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ESRI 2010 Mashup Challange
ESRI’s 2010 Mashup Challenge invites members of the geodeveloper community to stretch their imaginations, test their technical skills, and develop creative geospatial Web applications. The developers have to create an innovative mashup using ArcGIS Online and ESRI Web Mapping APIs for the chance to win...
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How to Install MapServer on Windows
MapServer is an open source and free software for translating vector maps to raster images and displaying it on a web page. It supports installation on Windows and Unix/Linux platform. This tutorial will cover installation guide for Windows platform, guide for Unix/Linux platform will be covered on...
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Map Scripting 101: A Guide to Building Interactive Maps and Mashups with Bing, Yahoo!, and Google Maps
Web services like Mapquest and Google Maps have transformed the way we think about and use maps. But these services do more than just driving directions-they provide APIs that web developers can use to build customized map applications.
In Map Scripting 101, author Adam DuVander uses a project-based...
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ESRI’s 2010 Mashup Challenge invites members of the geodeveloper community to stretch their imaginations, test their technical skills, and develop creative geospatial Web applications. The developers have to create an innovative mashup using ArcGIS Online and ESRI Web Mapping APIs for the chance to win one of four cash prizes. Awards will be based on originality,...
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01 25th, 2010 |
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Web services like Mapquest and Google Maps have transformed the way we think about and use maps. But these services do more than just driving directions-they provide APIs that web developers can use to build customized map applications.
In Map Scripting 101, author Adam DuVander uses a project-based approach to teach you how to create useful and fun online map mashups like...
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01 24th, 2010 |
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The Mapnik team have released version 0.7.0 of their open source map toolkit. The release targets stability and usability of the Mapnik Core and brings notable advancements to the Datasource Plugins. It also brings improvements and fixes to the C++ core that warrant a major release and new a ABI version.
Plugins
Addition of GDAL raster overviews – You can now rapidly...
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01 23rd, 2010 |
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MapServer 5.6.1 has just been released and available for download now. No new functionality has been added. This is a maintenance release that fixes a few issues found in 5.6.0, including a few important ones related to queries that may have prevented some users from upgrading to 5.6.0.
Changes:
Changed msSaveImageBufferGD to be in accordance with msSaveImageGD.
Changed...
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01 5th, 2010 |
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MapServer 5.6.0 has just been released and available for download now. The new release contains a few new features and performance enhancements.
New features:
MS RFC 51: XML Mapfile schema and XSLT.
MS RFC 52: One-pass query processing, making WFS queries on
database backends much much faster.
MS RFC 55: Improve control of output resolution, allows printing
maps at printer...
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