Maps Mash Up

As we reported earlier this year, ESRI , a leading GIS software provider, released a public version of its ArcGIS JavaScript API that allows developers to integrate GIS functionality with web applications. Now ESRI has added a new ArcGIS Server Live User Sites section to its web site that showcases various geospatial solutions, several of which use the ArcGIS JavaScript API (see our ESRI API profile ). The online gallery includes the following sites: Solar Boston (more at our mashup profile ). Savannah Available Property Search Web Site Orange County Property Appraiser (FL) Parcel Map ( our mashup profile ) Carver County Trail and ... Read Full Story

Want to make money from Flash map mashups? One new alternative comes from Lat49, the online ad network for interactive maps, who have just added support for integrating ads into Flash maps. As we covered last year , Lat49 enables map mashup developers to layer geographically relevant ads onto third party mapping platforms like Google Maps and Yahoo Maps. The contextual ads can be placed on top of and alongside the maps themselves. They also offer developers an API for finer control over the ads (details at our Lat49 API profile ). As an example of a commercial mashup application using their new Flash ... Read Full Story

We are proud to announce a new contest from terra IMS. Over the past months we have had an opportunity to view some outstanding mashups created by users of our mapicons Dynamic Generator. To thank you for your continuing support and positive feedback, we are sponsoring a contest during the month of April for all our mapicons Dynamic Generator users. We are awarding prizes to the top three map mashups that are entered into the contest: 1st Place) A Magellan eXplorist GPS Unit 2nd Place) A 4GB USB Flash Drive 3rd Place) Equal Exchange Organic Coffee We are excited about the mashups our users ... Read Full Story

Our heat map of Florida Superfund Sites was selected as a "great way to visualize real estate that might have not-in-my-backyard issues." We're happy to announce that one of our map mashups has been selected as the Second Prize winner for FortiusOne 's GeoIQ Mashup Contest . We are happy and proud to be bestowed with the recognition. We think GeoIQ is an increasingly valuable tool for spatial analysis, and we look forward to working more with it in the near future. Speaking of Superfund sites, be sure to check out our U.S. EPA Superfund Site Locator , which has been generating quite a ... Read Full Story

We have added a new Labs section on our web site that showcases some of the tinkering we are doing with map mashups. Our goal is to share with you some of the interesting concepts that we hope to integrate with future mashups. Our Featured Project: U.S. EPA Superfund Site Locator The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently released its National Priority list of Superfund Sites in XML format. We converted the XML data and integrated it with a database. Users enter an address and it is geocoded on the fly, enabling a distance query to be processed against the EPA data in the database. ... Read Full Story

Our judges have finished casting their votes, and the results are in for our mapicons Dynamic Generator Map Mashup Contest. ApartmentOutpost.com Submitted by Chris Davies, CEO The Apartment Outpost Prize: Magellan eXplorist 100 GPS Receiver newconsearch The Agent's Source for New Construction Submitted by Steven Stalcott Smith, President newconsearch.com Prize: Kingston 4GB DataTraveler USB Drive WharTown Submitted by Alex Vorobiev University of Pennsylvania Prize: Equal Exchange Fair-Trade, Organic Coffee We had a blast checking out all of the cool map mashups that folks have been developing, and we look forward to checking out more during our next contest. Contest entries have bee posted to ... Read Full Story

Yahoo! Maps Mashups Product Description Written by Charles Freedman, a senior Flash developer at Yahoo!, this book provides you with all the information you’ll need to know about APIs in order to build amazing map mashups. You’ll find in-depth coverage of Yahoo! mapping tools and technologies and a variety of techniques for working with the APIs. Yahoo! Maps Mashups explores each API flavor, guiding you through the simple yet comprehensive sets of API calls so that you will gain a strong understanding of the capabilities of each map technology through its respective API.’ download Easy-share Uploading Hotfile Password default : booktraining.net Read Full Story