PUBLIC MARKS with tags cartographie & geo

Vernacular geography is the sense of place that is revealed in ordinary people's language.

A simple RESTful web service. POST your text content - either plain text, or HTML pages or XML containing metadata - and get back a feed of the named places found in the text, with best guesses as to their locations.

The geocommit data consists of key/value pairs. Keys are

lowercase alphanumeric identifier including _ and -.

Values are numbers or strings not containing

linebreaks, commas and colons.

Une carte subjective, c'est une carte réalisée par un habitant ou un groupe d'habitants avec l'aide d'une équipe de géographes du dimanche ou autres artistes. Elle est ensuite imprimée et rendue publique dans les espaces de communication officiels des villes.

>* Plotting a dot for each geo-localized article on a world map. > That would give a kind of coverage of where are the things we talk > about on Wikipedia. This could also create cartogram map where the > density of article shapes the map rendering. I've done that already, these two maps show the article density around the north german city of Schleswig, using Google Maps and a generic OpenLayers layer respectively, * http://www.websitedev.de/temp/dewp-artikeldichte-um-schleswig.html * http://www.websitedev.de/temp/openlayers-heatmap-layer.html Doing this for all articles would push the file size to around 5MB and browsers aren't really up to the task of drawing 200 000 rectangles, and I haven't found a proper public domain OpenLayers compatible map service so I could at least make a static image of it.

We’ll be most interested in sites where the human and the geologic intersect–where humans today meet Lake Bonneville of the Pleistocene. At such sites, what is no longer becomes what is today.

We plan to pause to take in how humans have built and designed, perhaps unknowingly, a world upon and across the floor of ancient Lake Bonneville. We wonder what this vast body of water, a lake that was designated “extinct” around 14,000 years ago, continues to make possible for human life in 2010.

Yahoo! just recently rolled out Yahoo! Y sketch for iPhone a cool search tool where users simply sketch an area of interest on a map and look for hits of interest returned within the area… very clever!

Maps on a Stick, a simple client-side mapping tool that lets you access map tilesets and mash them up with information while you're offline. Maps on a Stick runs on either a USB drive or directly from a hard drive and allows you to browse custom baselayer maps and add KML overlays to them without connecting to the internet.

Mapstraction is a library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible. Developers can code their applications once, and then easily switch mapping provider based on project needs, terms and conditions, and new functionality.

Poking around the GeoNames site tonight I noticed that they've added a new API method called findNearbyStreetsOSM.

The Big Board is a real-time collaborative environment for mapping. Users open “conference rooms” on a shared map, and join conversations in these conference rooms, much like in a regular teleconferencing application. However, instead of sharing faces and powerpoints and speech over the wire, users draw on and add content to a shared map or very large image.

LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.

The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat has established the Standard on Geospatial Data for the Government of Canada. The Standard on Geospatial Data supports the Policy on Information Management and the Policy on the Management of Information Technology of the Government of Canada. The Standard will facilitate interoperability across institutions and increase their ability to identify, understand, use, and share geospatial data. This standard also allows institutions to maximize the reuse of existing mapping and related products.

Geochat emerged from a simple concept - can I send an SMS message and see it on a map?

pdate for TrailRunner, the outdoor oriented route-planning and journaling software for Mac OS X. This major milestone release now adds a routing feature based on openStreetMap,

Thematic Mapping API is a new JavaScript library which allows you to create thematic maps from your own data source.

Once freed from the awkward initial step of building their own base map, non-specialists rapidly colonized the online mapping space.

So what I love about WOE ID is it is a simple non mapping solution to an age old spatial problem. In fact a map is ultimately relegated to just a display function.

Ortelius is different. It is a dedicated map-making illustration program exclusively for Mac OS X that knows geography. Instead of building maps from lines and primitive shapes, you draw directly with roads, railways, boundaries, buildings, woods and streams. Generate contour lines from elevation points. Label items using a consistent style.