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Vizzuality’s Videos on Vimeo. Can I visualize my tracks in Google Maps from my computer? | MotionX Support. Exploring GIS — The story of James Rodriguez. After the World Cup and having become a soccer fan, I thought it would be a great opportunity to combine my love for maps with my Colombian roots. For this project I chose CartoDB, a cloud platform that lets users build map applications in a very easy way. Their new open-source tool named Odyssey.js let me create “The story of James Rodriguez”. You can use the Odissey sandbox or get the code straight-away. I felt it would be better to download the files and start to write my code using Aptana Studio (web application IDE). At this stage I had made changes to the code, so the next step would be find a place to keep my code safe and create a webpage to host my project. What to use?

An easy question for me, since I have been meaning to take advantage of the huge benefits of Git for a long time, the open-source version control system (VCS). I joined GitHub but also after grasping some Git fundamentals from Pro Git book, a practical tutorial with examples and explanations by Scott Chacon. Editor — CartoDB Docs. One-minute introduction Your dashboard has two main sections: tables and visualizations. The steps to create a visualization of your data are simple: Create a new table by importing data Create a new visualization from your table Share it (public or privately) You may stop at step two if you don’t need to share your visualization.

Keeping visualizations private can be useful for internal data analysis and gaining data insights. CartoDB lets you easily import your data in many different formats (Excel, CSV, XML, SHP, GeoJSON, see all) and from different sources (see all possibilities in Importing data). After you have created your visualization with our web interface, you may keep it private, share it with your colleagues, or publish it to the web either by sharing its URL or embedding it in your blog or CMS.

In this guide we’ll walk through many of the features available in the CartoDB web interface. Tables Importing data Importing your data is easy, and you have several ways of doing it. Tutorials — CartoDB Docs. Tutorial - From Google Screenshot to 3D Map - 3D Map Generator Pro. Vizzuality’s Videos on Vimeo. Geotag Your Photos! | Zonerama Magazine. You might be among the many photographers who completely ignore the possibility of GPS-tagging your photos. “After all,” you tell yourself, “it’s not like I’ll ever forget where I took a picture!” But nobody’s memory is perfect—not even yours. Scout’s honor: can you really find the precise spot where you took a particular picture, say, five years ago? Zoner Photo Studio can assign GPS data—geographic coordinates—to your pictures. Zoner has been able to do this for several versions now. But version 16 has some improvements on this front. The Map mode display in Zoner Photo Studio 16. Assigning GPS Data In Map mode, GPS-tagging pictures is exceptionally intuitive.

Assigning GPS coordinates. To quickly check which pictures are geotagged when you’re browsing in the Manager, check their thumbnails’ top right corners. You can assign GPS coordinates in the Manager, or also using the Information > GPS > Assign GPS coordinates… menu item. Adding GPS data using Zoner’s “traditional” GPS window. How to Map Photos Using OpenStreetMap and TileMill | Geojournalism Handbook. This guide takes four steps, demonstrating an overview of the whole flow and connection between four tools to build a photo map.

This guide will hit the main points and highlight how the tools connect up with open data Introduction Recently, we organized a fun skill share with Map Kibera, and then again with Transparent Chennai. The idea is to use OpenStreetMap and TileMill to create an interactive photo map. Here’s the simple result from working with Map Kibera. Want to learn to create something like this? Upload Photos to Flickr What you need: A photo of a place to map.What you get: Link to the photo page and photo preview.Learn more: Flickr Help If you don’t have a Flickr account, create one, it’s an easy way to share images. Credit: Mikel Maron, Ground Truth Initiative From your photo page, click the Share button, and then the Grab the HTML/BBCode panel. Tag. The result you should have is a link to the photo page, and the photo preview. Edit OpenStreetMap Now, over to OpenStreetMap.

