Pegmans Gets A Hat

Pegmans Gets A Hat

Pegman gets a Christmas hat for the weekend? http://goo.gl/maps/jAgL

Predictions - 2011 will bring,

A new perspective to old fashioned raster maps... with the help of HTML5.

OpenStreetMap will go mainstream... more so than at present.

AddressPoint (UK Postal Address locations) become more accessible without huge costs.

Fusion Tables SPATIAL will improve vastly.

Best of 2010 mapping

Opendata from Ordnance Survey. (No April Fools there)

Ovi Maps downloads maps via wifi to phone (no more Ovi Suite!)

Bing Maps Apps more usable adding OpenStreetMap.

MapQuest pump $1million in Open Source Data.

Google Zeitgeist Mapped

Google Zeitgeist Mapped

Based on the aggregation of billions of search queries people typed into Google this year.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2010/

Tour de France 2010 Maps

Tour de France 2010 Maps

"A collection of Tour de France Maps for 2010"

The Cycling event starts on 3rd July 2010 and you view some impressive mapping applications. Some will be 'live' during the event.

The 97th annual Tour de France begins on July 3rd in Rotterdam (Prologue Stage), Netherlands and will span 23 riding days en route to the finish on July 25th in Paris, France. Along the 20 Stages coveraging 3,642 km route in total
Official Tour de France 2010 Maps - surprisingly static but clear and concise
http://www.letour.fr/2010/TDF/COURSE/us/le_parcours.html [Overview Map]
Stages start (with links to other stages)
http://www.letour.fr/2010/TDF/COURSE/us/0/etape_par_etape.html
Also available via the Yahoo Portal
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/cycling/tour-de-france/map.html

Bing Maps App -Tour De France 2010

Bing Maps includes elevation gain, slope (-/+%) with an interactive profile chart linked to the map route of each stage.

The 2010 Tour de France map app:

This app is designed to help you visualise the overall race, the stages (stages tab + numbers) and how variables such as weather & elevation (elevation profiles) will impact each stage. Results will be updated along the way in the 'Results' tab.

Check the content in the 'Stages' and 'Results' tabs as you keep track of the greatest cycling race in the world.

http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/0.60041=/5872/style=be&lat=r4hhm9&lon=h0bqb4&alt=1983.162592&z=13&h=180&pid=5874

Live Tracker of The Tour de France 2010 by Ubilabs

This mapping site is consistent every year in providing live racing information on the race.
This year comes with twitter integration and facts and stats (when live racing is on).
http://www.ubilabs.net/tourdefrance/

Cycling News

Cycling News has produce a quick and easy map to all the stages using Google Maps API.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/97th-tour-de-france-gt/race-maps

Found more Tour De France Maps - add a comment - look out for updates...

Met Office Events Weather Maps

Met Office Events Weather Maps

Whether your interested in The World Cup in South Africa, Wimbledon Tennis Championships or the Music at the Glastonbury Festival the Met Office has released weather map events.


Check out the Glastonbury Temperature, UV, Pollen Forescast weather is continously updated to provide you with warning (Thunderstorms, high ultraviolet rays and hopefully sun.)


See UV Sun Index guidance with the interactive symbols on the Wimbledon Weather Map


"The World Cup finals will, for the first time, be taking place in Africa, with South Africa playing the host nation for what is regarded as the world's largest sporting spectacular.

The tournament is taking place between 11 June 2010 and 11 July 2010.

The Met Office are providing a weather forecast for the venues of the World Cup finals, click on the weather symbols on the map to get more detailed information on the venue of interest. "


Looks like Sunny all the way in South Africa for the World Cup 2010.

Map Links
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/events/worldcup/
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/wimbledon.html
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/glastonbury.html

Source:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/events/

update: 24th June 2010
Met Office News - Press Release on these Events
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2010/pr20100624.html

South Africa Google Streetview Released

South Africa Google Streetview Released

update: now available at http://maps.google.co.za/

South African Streetview Coverage

Just in time for the Football World Cup 2010.

But don't forget the scenery like this




Official Post:
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/06/street-view-brings-taste-of-south.html
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OS OpenData™ Consultation Government Response

OS OpenData™ Consultation Government Response

BREAKING NEWS

Ordnance Survey launches free downloadable maps

Move marks radical departure from previous OS financial model under which every piece of map data had to be paid for

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/01/ordnance-survey-maps-download-free

What's Free?

