Rui CarmoResources
- Lisbon GIS resources
- OrganicMaps – an iOS/Android app with offline navigation based on Open Street Map data
| Category | Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cartography | Nov’13 | Natural Earth Data | All sorts of raster and vector data, including territorial subdivisions |
| Natural Earth 3 | Raster data without population centres | ||
| Nasa Blue Marble | Raster data from satellite imagery | ||
| Libraries | Jun’12 | Kartograph | A stunning SVG toolkit. |
| Jun’11 | godzi | A WebGL toolkit for mapping | |
| kothic-js | A map rendering engine using canvas | ||
| Mobile Apps | Aug 1 | Offmaps | Offline maps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, using OpenStreetMap |
| oMaps | |||
| Content | Older | Vectorial dotted maps | |
| Web | Older | Google Maps | |
| OpenStreetMap | |||
| Virtual Earth | what? MSN Earth was taken? | ||
| Yahoo mapping API | |||
| Mappy | European maps and itineraries | ||
| Map24 | NAVTEQ’s site, which used to employ an excellent Java applet (very useful on a 20” screen) | ||
| National Geographic Atlas | Also uses NAVTEQ data | ||
| Lisbon City Hall Map Site | Now includes an aerial photograph overlay. Sadly, it only works properly in Internet Explorer, which goes to show you how much they know about web sites. | ||
| Transparent New York | a chronological map of sorts. | ||
| Desktop Apps | Older | Google Earth | |
| NASA World Wind | |||
| Outlines | Older | carto:net | SVG in cartography |