Mapping

Positioning

open

Smiley dish in Altenburg

• Open Street Map
  • German edition (slightly different style)
  • openrouteservice.org
  • Your Navigation route finder
  • opencyclemap.org, bbbike.org, velomap.org (for navigation devices)
  • ÖPNV Map, French version
  • Wander und Reitkarte
  • Sea map
  • Ski map
  • wheelmap Rollstuhlgerechte Orte finden
  • Wikimedia Commons Bilder als Layer in OSM
  • Opening hours
  • mapsomatic.org Tool to export OSM Data (OS X Users should use Google Chrome to draw ctl-drag rectangles because that doesn‘t work with Opera/FF/Safari) Useful for city maps
  • OSM Maps printout
  • Open Street Browser View shops and facilities in your area
  • geofabrik.de provides downloads of OSM data
  • informationfreeway.org OSM full browser window
  • more OSM Links
  • Best Of a website highlighting the best locations in OSM
  • Live edit view
  • cloudmade A nifty new way to look at and change OSM Data

<display_points service="openlayers" layers="osm-mapnik,osmarender,osm-cyclemap,osm-oepnv,bing"> 50.975714,11.330031|Hörsaal|Marienstraße 13 </display_points> Openstreetmap of Weimar with different rendering options (Mapnik, Osmarenderer, Cyclemap, ÖPNV)

proprietary

• Google Maps, Google Earth
  • free veggies and fruits
  • Secret Afghan war logs mapped
• Mapquest
• Microsoft Bing Maps (formerly known as MS VisualEarth)
• Yahoo Maps
• Nokia Maps previously Navteq Map24
• viamichelin
• tomtom
• Chinesisches Vermessungsamt

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1. display_map:

50.977169, 11.328642 | service=yahoomaps | zoom=13 }} Example:Yahoo Maps

Comparison

• side-by-side
• transparent
• Help:Extensions#Maps

visualizing and sharing tracks

• SportyPal online platform for your running tracks
• GPSies sharing tracks online (Google Maps bases)
• EveryTrail sharing tracks online (Google Maps bases)
• TrailRunner OS X software to analyze gps tracks in sports

geolocating photos

• Panoramio and Flickr pictures in OpenStreetMap
• http://loc.alize.us – locate photos by flickr account (Project by Bauhaus-Uni Alumni)
• Panoramio – a Google company

mapping software for OSM

• GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes between popular GPS receivers and mapping programs
  • online version of GPSBabel
• JOSM Java Open Street Map Editor

Mapping

• Mapping on MediaArtNet
• Victoria and Albert Museum: Mapping the Imagination
• making maps
• mapping blog
• Stamen Design: data visualisation various projects for instance Cabspotting and crimespotting.org
• armsflow.org Visualisation of arms sales
• The invisible city: Design in the age of intelligent maps
• Buckminster Fullers Dymaxion Map
• Jarke J. van Wijk: Myriahedral maps, Pictures
• Here & There Horizontlose Projektion von Berg London
• Animals on the underground
• Freegeographytools.com
• How to make globes
• Weather maps

See also GPS

Literature

• Schlögel, Karl: Im Raume lesen wir die Zeit: über Zivilisationsgeschichte und Geopolitik. ISBN 3-446-20381-8
• Klaus Peter Busse: Vom Bild zum Ort: Mapping lernen; mit dem Bilderwerk von Holger Schnapp ISBN 978-3-8334-7031-8
• Nina Möntmann: Mapping a City ISBN 3-7757-1442-1
• Judith Schalansky: Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln: fünfzig Inseln, auf denen ich nie war und niemals sein werde ISBN 978-3-86648-117-6
• Sabine Folie, Paolo Bianchi: Atlas Mapping ISBN 3-85132-162-6
• Margit Hertlein: Mind mapping - die kreative Arbeitstechnik: spielerisch lernen und organisieren ISBN 3-499-61190-2
• Franz Ackermann: Die Sehnsucht des Kartografen ISBN 3-00-012475-6
• Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin: Mapping cyberspace ISBN 0-415-19883-6
• Katharine Harmon: The map as art: contemporary artists explore cartography. With essays by Gayle Clemans ISBN 978-1-568-98762-0
• Nato Thompson: Experimental geography: radical approaches to landscape, cartography, and urbanism ISBN 978-0-09-163658-6
• Katharine Harmon: You are here: personal geographies and other maps of the imagination ISBN 1-568-98430-8
• Hrsg.: Stephan Berg, Martin Engler: Die Sehnsucht des Kartografen: Franz Ackermann ISBN 3-00-012475-6
• Alan M. MacEachren: How maps work: representation, visualization, and design ISBN 0-89862-589-0