• OS Street View http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/streetview/
  
• 1:50 000 Gazetteer http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/50kgazetteer/ [note: 1km resolution so dots ontop of each other]
  
• 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster - http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/250kraster/
  
• OS Locator http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/oslocator/
  
• Boundary-Line http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/boundaryline/
  
• Code-Point Open* - http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/codepoint/
  
• Meridian 2 - http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/meridian2/ [ROADS! and classified]
  
• Strategi http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/strategi/ [Meridian2 better]
  
• MiniScale http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/miniscale/
  
• OS VectorMap District* (available 1 May 2010)
• Land-Form PANORAMA http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/landformpanorama/ [an old DTM needs cleaning up but can be useful if polygonised]

*still needs to be defined.
source:
http://ernestmarples.com/blog/2010/03/government-response-to-ordnance-survey-consultation-published/

Release of data for free
In response to this support, government will release a range of Ordnance Survey data:
on 1 April 2010, known as OS OpenData™.
The datasets to be released are those set out in the original consultation document as the Free package, with the following changes:

• replacement of 1:25 000 and 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster products with OS VectorMap District

• addition of OS Locator™ and Land-Form PANORAMA to the product list

• replacement of Code-Point by Code-Point Open, which provides accurate locations for 1.7 million postcodes in England, Scotland and Wales.
@mapperz

Straight to the PDF
http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/corporate/pdf/1528263.pdf

Live links tomorrow!
Happy Mapping... and downloading from

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/ (1st April 2010)

360 Vancouver Aerial Images and Covers Olympic Village

360 Vancouver Aerial Images and Covers Olympic Village


Clean, Smooth and High Resolution 360 Aerial Images of Vancouver

Vanier Park
http://www.aerialphotoimage.com/panoramas/GreaterVancouver/VanierPark.html

Vancouver Water Front
http://www.aerialphotoimage.com/panoramas/GreaterVancouver/VancouverWaterFrontParkAerial.html

And inside BC Place
http://www.aerialphotoimage.com/panoramas/GreaterVancouver/OlympicsOpeningCeremony1.html

Stanley Park
http://www.aerialphotoimage.com/panoramas/GreaterVancouver/VancouverWestEndAerial.html

New York Times - 3D Olympic Venues Map

New York Times - 3D Olympic Venues Map

If you want just one map to locate events for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010 then this Interactive and Animated 3D Map created by The New York Times is it.

• Highly Detailed
• Smooth Animated Zooms to Event Locations
• Interactive (Users can control 3D aspects panning and zoom)
• Informative Details on the Sport persons to look out for
• High Quality Action Photographs.

Clicking from the Map above smoothly zooms to:

Users can control Aspect using the controls in the top right corner.


Using Flash there is a quick response to load up a very impressive 3D Animated Map

Well done to
SHAN CARTER, MATTHEW ERICSON and JOE WARD; Additional reporting by Melissa Hoppert

Sources: Elevation data by Intermap Technologies Inc.; satellite photographs by Digital Globe, Province of British Columbia and TerraMetrics via Google Earth

Visit the New York Times - 3D Olympic Venues Map
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/09/sports/olympics/2010-olympics-venue-map.html

New Bing Streetside Coverage: Vancouver and Whistler

New Bing Streetside Coverage: Vancouver and Whistler for the Winter Olympics 2010


Blue represents the Bing Streetside coverage for Vancouver show here.


Downtown Vancouver, lots of big features gearing up the Winter Olympics 2010 will be held on 12th–28th February.


Whistler is also in the streetside coverage. Lot of building and construction works in preparation of the big events next month.

Google also have Streetview Coverage of Vancouver & Whistler

View Bing New Streetside in Vancouver
http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5872/lat=49.282699&lon=-123.119823&alt=13.53&z=30&h=44.9&p=11.7&pid=5082/5003/0.5071=WNB&1.6002=q:Vancouver:lat:51.5120151209378:long:0&o=&a=0:1&n=0

Related links
http://www.vancouver2010.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Winter_Olympics

Previous Post
http://mapperz.blogspot.com/2009/12/big-street-view-update-for-canada.html

Source:
http://www.bing.com/toolbox/blogs/maps/archive/2010/01/15/new-streetside-coverage-vancouver-and-whistler.aspx

New Yell Maps Beta 2010 Online

New Yell Maps Beta 2010 Online

New cleaner, faster yell maps, helps users locate local directory listings faster. optional is to display Points of Interest (POI) surrounding the local area.

