geomantic

Last week, I blogged about Open Street Map over on my company’s blog, The Viewshed about Open Street Map and touched briefly on the subject of data quality. I cited the study by Muki Haklay that compares (favorably) the quality of data found in OSM with Ordnance Survey data. More on the subject of OSM [...]

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Recently released by members of the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA comes this code that uses Geographic Style Sheets (GSS) to drive the map rendering process for web maps in native HTML 5. What this means, according to the developers, is that individuals can style their own maps enabling them to create and communicate [...]

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1. Ostensibly devoted to Flash Flex and other Rich Internet Applications (RIA) is the Flexmappers blog. 2. The Transport Politic focused on rail transport and other alternatives to automotive transport. 3. Related to Transport Politic is Streetsblog.net which aggregates some of the nation’s best bloggers on sustainable transport to carry out a discussion place and [...]

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This, via Fuzzy Tolerance (via Free Geography Tools) is a series of online workshops for creating KML and creating custom maps using the Google map API. The KML workshop is past history, but there is still time to register for the custom map workshop on 27 Feb here: Google Geo Developer Series. While you’re there, [...]

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