Online COVID-19 Maps and the ‘Infodemic’
Researchers have been evaluating the effectiveness and accuracy of online CoVID-19 maps.
How Texas is Using Geospatial Technologies to Mitigate Forest Fires
Texas A&M Forest Service partnered with Timmons Group, a national geospatial solutions firm, to develop the Texas Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal (TxWRAP).
OpenRouteService’s ‘Quiet Routing’ Creates a Less Stressful Route for Pedestrians
Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf introduces OpenRouteService’s experimental routing option ‘Quiet Routing’ which guides pedestrian travel around noisy urban areas.
How to Embed Mapillary’s Street Level Imagery Into Any Mapping Platform
MapillaryJS is a platform-agnostic WebGL JavaScript library for displaying street level photos which allows for integration with a variety of mapping applications.
Paper Maps Refuse to Die in the Digital Age
In today’s era of digital maps, the use of paper maps might seem a bit antiquated. When Google Maps are easily accessible through any computer, … Read more
Global Forest Watch: A Real-Time Mapping Project
Data from Global Forest Watch, an online forest monitoring and alert system is now available via an online mapping platform. Users of this data portal can add maps, datasets, and applications to their forest projects and better analyze indicators of forest change.
Cat Map
With over 11,000 cat locations mapped to date, the Cat Map is a crowd sourced survey of domestic feline
Open MapQuest
Google’s recent enforcement of Google Maps API usage, resulting in charges for those exceeding the stated free usage quotas, has led some web sites to … Read more
Online Mapping Sites
Web mapping is now vital to most people, providing virtual geography and driving directions on a daily basis.
Mapping Citizen Engagement through GIS
Guest article by Timothy W. Carl Nowadays mapping tools are commonplace, especially on the internet, and we can see anything and anywhere with just a … Read more
Walk Score To Go Open Source
Walk Score is preparing to go open source which they announced on their blog and in a press release.. At walksource.org the source code will … Read more