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Archives for August 3, 2007

ACME labs mashup with Google maps, USGS DRGs, DOQs, and more

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Got a tip off (thanks Jim!) about a clever mashup from ACME labs.. I think I actually saw this a while back but its cool to revisit! According to the developers, ACME Mapper 2.0 is a high-precision general purpose mapping application, based on Google Maps with a bunch of things added on. At first glance it looks like the vanilla google maps but look deeper and there’s much more… In the upper right corner are some buttons that let you change the type of map. ACME Mapper adds the Topo and DOQ types, which are not in standard Google Maps. These come from TerraServer’s Web Services. In the lower right corner you can optionally have an overview map widget. In the lower right you have the Control Panel. This lets you do all sorts of stuff. All the controls have ‘tooltips’, so one way to find out what something does is to move your mouse over that item – a short description will pop up. So, users can easily view a Google map of any area, a hybrid nashup, USGS topo sheet, USGS DOQ, or a color aerial photo mosaic… SWEET! See http://mapper.acme.com/


USGS topo sheet, Fort Collins, CO

USGS DOQ

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ACME labs mashup with Google maps, USGS DRGs, DOQs, and more

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Got a tip off (thanks Jim!) about a clever mashup from ACME labs.. I think I actually saw this a while back but its cool to revisit! According to the developers, ACME Mapper 2.0 is a high-precision general purpose mapping application, based on Google Maps with a bunch of things added on. At first glance it looks like the vanilla google maps but look deeper and there’s much more… In the upper right corner are some buttons that let you change the type of map. ACME Mapper adds the Topo and DOQ types, which are not in standard Google Maps. These come from TerraServer’s Web Services. In the lower right corner you can optionally have an overview map widget. In the lower right you have the Control Panel. This lets you do all sorts of stuff. All the controls have ‘tooltips’, so one way to find out what something does is to move your mouse over that item – a short description will pop up. So, users can easily view a Google map of any area, a hybrid nashup, USGS topo sheet, USGS DOQ, or a color aerial photo mosaic… SWEET! See http://mapper.acme.com/


USGS topo sheet, Fort Collins, CO

USGS DOQ

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City of Nanaimo and more kudos from the media – here’s details on what Nanaimo serves up for Google earth users

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The City of Nanaimo, BC (that’s on Vancouver Island where I used to live) is getting some great attention thanks to some recent comments from Gogole CTO Michael Jones made at GeoWeb event, Vancouver. An article hit the Victoria Times Colonist online but really didn’t say too much unfortunately. From the article… With the quick click of a mouse, Google Earth will provide any Internet user with a 3-D image of buildings in downtown Nanaimo or the curved streets that cover the city’s north end. That’s pretty much all that the reporter provides their readers. Unfortunately they didn’t really delve into the who, what, where, when, why or how to really explain the story.. too bad!

Of interest, I noted a year ago how the City of Nanaimo was putting their data up in KML and provided some detailed information about what users could do with these data. See the article here

Interesting to note that The City of Nanaimo is also very proactive AutoCAD house and user of OSGeo technology – aka MapGuide Open Source. The city’s “Mapguide & GIS guru”, Jason Birch hasn’t received mention in any of the recent press.. too bad as Jason has been quite instrumental in getting Google Earth data rolling out of the city’s website.. Jason, you still there?? He’s also their MapGuide expert and very involved with the open source movement. You can follow Jason on his Random Nodes blog – (hey Jason, where’s the link to AnyGeo blog ;0)!!

Of note, the City of Portland has done some cool things with G. Earth and the City of Hamburg (as pointed out by Gearth blog) has some great 3D buildings now available in the Google Earth layer… a great example of what cities could/should be doing with all that great data they have locked up… especially 3D data!

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City of Nanaimo and more kudos from the media – here’s details on what Nanaimo serves up for Google earth users

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The City of Nanaimo, BC (that’s on Vancouver Island where I used to live) is getting some great attention thanks to some recent comments from Gogole CTO Michael Jones made at GeoWeb event, Vancouver. An article hit the Victoria Times Colonist online but really didn’t say too much unfortunately. From the article… With the quick click of a mouse, Google Earth will provide any Internet user with a 3-D image of buildings in downtown Nanaimo or the curved streets that cover the city’s north end. That’s pretty much all that the reporter provides their readers. Unfortunately they didn’t really delve into the who, what, where, when, why or how to really explain the story.. too bad!

Of interest, I noted a year ago how the City of Nanaimo was putting their data up in KML and provided some detailed information about what users could do with these data. See the article here

Interesting to note that The City of Nanaimo is also very proactive AutoCAD house and user of OSGeo technology – aka MapGuide Open Source. The city’s “Mapguide & GIS guru”, Jason Birch hasn’t received mention in any of the recent press.. too bad as Jason has been quite instrumental in getting Google Earth data rolling out of the city’s website.. Jason, you still there?? He’s also their MapGuide expert and very involved with the open source movement. You can follow Jason on his Random Nodes blog – (hey Jason, where’s the link to AnyGeo blog ;0)!!

Of note, the City of Portland has done some cool things with G. Earth and the City of Hamburg (as pointed out by Gearth blog) has some great 3D buildings now available in the Google Earth layer… a great example of what cities could/should be doing with all that great data they have locked up… especially 3D data!

Suggested Web Resources:

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