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Archives for July 15, 2013

ESRIUC Map Gallery People’s Choice Winner Inspired by Van Gogh

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One of the most popular events at the annual ESRIUC each year is the Map Gallery where the works of thousands of GIS users from around the World are put on display and shared with attendees. Maps are judged and the “best” are selected based on a number of criteria. Selected maps are then featured in a future edition of The Map Book from Esri Press. This year, the People’s Choice Award winning map was announced at the closing plenary address by Esri President Jack Dangermond. The award went to an eye-catching map that was very artistic and inspired by the work of Vincent Van Gogh… great stuff indeed!

See also more photos on this Map Gallery photo collection

New OSM Map Services from GIScience Uni Heidelberg

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An update from Germany as we hear about a couple of new OSM Web map services.  These are based on research results in cartography of some researchers
from the GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University  (http://giscience.uni-hd.de ).

The first one deals with automated high quality map labeling (Text
positioning) and is being introduced here: It presents a new and sophisticated approach for calculating the placement of map labels using a multi-criteria method. See more at http://www.openmapsurfer.uni-hd.de/

The second one uses a new method to determine the scale to which the
underling OpenStreetMap data corresonds to and presents the resulting
scale equivalencies for residential areas in OSM.
This is a important new information for the usablity of OSM data, as
previously the scale range of an OSM dataset was unknown. See more info HERE and see the web service HERE

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