What are useful/fun/collaborative things that can be done with a PDA, computer and a small GPS device these days?
posted on Aug 20, 2008 - 3 answers

GoogleEarthFilter: How can I merge the contents of multiple point-data KMZ/KML files? Long-winded explanation inside. [more inside]
posted on Jul 15, 2008 - 5 answers

Best GPS data logger for (1) monitoring cycle commute and (2) local mapping [more inside]
posted on Jun 11, 2008 - 7 answers

What is the best GPS unit to buy for my fieldwork, that would ideally display a list of homes to be mapped in a spreadsheet format and allow touchscreen entry of information into the spreadsheet (coordinates, consent obtained [yes/no], why home was unable to be mapped [drop-down menu])? Does this type of interface exist for GPS units? [more inside]
posted on Jun 1, 2008 - 13 answers

Dead simple mapping software for visualizing data? Any idea how to make something similar to these pretty maps without expensive and complicated GIS software? [more inside]
posted on May 20, 2008 - 8 answers

How do I build animated maps - say, of a city getting built up, or immigration patterns? [more inside]
posted on May 17, 2008 - 5 answers

My house is incorrectly located by MapQuest, Google Maps, Google Earth and GPS systems. I assume this means that there is an error in some common database they all rely on. Is there a way to request that the error be fixed so that future versions of the database are correct?
posted on Apr 16, 2008 - 2 answers

What's the easiest way of generating a map similar to this? I have several state-level data series I want to display on maps of India. [more inside]
posted on Mar 23, 2008 - 6 answers

I'm looking for PC/Laptop map routing software with turn-by-turn control, where you can define the origin, destination, and stops along the way and then traverse the suggested route junction by junction, making changes (such as specifying a turn at a specific location) along the way, with the remainder of the route automatically recalculated following each change. [more inside]
posted on Mar 17, 2008 - 1 answers

What about London should I map? [more inside]
posted on Feb 21, 2008 - 21 answers

If someone has set up a public custom map in Google Maps, is it possible to grab the set of points from that map and incorporate them in a new one? [more inside]
posted on Feb 18, 2008 - 2 answers

What is a simple straight forward way to gather gps data, and sync it with my digital camera/ Digital recorder? And possibly create a GIS database out of it? [more inside]
posted on Feb 9, 2008 - 7 answers

I want to build a website centered around maps, mapping, geography, GIS, etc., but I need help narrowing down my focus. [more inside]
posted on Dec 13, 2007 - 8 answers

What are the best essays, books, or scholarly articles regarding the social role of maps? Both pre- and post- web 2.0, google earth mash ups, and the like. I'm familiar with the Situationalist critique, but wonder where else to begin reading. [more inside]
posted on Nov 25, 2007 - 5 answers

Any reputable and inexpensive services that provide mapping from an IP address to the nearest large city? [more inside]
posted on Aug 30, 2007 - 7 answers

Calling online gamers! My husband is looking for a (seemingly) simple mapping program to make his life a little bit easier. [more inside]
posted on Aug 22, 2007 - 12 answers

Looking for a little help building a Google Maps/Craigslist display applet. [more inside]
posted on Jul 17, 2007 - 3 answers

Map geeks: can I generate a polygon shapefile from the outline of a large collection of points? There's more detail, of course. [more inside]
posted on Jun 26, 2007 - 17 answers

Is there a freely available database of major metro areas? [more inside]
posted on May 21, 2007 - 8 answers

I'm looking for maps "the same scale as the Empire." [more inside]
posted on May 15, 2007 - 16 answers

What's the best to plot more than 400 locations (all US-based) on a single web-based map ? [more inside]
posted on May 2, 2007 - 4 answers

What's the best way to make maps like this and this for use in a report. The images generated by Google, etc are all a bit rubbish looking. Bonus points for free/cheapware or webapps.
posted on Jan 12, 2007 - 5 answers

Help me find collaborative hex-mapping software. [more inside]
posted on Sep 29, 2006 - 1 answers

