Links and resources

for G&ES 387
Interactive Cartography

EXAMPLES OF INTERACTIVE CARTOGRAPHY

These links refer to web sites demonstrating various methods of delivering interactive maps.

Mapped .gif file: New York City Subway map

Rollover images

Java Applets

ALOV applet (free)-- Example Zoomable, with layers.

TIME MAP -- Example zoomable, with layers, another with Timeframes

Carto:net SVG tutorial example and demonstration site -- very rich site

Animated map

Time series: A series of maps is linked to a time bar.; Objects move across the map, for example, to show a path or for emphasis.
Animation which plays timeline
City o f Chicago Dynamic maps

Chicago GIS --zoomable layers.
Video of Traffic Violation

Java delivery of maps
Editable scripts allow a wide variety of effects useful for presenting maps

sliding image: panorama
rotating image: spinning cube
gallery: scalable image
flashlight
Geography Quiz: java script and frames
Geography Olympics: java script -- wow

Panoramas

Photovista panorama gallery
Open source panorama creator --very flexible, with hotlinks
Another OPEN SOURCE PAORAMA CREATOR
Panorama that is animated and another

Animated map

Nice little geography quiz

Scalable vector graphics

Adobe .pdf file

The Adobe Reader, now installed on most computers, delivers .pdf files which are scalable images.

Basic .svg image

The scalable vector image is an open source format which is also zoomable, although a newer viewer (one is available through adobe) is necessary to see it. This is likely to become an important format in the near future -- Adobe's latest standard reader interprets .svg.

Svg in layers

One advantage of .svg over .pdf, is that it is possible to deliver in layers. This image was created with shape files, using an Arc Avenue script.

Example of map in SVG; SVG map of Vienna, with linked charts and tables
Map Server: An open source map server which was used for the Amsterdam Project

ArcGIS's IMS: ESRI sells an add-on program for its ArcGIS, which delivers IMS. This is the higher-end and commercial version of what .svg layers can do.

City of Chicago's GIS server

Census Bureau's Map server, creates choroplethic maps as user specifies

GOOGLE MAPS
Googlemapsmania -- a blog of google hacks
NEIU flyby -- a google hack
Google map hacks search on Google Groups

Java
Source for many java scripts, from Advanced Effect Maker

Scale-a-vector SVG page
MapInfo to SVG open source software
SVG tutorial
Paper describing XML coded SVG
Paper promoting SVG over raster graphics
Adobe SVG reader download

CLUSTR MAPS - track web hits

CHICAGO PARKING MAP

CHCAGO CRIME MAP

CHICAGO SEX OFFENDER

CONGESTION MAP -- real time traffic data

YELP.COM -- mapped reviews of places

ZIP CODES -- Type in your zip code, it narrows down to location

FLIGHT MAPS -- track airplanes real time

MOON PHASES -- at any time of the year

INTERACTIVE WEATHER MAP

GOOGLE SEARCH FOR INTERACTIVE MAPS

SIMPLE INTERACTIVE ELECTION MAP

Geocoder, open source locator of lat/long
Here's an example, it gives Lat/Long:

GIS MONITOR, a newsletter that covers goings-on in GIS and cartography.
Subscribe: http://mx1.profsurv.com/gis_newsletter/subs.php ... it's free.

Other Interactive Maps
Yahoo's list of interactive maps

Main Paper from Carto Net -- explains various approaches for map delivery on line
Paper comparing various deliveries of interactive maps

Adobe's SVG page, starting with the demo page, including on-line svg creation

National Atlas U.S. an asp file

Addendum

ON-LINE MAPPING
Ddviewer – census bureau's map maker
3DEM download page
National Geographic's The Map Machine -- scalable seamless layers
Chicago Image Database
Toxic Scorecard
IDOT congestion map
Police Department ICAM
Living Earth
Mapquest
Topozone
of Geography Network (ESRI)
World Atlas -- hyperlinked gif images
Worldtime -- cgi script