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Mobile Application Development Mapbox - a Commercial Mapping Service Using Openstreetmap
Mobile Application Development Mapbox - a commercial mapping service using OpenStreetMap Waterford Institute of Technology October 19, 2016 John Fitzgerald Waterford Institute of Technology, Mobile Application Development Mapbox - a commercial mapping service using OpenStreetMap 1/16 OpenStreetMap An open source project • OpenStreetMap Foundation • A non-profit organisation • Founded in 2004 by Steve Coast • Over 2 million registered contributors • Primary output OpenStreetMap data Waterford Institute of Technology, Mobile Application Development Mapbox - a commercial mapping service using OpenStreetMap 2/16 OpenStreetMap An open source project • Various data collection methods: • On-site data collection using: • paper & pencil • computer • preprinted map • cameras • Aerial photography Waterford Institute of Technology, Mobile Application Development Mapbox - a commercial mapping service using OpenStreetMap 3/16 MapBox Competitor to Google Maps • Provides commercial mapping services. • OpenStreetMap a data source for many of these. • Large provider of custom online maps for websites. • Clients include Foursquare, Financial Times, Uber. • But also NASA and some proprietary sources. • Startup 2010 • Series B round funding 2015 $52 million • Contrast Google 2015 profit $16 billion Waterford Institute of Technology, Mobile Application Development Mapbox - a commercial mapping service using OpenStreetMap 4/16 MapBox Software Development Kits (SDKs) • Web apps • Android • iOS • JavaScript (browser & node) • Python Waterford Institute of Technology, -
The Uch Enmek Example(Altai Republic,Siberia)
Faculty of Environmental Sciences Institute for Cartography Master Thesis Concept and Implementation of a Contextualized Navigable 3D Landscape Model: The Uch Enmek Example(Altai Republic,Siberia). Mussab Mohamed Abuelhassan Abdalla Born on: 7th December 1983 in Khartoum Matriculation number: 4118733 Matriculation year: 2014 to achieve the academic degree Master of Science (M.Sc.) Supervisors Dr.Nikolas Prechtel Dr.Sander Münster Submitted on: 18th September 2017 Faculty of Environmental Sciences Institute for Cartography Task for the preparation of a Master Thesis Name: Mussab Mohamed Abuelhassan Abdalla Matriculation number: 4118733 Matriculation year: 2014 Title: Concept and Implementation of a Contextualized Navigable 3D Landscape Model: The Uch Enmek Example(Altai Republic,Siberia). Objectives of work Scope/Previous Results:Virtual Globes can attract and inform websites visitors on natural and cultural objects and sceneries.Geo-centered information transfer is suitable for majority of sites and artifacts. Virtual Globes have been tested with an involvement of TUD institutes: e.g. the GEPAM project (Weller,2013), and an archaeological excavation site in the Altai Mountains ("Uch enmek", c.f. Schmid 2012, Schubert 2014).Virtual Globes technology should be flexible in terms of the desired geo-data configuration. Research data should be controlled by the authors. Modes of linking geo-objects to different types of meta-information seems evenly important for a successful deployment. Motivation: For an archaeological conservation site ("Uch Enmek") effort has already been directed into data collection, model development and an initial web-based presentation.The present "Open Web Globe" technology is not developed any further, what calls for a migra- tion into a different web environment. -
A Comparison of Feature Density for Large Scale Online Maps
DOI: 10.14714/CP97.1707 PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLE A Comparison of Feature Density for Large Scale Online Maps Michael P. Peterson (he/him) University of Nebraska at Omaha [email protected] Large-scale maps, such as those provided by Google, Bing, and Mapbox, among others, provide users an important source of information for local environments. Comparing maps from these services helps to evaluate both the quality of the underlying spatial data and the process of rendering the data into a map. The feature and label density of three different mapping services was evaluated by making pairwise comparisons of large-scale maps for a series of random areas across three continents. For North America, it was found that maps from Google had consistently higher feature and label den- sity than those from Bing and Mapbox. Google Maps also held an advantage in Europe, while maps from Bing were the most detailed in sub-Saharan Africa. Maps from Mapbox, which relies exclusively on data from OpenStreetMap, had the lowest feature and label density for all three areas. KEYWORDS: Web Mapping Services; Multi-Scale Pannable (MSP) maps; OpenStreetMap; Application Programming Interface (API) INTRODUCTION One of the primary benefits of using online map Since the introduction of the technique in 2005 by services like those available from Google, Bing, and Google, all major online map providers have adopted the OpenStreetMap, is that zooming-in allows access to same underlying technology. Vector data is projected and large-scale maps. Maps at these large scales are not avail- divided into vector tiles at multiple scales. The tile bound- able to most (if any) individuals from any other source. -