Is there an easy-to-use, on-line mapping site that can optionally indicate magnetic north on large-scale map images? [more inside]
posted on Jul 5, 2006 - 3 answers

Is there a good, easy, or already available way to make an altitude profile from a route in Google Earth? Alternatively, is there another easy (and preferably free) way to do it? [more inside]
posted on Jun 3, 2006 - 9 answers

At the grand old age of 37, I've suddenly been hit by the realization that I'm in the wrong career and it's corroding by soul. I want to work in something to do with the surveying and production of maps (I love maps). Does anyone work in this field and have advice on what qualifications I'll need and be able to tell me what sort of stuff they do?
posted on May 12, 2006 - 12 answers

I need help on learning fancy new web coding techniques [more inside]
posted on Apr 14, 2006 - 13 answers

How can we find the photograph DATES of the satellite images in Google Earth? [more inside]
posted on Mar 23, 2006 - 5 answers

Please please please can someone help me make my Network Solutions registered domain map to my Typepad site? [more inside]
posted on Jan 21, 2006 - 5 answers

Mapping & multi-stop driving directions: is there a free online mapping tool that will allow me to enter several locations in a US city and then display the quickest driving route to pass through all those locations? I've seen one called NavPro but it's not free.
posted on Nov 30, 2005 - 5 answers

Is there a cheap, simple way to map out the profile of a road to show the height / length of the hills? [more inside]
posted on Aug 24, 2005 - 11 answers

I'd like to make a map of my five acres but I have no surveying skills. Any simple guide to, or ideas about, amateur surveying on the cheap? [more inside]
posted on Jul 11, 2005 - 15 answers

Domain mapping to a TypePad blog. For the past 10 days, I have desperately been trying to map a domain name to my TypePad blog. Every solution offered to me by either TypePad or my registrar seems to undo something else. I am trying to: have the domain mapped seamlessly (masked, I believe it's called), but also for the Permalinks (unique urls) to work. I am in over my head! [more inside]
posted on Feb 28, 2005 - 10 answers

I've recently made the switch to Mac, and would like to do web development on the platform too (PHP webdev stuff). With PHP, I need frequent access to the backslash key, which on my Swiss-German layout is mapped to alt-shift-7 by default. This will Not Do.

Does anybody know of a (preferably free) program that allows me to re-map any key to another key? All the keyboard remapping tools I've tried just offer to map the modifier keys to a different modifier keys, akin to swapping keys, not remapping
posted on Feb 13, 2005 - 10 answers

What program should I use to create visual representations of some large tree stuctures? [+]
posted on Feb 10, 2005 - 11 answers

Need some advice on GIS route software.
posted on Feb 6, 2005 - 4 answers

Why is it still taught that the Earth has seven continents, when it's obvious it has only six, or to be more precise, why are Europe and Asia considered two distinct land masses when it's obvious they are one?
posted on Jan 19, 2005 - 37 answers

GPS solutions. I hate getting lost and not knowing alternate routes when I'm driving and it seems that increasingly I wish I had some sort of navigation unit. So I started looking. In-car systems are about $2k (and stuck in a single car), portable handheld ones are about $600 (I can use in other cars, which is good), but I hear iPaq PDA units with GPS are only about $500. Has anyone used an iPaq for road trips? Does it work ok with the small screen? What's the best add-on GPS to get for it? And what kind of iPaq do I need as a base to make it work?
posted on Oct 21, 2004 - 15 answers

Online maps... I run along a weird path and around a lake, and I have no idea how far I'm going. Is there an online map that'll allow me to trace my route and gauge the distance?
posted on Jul 24, 2004 - 13 answers

Whatever happened to MapQuest's aerial (satellite?) photos? Is there a site where I can find ones like them?
posted on Apr 6, 2004 - 13 answers

Has anyone here developed custom GIS apps with ESRI's Java Map Objects? Cost and licensing issues aside, how does it compare with open Java GIS libraries such as GeoTools?
posted on Jan 19, 2004 - 1 answers