Cartographers' Guild:
Just found this forum recently. I've always loved maps of all sorts and have tried to draw my own before but never to my own satisfaction. Hoping to learn from everyone here and advance the craft. (Read More)
Cartographers' Guild:
Hello All, its been a while since i've been on. I've been moving, new job, blah, blah, blah. Now i looking to get back to making maps and adventures. My current project is to turn a map of Karnak into a fantasy map. I'm not an artist, so I'm limited to graphics that come with CC3. Attached are the actual maps of Karna (Read More)
Cartographers' Guild:
Ok, I am tired of working on this map, so for now I will call it finished. I will probably revisit it at some time, but I have other regions to map.The Northern Wilderness is a wild and mysterious land. The wolfman race calls this land their home, but there are parts that even they have not explored. The greatest part of (Read More)
geo2web.com:
googlemapsapi: Read about preps we’re making to index Maps API sites: GeoDev Blog post: “Finding mashups: Needle in a haystack?” – http://bit.ly/7q0MEe
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Cartographers' Guild:
Greetings to all you incredibly skilled cartographers. First, let me start off by saying just how amazed I am at the quality of the maps and tutorials I have found so far on this site. It has been enough to make me scrap all my old maps and start anew.I have been drawing maps of my own for many years now starting way back w (Read More)
Screenwerk:
Twitter’s COO Dick Costolo said this morning at the TechCrunch CrunchUp event that he felt the “geo opportunity” was “huge.”The location-stamping or geocoding of content and the release of that data to third parties (online and in mobile) will unleash a wide range of creative applications and expressions for local tweets. I (Read More)
geo2web.com:
AOL which will be sprung from Time Warner at the beginning of next month laid off 1/3 of its workers and reports indicate it’s putting its ICQ messaging service and perhaps MapQuest up for sale. Among the possible buyer suggested for the mapping biz:…Read more
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Submitted by Matthew Sboc
from Google Reader:
The London Times Ski Deals MapThe London Times has produced what will probably be the first of many ski related map mashups for this ski season. The Times' ski correspondent Mark Frary has used Mapalist.com to create a Google Map that shows ski deals in Europe.The map ranks deals into four categories: amazing (>50% off), fa (Read More)
What is special about Geospatial?:
Google Navigation was announced to push location aware applications on Android one step further. Beside Google Navigation Google Maps Mobile is still the major location based application on Android (also because of the lack of Google Earth for Android).The new version of Google Maps mobile is called 3.2 and include several (Read More)
What is special about Geospatial?:
It is now already a tradition that some guys at the university of Austin, Texas release a GIS related song on GIS day. This year the song is titled Tied together (with GIS) and is adapted from “Come together” by the Beatles
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Cartographers' Guild:
i use photoshop cs3 almost exclusively when making maps. I've dabbled with ill a bit, but have much better results from ps. I do not use ArcGIS or any other mapping programs (besides maps.google) for reference. But is there software, hopefully free, that will allow me to import black and white bump map type terrain that I c (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com:
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to pack up all of your hiking and camping gear and just take off for a few months to some obscure location in the Brazilian rain forests where there’s an alleged secret ancient city filled with treasures of gold? Or what about exploring the mysterious underground catacombs under (Read More)
geo2web.com:
ImWaitingHereI’m Waiting Here is a Google Map based service that you can use to easily point where you are and what are you doing. You can then share this point with your Facebook friends. Using the map you can also see other users’ positions and their profiles and communicate with them.To show where you are you just click (Read More)
geo2web.com:
PublicEarth ‘Wiki for Places’PublicEarth is a’wikipedia for places’ that can be extended by users. Using Google Maps to display ‘crowdsourced’ Points of Interest [POI] locations.Guests can view the data in a read-only format whereas registered users rate places,create collections and can personalise their suggestions.Clean, (Read More)