Mapping

Contents 1 Positioning 1.1 open 1.1.1 Exporting, making Tiles 1.2 proprietary 1.3 Comparison 1.4 visualizing and sharing tracks 1.5 geolocating photos 1.6 mapping software for OSM 1.7 mapping on Android 2 Mapping 3 Literature

Positioning

open

• 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[[Mapping|Open Street Map]] a free and open map source Data (OSOperating System – for instance Apple's OS X stands for the tenth version of the 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[[Mapping|Open Street Map]] a free and open map source data
  • informationfreeway.org OSM[[Mapping|Open Street Map]] a free and open map source full browser window
  • more OSM Links
  • Best Of a website highlighting the best locations in OSM[[Mapping|Open Street Map]] a free and open map source
  • Live edit view
  • cloudmade AArchitektur - sometimes the letter A simply refers to the faculty of architecture nifty new way to look at and change OSM[[Mapping|Open Street Map]] a free and open map source Data
  • MapBox OSM data nicely layed out

Exporting, making Tiles

• http://maperitive.net/
• http://mapbox.com/tilemill http://tillnagel.com/2011/06/tilemill-for-processing/

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

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 OSOperating System – for instance Apple's OS X stands for the tenth version of the 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[[Mapping|Open Street Map]] a free and open map source

• GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes between popular GPS[[GPS|Global Positioning System]] receivers and mapping programs
  • online version of GPSBabel
• JOSM Java Open Street Map Editor

mapping on Android

• OsmAnd+ the incredible online/offline map with tons of features, an Android must-have
  • OsmAnd (Free version)
• OsmTracker track your ways

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
• The Atlantic: Imaginary maps
• Hand drawn maps association
• 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
• 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 MMedien – sometimes the letter M simply refers to the faculty of media. MacEachren: How maps work: representation, visualization, and design ISBN 0-89862-589-0
• Kris Harzinski: From Here to There: AArchitektur - sometimes the letter A simply refers to the faculty of architecture Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association ISBN 978-1568988825
• An Atlas of Radical Cartography ISBN 978-0979137723
• Frank Jacobs: Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities ISBN 978-0142005255
• Anthony Grafton, Daniel Rosenberg: Cartographies of Time: AArchitektur - sometimes the letter A simply refers to the faculty of architecture History of the Timeline ISBN 978-1568987637
• Peter Turchi: Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer ISBN 978-1595340412
• Tom Koch: Desease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground ISBN 9780226449357