GIS software applications and programs, city, state and national level maps, geospatial data and shapefiles, GIS tutorials, GPS programs and tools, Satellite - aerial - remote sensing programs and maps, TOPO maps, and other resources for students, educators, home schoolers, cartographers, geographers, GIS professionals, GIS beginners, Community GIS participants, neogeographers and neocartographers.

We also create custom GIS shapefiles, GIS and web based mapping projects to your specifications. Check here for more information and examples. We post news, additions and updates on the MapCruzin Blog. You may want to subscribe to our feeds and occasional newsletters by entering your email address in the box at the top of the left column. Download data by country. Select and download free geographic (GIS) data for any country in the world Sources. Vacation locations: How to make a story map with photos, text, map. City of Memory » Map.

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Data Sets. Maps Blogs. Design and publish beautiful maps. MapBox Enables Amazing Custom Maps for Sites and Apps. "Up until now, a lot of mapping has just been boring," says Eric Gundersen, the CEO of MapBox, an ambitious startup that has made headlines for putting cartographic software, well, on the map. GPS Track. Geoviz - This is a toolkit for geographic visualization and analysis. Maps. Online. Natural Earth. Mapbox. Dynamic Maps.