Web Mapping
Automapki
If you have AutoCad files that you want to overlay onto Bing Maps, Google Maps, Yahoo Maps or OpenStreetMaps, then try Automapki. The application works with AutoCAD 2010 or higher and is integrated with over 3,000 coordinate systems. There is a trial version that allows users to test out Automapki for 15 days. Thereafter, there is [...]
Google Maps: Short URLS and Voice Search
The Google LatLong blog posted about the availability of Short URLs
Geo APIs Summer Learning Series
The Google Geo Developers Blog has been hosting its Geo APIs Summer Learning Series. The series unfolds and expands on the technical aspect of sessions from the recent Google I/O 2011 developer conference. Posts from the Summer Learning Series: Google Places API Secrets and Surprises Managing and visualizing your location based data with Fusion Tables [...]
So Long, Yahoo! Map APIs
Yahoo! has announced the service closure of several of its Maps APIs starting September 13, 2011. The restructure, according to Yahoo!, is due to its reprioritizing of its “current portfolio of mapping products to refocus on a great consumer Mapping and Local Search experience.” Developers are encouraged to continue to use Yahoo!’s Placefinder API for geocoding, [...]
GeoCommons 2.0 Launches
GeoIQ (formerly FortiusOne) has announced the launch of GeoCommons 2.0. GeoCommons is a crowdsourced repository for data and maps created by users. Since its launch in 2008, the site has over 28,000 users and 508,000 freely available data layers. That activity has resulted in the sharing of over 2.5 million data sets and been used to create [...]