mandag den 22. september 2008

MapTube


Del dit kort med hele verden. En rigtig god ide! Har du data, adgang til data. Har du en god ide du vil vise som du har mashet - så se at få kortet tubet. Selv danske Ramsar områder kan tubes!
/Sik


Share your map with the world. A really good idea! Do you have data, do you have an idea and do you mash - get your work tubed.
/Sik


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MapTube is a free resource for viewing, sharing, mixing and mashing maps online. Created by UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, users can select any number of maps to overlay and view.


MapTube is a website for sharing maps created with the GMapCreator software, released by CASA. This can be downloaded for free from the following link:http://www.maptube.org/gmc-licence.aspx

The main principle of MapTube is that shared maps can be overlayed to compare data visually. For example, to see a map of the London Underground overlayed on top of a map of population, go to the search page and enter the keywords "tube" and "population". Then click on the two relevant maps to add them. They will be displayed when you click on "View".

Maps can be viewed by everybody without logging in, but to create a map requires an account and a username. This ensures that only the owner of a map can edit its details.

The maps themselves are not stored on the server, but only a link to another site on the Internet where the map is already published. When maps are shared, information about what the map is and what it shows is entered by the owner and this is stored on the server along with the link to where the map is published. The raw data is never stored on the Internet as the maps comprise the pre-rendered tiles made by the GMapCreator, so this is a safe way of sharing a map without giving away the raw data used to create it.

MapTube is run by University College London's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), which is a node of the National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS). NCeSS is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to investigate how innovative and powerful computer-based infrastructure and tools developed over the past five years under the UK e-Science programme can benefit the social science research community.

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