<div dir="ltr">When I started programming webGIS i looked up ad theese and more.<div>Tilemill is, imvho, the best tool for map drawing, It's closely based on mapnik and it work upon node.js with good performance too.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I chooce OpenLayers because is more mature for general purpose development, it supports OSM - Gmpas -yahoo - bing and custom mapserver/mapfeature/mapprocessing/tilecache and It's easy and well documented to integrate it with third-part software.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Using mapnik we play on the level of Cartography (mapserver), that's a level downside from OpenLayers that is a pure WebGISClient.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2013/11/20 Nemesis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nemesis@ninux.org" target="_blank">nemesis@ninux.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Talking about maps, thank to the
CitySDK project i learnt a lot about GIS tools and I discovered
this software: TileMill
<a href="https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/" target="_blank">https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/</a>
- developed by a company called MapBox.<br>
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I'm studying it in my very little free time to understand what is
possible to achieve with it.<br>
I think it's possible to setup your own tileserver with the tiles
(OpenStreetMap) you want, or even style them!<br>
I think it would be a really cool service to have in a community
network.<br>
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See for example this map:<br>
<a href="http://dev.citysdk-mobility.provincia.roma.it/map" target="_blank">http://dev.citysdk-mobility.provincia.roma.it/map</a><br>
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I quite like the stile of the map, and the tiles are hosted on a
tileserver offered by the leader of the project.<br>
Setting up your own tileserver means no API key, no dependence
upon a third party provider.<br>
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For a commercial project is good to pay somebody for that service,
no having the hassle to mantain it and focus on your core
business, but for a mature community, which has its own
infrastructure and skilled people offering their help in
mantaining stuff it would be a waste of money plus what kind of
independence is that?<br>
<br>
Personally in Nodeshot i'm moving in the direction of using
OpenStreetMap, at today's times I can say it's a mature project,
and many companies like MapQuest and MapBox have built a
succcessfull business model upon OSM which speeded up its
evolution and improvement. I think this is an example of good
business model which is a WIN-WIN for both a company and a
community.<br>
<br>
Checkout the gallery: <br>
<a href="https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/gallery/" target="_blank">https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/gallery/</a><br>
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On 11/20/2013 11:56 AM, Clauz wrote:<br>
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<pre>On 11/20/2013 12:02 AM, Giuseppe De Marco wrote:
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<pre><a href="http://www.katapi.org.uk/Maps/GoogleMaps/GMv3-elevation-profile.html" target="_blank">http://www.katapi.org.uk/Maps/GoogleMaps/GMv3-elevation-profile.html</a>
<a href="http://www.heywhatsthat.com/profiler.html" target="_blank">http://www.heywhatsthat.com/profiler.html</a>
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<pre>This would be really great! :)
(Since I keep using Ubiquiti AirLink to achieve the same result)
Il giorno 20/nov/2013, alle ore 11:13, Nemesis <<a href="mailto:nemesis@ninux.org" target="_blank">nemesis@ninux.org</a>
<a href="mailto:nemesis@ninux.org" target="_blank"><mailto:nemesis@ninux.org></a>> ha scritto:
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<pre>Do you know also any other alternative to the Google Maps / Earth API?
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<pre>Probably this would be a pain to integrate, but.. is maybe possible to
directly use DEM <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USGS_DEM" target="_blank"><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USGS_DEM></a> files, just
like the OruxMaps app does?
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<pre>I saw a map (yes, another map software :)), made by <a href="http://unimos.net" target="_blank">unimos.net</a> guys that
used <a href="http://noaa.gov" target="_blank">noaa.gov</a> data to show elevation profiles between points. The data
should be this one:
<a href="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/topo/globe.html" target="_blank">http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/topo/globe.html</a>
<a href="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/topo/report/s11/s11G.html" target="_blank">http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/topo/report/s11/s11G.html</a>
Clauz
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