Sept 2013–List of Interesting Map Web tech

Just some interesting pages that I saw on the web…

http://mapstraction.com/

Mapstraction is a Javascript library that provides a single, common interface for a wide variety of Javascript map APIs. It’s designed to enable a developer to switch from one maps API to another as smoothly and as quickly as possible.

 

http://davidrowley.blogspot.co.nz/2013/08/calculating-line-of-sight-with-postgis.html

Performing Line of Sight analysis from PostGIS

 

http://www.imagico.de/

Map generalisation (coastlines) and ray tracing

 

http://www.klokantech.com/maptiler/

Powerful technology for accelerated pre-rendering of large maps

 

http://mapproxy.org/

MapProxy is an open source proxy for geospatial data. It caches, accelerates and transforms data from existing map services and serves any desktop or web GIS client.

 

https://github.com/NYPL/map-vectorizer

Vectorize raster maps including OCR of text

This project aims to automate a manual process: geographic polygon and attribute data extraction from maps including those from insurance atlases published in the 19th and early 20th centuries.