Geohack - Boroo Gold Mine
GeoHack - Boroo Gold Mine DMS 48° 44′ 45″ N, 106° 10′ 10″ E Decim al 48.745833, 106.169444 Geo URI geo:48.745833,106.169444 UTM 48U 585970 5399862 More formats... Type landmark Region MN Article Boroo Gold Mine (edit | report inaccu racies) Contents: Global services · Local services · Photos · Wikipedia articles · Other Popular: Bing Maps Google Maps Google Earth OpenStreetMap Global/Trans-national services Wikimedia maps Service Map Satellite More JavaScript disabled or out of map range. ACME Mapper Map Satellite Topo, Terrain, Mapnik Apple Maps (Apple devices Map Satellite only) Bing Maps Map Aerial Bird's Eye Blue Marble Satellite Night Lights Navigator Copernix Map Satellite Fourmilab Satellite GeaBios Satellite GeoNames Satellite Text (XML) Google Earthnote Open w/ meta data Terrain, Street View, Earth Map Satellite Google Maps Timelapse GPS Visualizer Map Satellite Topo, Drawing Utility HERE Map Satellite Terrain MapQuest Map Satellite NASA World Open Wind more maps, Nominatim OpenStreetMap Map (reverse geocoding), OpenStreetBrowser Sentinel-2 Open maps.vlasenko.net Old Soviet Map Waze Map Editor, App: Open, Navigate Wikimapia Map Satellite + old places WikiMiniAtlas Map Yandex.Maps Map Satellite Zoom Earth Satellite Photos Service Aspect WikiMap (+Wikipedia), osm-gadget-leaflet Commons map (+Wikipedia) Flickr Map, Listing Loc.alize.us Map VirtualGlobetrotting Listing See all regions Wikipedia articles Aspect Link Prepared by Wikidata items — Article on specific latitude/longitude Latitude 48° N and Longitude 106° E — Articles on -
Development of a Web Mapping Application Using Open Source
Centre National de l’énergie des sciences et techniques nucléaires (CNESTEN-Morocco) Implementation of information system to respond to a nuclear emergency affecting agriculture and food products - Case of Morocco Anis Zouagui1, A. Laissaoui1, M. Benmansour1, H. Hajji2, M. Zaryah1, H. Ghazlane1, F.Z. Cherkaoui3, M. Bounsir3, M.H. Lamarani3, T. El Khoukhi1, N. Amechmachi1, A. Benkdad1 1 Centre National de l’Énergie, des Sciences et des Techniques Nucléaires (CNESTEN), Morocco ; [email protected], 2 Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II (IAV), Morocco, 3 Office Régional de la Mise en Valeur Agricole du Gharb (ORMVAG), Morocco. INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS’ MEETING ON ASSESSMENT AND PROGNOSIS IN RESPONSE TO A NUCLEAR OR RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY (CN-256) IAEA Headquarters Vienna, Austria 20–24 April 2015 Context In nuclear disaster affecting agriculture, there is a need for rapid, reliable and practical tools and techniques to assess any release of radioactivity The research of hazards illustrates how geographic information is being integrated into solutions and the important role the Web now plays in communication and disseminating information to the public for mitigation, management, and recovery from a disaster. 2 Context Basically GIS is used to provide user with spatial information. In the case of the traditional GIS, these types of information are within the system or group of systems. Hence, this disadvantage of traditional GIS led to develop a solution of integrating GIS and Internet, which is called Web-GIS. 3 Project Goal CRP1.50.15: “ Response to Nuclear Emergency affecting Food and Agriculture” The specific objective of our contribution is to design a prototype of web based mapping application that should be able to: 1. -
A Review of Openstreetmap Data Peter Mooney* and Marco Minghini† *Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co
CHAPTER 3 A Review of OpenStreetMap Data Peter Mooney* and Marco Minghini† *Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, [email protected] †Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy Abstract While there is now a considerable variety of sources of Volunteered Geo- graphic Information (VGI) available, discussion of this domain is often exem- plified by and focused around OpenStreetMap (OSM). In a little over a decade OSM has become the leading example of VGI on the Internet. OSM is not just a crowdsourced spatial database of VGI; rather, it has grown to become a vast ecosystem of data, software systems and applications, tools, and Web-based information stores such as wikis. An increasing number of developers, indus- try actors, researchers and other end users are making use of OSM in their applications. OSM has been shown to compare favourably with other sources of spatial data in terms of data quality. In addition to this, a very large OSM community updates data within OSM on a regular basis. This chapter provides an introduction to and review of OSM and the ecosystem which has grown to support the mission of creating a free, editable map of the whole world. The chapter is especially meant for readers who have no or little knowledge about the range, maturity and complexity of the tools, services, applications and organisations working with OSM data. We provide examples of tools and services to access, edit, visualise and make quality assessments of OSM data. We also provide a number of examples of applications, such as some of those How to cite this book chapter: Mooney, P and Minghini, M. -
