Tag Archives: Webservice
4 Years OpenStreetMap – Details & Interviews
Two years ago OpenStreetMap (OSM) was completely unknown in the german-speaking community and central Europe. Today several places in the world have already very detailed and sophisticated maps, produced by volunteers. People uses GPS devices or local knowledge to make … Continue reading
Posted in GeoWeb, Internet
Tagged 4 years, Advantages, Details, Disadvantages, free data, Geodata, Interview, Map, Mapping, openstreetmap, osm, service, Web, webmap, Webservice
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Geotree a new service of Geonames.org
In the beginning of this year Geonames.org has released a new Service called Geotree. This service structure Country information and other spatial information in a tree view, which can be accessed together with a map. Currently (March 2008) version 1.2 … Continue reading
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Tagged geonames, geotree, geoweb, geowebservice, Location, Maps, open source, Webservice
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GeoNames – A Free GeoWebservice
GeoNames is a geographical data base freely available and accessible through various Web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license. The GeoNames database contains over 8,000,000 geographical names corresponding to over 6,500,000 unique features. All features are categorized into one … Continue reading
