Mapping

It’s been awhile since I have posted on this blog. I have been caught up in the midst of publishing my thesis works as a book which is now available for at amazon and trying to be adventurous during the harsh but still exciting Norwegian winter. A friend of mine asked me last week to help him plot locations of boreholes, that he is doing research on, to a decent map. I came up with a suggestion of creating it in R using Google Maps as a base map. Of course this could have been done easily and more aesthetically attractive using the conventional GIS softwares. It is more exciting and reproducible where the R script can be reused easily. ...

Google’s Geo Developer blog posted about five great maps developed based on Google Maps API. The list includes the renowned photo sharing tool - instagram’s app called InstaEarth, which makes use of the to help users discover instagram photography in a map. InstaEarth Another interesting application that uses the Google Maps API is the Submarine Cable Map from TeleGeography which makes use of the to generate map layers of submarine cable routes. The map also uses to customize the standard Google base maps for better visualization of the cable routes. ...

ITO World produced an impressive visualization video of the tremendous amount of mapping that has been done by the Open Street Map community on Berlin city. The video shows a white line each time a new route is entered or an old one edited. The video shows a growth of active participation in the OSM community. from on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com/)