Comments on: Is there a GIS + Google Maps website?

Question: Is there a GIS + Google Maps website?

blacklite — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:46:42 -0800

Is there a website that lets you show GIS data (i.e. standard geographical data from various sources) on Google Maps?

I thought I had seen something like this referenced in a MetaFilter post, or here, but I can't find it anywhere. Help, o wise people.

By: about_time

about_time — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:56:10 -0800

Isn't that what Google Earth does?

By: mcwetboy

mcwetboy — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:53:56 -0800

Define "standard geographical data" in a GIS context. What format? Which sources?

Changes to the Google Maps API earlier this year allow you to overlay KML/KMZ files (i.e., Google Earth data) in a Google Maps interface. If you're looking for any other format presented in Google Maps, you'd have to convert it to something that can be parsed by Google Maps (its own XML, or Google Earth's KML, for example).

You need to be a bit more specific: there's an awful lot of stuff on this subject out there, and knowing exactly what your specific needs are might help us find you an answer that is actually useful.

By: yellowbkpk

yellowbkpk — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:04:09 -0800

You could check http://mapki.com/'s list of Google Maps mashups/websites, but from my experience there isn't a site that will put any sort of GIS data up on a Google Map automatically. The make-your-own-map sites almost always have you click to put the pins/lines in.

That said, though, it's not that hard at all to make your own Google Map site. Send me an e-mail (in my profile) if you need some help.

Full disclosure: I run mapki.com in my spare time.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:31:10 -0800

Well, I was being deliberately vague because I was just wondering if there was anything out there that let you take any old shapefile and throw it onto a Google Map.

Knowing that there isn't one is useful info, too. Thanks. :)

By: Aaaugh!

Aaaugh! — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:56:44 -0800

I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, but it sounds like the Google Map Creator may be what you're after.

By: acro

acro — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:35:25 -0800

Great resource there yellowbkpk; I just registered.