Maps etc.
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Mapping concepts, topics, etc.
- OpenStreetMap - an
open-source project that
‘creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps
to anyone who wants them’. The Web sites are rather confusing
because there are a number of related projects, a number of ways
of accessing the maps, a number of different map renderings, and
a number of ways to edit and export the maps, and the relationships
of all these bits are not always well explained for newcomers.
- The home page provides access to the map for
viewing, editing and exporting, and permits uploading
and management of GPS traces.
- OpenStreetMap wiki
provides documentation.
E-mail lists
are also available; the newbies list is really
a general users list, as opposed to the developers' list
and various other specialized lists.
- OSM Inspector
‘created as a more or less general tool to show different views of OSM data
in order to help advanced OSM users debug the data.’
Among other things, it provides access to detailed histories of individual
nodes and ways.
-
The Information Freeway offers a number of alternative
base layers and an optional Maplint overlay;
I haven't found any documentation and it's not clear
what the different layers do.
At zoom = 6 and 12, individual tiles are outlined;
it used to support the typing of
'r' to render and 'i' for status information but these
no longer work since Tiles@Home was decommissioned.
- MapOSMatic
renders city maps on demand, for printing on
large paper or in sets of regular-size paper,
with street indexes.
-
OpenCycleMap is based on OSM; it also uses
NASA's SRTM topographic data for height contours
(ref)
-
OpenPisteMap, also based on OSM, shows a map of
skiing and snowboarding pistes.
- CloudMade offers
maps with selectable styles.
- One can also create customized maps and embed them in a Web site
(see switch2osm.org.
- FOSM is a fork of OSM,
presumably because of disagreements about OSM's change of licence.
- Natural Earth
provides public-domain map data with tightly integrated vector
and raster data at 1:10M, 1:50M AND 1:110M scales.
- Other mapping projects:
WikiMapia,
MapOMatix,
Tagzania,
GlobeFeed.com
-
LOCOSYS Genie GT-31/BGT-31 is a neat handheld GPS device.
OpenStreetMap has a
special deal with the UK distributor whereby
10% of the price is donated to the project.
The Canadian distributor is
Mobile GPS Online.
- MyTourBook
is an open-source programme to visualize and analyze tours
which are recorded by
a GPS device, a bike or exercise computer, or an ergometer.
Among many other features, it displays the tours (tracks) over
maps from a number of different sources, and can display
speed, altitude and
gradient profiles against either time or distance.
For Linux, Mac and MS Windows.
-
GPX Editor
by Pixel_K is an open-source graphical editor for GPX files. It displays
tracks over Google maps or OpenStreetMap maps
(including the cyling and piste versions), and altitude profiles.
For MS Windows only. Is convenient for cutting GPX tracks into
pieces for subsequent analysis by MyTourBook.
- Google Earth is a client
running locally, for Mac & Microsoft Windows, which includes
elevation data, the ability to add markers, etc.
- Google Maps
- Mapquest mapping service
(examples 1,
2,
3)
(Tripquest
also links to Mapquest)
- multimap.com - maps and
aerial photos (based in UK)
- The USGS Store provides free
1:24 000 scanned topographic maps of the U.S.A.,
among other things that are mostly not free
R. Funnell
Last modified: 2012-04-18 08:47:19
Maps of Montréal
(Navigateur urbain
includes aerial photos from 2002; uses Java)
