Web Mapping
Map of the Internet App
PEER1 Hosting has recently unveiled its map app of the Internet. This unique app shows the world how the Internet has evolved since the year 1994, the connections between major ISP’s, as well as the evolution and inception of major websites such as Facebook and Google. This new map app builds on the static map [...]
Cat Map
With over 11,000 cat locations mapped to date, the Cat Map is a crowd sourced survey of domestic felines. What is this mapping effort and why was it created? What is The Cat Map? This online map was developed by the Zoological Community of London. The main aim of this organization is to promote and [...]
Converting Shapefiles to Google Fusion Tables
Google Fusion Tables provides a relatively easy way to display geographic data on top of Google Maps. Data can be uploaded in .csv, .tsv, or .txt file formats and the geocoded based on a field (or fields) that is designated as having location information (address, city, country, lat/long, etc.). This process works well for point data [...]
Twitter Map of the Last One Million Tweets
Want to see where the most recent one million geolocated tweets were posted from? The One Million Tweets Twitter map was created by Maptimize and shows the real time location of tweets from around the world. The One Million Tweets map does exactly that – it is a Twitter map showing, in real time, the [...]
Hurricane Sandy Maps with Open Data and GIS Publication Platforms
This guest submission by Chris Brown, CEO of MangoMap, takes a look at how open data and online GIS publication platforms empower individuals to create Hurricane Sandy maps. As Hurricane Sandy began bearing down on the eastern seaboard of the U.S this weekend the National Hurricane Center were busy making updates to its predictions for [...]