{"id":169,"date":"2006-07-06T12:22:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2006-07-06T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T17:22:15","slug":"mapping-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/169\/mapping-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been spending my blog-post writing time on learning tips and tricks related to  cartographic and geographic mapping. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.freemap.in\/\">Boston Free Map<\/a> is now operating under a new, more familiar looking style. It also sports the ability to click on roads and see information about them.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/world.freemap.in\/\">CIA World Factbook in Map Form<\/a> is another click-to-query map, based on the public domain CIA World Factbook.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nyc.freemap.in\/\">New York City Map<\/a> is not cartographically impressive, but offers hydro, openspace, parks and road centerlines in a nice interface. No query features.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/london.freemap.in\/july.mercator.html\">July OpenStreetMap dump<\/a> is a Mercator-projected satellite background, plus a click-to query + Edit interface linking directly to OSM data. I&#8217;m going to be working with the OpenStreetMap project to make this their default homepage &#8212; using ka-Map and Mapserver against daily generated shapefiles rather than pulling from the live database for all data.<\/p>\n<p>In all of this, ka-Map has become a very useful tool to me, so thanks to Paul Spencer and DM Solutions for his work on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been spending my blog-post writing time on learning tips and tricks related to cartographic and geographic mapping. The Boston Free Map is now operating under a new, more familiar looking style. It also sports the ability to click on roads and see information about them. The CIA World Factbook in Map Form is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locality-and-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}