Presentation with Power Map. Quick Start Guide. ← Tutorials This step-by-step guide will quickly get you started on Leaflet basics, including setting up a Leaflet map, working with markers, polylines and popups, and dealing with events. Preparing your page Before writing any code for the map, you need to do the following preparation steps on your page: Now you’re ready to initialize the map and do some stuff with it. Setting up the map Let’s create a map of the center of London with pretty Mapbox Streets tiles. Var mymap = L.map('mapid').setView([51.505, -0.09], 13); By default (as we didn’t pass any options when creating the map instance), all mouse and touch interactions on the map are enabled, and it has zoom and attribution controls. Note that setView call also returns the map object — most Leaflet methods act like this when they don’t return an explicit value, which allows convenient jQuery-like method chaining.

Next we’ll add a tile layer to add to our map, in this case it’s a Mapbox Streets tile layer. Markers, circles and polygons. Animating flight paths. Microsoft Excel Power Maps in Power BI. Google I/O 2011: Map your business, inside and out. Google I/O 2014 - Redesigning Google Maps. UXD: It's all about location, Part 1/3 Design for the human hand. Location and Maps Programming Guide: About Location Services and Maps.

Using location-based information in your app is a great way to keep the user connected to the surrounding world. Whether you use this information for practical purposes (such as navigation) or for entertainment, location-based information can enhance the overall user experience. Location-based information consists of two pieces: location services and maps. Location services are provided by the Core Location framework, which defines Objective-C interfaces for obtaining information about the user’s location and heading (the direction in which a device is pointing). Maps are provided by the Map Kit framework, which supports both the display and annotation of maps similar to those found in the Maps app.

(To use the features of the Map Kit framework, you must turn on the Maps capability in your Xcode project.) Location services and maps are available on both iOS and OS X. At a Glance Location Services Provide a Geographical Context for Apps Routing Apps Provide Directions to the User. Pessimistress/Isochronic-Map. Geomerative. Mapnificent. Search OpenProcessing. Introduction to Power Map. How To Create An Interactive Floor Plan. Colorbrewer: Color Advice for Maps. Foursquare tutorial video. Mapping Weekend Howto. What is a mapping party? A mapping party is where a group of openstreetmappers and novices descend on an area to map it exhaustively, usually over a weekend. It's a very social event where people can meet up and talk (usually at a pub) in between mapping sessions.

A mapping session consists of dividing up an area between participants and mapping it, be that by car, cycle or walking. For more description of what a mapping party is, see the Mapping parties page There have been many mapping parties so far, all over the world!... If there hasn't been one near you, please organise one using this handy guide. Getting Started For a successful mapping party you need three key ingredients: a place, some people and a date.

When Once you have a rough venue ('London' or 'Berlin') and a couple of people, then put up a wiki page with all the details and confirming the date. Planning Here's a checklist of things to do in advance Time Announce your event at least two months ahead of time. Place Other GPS units. Photos in JOSM video tutorial - OpenStreetMap - Learn: osm, maps, wiki, sign, world, newbies, beginners, photos, openstreetmap, potlatch, GPS, gpsbabel, gpx, josm, mapping. Photo mapping Ribeirão Preto (Ônibus Hacker) Photo mapping. Available languages — For tracing aerial photos, see Aerial imagery. Photo mapping, a popular mapping technique, can be a great timesaver - it can be far quicker taking photos of street signs or points of interest than either to write it down, typing on a smartphone, or using waypointing on a GPS gadget. What's more, smartphones and cameras can often add GPS coordinates, making it easy to match up the photos to the exact position they were taken.

Simple photo mapping Use your camera to help you remember stuff. You don't need to use GPS and other advanced tricks described on this page. Orientation Even if you have a GPS track, it can be difficult to determine the way you were facing when taking a photograph. Geo-located photos Smartphones and some cameras come with in-built GPS (and some GPS units come with in-built camera) so these devices will typically write geolocation data to the image file's metadata (EXIF) each time the shutter is snapped. What if you're using a camera without GPS? Using Personal GPS files to contribute to OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap. Jobs. Criar e mapear trilhas, caminhos e estradas com sobreposições do GPS do seu celular - Gmapas. Mapear suas trilhas e/ou caminhos favoritos no Map Maker ás vezes pode ser complicado por inúmeros fatores, o mais comum é a trilha não ter uma linha clara na imagem para ser mapeada, principalmente se a trilha for muito estreita ou em mata fechada.

