tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11315842010-01-28T14:35:01.593+01:00webmapper: what the map can beAn angry, young cartographer: all about visualising geographic information online, except when it's not.Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comBlogger566125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-24435124423951892492010-01-28T13:57:00.005+01:002010-01-28T14:34:57.960+01:00Paper maps, improvedGo check out Map 2, the Zoomable Map on Paper. It's a brilliant idea put on paper (no pun intended): unfolding a map gives you a larger-scaled version of the same area you were looking at when it was unfolded. Fair enough, we have seen inset maps on cartographic products for centuries that highlight a particular area (e.g. a town plan) or of the main map or display a different topic (e.g. the Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-83219538826916198072009-12-14T14:36:00.004+01:002009-12-14T14:51:16.154+01:00Advanced mapperyTonight, I will attend the discussion Advanced Mappery, hosted by De Balie in Amsterdam. The discussion will be among Michiel de Lange, Henk van Houtum, and Ferjan Ormeling, who taught me in cartography. Together with representatives of Bliin and InformationLab, Webmapper will be in the audience and show some new applications of cartography.
The discussion tonight marks the launch of the New Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-20470667384654938232009-12-05T12:46:00.008+01:002009-12-05T13:40:44.383+01:00Atlases win Rotterdam Design Prize 2009The prestigious Rotterdam Design Prize 2009 was awarded this year to graphic designer Joost Grootens for his set of four atlases:
Vinex Atlas
Metropolitan World Atlas
The Big KAN Atlas, mental atlas of the Arnhem-Nijmegen urban network
Limes Atlas
[...] Grootens's atlases are indicative of the moment, representing an extraordinary redesign of the atlas typology. The atlases made clear the Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-78769611645018431392009-11-06T20:53:00.007+01:002009-11-06T22:59:25.971+01:00New looks: MapQuest v. Google MapsEarlier this year, Google Maps finally took over MapQuest's lead position in the US mapping arena based on the number of monthly unique visitors. Within a week of each other, both mapping websites have just changed their cartographic styles improve the legibility of their maps in another attempt to differentiate themselves and to attract more visitors. Google Maps was the first to unveil its newEdward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-32203095623624487312009-11-02T21:14:00.004+01:002009-11-09T09:30:35.864+01:00QGIS Developer MeetingJust recovered from his jetlag upon his return from Sydney, where he attended FOSS4G 2009 together with other members of the OpenGeoGroep, Richard has already booked his next trip. He'll be attending the Quantum GIS Developer Meeting in Vienna, 5-9 November.
For about a year now, Richard serves as a member of the Release Management Team for Quantum GIS. Also, he is the gatekeeper for the Dutch Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-21338907131582769972009-10-30T08:48:00.002+01:002009-10-30T09:08:52.662+01:00Inspiring night: LayarLast night, Peter Dubois of Living Doc. and I attended the Inspiring Night workshop organised by Wonderful World and hosted by Inspiring Cities. The workshop brought together artists, journalists, academics, and entrepreneurs to investigate the opportunities of Augmented Reality (AR) in the urban context now facilitated by Layar.
