Make Your Own Maps with Google Maps Engine Lite
Google Maps Engine Lite is a simpler version of the Google Maps Engine that allows users to create and share their own maps.
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Mapping Emancipation Events during the Civil War
“Visualizing Emancipation,” the first interactive map showing the end of American slavery during the U.S. Civil War, has been launched by the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab in partnership with geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company Azavea.
Titanic Mapping
April 15th marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean. Esri has created a map story that looks … Read more
MapCite: Web Mapping and Excel Location Intelligence Applications
MapCite is a geographic data visualization company that offers both a web mapping and Excel interface for users to analyze their location data. MapCite is … Read more
TileMill: Open Source Mapping Now for Windows
TileMill can now be used natively in Windows with the latest release. The release of TileMill 0.9.0 also includes a new plugin system: “TileMill UI can now be extended … Read more
WorldMap: An Open Source Software Platform
Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis recently released WorldMap, an open source mapping application designed to make it easier for researchers to upload large GIS datasets and to … Read more
Fabric Engine: 3D LiDAR Rendering Via Web Browsers
Fabric Engine enables developers to create compute-intensive web applications with comparable performance to native, multi-threaded applications. Fabric Engine achieves this by tapping into all of … Read more
Every Tree Counts: Using PhillyTreeMap for Collaborative Urban Forestry
Philadelphia, like many American cities, has a wealth of urban trees. Collectively known as the “urban forest,” these are the trees that line our city … Read more