Assessing the Credibility of Volunteered Geographic Information: the Case of Openstreetmap
ASSESSING THE CREDIBILITY OF VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: THE CASE OF OPENSTREETMAP BANI IDHAM MUTTAQIEN February, 2017 SUPERVISORS: Dr. F.O. Ostermann Dr. ir. R.L.G. Lemmens ASSESSING THE CREDIBILITY OF VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: THE CASE OF OPENSTREETMAP BANI IDHAM MUTTAQIEN Enschede, The Netherlands, February, 2017 Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geo-information Science and Earth Observation. Specialization: Geoinformatics SUPERVISORS: Dr. F.O. Ostermann Dr.ir. R.L.G. Lemmens THESIS ASSESSMENT BOARD: Prof. Dr. M.J. Kraak (Chair) Dr. S. Jirka (External Examiner, 52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH) DISCLAIMER This document describes work undertaken as part of a program of study at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente. All views and opinions expressed therein remain the sole responsibility of the author, and do not necessarily represent those of the Faculty. ABSTRACT The emerging paradigm of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in the geospatial domain is interesting research since the use of this type of information in a wide range of applications domain has grown extensively. It is important to identify the quality and fitness-of-use of VGI because of non- standardized and crowdsourced data collection process as well as the unknown skill and motivation of the contributors. Assessing the VGI quality against external data source is still debatable due to lack of availability of external data or even uncomparable. Hence, this study proposes the intrinsic measure of quality through the notion of credibility. -
Navegação Turn-By-Turn Em Android Relatório De Estágio Para A
INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE COIMBRA INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DE COIMBRA Navegação Turn-by-Turn em Android Relatório de estágio para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Informática e Sistemas Autor Luís Miguel dos Santos Henriques Orientação Professor Doutor João Durães Professor Doutor Bruno Cabral Mestrado em Engenharia Informática e Sistemas Navegação Turn-by-Turn em Android Relatório de estágio apresentado para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Informática e Sistemas Especialização em Desenvolvimento de Software Autor Luís Miguel dos Santos Henriques Orientador Professor Doutor João António Pereira Almeida Durães Professor do Departamento de Engenharia Informática e de Sistemas Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra Supervisor Professor Doutor Bruno Miguel Brás Cabral Sentilant Coimbra, Fevereiro, 2019 Agradecimentos Aos meus pais por todo o apoio que me deram, Ao meu irmão pela inspiração, À minha namorada por todo o amor e paciência, Ao meu primo, por me fazer acreditar que nunca é tarde, Aos meus professores por me darem esta segunda oportunidade, A todos vocês devo o novo rumo da minha vida. Obrigado. i ii Abstract This report describes the work done during the internship of the Master's degree in Computer Science and Systems, Specialization in Software Development, from the Polytechnic of Coimbra - ISEC. This internship, which began in October 17 of 2017 and ended in July 18 of 2018, took place in the company Sentilant, and had as its main goal the development of a turn-by- turn navigation module for a logistics management application named Drivian Tasks. During the internship activities, a turn-by-turn navigation module was developed from scratch, while matching the specifications indicated by the project managers in the host entity. -
Mobile GPS Mapping Applications Forensic Analysis & SNAVP the Open Source, Modular, Extensible Parser
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law Volume 12 Article 7 3-31-2017 Find Me If You Can: Mobile GPS Mapping Applications Forensic Analysis & SNAVP the Open Source, Modular, Extensible Parser Jason Moore Ibrahim Baggili University of New Haven Frank Breitinger Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.erau.edu/jdfsl Part of the Computer Engineering Commons, Computer Law Commons, Electrical and Computer Engineering Commons, Forensic Science and Technology Commons, and the Information Security Commons Recommended Citation Moore, Jason; Baggili, Ibrahim; and Breitinger, Frank (2017) "Find Me If You Can: Mobile GPS Mapping Applications Forensic Analysis & SNAVP the Open Source, Modular, Extensible Parser," Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law: Vol. 12 , Article 7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15394/jdfsl.2017.1414 Available at: https://commons.erau.edu/jdfsl/vol12/iss1/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law by an authorized administrator of (c)ADFSL Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Find me if you can: Mobile GPS mapping ... JDFSL V12N1 FIND ME IF YOU CAN: MOBILE GPS MAPPING APPLICATIONS FORENSIC ANALYSIS & SNAVP THE OPEN SOURCE, MODULAR, EXTENSIBLE PARSER Jason Moore, Ibrahim Baggili and Frank Breitinger Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group (UNHcFREG) Tagliatela College of Engineering University of New Haven, West Haven CT, 06516, United States e-Mail: [email protected], fIBaggili, [email protected] ABSTRACT The use of smartphones as navigation devices has become more prevalent. -
