Web Mapping

TileMill Tutorial: Plotting Point Data Using TileMill

May 8, 2011

An excellent walkthrough from the MapBox team on using TileMill to style point data. The walkthrough contains some good tips on styling and labeling map data in general, along with some specifics about getting good results using TileMill. I’m currently working in TileMill to create a park boundary dataset for the National Park Service, and will [...]

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Development Seed is making it easier to create and serve tiles and maps

April 26, 2011

Interesting news today in the world of web mapping: Development Seed, a company that works primarily in the international development space, announced that they are releasing two new commercially-focused products: a hosted TileStream service and a TileMill/TileStream appliance that is mobile and can be deployed behind corporate firewalls. If you don’t know much about TileMill [...]

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ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for Microsoft Virtual Earth Bug: Cannot Dynamically Draw Polyline or Polygon in Internet Explorer 7

January 22, 2009

UPDATE: This was a bug. I reported it to ESRI, and they have fixed it in the latest release (1.3) of Virtual Earth JavaScript extension. Funny, I’m not sure if anyone is even using the extension, as there was a major lack of response about this issue in the ESRI forums. Are you using it? [...]

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Virtual Earth 6.2 Release a Bit Late

September 24, 2008

I wrote about the 6.2 release of Virtual Earth on September 10th, saying that it was due to be released on September 22nd. Well, it’s now the 24th and we still haven’t seen the new code. There are signs, however, that it’s on the way, including a document on MSDN (you can get to it [...]

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Virtual Earth 6.2 Coming September 22nd

September 10, 2008

Just received an early announcement from Microsoft that the next version of the Virtual Earth map control, 6.2, will be released – along with version 1.0 of the Virtual Earth Web Services – on September 22nd. There are some pretty exciting enhancements coming with the new map control, including: Static maps Direct map tile access [...]

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Virtual Earth and SQL Server 2008 – A Match Made in Heaven?

May 1, 2008

Johannes Kebeck has an interesting post showing how to get the benefits of the MapPoint Web Service method, FindNearRoute, through the use of SQL Server 2008. He uses a newly-added feature of the Virtual Earth API that allows developers to gain access to a complete returned route-geometry when performing a route. This new feature, however, [...]

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Virtual Earth 6.1 Brings More Features

March 26, 2008

Version 6.1 of Microsoft Virtual Earth will be released on the 10th of April, and brings with it some new features to the platform. We are now using Virtual Earth exclusively in all of our mapping applications, and releases like this further validate our decision to standardize on the platform. Here’s a quick list of [...]

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Yahoo! Maps is Now Pure JavaScript

December 30, 2007

Jason Levitt recently announced in a Yahoo! Developer Network blog entry (dated December 21, 2007) that Yahoo! Maps is now pure JavaScript. In the past it was a hybrid Flash/JavaScript application. The new port brings, according to Levitt, “at least double the performance of the previous Flash-based version”. And of note to developers, the enhanced [...]

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New Features Added to the Virtual Earth API

November 18, 2007

This news comes from Hannes’s Virtual Earth Blog. Microsoft has just released several new features into the Virtual Earth API, allowing developers to further enhance their Virtual Earth map control v6 applications: It is now possible to import 3D collections into VEDataType.VECollection. It is now possible to import KML and GPX data into VEDataType.ImportXML. This [...]

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Virtual Earth Dashboard Display Bug

November 16, 2007

Here’s a quick tip that I uncovered today while working with V6 of the Virtual Earth map control: If you notice that your application’s Virtual Earth dashboard appears funky with the “Road”, “Aerial”, and “Hybrid” choices displaying below the actual dashboard (as seen in the first screenshot below), you’ve probably set a font-size on the [...]

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