the BIG Map Blog - thousands of huge historical maps. Natural Earth MarkerClusterer: A Solution to the Too Many Markers Problem Posted by Xiaoxi Wu, Community Developer Hi, I'm Xiaoxi (Frank) Wu. I'm a software engineer working for Beyondsoft in Beijing China, where I'm currently working on Maps API applications. While I was learning the Google Maps API, I got a lot of help from the forum and the open-source library, so I've decided to give back to the community with some of my own code. The first library that I'm releasing is MarkerClusterer. Once, a friend of mine encountered a problem with his application. It's easy to use - just add your markers to an array, pass that and your map into the MarkerClusterer, and it'll take care of the rest. var markers = []; for (var i = 0; i < 100; ++i) { var latlng = new GLatLng(data.photos[i].latitude, data.photos[i].longitude); var marker = new GMarker(latlng); markers.push(marker); } var markerCluster = new MarkerClusterer(map, markers); You can also set some options for the MarkerClusterer like the cluster icons and the size of the clusters.
Explore the Grand Canyon With Google Street View Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired The Google Maps team went to the Grand Canyon and snapped more than 9,500 images to create a Street View map of the national park. After four months of stitching all those high-resolution pics together, the company’s Street View maps of the Canyon are live and ready to be clicked through. The maps don’t document the entirety of the 277-mile-long Canyon, but they do offer a trip along two of its most popular trails, both of which are on the southern rim: the Bright Angel Trail to the Phantom Ranch campsite and the South Kaibab Trail. “We’re really happy with the way all the images came out,” said Ryan Falor, a Google Maps product manager. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired The Grand Canyon was the maiden voyage for Google’s Trekker — a backpack-like camera that takes 75-megapixel photos and weighs 40-pounds. “We don’t have our next stop hammered down yet, but we certainly want to take Trekker to every country that we’re doing Street View in,” Falor said.
Map Maker Google Map Maker officially closed on March 31, 2017, and many of its features are being integrated into Google Maps. Since 2008, the Google Map Maker community has edited and moderated millions of features to improve the Google Maps experience. To make it easier for all Google Maps users to contribute changes to the map, we’ve started to graduate functionality from Map Maker to Google Maps on both desktop and mobile. Key editing features currently available in Google Maps include: We’ll continue to add new editing features within Google Maps on an ongoing basis. To keep contributing your local knowledge to Google Maps and engage with a passionate community of likeminded individuals, we invite you to join the Local Guides program where you can do things like: Earn points Unlock rewards for submitting edits and other information Get early access to new Google Map features.
MGeoRSS: A GeoRSS Google Maps API Extention GeoRSS is the easiest and most effective way to share and build maps. GeoRSS is supported by Yahoo!, worldKit, and many others, and is on its way to standardization. Wouldn't it be great if Google joined up and supported a common way to communicate place on the web? How 'bout it Google? This extension integrates basic GeoRSS support directly into Google Maps. How: Adding GeoRSS to your Google Map is as simple as the following Javascript.Omit the second argument to MGeoRSS.load if the GeoRSS file is on your local server. <script src="mgeorss.js"></script><script> map = new GMap(document.getElementById("map")); georss = new MGeoRSS(); map.addMGeoRSS(georss); georss.load(" "proxy.pl?") Download: A proxy is required to work around browser security and load remote GeoRSS files. Contact: I am reachable at [mikel_maron yahoo com]. Updates:
Rumsey Historical Map Collection The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 25 years ago and contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century maps of North and South America, although it also has maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from about 1700 to 1950s. Digitization of the collection began in 1996 and there are now over 55,000 items online, with new additions added regularly. Maps are uniquely suited to high-resolution scanning because of the large amount of detailed information they contain. With Luna Imaging's Insight® software, the maps are experienced in a revolutionary way. Materials created in America and that illustrate the evolution of the country's history, culture, and population distinguish the collection.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Google Maps Mania Mappr! Where it’s at Photos from flickr.com (“almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world”) are often tagged with information that can be used to make educated guesses about their locations in the world. Mappr uses this data, which is provided by Flickr users and made available via the Flickr API, to place their images on a map. Images in Alaska Starting late 2004, we began collecting images from Flickr and comparing them against a U.S. Mappr was built to explore the idea of a collaborative mapped photo space, without having to wait for cameras to come with automatic GPS locators in them. Mappr has been featured in publications such as Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, and Peter Morville’s recent book, Ambient Findability. Note: As of 2007, Mappr is no longer processing images from flickr. Images on Flickr tagged with “route 66” Images tagged with “postcard”