Mapperz - The Mapping News Blog

switch2osm Make the switch to OpenStreetMap

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:37:00 +0000

A nice clean website promoting Open Street Map. "switch2osm Make the switch to OpenStreetMap" OpenStreetMap won’t charge you OpenStreetMap is...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

Google Maps (UK) Finally Gets National Rail Info

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:27:00 +0000

Google Maps (UK) Finally Gets National Rail Info for public transport directions Google Maps users in the United Kingdom can now finally get from one place to...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

North Yorkshire County Council Maps

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:07:00 +0000

North Yorkshire County Council Maps One of the best UK County Council Maps sites that gives you all the information you are looking for on one page linking childcare to "out and about" - even...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

Low Emission Zone Map - London, UK

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:25:00 +0000

Low Emission Zone Map - London, UK On 3rd January 2012 new legislation came into affect: " from 3 January 2012 it will also affect the owners of larger vans, campers and minibuses first...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

OpenStreetMap: A Year of Edits 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:49:00 +0000

OpenStreetMap: A Year of Edits 2011 OpenStreetMap: A Year of Edits 2011 from Derick Rethans on Vimeo. Open Street Map also had a target of $15,000 for a new server, this target was completed...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

Google Vector Layers (Project)

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:30:00 +0000

Google Vector Layers (Project) *This is an open source project so enhancements and patches are encouraged. Google Vector Layers allows you to easily add one or more vector layers from a...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

Scotland Flood and Warnings Maps

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:16:00 +0000

Scotland Flood and Warnings Maps Wind and Rain now hitting Scotland Indicative River & Coastal Flood Map [Not Real-Time] http://go.mappoint.net/sepa/...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

Mapped: Every death on every road in Great Britain 1999-2010

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Mapped: Every death on every road in Great Britain 1999-2010 The live map shows the location and detail of each collision and will be updated as...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

qrd.by (GeoTagger for QR Codes)

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:54:00 +0000

qrd.by (GeoTagger for QR Codes) Enter a location and URL and the service creates a QR code that embeds the geographically...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

Map Creator Nokia

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:22:00 +0000

Map Creator Nokia Similar to Google Maps Creator, Nokia are wanting neo-cartographers to help find in the gaps to NAVTEQ data. Limited to only 11...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

Recycled World Map

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:10:00 +0000

Recycled World Map Creative way artist Susan Stockwell, who takes on large projects installations, sculptures, drawings and collages. Her art focuses on issues of geo-politics, mapping,...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

Openptmap - Public Transport Map

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:21:00 +0000

Openptmap shows public transport lines. Depending on the zoom level, bus and tram lines are displayed in addition to the railway lines.... OpenPT Maps...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

Nokia Maps WebGL (Beta)

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:13:00 +0000

Nokia Maps WebGL (Beta) Nokia Maps WebGL - Toronto, Canada Using Google Chrome Nokia Maps WebGL is extremely smooth and fast rendering 3D Buildings with photo-realistic quality,...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

Multi-modal Trip Planner OSM - Portland

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:09:00 +0000

Multi-modal Trip Planner OSM - Portland Underlying Data is Open Street Map Multi-modal trip planners can create routes that mix different modes of...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

New Google Maps WebGL

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:46:00 +0000

New Google Maps WebGL (Preview) 3D Buildings - Seamless zoom into Streetview Available for FireFox 8 and Google Chrome14 (WebGL Enabled) To enable use the: Want to try...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

UK Crash Map

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:28:00 +0000

UK Crash Map CrashMap has been developed by a very experienced team of collision analysts and road safety professionals with extensive experience of...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

MapQuest Mobile Flash Maps API

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:05:00 +0000

MapQuest Mobile Flash Maps API A new Mapquest API combined with an Adobe Flash technology You can deploy native mobile applications to Apple iOS, Google Android and Blackberry Tablet from a...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

Cartographic mis-representation?

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:09:00 +0000

Cartographic mis-representation? update [20/09/2011] from HaperCollins Publishers at the bottom Most maps lie, they are only a representation of what is out in the real world, simplified,...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

GIS Stack Exchange Blog (New)

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:16:00 +0000

The GIS Stack Exchange Community now has a GIS Blog for interesting topics and expansion of questions and events from http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions If you are interested in GIS,...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

Build-A-Map Beta

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:14:00 +0000

Build-A-Map (Beta) Build-A-Map lets you build interactive online maps with minimal effort. With simple point-and-click user interface you are able to create...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

TFL - Next Bus - Mobile

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:09:00 +0000

TfL - Next Bus - Mobile what a great idea - a mobile site where you can put your street,bus stop id, postcode and find out when the next bus is coming! Well it is here - Transport for London...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

FixMyTransport.com Beta

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:17:00 +0000

FixMyTransport.com Beta Clean Mapping Interface to report problems with your routes (bus, train,tram/metro ferry) FixMyTransport was built to help people get common public transport ...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

Storm Surge Simulator - Google Maps (for Miami Dade County)

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:03:00 +0000

Storm Surge Simulator - Google Maps (for Miami Dade County) an update 26/08/2011 - Google Crisis Response set up a web mapping tool. Google Crisis Response has put together a Google Map...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

Bing Maps Streetside - London UK

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:55:00 +0000

Bing Maps Streetside - London UK Streetside is now available for some parts of London, England Westminister Bridge, London Bus and London Eye Iconic Landmarks, but do not expect 'Google...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.

Google Maps World Weather

noreply@blogger.com (Mapperz) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:19:00 +0000

Google Maps World Weather Work in°C | °F or km/h | mph | m/s with the additional option to overlay clouds Works well. http://maps.google.com/maps?lci=weather Video...

Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.