Google announced this week that Fusion Tables now has its own API. Fusion Tables, still in Google Labs, allows you to upload data sets from spreadsheets or CSV files and visualize the data on maps, timeslines, and charts. In addition, the collaborative nature of...
Looking for mapping APIs to support your web application development efforts? Programmable web has a listing of nearly 100 mapping APIs and over 2000 mapping mashups. All the usual suspects including ESRI, OpenLayers, Google Maps, Bing, and CloudMade are on the list,...
Recently Google announced their Base Map Partner Program for “authoritative” organizations to share their vector data sources as part of the improvement process for base maps in Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google Maps for Mobile. Currently Google is...
Today we are featuring a guest post from Michele Mattix of Geomattix, LLC. While there are many ways to add digital photos to your GIS, I find that using GPS is the easiest – provided you have a useful workflow. Finding that workflow, however, can be extremely...
Today we are featuring a guest post from Michele Mattix of Geomattix, LLC. When ESRI announced that ArcPad 8 would have a brand new interface, I figured it would be a mild face-lift of the same cluttered interface. Boy was I mistaken! For those of you who are...