16 Volunteered Geographic Information
16 Volunteered Geographic Information Serena Coetzee, South Africa 16.1 Introduction In its early days the World Wide Web contained static read-only information. It soon evolved into an interactive platform, known as Web.2.0, where content is added and updated all the time. Blogging, wikis, video sharing and social media are examples of Web.2.0. This type of content is referred to as user-generated content. Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is a special kind of user-generated content. It refers to geographic information collected and shared voluntarily by the general public. Web.2.0 and associated advances in web mapping technologies have greatly enhanced the abilities to collect, share and interact with geographic information online, leading to VGI. Crowdsourcing is the method of accomplishing a task, such as problem solving or the collection of information, by an open call for contributions. Instead of appointing a person or company to collect information, contributions from individuals are integrated in order to accomplish the task. Contributions are typically made online through an interactive website. Figure 16.1 The OpenStreetMap map page. In the subsequent sub-sections, examples of crowdsourcing and volunteered geographic information establishment and growth of OpenStreetMap have been devices, aerial photography, and other free sources. This are described, namely OpenStreetMap, Tracks4Africa, restrictions on the use or availability of geospatial crowdsourced data is then made available under the the Southern African Bird Atlas Project.2 and Wikimapia. information across much of the world and the advent of Open Database License. The site is supported by the In the additional sub-sections a step-by-step guide to inexpensive portable satellite navigation devices. -
I Work for Natural Resources Canada in the Canada Centre for Mapping
I work for Natural Resources Canada in the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, where as a technologist and developer, I have been supporting the development of geo-standards, spatial data infrastructure, or “SDI”, and open spatial data for about 10 years. 1 Today, I’m going to talk about the community, concepts and technology of the Maps for HTML Community Group. The objective of the Maps for HTML initiative is straightforward: to extend HTML to include Web map semantics and behaviour, such as users have come to expect of Web maps. 2 Before getting in to the technology discussions, I think it’s really important to back up and take stock of the situation facing mapping professionals today. 3 Paul Ramsey is a leader in the open source geospatial software development community who currently works for the CartoDB consumer web mapping platform. In a recent presentation to a meeting of Canadian government mapping executives, Paul told us that government mapping programs were no longer relevant. In fairness, Paul did say sorry for having to say that. You know, sometimes it is hard to hear the truth, and I would have to say that Paul wasn’t completely wrong, so what I really want to say in response to Paul is ‘thank you’. 4 Thank you for the opportunity to talk about a subject that has been in the back of my mind not just since I began promoting standards for geospatial information and Spatial Data Infrastructure, and open spatial data, but since the first day I did ‘View Source’ on an HTML page containing a Web map and did not see anything that could possibly produce a map. -
Web Map Tile Services Tiny Tile Server Bachelor Thesis
Web Map Tile Services Tiny Tile Server Bachelor Thesis Department of Computer Science University of Applied Science Rapperswil Spring Term 2013 Author: Carmen Campos Bordons Advisor: Prof. Stefan Keller, HSR Project Partner: Klokan Technologies, Baar External Co-Examiner: Claude Eisenhut, Burgdorf Internal Co-Examiner: Prof. Dr. Andreas Rinkel, HSR Abstract Tiny Tile Server is a Python server that permits the user to display local MBTiles maps on the internet. It extracts the data from the SQLite database where the map information is stored in tables containing all the tiles, UTFGrid and metadata. The tiles are the map images, smaller than the screen for better performance. The UTFGrid is some extra information related with points in the map that appears in an infobox when the user interact with these points. The metadata is the information about the map: name, description, bounds, legend, center, minzoom, maxzoom. Tiny Tile Server shows the tiles composing the map on a website and the UTFGrid data on top of the tiles. It can also be used to show the getCapabilities information from Web Map Tile Service in XML format extracted by the metadata table. Tiny Tile Server supports two protocols to access the tiles: direct access with XYZ tile request to tiles in a directory or to MBTiles database; or Web Map Tile Service from a MBTiles database. The server is a part in a website whose purpose is to show how it works and provide templates for the user who wants to employ it, so he will not need to have programming knowledge in order to use Tiny Tile Server, just to follow a simple installation tutorial.