Quantified Self | Self Knowledge Through Numbers Blog — All the maps that are fit to blog Nottingham Sprint, Wednesday 18th Sept September 11th, 2013 by Tim Schaub · 5 Comments If you’re planning on going to FOSS4G and are interested in OpenLayers 3, please join us for an open sprint on Wednesday 18th Sept on the University of Nottingham campus (Humanities A3). Core developers of the library will be on hand, and contributors of all sorts are welcome. See the campus map below for the location. We look forward to seeing you there! Tags: Conferences · Sprint OpenLayers r3.0.0-alpha.4 July 29th, 2013 by ahocevar · 7 Comments OpenLayers r3.0.0-alpha.4 is released. For maps that have a defined extent that viewers should be able to return to, OpenLayers 3 now has a ZoomToExtent control. As an internal preparation for SelectFeature control and vector editing, the canvas vector renderer can now deal with addition and removal of features. On the documentation and examples front, we have removed css loading from the example loader. We will soon start the transition from alpha to beta. Vector:
mapsforge - free mapping and navigation tools The mapsforge project provides free and open software for OpenStreetMap-based applications. Currently, we offer a library for ad-hoc map rendering on Android devices. Compact file format for fast on-device rendering of OpenStreetMap data Easy to use MapView, similar to of the Google APIs Add-On Powerful and flexible overlay API Customizable map styles via XML configuration files Small library ~ 300 KB Demo application for Android 1.6+ available Tool for creating custom map files 100% free and open source (LGPL3 license) Click on an image for a larger version
Free GIS datasets Protovis Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction. Protovis is free and open-source, provided under the BSD License. It uses JavaScript and SVG for web-native visualizations; no plugin required (though you will need a modern web browser)! Although programming experience is helpful, Protovis is mostly declarative and designed to be learned by example. Protovis is no longer under active development.The final release of Protovis was v3.3.1 (4.7 MB). This project was led by Mike Bostock and Jeff Heer of the Stanford Visualization Group, with significant help from Vadim Ogievetsky. Updates June 28, 2011 - Protovis is no longer under active development. September 17, 2010 - Release 3.3 is available on GitHub. May 28, 2010 - ZOMG! Getting Started
1.11 now official part of the standard software portfolio in the City of Munich! gvSIG 1.11 now official part of the standard software portfolio in the City of Munich! After several years of preparations and testing, the Department of Health and Environment of the City of Munich is happy to report that gvSIG 1.11 has now been incorporated into the City of Munich’s standard software portfolio, which means that everyone in the city administration who needs gvSIG on their desktop can have it assigned with an automatic installation procedure and is ready to go! This also means that gvSIG has finally left the confines of the Department of Health and Environment and is taking another step in the process of establishing it as an OGC compliant, Open Source alternative to proprietary software throughout the municipality. In order to support this process further and spread the news, an internal 2-day training course has been developed, targeted at an audience already familiar with GIS concepts and ready to try out a state of the art open source GIS application. Like this:
osmdroid - OpenStreetMap-Tools for Android osmdroid is a (almost) full/free replacement for Android's MapView (v1 API) class. It also includes a modular tile provider system with support for numerous online and offline tile sources and overlay support with built-in overlays for plotting icons, tracking location, and drawing shapes. osmdroid is in the progress of being migrated to GitHub. See issue 527 . Prerequisites Before you add osmdroid to your project make sure you check the Prerequisites page. I want to use osmdroid in my project You can include osmdroid using Maven or by adding a jar file to your project. I want to compile the source The preferred method is by using Maven. I want to report a bug First check the FAQ page for answers. Then check the Changelog page to see if this issue is fixed in a newer or upcoming version of osmdroid. If think you have a legitimate bug to report then go to the Issues page. I want to contribute Great! I want more! Screenshots
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