Crowdmap | Create and Share Interactive Maps Online. | Ushahidi. Crowdmap allows you to set up your own deployment of the Ushahidi Platform without having to install it on your own web server. Crowdmap is the fastest, simplest installation of the Ushahidi platform. Within minutes you'll be up and running with your own installation, mapping reports events and visualizing information. Things You Can Do With Crowdmap Monitor Elections Use the power of the crowd to monitor and visualize what went right, and what went wrong, in an election. Map Crisis Information Whether it's a natural disaster, epidemic or political crisis, Crowdmap is built to handle information coming out of a crisis.
Curate Local Resources Crowdsourcing isn't just for emergencies, you can use it for local knowledge and business too. Document A Zombie Invasion How else will you survive the coming apocalypse? Learn more on the Crowdmap Website . Ushahidi. GeoCommons. MapBox | Fast and beautiful maps. Technical Details. OpenHeatMap.
Web apps - Free Geography Tools. Via Slashgeo comes word that Nokia’s Ovi Maps now has a 3D browser-based plugin to compete with Google Earth’s browser plugin. Works in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer, and supports Mac in addition to Windows for the first three. Terrain resolution is fantastic, IMO better than in Google Earth. The only imagery currently available in 3D mode is satellite imagery, and it also looks pretty good, slightly better than Google Earth for my area.
One quirk, though, is that for oblique views, only the closest terrain gets high-resolution imagery; notice in the upper-left-hand corner of the picture above, lower-res data is loaded. There is one additional data layer, streets, accessible by clicking on a “man icon”, but coverage appears to be spotty; there are no streets available for my area. Controls are adequate, but not as smooth as those for Google Earth. There are 3D building views available for a limited number of cities (e.g.
Mondrian - Interactive Statistical Data Visualization in JAVA. Homepage. Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. Leaflet - a modern, lightweight JavaScript library for interactive maps by CloudMade. Topo.ly Free Mapping GIS Software to Plot Excel Spreadsheet Data and Locations. OpenStreetMap.
Geocoder.us: a free US address geocoder. Create a map | BatchGeo. Socrata. Quikmaps.com :: maps for the masses. Your feeds on your map. Health Monitor health news from around the world. Allow your readers to visualize global health reports and status updates using publicly available feeds.
Sports Follow all sports news – results, analyses or events – or track your favorite team’s travels on a map. Travel Monitoring travel deals? Enhance your research with a map. In the travel business? Follow all sports news – results, analyses or events – or track your favorite team’s travels on a map. StatPlanet Map Maker ? Interactive Mapping & Visualization Software. GeoInfo - ESW Wiki. Places are a recurring theme in the SemanticWeb, along with people, documents, times, and money. (see FriendOfaFriend, DublinCore, RdfCalendar, as well as SeedApplications and VocabularyMarket). See GeoOnion for an attempt to relate lat/long points to 'within n metres of' concentric circles that encompass them. So far, we have a lat/long vocab page and workspace.
The coolest thing about it is probably that the GeoURL database, with zillions of web pages related to lat/long, can be queried with results in RDF using this vocabulary; results look like... Nearby: GeoOnion, CoordinateProperty Is there an upcoming ScheduledTopicChat on this stuff? Hmm... not clear. What's on the agenda? Review of outstanding stuff from 16Apr, 30 Apr, 28 May: ActionItems on libby, danbri, danc, @@others?
Has there been any ScheduledTopicChat on this stuff? Who's working on this stuff? The following folks have shown interest: See also attendance records for previous chats, above. Need to be careful about specifity. A visual exploration on mapping complex networks. GeoURL (2.0) WITW using GoogleMaps. A web service mash-up by Leigh Dodds. For a description of the hack see this blog entry. Enter a WITW user name in the form below to be taken to a Google Maps view of their current location, including any nearby users and landmarks know to the WITW service. To find an example look at the public list of users. When viewing a map, users are shown as green blobs, locations as red.
The conversion from the WITW XML format to the Google Maps format is achieved with this stylesheet. Google maps photos map earth at mygmaps.com. 2.0) Quikmaps.com :: maps for the masses.