21 posts tagged “map”

Tropical Weather maps and visualisations

• http://www.skeetobiteweather.com/picservice.asp?t=m&m=08
• http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/flash-bd.html
• http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/loop-avn.html
  

Thanks to openstreetmap, CloudMade and ITO (and GPS !) the people of the world can now map the world !

The latest flickr / googlemaps / yahoomaps geomap geotag mapping craze seems to be GeoShapes and GeoShaping. Which is basically giving a shape to a locality !

See Flickr

• http://where-what-when.husk.org/ powered by http://appjet.com/
  
• http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/
• http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/01/12/living-in-the-donut-hole/
  
• http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.places.findByLatLon.htm
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/3034389047/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/scraplab/3035624594/

See Google

• http://www.hackdiary.com/2008/11/16/google-map-of-london-with-flickr-shape-data-overlaid/
• http://gist.github.com/25502

SeeYahoo

• http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/
• http://www.ygeoblog.com/blog/2008/11/21/yahoo-geoplanet-and-yql/
• http://upcoming.yahoo.com/services/api/metro.getForLatLon.php

GPS goes Nuts

• http://www.gpsnuts.com/

HappyCamel (feed it a GPS track and alist of digital photos and it figures out where these images were taken)

• http://happycamel.sourceforge.net/

HappyCamel Google Map Examples

• http://maps.google.com/?t=h&q=http://happycamel.sf.net/example1.kmz
• http://maps.google.com/?t=h&q=http://happycamel.sf.net/example2.kmz
  

Did you know there is a OpenCycleMap of the world for Cyclists (from the creators of OpenStreetMap) which contains contour information thanks to open source NASA contour data !

What's the connection between dopplr, flickr, geotagging & openstreetmap ?

Watch the video:

• http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/08/flickr-burning-man-open-street-map.html

Listen to the podcast:

• http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2008/07/31/s01e11-blowin-in-the-wind/

Read these media articles:

• http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenStreetMap_in_the_media

See how yahoo flickr seamlessly merges its maps with OpenStreetMap maps :

• http://www.flickr.com/map?&fLat=39.9185&fLon=116.3857&zl=6
  

Finally why not join the Change !

• http://www.change.org/changes/view/2658

One Planet Living in Sutton is an ever-evolving programme of projects that will cover all of the One Planet Living principles and deliver the Sustainability Action Plan. We work with many partners and share knowledge to ensure that together we come up with the right solutions for a sustainable Sutton.

One Planet Living in Sutton is a hugely ambitious programme of work - getting the whole borough from a 3 planet level to a 1 planet level will take imagination, hard work and innovation from every resident, business and organisation in Sutton as well as input from organisations with expertise in each of the principles.

But its not all hard work - we hope that it will be fun, inspirational and great for building community spirit.

One Planet Living in Sutton are using OpenStreetMap and a number of Web 2.0 sites to spread their message !

• Flickr   
  
• YouTube    
  
• BioRegional    
• Wordpress

geoFlock gives you a suite of in-built maps and mapping tools for your web browser (now based on Minimap Firefox version, but retaining geotag dialogs).

Create and save a sidebar map using the addresses or address links you find on web pages, or by manually adding locations. View traffic Info, drag and drop kml files, Geotag Flickr photos within the Flock photo uploader, geotag blog posts within the blog editor (including microformat geo class values, view in google maps/google earth links and insertion of quikmaps.com maps).

http://flock.spatialviews.com/geoflock_features.html

http://flock.spatialviews.com/

Learn about the Web Services standards REST and JSON by using Google Panoramio and just your web browser !

Using the Google Panoramio API you can display the photos from Panoramio on your own web site. Geolocated photos from Panoramio are great to enrich your maps or illustrate information where location is a important factor (real estate sites, hotels and vacation sites, routes & trails...).

Here's how you'd get some photos of London (X=~0,Y=~51)

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/8075745

http://www.panoramio.com/map/get_panoramas.php ? from=1 & to=16 & minx=-1 & miny=50 & maxx=1 & maxy=52 & size=small (just remove the spaces on either side of each "?" and "&" )

This REST call returns a JSON result set that you can view in your browser and cut and paste photo URLs from :

{"count": 42259,
 "photos":
 [
 { "photo_id": 4337937, "photo_title": "Sir Tatton Sykes Monument", "photo_url": "http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4337937", "photo_file_url": "http://mw2.google.com/mw- panoramio/photos/medium/4337937.jpg", "longitude": -0.537515, "latitude": 54.042054, "width": 270, "height": 500, "upload_date": "31 August 2007", "owner_id": 278681, "owner_name":  "G3ZZP", "owner_url": "http://www.panoramio.com/user/278681" }
,
 { "photo_id": 51502, "photo_title": "eclipse", "photo_url": "http://www.panoramio.com/photo/51502", "photo_file_url": "http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/51502.jpg",  "longitude": -0.121665, "latitude": 51.500969, "width": 500, "height": 375, "upload_date": "24 September 2006", "owner_id": 6645, "owner_name": "JesusVillalba", "owner_url":  "http://www.panoramio.com/user/6645" }
 ]
}

For more help see http://www.panoramio.com/help/

KML is a file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser, such as Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Maps for mobile. KML uses a tag-based structure with nested elements and attributes and is based on the XML standard.

• http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/
• http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tut.html
• http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_21tutorial.html