Mapping Hacks

Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography

By: Schuyler Erle

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Paperback | 24 June 2005

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Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should things change now? Well, they shouldn't. The reality is that map creation, or "cartography," has only improved in its ease-of-use over time. In fact, with the recent explosion of inexpensive computing and the growing availability of public mapping data, mapmaking today extends all the way to the ordinary PC user. Mapping Hacks, the latest page-turner from O'Reilly Press, tackles this notion head on. It's a collection of one hundred simple--and mostly free--techniques available to developers and power users who want draw digital maps or otherwise visualize geographic data. Authors Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, and Jo Walsh do more than just illuminate the basic concepts of location and cartography, they walk you through the process one step at a time. Mapping Hacks shows you where to find the best sources of geographic data, and then how to integrate that data into your own map. But that's just an appetizer. This comprehensive resource also shows you how to interpret and manipulate unwieldy cartography data, as well as how to incorporate personal photo galleries into your maps. It even provides practical uses for GPS (Global Positioning System) devices--those touch-of-a-button street maps integrated into cars and mobile phones. Just imagine: If Captain Kidd had this technology, we'd all know where to find his buried treasure! With all of these industrial-strength tips and tools, Mapping Hacks effectively takes the sting out of the digital mapmaking and navigational process. Now you can create your own maps for business, pleasure, or entertainment--without ever having to sharpen a single pencil.

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Foreword Credits
Preface
Mapping Your Life
Put a Map on It: Mapping Arbitrary Locations with Online Services
Route Planning Online
Map the Places You''ve Visited
Find Your House on an Aerial Photograph
The Road Less Traveled by in MapQuest
Make Route Maps Easier to Read
Will the Kids Barf?
Publish Maps of Your Photos on the Web
Track the Friendly Skies with Sherlock
Georeference Digital Photos
How Far? How Fast? Geo-Enabling Your Spreadsheet
Create a Distance Grid in Excel
Add Maps to Excel Spreadsheets with MapPoint
Mapping Your Neighborhood
Make Free Maps of the United States Online
Zoom Right In on Your Neighborhood
Who Are the Neighbors Voting For?
Map Nearby Wi-Fi Hotspots
Why You Can''t Watch Broadcast TV
Analyze Elevation Profiles for Wireless Community Networks
Make 3-D Raytraced Terrain Models
Map Health Code Violations with RDFMapper
Mapping Your World
Digging to China
Explore David Rumsey's Historical Maps
Explore a 3-D Model of the Entire World
Work with Multiple Lat/Long Formats
Work with Different Coordinate Systems
Calculate the Distance Between Points on the Earth's Surface
Experiment with Different Cartographic Projections
Plot Arbitrary Points on a World Map
Plot a Great Circle on a Flat Map
Plot Dymaxion Maps in Perl
Hack on Base Maps in Your Favorite Image Editor
Georeference an Arbitrary Tourist Map
Map Other Planets
Mapping (on) the Web
Search Local, Find Global
Shorten Online Map URLs
Tweak the Look and Feel of Web Maps
Add Location to Weblogs and RSS Feeds
View Your Photo Thumbnails on a Flash Map
Plot Points on a Spinning Globe Applet
Plot Points on an Interactive Map Using DHTML
Map Your Tracklogs on the Web
Map Earthquakes in (Nearly) Real Time
Plot Statistics Against Shapes
Extract a Spatial Model from Wikipedia
Map Global Weather Conditions
Mapping with Gadgets
Get Maps on Your Mobile Phone
Accessorize Your GPS
Get Your Tracklogs in Windows or Linux
The Serial Port to USB Conundrum
Speak in Geotongues: GPSBabel to the Rescue
Show Your Waypoints on Aerial Photos with Terrabrowser
Visualize Your Tracks in Three Dimensions
Create Your Own Maps for a Garmin GPS
Use Your Track Memory as a GPS Base Map
Animate Your Tracklogs
Connect to Your GPS from Multiple Applications
Don''t Lose Your Tracklogs!
Geocode Your Voice Recordings and Other Media
Improve the Accuracy of Your GPS with Differential GPS
Build a Map of Local GSM Cells
Build a Car Computer
Build Your Own Car Navigation System with GpsDrive
Mapping on Your Desktop
Mapping Local Areas of Interest with Quantum GIS
Extract Data from Maps with Manifold
Java-Based Desktop Mapping with Openmap
Seamless Data Download from the USGS
Convert Geospatial Data Between Different Formats
Find Your Way Around GRASS
Import Your GPS Waypoints and Tracklogs into GRASS
Turn Your Tracklogs into ESRI Shapefiles
Add Relief to Your Topographic Maps
Make Your Own Contour Maps
Plot Wireless Network Viewsheds with GRASS
Share Your GRASS Maps with the World
Explore the Effects of Global Warming
Become a GRASS Ninja
Names and Places
What to Do if Your Government Is Hoarding Geographic Data
Geocode a U.S. Street Address
Automatically Geocode U.S. Addresses
Clean Up U.S. Addresses
Find Nearby Things Using U.S. ZIP Codes
Map Numerical Data the Easy Way
Build a Free World Gazetteer
Geocode U.S. Locations with the GNIS
Track a Package Across the U.S.
Building the Geospatial Web
Build a Spatially Indexed Data Store
Load Your Waypoints into a Spatial Database
Publish Your Geodata to the Web with GeoServer
Crawl the Geospatial Web with RedSpider
Build Interactive Web-Based Map Applications
Map Wardriving (and other!) Data with MapServer
Mapping with Other People
Node Runner
Geo-Warchalking with 2-D Barcodes
Model Interactive Spaces
Share Geo-Photos on the Web
Set Up an OpenGuide for Your Hometown
Give Your Great-Great-Grandfather a GPS
Map Your Friend-of-a-Friend Network
Map Imaginary Places
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