When building a new mapping application, I frequently find myself in need of a way to collect a few locations that I can use as a starting point. I need a quick way of generating latitude and longitude, ideally for points in the area that my application will be focused on.
This week I decided to make a quick little application purely for this purpose. I hope you, too, will find this simple tool useful. … Continue reading
In my last post, “Google Map API Gets Personal“, I spoke about Google’s new “Signed In Map” feature which lets users login to Google Maps to save places, even when the map is embedded in someone else’s website. But what if the place that you want to highlight doesn’t show up with the option to “Save to Google Maps”?
Many applications on the web use Google Maps Javascript API to embed maps into their site. You can see an instance of this in the footer of this website. Until now, however, there has been a disconnect between these websites, with no easy way of transferring points from one website to another.
This week I attended ESRI’s 2014 ArcGIS User Conference in Toronto to see what’s new with their software. I was particularly interested in their web services.
ESRI has a product line called ArcGIS Online. They have been pushing this at their user conferences for the past few years as they move more and more from their Desktop program to a cloud-based service. … Continue reading