May 16
To visual geographic content most of the people I know use Google Maps. But must if always e Google Maps? in my opinion NO! Currently there are great alternatives out there, where you can do a lot more than with Google Maps. Interesting projects comming from the open source community. I think the main problem (at least in my country) is that people simple don’t know much about these possibilities, therefore I’d like to provide some links:
On the Example page of OpenLayers a lot of differnt maps are shown, where you can get an idea what is possible and how it works.
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May 17th, 2008 at 1:29 am
I think we’re looking at two solutions to two problems here.
Problem one > I have no GIS background or data, and I want to publish a map of how to get to my house. Answer one = google maps, yahoo maps, http://zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/
Problem two > I have just done some GIS analysis and I now want to publish the results online. Answer two = OpenLayers, Tilecache, GeoServer, Ka-Map etc
I bet there are thousands of web developers out there who know how to implement the google maps API, but have no idea what a TAB / SHP / WFS etc is.
Sorry about this but it’s Saturday, so I’m trying to be funny -> Must it always be google ads?
May 17th, 2008 at 8:08 am
[...] you can afford to do without a substantial set of free geodata, then you may answer the question, “must it always be Google Maps?” with a clear “no”! For example, follow the Open Layers Blog and you have a pretty good [...]