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UUorld 1.0 - Thematic Mapper and Data Portal
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willyp writes "UUorld released version 1.0 of their thematic mapping package for Windows, Mac and Linux. You can now import shapefiles and map your own data in 4 dimensions. It comes with US zip-code, US county, US state and Country border sets that are coupled with over 10,000 demographic, economic and environmental statistics. The statistics come from reputable sources like the US Census and the UN and they are accessible for free through an iTunes style data portal built into the application. You can export visualizations to Google Earth or any GIS app that supports KML. There is also a host of video, imagery and vector export options as well. Check out the gallery to get an idea. Enjoy..."
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Technology: Blog on Using Geobrowsers for Thematic Mapping
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Bjorn shares with us his blog on Thematic Mapping, he's working at the United Nations Association (UNA) of Norway.
Bjorn Sandvik writes "On the Thematic Mapping Blog you can explore how Geobrowsers can be used for thematic mapping. So far you'll find KML choropleth examples for Google Earth. You can also download a world borders dataset suitable for thematic web mapping, and read how spatial data can be loaded into a MySQL database."
Some thematic mapping related stories copied below.
Technology: New Thematic Mapping Software - UUorld 1 comment
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willyp writes "UUorld, pronounced "World," has released a beta of their new 4D thematic mapping package. It is free (no registration, no questions) and it runs on Windows, OS X and Linux. This release is packaged with economic, military and demographic data on an international scale from the early 60's to the present day. You can easily swap between regions and stats and export videos and pictures in a variety of formats. While this release only focuses on international data you will soon be able to import any regions (shapefile, kml, etc) and couple them with your own data." Visit their Gallery to find out what kind of vizualizations you can generate with this tool.
Technology: Thematic Mapping Engine
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The thematicmapping blog brings us news about this new product. From their summary : "It's time to introduce the Thematic Mapping Engine (TME). In my previous blog posts, I've shown various techniques of how geobrowsers can be used for thematic mapping. The goal has been to explore the possibilites and to make these techniques available to a wider audience. The Tematic Mapping Engine provides an easy-to-use web interface where you can create visually appealing maps on-the-fly."
Visit the link above to get a lot more information about it.
Visit the link above to get a lot more information about it.
Thematic Mapping Animation
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The High Earth Orbit blog has a video of a time animation of a thematic app in Google Earth. From their summary : "A couple of weeks ago, Bjørn Sandvik pushed out his thematic mapping engine: http://thematicmapping.org/engine/. It’s a nice and simple tool for classifying and visualizing the freely available United Nations OneStop Data.
Unlike most other theming engines, it also handles time very well. I generated a time-history thematic map of internet users around the world and temporally visualized in GoogleEarth:
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Worldwide Demographic Data 1 comment
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The Free Geography Tools blog offers a good entry on the StatPlanet worldwide demographic data. From the blog: "[...] Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) is [releasing] StatPlanet, an interactive application for exploring worldwide demographic, educational, health and socio-economic indicators. [...] The application is highly interactive – pass your cursor over the map, or a plot, and get additional data breakdowns."
A Summary of Thematic Mapping Techniques
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The thematic mapping blog offers a short but informative summary of thematic mapping techniques.
The introduction: "Jaques Bertin (1967) established a graphic system of visual variables, which represents an universally recognized theory of the cartographic transcription of geographical information (Koch, 2001). Visual variables describe the perceived differences in map symbols that are used to represent geographical phenomena (Slocum et al., 2005). Bertin’s system has been subsequently modified by various cartographers (Koch, 2001), and the visual variables presented below are based on Slocum et al. (2007), which add 3-D symbolisation.
Cartographers commonly distinguish between point, line, area and volume symbolisation (Robinson et al., 1995; Slocum et al., 2005)."
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Technology: The Thematic Mapping Engine Now Open Source
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The Thematic Mapping Engine is now available as open source. From the entry: "Many people have asked, - and today, I've released the source code of the Thematic Mapping Engine (TME) under a GPLv3 license. The engine takes statistical data, spatial features and thematic mapping parameters as input and returns a KMZ file. This file can be viewed in Google Earth, or other geobrowsers supporting the KML standard. TME can be accessed from a web interface or a PHP script."
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Introducing Thematic Mapping API
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We mentioned the open source Thematic Engine in the past, now Bjorn introduces the Thematic Mapping API.
From the entry: "The brand new Thematic Mapping API enables you to create KML based thematic maps from your own data source. This JavaScript library is the missing link between Google Visualization API and Google Earth API (or other geobrowser APIs supporting the KML standard)."
Last week, the FGT blog ran an entry named Thematic Data In Google Maps With "Plug And Play Maps" and another named Excel Spreadsheet Data To Google Earth Thematic Map.
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Technology: Launching MapsGeek - A Thematic Mapping Website
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Alex writes "MapsGeek is a free web based application for creating thematic maps or
choropleths map. You can use the vector layers already present on the
website or upload your own, we handle most of the formats through OGR.
You can also add WMS layer. For data, you can import Excel files or
enter the data manually. The maps produced can then be used
everywhere. If the created map is set as public, everybody can modify
it so if you're displaying it on your blog for example, the map will
be automatically updated. MapsGeek also has a WMS server
(http://www.mapsgeek.com/wms/).
MapsGeek is far from being finished but it's already working very
well. The goal is to provide non GIS users a way to easily map data
without any installation."
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