Open Source and Free Mapping Tools

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Open Source and Free Mapping Tools

• This MIT IAP workshop is being offered by
• MIT GIS Services
• http//libraries.mit.edu/gis/
• Lisa Sweeney
• Daniel Sheehan

Image source http//www.joomla.org/content/view/4
410/74/
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GISGeographic Information System

• a tool that enables users to
• create interactive queries (user created
  searches)
• analyze spatial information
• edit data
• Control the way the geographic information is
  presented

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Each spatial attribute is referenced in a
projection and a coordinate system.
29o 43 7.10 N 95o 23 55.74 W GCS_WGS_1984
1/2m Aerial Photo
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Each spatial attribute is referenced in a
projection and a coordinate system.
29o 43 7.10 N 95o 23 55.74 W GCS_WGS_1984
Sidewalks
1/2m Aerial Photo
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Each spatial attribute is referenced in a
projection and a coordinate system.
Buildings
29o 43 7.10 N 95o 23 55.74 W GCS_WGS_1984
Sidewalks
1/2m Aerial Photo
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Each spatial attribute is referenced in a
projection and a coordinate system.
Streets
Buildings
29o 43 7.10 N 95o 23 55.74 W GCS_WGS_1984
Sidewalks
1/2m Aerial Photo
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Spatial attributes have a database backend that
can be used for querying and analysis.
Join tabular information from other sources to
your GIS table
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Cape Town, South AfricaLandsat Image over SRTM
DEM
http//photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA04961_
modest.jpg
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Mapping Data
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Buffers in ½ mile increments around Fenway Park
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Metro Boston Data Common

• GIS tools
• A partnership between the Metropolitan Area
  Planning Council (MAPC) and the Boston Indicators
  Project, it makes available a wealth of data
  about 101 cities and towns in Eastern
  Massachusetts.

http//www.metrobostondatacommon.org/
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MASSGIS - OLIVER

• Display and query nearly all of MassGIS' data
• Download up-to-date shapefiles from our database,
  with legend files
• Print maps, choosing from hundreds of themes

http//www.mass.gov/mgis/mapping.htm
http//lyceum.massgis.state.ma.us/wiki/doku.php
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Historical Maps from David Rumseys collection

• GIS browser
• Time viewer
• Image
• comparisons
• Google earth

http//www.davidrumsey.com/GIS/boston.htm
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Open Street Map
http//www.openstreetmap.org
http//informationfreeway.org
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Mumbai Free Map
http//mumbai.freemap.in/
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OSGEOOpen Source Geospatial Foundation

• http//www.osgeo.org/

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Google Maps Mashups

• http//www.gmap-pedometer.com (includes topo maps
  from usgs)
• Placeopedia connecting wikipedia articles with
  their location in google http//www.placeopedia.co
  m
• Jogging maps - http//www.walkjogrun.net/
• Housing - http//www.housingmaps.com

http//googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/
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FOSS4GFree and Open Source Software for
GeoSpatial 2007 conference
http//www.foss4g2007.org/labs/
http//www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/
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GIS software
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International Maps
http//libraries.mit.edu/guides/types/maps-urban/t
ravel-maps.html
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Available in the MIT Libraries

• Yahoo! Maps mashups / Charles Freedman.
• Google maps hacks / Rich Gibson Schuyler Erle
• Mapping hacks / Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, Jo
  Walsh
• Web mapping illustrated / Tyler Mitchell
• Beginning MapServer  open source GIS development
  / Bill Kropla technical reviewers, Howard
  Butler, Stephen Lime
• Spatial data on the Web  modeling and management
  / Alberto Belussi

These titles can either be found as electronic
books or in the MIT GIS lab. Check Barton
(http//libraries.mit.edu/barton) for
availability.
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Virtual Globes
Nasas blue marble image http//rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov
/bluemarble/BlueMarble3Kx3K.jpg
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NASA World Wind

• http//www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Main_Page

Trailer on YouTube http//www.youtube.com/watch?v
-rfxy7mn7mw
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Microsofts Local maps Virtual Earth

• http//maps.live.com/ - includes traffic data and
  images from 45 degree angles

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Google Earth

• http//earth.google.com