Mapping Hacks: Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography

ISBN: 0596007035
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 172

Authors: Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, Jo Walsh

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Mapping Your Life

• Hacks 1-13
• Hack 1. Put a Map on It: Mapping Arbitrary Locations with Online Services
• Hack 2. Route Planning Online
• Hack 3. Map the Places Youve Visited
• Hack 4. Find Your House on an Aerial Photograph
• Hack 5. The Road Less Traveled by in MapQuest
• Hack 6. Make Route Maps Easier to Read
• Hack 7. Will the Kids Barf?
• Hack 8. Publish Maps of Your Photos on the Web
• Hack 9. Track the Friendly Skies with Sherlock
• Hack 10. Georeference Digital Photos
• Hack 11. How Far? How Fast? Geo-Enabling Your Spreadsheet
• Hack 12. Create a Distance Grid in Excel
• Hack 13. Add Maps to Excel Spreadsheets with MapPoint

Mapping Your Neighborhood

• Hacks 14-21
• Hack 14. Make Free Maps of the United States Online
• Hack 15. Zoom Right In on Your Neighborhood
• Hack 16. Who Are the Neighbors Voting For?
• Hack 17. Map Nearby Wi-Fi Hotspots
• Hack 18. Why You Cant Watch Broadcast TV
• Hack 19. Analyze Elevation Profiles for Wireless Community Networks
• Hack 20. Make 3-D Raytraced Terrain Models
• Hack 21. Map Health Code Violations with RDFMapper

Mapping Your World

• Hacks 22-34
• Hack 22. Digging to China
• Hack 23. Explore David Rumseys Historical Maps
• Hack 24. Explore a 3-D Model of the Entire World
• Hack 25. Work with Multiple Lat/Long Formats
• Hack 26. Work with Different Coordinate Systems
• Hack 27. Calculate the Distance Between Points on the Earths Surface
• Hack 28. Experiment with Different Cartographic Projections
• Hack 29. Plot Arbitrary Points on a World Map
• Hack 30. Plot a Great Circle on a Flat Map
• Hack 31. Plot Dymaxion Maps in Perl
• Hack 32. Hack on Base Maps in Your Favorite Image Editor
• Hack 33. Georeference an Arbitrary Tourist Map
• Hack 34. Map Other Planets

Mapping (on) the Web

• Hacks 35-46
• Hack 35. Search Local, Find Global
• Hack 36. Shorten Online Map URLs
• Hack 37. Tweak the Look and Feel of Web Maps
• Hack 38. Add Location to Weblogs and RSS Feeds
• Hack 39. View Your Photo Thumbnails on a Flash Map
• Hack 40. Plot Points on a Spinning Globe Applet
• Hack 41. Plot Points on an Interactive Map Using DHTML
• Hack 42. Map Your Tracklogs on the Web
• Hack 43. Map Earthquakes in (Nearly) Real Time
• Hack 44. Plot Statistics Against Shapes
• Hack 45. Extract a Spatial Model from Wikipedia
• Hack 46. Map Global Weather Conditions

Mapping with Gadgets

• Hacks 47-63
• How GPS Works
• Hack 47. Get Maps on Your Mobile Phone
• Hack 48. Accessorize Your GPS
• Hack 49. Get Your Tracklogs in Windows or Linux
• Hack 50. The Serial Port to USB Conundrum
• Hack 51. Speak in Geotongues: GPSBabel to the Rescue
• Hack 52. Show Your Waypoints on Aerial Photos with Terrabrowser
• Hack 53. Visualize Your Tracks in Three Dimensions
• Hack 54. Create Your Own Maps for a Garmin GPS
• Hack 55. Use Your Track Memory as a GPS Base Map
• Hack 56. Animate Your Tracklogs
• Hack 57. Connect to Your GPS from Multiple Applications
• Hack 58. Dont Lose Your Tracklogs!
• Hack 59. Geocode Your Voice Recordings and Other Media
• Hack 60. Improve the Accuracy of Your GPS with Differential GPS
• Hack 61. Build a Map of Local GSM Cells
• Hack 62. Build a Car Computer
• Hack 63. Build Your Own Car Navigation System with GpsDrive

Mapping on Your Desktop

• Hacks 64-77
• Hack 64. Mapping Local Areas of Interest with Quantum GIS
• Hack 65. Extract Data from Maps with Manifold
• Hack 66. Java-Based Desktop Mapping with Openmap
• Hack 67. Seamless Data Download from the USGS
• Hack 68. Convert Geospatial Data Between Different Formats
• Hack 69. Find Your Way Around GRASS
• Hack 70. Import Your GPS Waypoints and Tracklogs into GRASS
• Hack 71. Turn Your Tracklogs into ESRI Shapefiles
• Hack 72. Add Relief to Your Topographic Maps
• Hack 73. Make Your Own Contour Maps
• Hack 74. Plot Wireless Network Viewsheds with GRASS
• Hack 75. Share Your GRASS Maps with the World
• Hack 76. Explore the Effects of Global Warming
• Conclusion
• Hack 77. Become a GRASS Ninja

Names and Places

• Hacks 78-86
• Hack 78. What to Do if Your Government Is Hoarding Geographic Data
• Hack 79. Geocode a U.S. Street Address
• Hack 80. Automatically Geocode U.S. Addresses
• Hack 81. Clean Up U.S. Addresses
• Hack 82. Find Nearby Things Using U.S. ZIP Codes
• Hack 83. Map Numerical Data the Easy Way
• Hack 84. Build a Free World Gazetteer
• Hack 85. Geocode U.S. Locations with the GNIS
• Hack 86. Track a Package Across the U.S.

Building the Geospatial Web

• Hacks 87-92
• Hack 87. Build a Spatially Indexed Data Store
• Hack 88. Load Your Waypoints into a Spatial Database
• Hack 89. Publish Your Geodata to the Web with GeoServer
• Hack 90. Crawl the Geospatial Web with RedSpider
• Hack 91. Build Interactive Web-Based Map Applications
• Hack 92. Map Wardriving (and other!) Data with MapServer

Mapping with Other People

• Hacks 93-100
• Hack 93. Node Runner
• Hack 94. Geo-Warchalking with 2-D Barcodes
• Hack 95. Model Interactive Spaces
• Hack 96. Share Geo-Photos on the Web
• Hack 97. Set Up an OpenGuide for Your Hometown
• Hack 98. Give Your Great-Great-Grandfather a GPS
• Hack 99. Map Your Friend-of-a-Friend Network
• Hack 100. Map Imaginary Places