Our aim was to see whether Layar may provide us with a new Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-21918756522103731702009-09-11T21:12:00.007+02:002009-09-11T22:06:43.606+02:00Whose map is this anyway?Yesterday's paper edition of the free newspaper Spits carried an article about the Dutch roots of Manhattan on page 5, illustrated with a map of Lower Manhattan, highlighting City Hall, Wall Street, Fraunces Tavern, and Whitehall Street. Although merely the locations and snapshots of these locations were added on top of what is clearly a screenshot of Google Maps, the copyright notice on the map Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-58046517600191448402009-09-09T21:57:00.004+02:002009-09-11T21:01:26.420+02:00SoC Summer School, day 3After last night's Ceilidh, it was a very thoughtful gesture of the organising committee to have the morning programme start a half an hour later than yesterday. Peter Miller from ITO World started the morning session with a thought-provoking review of the information stream bus passengers typically find at a bus stop (big advertising posters put up by JCDecaux and small time table leaflets from Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-49579000030974415852009-09-08T23:31:00.000+02:002009-09-09T01:10:54.754+02:00SoC Summer School, day 2Wrapping up another mind-buzzing day here in Southampton after the second day of the SoC 45th Summer School. Started off this morning with a session about crowd-/cloudsourcing from GeoFabrik, Webmapper and ITO, which was matched by another session later this morning that focused on Ordnance Survey, its OpenSpace API, and Geovation, innovation centered around geography. OS likened the Geovation Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-15258670710980027802009-09-07T18:08:00.001+02:002009-09-08T19:01:28.225+02:00SoC Summer School, day 1Just a brief note from Southampton, where I am currently attending the Society of Cartographers 45th Annual Summer School. Yesterday, we started with a great session about Emergency Mapping. Keir Clarke from Google Maps Mania started off and brought up an interesting discussion, that immediacy is more important than accuracy for most online mapping applications. He also felt, that immediacy is Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-41062720515475541702009-08-31T10:47:00.010+02:002009-08-31T12:34:38.387+02:00Crowdsourcing traffic informationWhat is the crowd in crowdsourcing? Are you asking a crowd of people to contribute to your crowdsourcing initiative, or are their devices contributing without any human intervention? That's more or less the bottom-line of the argument that Waze brings up in its comment on Google's initiative to crowdsource traffic information. Waze is a social mobile application providing free turn-by-turn Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-40920633518050094522009-07-20T14:05:00.000+02:002009-07-20T14:09:48.894+02:00Thematic mapping by Bing MapsWith the launch of the MSN UK Local website and Microsoft's involvement in the ESRI MapIt software and online services, Microsoft Bing Maps is establishing a reputation in thematic mapping (or had I better say business intelligence mapping?). Is this part of Microsoft's Blue Ocean Strategy, if we regard online mapping as the Red Ocean, where Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Microsoft Bing Maps and Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-6912806345068909942009-06-16T10:23:00.007+02:002009-06-16T11:01:07.597+02:00BCS, SOTM, SoC, AGI and FOSS4GIt's a busy conference season for Webmapper! Check out the list below:
June 17th - 20th, 2009
The British Cartographic Society Annual Symposium : Mapping at Work, Newport Pagnell, UK
July 10th - 12th, 2009
State of the Map 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 7th - 9th, 2009
45th Annual Summer School of the Society of Cartographers, Southampton, UK
September 23rd - 24th, 2009
AGI Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-90841154920607973432009-06-10T14:30:00.000+02:002009-06-10T14:31:45.861+02:00Mapping EU election resultsThe results of the election for the European parliament that took place between 4 and 7 June have been consolidated. While most news websites simply map the results for their home country, some map the results from across Europe. No static maps or Google Maps mash-ups this time: all maps are interactive and make use of Flash.
The German newspapers Die Zeit and Der Spiegel, the Dutch public Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-90234200956019618782009-06-04T22:25:00.002+02:002009-06-04T22:31:02.395+02:00New name, new logo, new map typeNot only did Microsoft bring Live Maps and Virtual Earth under one name: Bing Maps and Bing Maps for Enterprise respectively, also Google Maps and Google Earth recently updated their looks with a new logo! Will Bing bring some of the much needed consistency in naming Microsoft's mapping activities? Who could really tell the difference between Virtual Earth, Live Local, Live Search Maps, and Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-18163423407670222922009-05-26T10:45:00.003+02:002009-05-26T11:56:52.576+02:00Tim Toady on the roadThere's more than one way to do it (TIMTOWTDI)! Do what? Well, to get from A to B. Last Friday, Google Maps still shows you the best route, but in addition now shows one or two additional routes under the Suggested Routes heading. While the best route has the lowest cost (determined by a mixture of factors such as distance, travel time, and number of turns), the other suggestions may be more Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-6138833818467383222009-05-23T20:47:00.001+02:002009-05-23T20:48:22.728+02:00Ovi Maps for developersThis week at Where 2.0, Nokia announced their opening up of Ovi Maps by starting an invitation-based beta for the Ovi Maps Player API. I have just signed up and received an automated reply from Nokia Forum:
Thank you for registering for the Maps Player beta programme. We?re looking through applications for the program, and we?ll be in touch very soon. In the meantime, you can share your thoughts Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-29323860170501898282009-05-19T09:11:00.007+02:002009-05-19T09:39:45.917+02:00The Earth, The Human Being Turning over the front page of the newspaper Trouw this morning, my eyes caught the striking image of a still taken from the video The Earth, The Human Being by Xu Huijing.
