Digital Urban: Welcome to MapTube from CASA: A Place to Put Maps

Tue, 13 May 2008 22:28:45 -0000

"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 you simply go to the search page and enter the keywords "tube" and "population". Then click on the two relevant maps to add them."

This has potential for some really fine-grained mapping, specific to local place.

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

This indicates a future direction of the site with both freely available software and server based map applications, all subsequently viewable against any other local, national or global dataset on the site.

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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 you simply go to the search page and enter the keywords "tube" and "population". Then click on the two relevant maps to add them.

In this way any combination of data can be quickly and easily visually compared. The maps are created using our free of charge software - GMap Creator, a new version launches this week allowing any ESRI .SHP file or Formatted .CSV to be converted and used on MapTube.

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Posted by: lampertina

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Digital Urban: Welcome to MapTube from CASA: A Place to Put Maps