Tag: web mapping
Make Your Own Maps with Google Maps Engine Lite
Google released the beta for its Google Maps Engine Lite which allows users to easily create their own maps on top of a Google Maps basemap. This lighter version of Google Maps Engine is designed for users that want to create simple maps which can then be easily shared.
Mapping Social Vulnerability
Oxfam America has released new maps about the geography and the people of the US Southeast, specifically Louisiana and Mississippi. This project follows Oxfam’s previous maps of the entire Southeast, but provides more detail and depth. The maps illustrate how climate hazards pose the most risk to communities that share certain characteristics of social vulnerability–such as poverty, larger [...]
Making Maps with D3
D3 is a JavaScript data visualization library using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3 stands for Data Driven Documents and was developed by Mike Bostock, Jeff Heer and Vadim Ogievetsky as a successor to the Protovis framework. Making maps with D3 The 3.0 release of D3 now includes a geographic projection system. Common geographic projections are included in the default build of [...]
GeoSocial Interactive Map for Transportation Project Planning
This week a spectacular conference aimed towards transportation professionals is being held in Los Angeles called Rail~Volution. The aim of the annual conference is to promote dialogue about developing communities to promote transit as a critical component of livable cities. Started in 1989 in Portland, Oregon, over 500 attendees will attend this year’s offering of [...]
Investigating Health Inequalities Across England Using Web Mapping
This tutorial about using GIS to investigate health inequalities in England is a guest contribution by Robert Lang. Local Health is an online GIS site of United Kingdom Health Profiles that has been created by Geoclip a French GIS company for the Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO) for the NHS to allow users in health [...]