Category Archives: Geodata
World population by Longitude and Latitude
POPULATION HISTOGRAMS by Bill Rankin, 2008 More fun with numbers! Roughly 88% of the world’s population lives in the northern hemisphere, and about half the world’s population lives north of 27°N. Taking the northern and southern hemispheres together, on average … Continue reading
Map about Nuclear Explosions from 1945-1998
The followin video shows the location of all nuclear explotions starting with Hiroshima in the year 1945. The timeline will move until 1998. This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to … Continue reading
Posted in Geodata, Videos
Tagged atari, ctbto, explostions, isao hashimoto, Japan, nuclear bombs, video map
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Test: Map provides or route planners and their actual (or outdated) map material
LandkartenBlog.de has tested 23 different map providers in case of accuracy and actuality. The results surprises in both directions – positive (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps) and negative (Falk, Bing and Yahoo). Actual map data is a weak point of many Internet route … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Geodata
Tagged 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, bing maps, falk, Geodata, herold, herold.at, highway, Map, map23, material, navteq, new map, new roads, route palnner, street segments, TeleAtlas, update, viamichelin, yahoo maps
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If It was my Home – see the dimension on the map
The Website ifitwasmyhome.com shows the dimension of the oil catastrophe. Now you can overlay it virtually on your region via a map. http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/ Some information from the Website…
Posted in Geodata
Tagged british petrol, deep water horizon, deepwater, disaster, dp, oil, texas
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Open Geocoding Ressource – OpenAddresses.org
Recently the Beta version of www.openaddresses.org started. Openaddresses is the counterpart of Openstreetmap storing open and freely available Address data. The address data can be used by Geocoding or Reverse Geocoding services. The project started with www.openaddresses.ch and www.openaddresses.at, resulting … Continue reading
Posted in Geodata
Tagged address, address data, geocoding, oa, openaddresses, openstreetmap, osm, reverse geocoding
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Your own Map Server with custom styled OSM tiles
In comparison to most commercial map services like Google Maps and Bing Maps street data from the OpenStreeMap (OSM) project can be downloaded and used via GIS tool or cartographic renderer offline. The software Kosmos by Igor Brejc allows to … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Geodata
Tagged cached, download map data, kosmos, local, Map, mapserver, ms, offline data, open street map, osm, tiles
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Graphic Design in Google Maps Roadmap Style
Christoph Niemann is a New Yorker graphic designer. One of his collections includes illustrations in Google Maps roadmap style and is called “My Way“. View some of his illustrations:
Posted in Fun, Geodata
Tagged Design, fictional maps, google maps style, graphic, interesting maps, strange maps
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Location in 2010: Social Networks and ennobling raw data
Location in 2010 – What are the trends. Through my point of view there are two: (Mobile) Location (APIs) and Social Networks Ennobling of Raw Data Socail Networks are Location aware. We all know this. According to the NY Times, … Continue reading
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Tagged Facebook, gocdata, location API, mobile API, opendata, raw data, raw data now, ted, tim berners lee
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