Taking an image and turning it into a custom map layer through georeferencing is something that was previously supported – poorly – as a SAR-only feature. Storing and rotating the image server side took too much memory and wouldn’t scale well to a broad public user base. Now that all 3 major browsers support CSS image […]
I’m happy to announce that a topo layer for the canadian rockies is finally live. The “nrcan” WMS source has always been available from the candian government, but I’ve wanted to create my own tiled source as well. Why? There are 3 sets of topo maps available from the canadian government: Toporama is a WMS layer […]
Sometimes a flat map just doesn’t cut it. You want to be able to rotate it, skew it, project it onto real-world terrain. Google Earth is great for this, but their aerial imagery only takes you so far in the backcountry. You need trails, contour lines, streams – and you need to be able to […]
MSRMaps, the site formerly known as Terraserver, is shutting down at the end of the month. It was a groundbreaking service when it first came out, and I lost many hours poring over slow-loading aerial images and topo maps on it. In some ways I’m not surprised as even today the site could hardly be accused […]
The USGS has stopped updating to their traditional 7.5′ paper quads, replacing them with a new product called US Topo, a reincarnation of their Digital Map – Beta product. This seems like a never ending source of confusion (I’m looking for a US Topo map. You mean a map of the US? No, a US Topo. […]
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