In my view, digital maps are the most interesting and insightful content form being created today.  Done well, a single map can convey complex stories that cannot be expressed with language, while at the same time being aesthetically as beautiful as any piece of art. This is a piece we put together to recognize some of the great maps, and mappers, coming ...

Maps are at the core of geospatial, and we’re now into the International Map Year. From the official website: “The International Cartographic Association has decided to celebrate an International Map Year during the years of and and has also formed a working group to plan and organise that task. […] The ICA expects that all ICA member ...

Here’s the last batch-mode edition, covering most of December. Might interest some of you, Slashgeo’s posts are now mirrored on Google+. Have an excellent holiday break. On the open source / open data front: More support for the standard, GDAL GeoPackage raster support Reading, The Book of OpenLayers 3, completed And another one announced, 2nd edition ...

Here’s the recent geonews in batch mode. On the open source / open data front: On Kickstarter now, don’t miss this opportunity to contribute and buy ‘The Book of OpenStreetMap’ by Steve Coast himself, the one that started this avalanche From Associated Press, Geomancer is open source tool to help journalists easily mash up data based on shared geography And ...

Here’s the recent geonews in batch mode. On the open source / open data front: This is a must see, full instructions to Creating 3D terrains with Cesium Via O’Reilly, I became aware of Google’s open Material Design Icons on GitHub that can certainly be used for maps, reminiscent of the Maki and WorldWeatherSymbols amongst a few New lab, University ...

Weather is a huge factor in not only Where you live, or vacation, but When. Use the 2 interactive maps below and you’ll find: In the top one, the number of days each month that an area is in that sweet spot of 70F to 90F degrees – for over 1,200 US cities, towns and locales. The bottom map tells ...

Spatially Adjusted pointed me to a collection of maps published last June named 40 maps that explain the Internet. The Internet now being integrated into most of our daily lives, these maps do say a lot about the current state and how we got there. Their introduction: “The internet increasingly pervades our lives, delivering information to us no matter where ...

Here’s the recent geonews in batch mode, covering most of September up to today. On the open source / open data front: It’s there now, announcing the release of The Book of OpenLayers 3 Be ready, within a year we’ll have all SRTM-DEM Level-2 (30m) data for the whole world, NGA Releases Hi-Res Elevation Data Here’s the Heron Mapping Client, ...

Here’s the recent geonews in batch mode. On the open source / open data front: A webinar Friday next week named Introducing the QGIS Academy Project Nice to see, Over 1 million New York City buildings and addresses imported to OpenStreetMap Because that’s the kind of maps we want to show our friends, Showing geotagged photos on a Leaflet map ...

This is an unusually long edition of the geonews in batch mode, covering all of our Summer break. On the Esri front: A nice summary, Twelve Things Worth Knowing from Esri User Conference Q&A More options is good, Introducing Esri’s World Elevation Services It’s not ‘beta’ anymore, ArcGIS Open Data production APB discuss the upcoming 64-bits friendly ArcGIS Pro ...