Each of us is a universe. We used to be integrated with the earth, but are shattered apart in the reality. This is the world where we walk around like fearless monsters. We are limbs incised from a body, a finger, a neck, a Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-41634080718345408082009-05-18T09:00:00.009+02:002009-05-18T12:35:16.938+02:00OpenSpace opens up at lastThe Ordnance Survey (OS), the British National Mapping Agency (NMA), is finally getting to grips with Web 2.0 and has relaunched its JavaScript-based mapping API OpenSpace under a much more lenient agreement. Under this new agreement, only commercial websites that are directly making money from the use of data (e.g. by charging for a service) or high-volume websites that exceed the daily usage Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-90553997208469758482009-05-13T21:18:00.006+02:002009-05-13T23:26:07.911+02:00Navteq: yet another mapping website?Close the Java console and wait for the Loading Latest Navteq Map banner to disappear before you can admire the new Navteq website. As of yesterday, the website features the beta release of a showcase for maps, real-time traffic (US-only for now) and dynamic location content (i.e. POIs). The change comes only within weeks of the overhaul of Traffic.com. Rather than the humble message of Navteq Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-86802811362114580962009-05-08T21:38:00.002+02:002009-05-08T21:41:00.605+02:00ilse media launches hier.nl Although the newly-launched hier.nl is first and foremost a location-based application for mobile phones that can also be accessed in a mobile browser, it is also available on the Web. Here you can register, have the application downloaded to your mobile phone, and see on the map what is going on near you. It takes information from many of the other online properties from ilse media such as Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-17390978773700554742009-05-07T18:46:00.001+02:002009-05-07T18:51:43.329+02:00SoC Summer School 2009 The 45th Annual Summer School of the Society of Cartographers is to take place in Southampton from September 7 to 9. Some talks (including mine!) and workshops have already been confirmed, but you can still submit paper proposals about a diverse range of themes, including map symbolisation, transport and emergency mapping, crowdsourcing data, and mapping for Wikispaces.
Going by my experience ofEdward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-76295423932054544732009-05-07T16:40:00.005+02:002009-05-07T16:57:51.801+02:00Multimap for Outlook, IE and FFThe UK-based mapping website Multimap debuts an exciting new section on the website: Explore with Multimap. You can read travel tips from MSN editors (Map Readings), find the favourite places from other Multimap visitors (Viewpoints), and most of all: try handy map tools for Outlook 2007, IE8 and Firefox 3.0 (Toolbox).
Tim Warr, Technology Specialist and Evangelist at Multimap, explains that the Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-37239250143983662932009-05-01T23:38:00.006+02:002009-05-02T09:50:03.689+02:00Get traffic info, your wayThe overhaul of Traffic.com unveiled earlier this week, marks the long-overdue alignment of Navteq's online presence and branding after the acquisitions of Traffic.com and Map24. The visual brand alignment of Map24 was completed already back in February this year. Also TomTom's agreement with TrafficCast is visible online now that the TomTom Route Planner doesn't only include traffic information Edward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131584.post-59494633961895626722009-04-19T18:50:00.002+02:002009-04-19T19:03:29.525+02:00Going local in the low countriesThe launch of Microsoft's Live Search Maps Netherlands with local listings from the telephone directory De Telefoongids and the business directory De Gouden Gids was already back in January and was picked up by quite a few mapping blogs at the time. However, it wasn't until about two weeks ago that Dutch marketing blogs such as Marketingfacts, Dutch Cowboys, and Adformatie finally spread the newsEdward Mac Gillavryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643360659947492995noreply@blogger.com