Category Archives: Mash Ups

Goodbye MSRMaps or TerraServer, or whatever else you called it.

For many years Microsoft provided a WMS that included USGS topos and US aerial photography.  Popularly known as TerraServer (or Microsoft Research Maps -MSRMaps), the service no longer exists as of 5/1/2012, meaning that the Google Maps mash-up I created using the data no longer … Continue reading

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Google Maps April Fools’!

Google is pretty well know for their April Fools’ Day jokes, and today we are treated to another one, albeit on March 30th (maybe that’s a part of the joke too): Google Maps 8bit for NES Here is a quick … Continue reading

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Apple and OSM – The Year of OpenStreetMap Continues

The year of OpenStreetMap continues.  You have probably heard by now that Apple is now using a mix of TIGER data and OSM tiles in their mapping application.  As I said a couple weeks ago, 2012 is the year of OpenStreetMap, and this … Continue reading

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The Year of OpenStreetMap Continues

On February 28th, 2012 I (yesterday), I posted a blog titled “2012 -The Year of OpenStreetMap”. In the post I said that “the next “big” mapping application that hits the market will be have an OSM back-end.”  Well, well, well, … Continue reading

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TileMill for Windows

There has been a lot of buzz around TileMill lately.  With the new Windows versions recently released I’d figured I would give it a try.  I’ve seen demonstrations of the open source application before at WhereCamp Boston and I was … Continue reading

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Maps in the News, Somerville, MA

From Boston.com - Satellite imagery brings Somerville planners to new heights I live in Somerville (and I love it), and I really hope that the city planners only use this for demonstration or decoration purposes.  This is a very technology forward … Continue reading

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Learning Code Made Easy!

I am a big supporter of GIS professionals becoming more technically proficient, keeping their skills relevant to avoid becoming a GIS dinosaurs.  One of the easiest ways for GIS pros to stay ahead of the curve is to keep learning and … Continue reading

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My new favorite blog

How did I not know about this blog?  Guess what I’ll be reading at work tomorrow!  You have to give the NYT credit, they respect  the importance of geography in journalism. I’ll be updating the spatial blogs page soon.

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ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight – That was easy

This past Wednesday, on the ArcGIS Server Blog, Esri informed the geo-nerd world that their ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight v1.0 is now available for download to the world.  The viewer is essentially a wizard for creating Silverlight based ArcGIS mapping sites … Continue reading

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Tip of the Day – Check the Code

Some of the most popular pages on GISDoctor.com (shameless self-plug) are those that provide examples of how to read WMS data into Google Map applications from a number of sources including ArcGIS Server, OpenLayers, and MapServer.  People take the code from … Continue reading

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