I have talked about embedded maps before, but Map Channels have released a new tool, Switch Maps, which allows you to easily embed a maps in a web page. But the cool thing is that you can select from your map provider of choice (Google, Bing, Open Street Map, Yahoo, etc).
So for example here is [...]
So there are all kinds of rumours flying around today about apple’s immenent release of a tablet type device.
From the geo perspective there is some interesting speculation (initially based on trademarks) on the Vector 1 blog and Geek.com about a new apple mapping application (or platform) coming with it. Do we have another disruptive mapping technology [...]
The Guardian reports:
The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April…..Gordon Brown announced the change at a joint event in London today…In the new year Brown intends to publish 2,000 sets of data…
Is this too good to be true??? We will have to wait until April to [...]
The AGI Northern Group are organising a great event for November 10th in Harrogate called Where2.0 Now.
I really recommend going to this event, there is an excellent line-up of speakers:
Chris Osborne – http://www.cloudsourced.com/
Chris Parker – http://www.geovation.org.uk/
Craig Moulding- http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/siteinfo/online-services/maps/index.jsp
Dr Michael Sanderson [...]
This is a very cool, it displays Open Street Map maps within the Bing Maps Silverlight API. A super slick silverlighty navigation experience! You can set the opacity so you can see the bing maps and aerial underneath. You can even rotate on the X, Y and Z axis!
More info here on this and [...]
I enjoyed this:
Which gives this:
I love it!
Thanks to Orange_Monkey!
I am not quite sure what to say about this story here:
Search titan Google has been hit with a lawsuit in France with one Bottin Cartographes, a company offering multimedia maps, has filed a complaint with the Paris commercial court regarding the Google Maps service. According to Bottin Cartographes, Google is engaged in unfair business [...]
I am loving the Where’s Gary map game!
As mapperz explains:
Walkers Crisps and Multimap have join together to create a fun game. Find Gary three times in a day and you can claim one ‘Gary’s Great Trips’ point.
I have only managed to find him [...]
Today I went on a trip back to my old stomping ground, Ordnance Survey, to present at CC:The Exchange Conference on web mapping APIs and innovation. This time I used a bit of HTML and a series of demos (rather than the death by ppt experience). It seemed to work out well, apart from Ordnance [...]
Soul Solutions have a great blog post on using Azure to store custom image tiles (i.e. with your own data) for overlay on Bing Maps.
A little bit of GIS in the cloud… Neat…