Se voc vai fazer uma trilha, você pode salvá-la em seu aparelho celular e depois envia-la para o Map Maker para disponibilizar para todos os usuários do Google Maps. O que você vai precisar - Conta Google A conta Google é necessária para você exportar sua trilha salva no seu aparelho celular para o Google Maps ou exportá-la para o Google Docs/Drive. Mais informações sobre conta Google clique aqui. - Celular com GPS e com o sistema operacional Android (do Google) O GPS é necessário para efetuar uma localização precisa das coordenadas de sua trilha. . - Aplicativo para celular (apps) Minhas Trilhas do Google Maps Este aplicativo vai gravar suas trilhas com o GPS do seu celular. 2 - Ao final de sua jornada, salve sua trilha. O que você deve saber. Map design: a list of helpful online resources. Whether they’ve been making maps for 20 years or two weeks, just like any designer, cartographers need inspiration when starting their latest project.

Inspiration can come from many places and take many forms. Here at Ordnance Survey we use a range of resources and we want to share some of them with you. In this post we list several online resources that can help with your latest map design; from choosing the right colour palette to selecting great fonts. Some of these resources are specific to map-making and some are more general. It is worth noting that they are not tools for making maps but tools to help with the map design process. Although by no means a definitive list, these are some of the tools and resources that we refer to and use regularly and we have sorted them into four categories: colours, fonts, symbols and map inspiration: Colours The use of colour is very often fundamental to the success of a map.

Fonts Here is a list of websites offering a huge range of free fonts: Using Color in Maps. ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps. The MapThing Processing Library | Placetique. i2maps - Examples. Watch the Online Video Course Interactive Data Visualization with Processing. Dynamic & Flash Mapping - CartoTalk. Apontamentos para a Criação de um Mapa em Processing | ZL Vórtice. Clique para copiar e colar o código que gera o mapa acima Uma das frentes de pesquisa do ZL Camp é investigar as possibilidade de uso do Processing para gerar visualizações de dados cartográficos. Este post vai documentar os avanços realizados e servir como um espaço para compartilhamento de informações e versões dos arquivos criados.

O material será organizado com duas finalidades: permitir que os pesquisadores do projeto que não tem tanta familiaridade com o Processing possam aprender mais sobre o programa, e aprimorar seus conhecimentos para otimizar suas participação no processo de desenvolvimento coletivo; gerar um repositório de soluções, desafios futuros e recursos disponíveis para os pesquisadores do projeto ir progressivamente melhorando um mapa criado coletivamente. No primeiro ZL Camp, uma das fontes iniciais foi o capítulo 3 do livro Visualizing Data, de Ben Fry (clique para download do livro em PDF). Clique para copiar e colar o código em Processing desta imagem Curtir isso: Let’s Make a Map. In this tutorial, I’ll cover how to make a modest map from scratch using D3 and TopoJSON.

I’ll show you a few places where you can find free geographic data online, and how to convert it into a format that is both efficient and convenient for display. I won’t cover thematic mapping, but the map we’ll make includes labels for populated places and you can extend this technique to geographic visualizations such as graduated symbol maps and choropleths. Without further ado, here’s the map: Shown are the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom: Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England. As maps go, it’s not particularly interesting, but the simplicity should serve adequately to demonstrate the basics of map-making. #Finding Data The first task for any map is finding geometry.

Unfortunately, government data can sometimes be hard to find or use. For a crowdsourced alternative, GeoCommons is a platform for sharing geographic datasets. #Installing Tools brew install gdal #Converting Data. Introduction. Step-by-step instructions for making maps This crash course walks through how to design custom web maps in TileMill. It will help you quickly get familiar with the basics of map design with TileMill, from importing and styling your data to designing and sharing your map. This guide focuses on the core functions of TileMill and links to documentation throughout for more advanced and specific techniques in map design. Start here for an overview of TileMill. If you have any questions along the way, start a discussion with our support team.

What we’ll cover Importing data We walk through how to download data and get it into TileMill. Styling data Here we show the basics of using CartoCSS to style your data and make a truly custom map. Adding tooltips and legends Making your map interactive and adding a legend is critical to communicating your data. Exporting your map Maps made in TileMill can be shared quickly and easily in a number of formats. Datamining the City.