Posts under ‘Web Development’

For the past 10+ years, many people have been building catalogs of metadata for geospatial resources, such as GIS digital data, hardcopy maps and documentation, web mapping services, etc… Geospatial metadata have traditionally been created in XML-based formats, such as FGDC (for US) and ISO compatible, and cataloged by numerous systems, some FOSS [...]

One of the most common questions I get is how to find the latitude and longitude of a location. At first glance, it may seem exceptionally obvious, especially to a GIS person. However, imagine the question comes from a person with little or no experience in geospatial technology, which is usually the case. [...]

Just did a quick serach for cool Google Mashups and found some of these.
The site I picked out of the bunch was a concept that I found interesting when I was naming my son four years ago.
http://www.babynamemap.com/
Take a look to see just how spatial things like names can be!!!
Here are a few other cools mashups:

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I was looking for a few Google Maps examples for a simple Google map with multiple location geocoding and information blocks that pop up with details on each location and a “directions” link. This is something fairly simple, but it’s always good to see how others are doing this.
As with most things, when you [...]