Yell, the search directory business, is introducing a 'bespoke local business' mapping solution on its Yell.com service.

Yell.com Maps has been developed in partnership with Paris-based specialist provider Tridoo (http://www.onyourmap.fr/), which already provides mapping for Yell’s mobile phone services.

“It needs to be as natural for people to find a local business through Yell Maps as it is with the Yellow Pages directory.” Matthew Bottomley, Director of New Media Product Marketing

Yell.com Maps, which is in beta, is part of Yell’s ongoing development of new technologies to ensure it is the best provider of quality business leads for local businesses. Key features and benefits over the previous mapping service include:

• Ability to search within the map for local businesses and services
• Faster response and better geo-coding for increased accuracy
• Consistent experience across web and mobile
• Quarterly updates to keep information as accurate as possible
• Brand new design with bespoke colour-scheme and bigger, clearer maps

Djamila Fernana-Ritchie leads Yell’s mapping team. She said: “This is the first of a number of planned releases designed to make Yell Maps the premier mapping solution for local business search in the UK. "

see the youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/user/yell


The partnership with Paris-based Tridoo has been a cultural and technical shift for Yell. Djamila said:
“It is a relatively small specialist company which has spent the last 10 years at the forefront of mapping and geo-spatial development.

Goal:
“Yell.com Maps is the culmination of all that knowledge, in one platform.”

Yell maps beta is also available via mobile device.

More & Source:
http://www.yellgroup.com/english/media-pressreleases-2009-yellcommakesitsownlocalbusinessmappingservice

OpenStreetMap Formula 1 Circuits

OpenStreetMap Formula 1 Circuits


OpenStreetMap Formula 1 Circuit - Circuit de Monaco (Monaco)

OpenStreetMapper 'kevjs1982' has been busy mapping Formula 1 circuits across the world using OpenStreetMap.

"I have been putting a page together showing all the Formula 1 grand prix circuits on OSM and this has shown how random motor racing circuits have been tagged in the past

Highway=road, Highway=motorway, Highway=track, Highway=service, Highway=unclassified, and leisure=sport have all be used.

Relations for the Grand Prix circuit have been created and where the circuit is a dedicated one the highway has been changed to raceway.

Annoying now I've been through the lot it seams that the highway=raceway tag has been abandoned (I could have sworn it wasn't last week) although Mapnik renders it (see Donington Park, Silverstone, Hockenheimring, and Nürburgring for some old highway=raceways) - typical!

If you are in Montreal or Valencia and looking for something to map you could do worse than double checking the grand prix circuits out - looks like both are generally part of the local cycle networks and some areas are probably better tagged as something other than Raceway (current) or Track (previous) - in particular Valencia looks to have been redeveloped a lot since the aerial photography was taken and was originally laid down as a highway=track on top of open ground and other roads.

If you want to see how much stuff can be tagged round a Grand Prix circuit while bringing Potlatch to it's knees than the two German tracks are good places to check out!

Alas, not all tracks are in Open Street Map at present - 上海国际赛车场 (China), İstanbul Park (Turkey), Marina Bay (Singapore), 鈴鹿サーキット (Japan), Yas Marina (Abu Dhabi), and Korean International Circuit (Korea) are missing, and Wikipedia doesn't even know where the Indian track is (unsurprisingly all the new ones outside aerial mapping coverage).

mapperz correction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaypee_Group_Circuit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Grand_Prix

Diary entry centred on the Nürburgring Nordschleife - where else could you do so really?

Formula 1 OpenStreetMap can be found at:
http://kjs.me.uk/osm/f1.php - shows all the tracks on this years and next years calendar (aside from India).

So if your interested and have some knowledge either in formula 1 or helping openstreetmap fill the gaps then you can help.
Starting point is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page
The OpenStreetMap - http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html

Source:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kevjs1982/diary/8217

BBC Sport: World Cup 2010 Map - South Africa

BBC Sport have launched the 'World Cup 2010 Map - South Africa Map'

Use the map to explore preparations for the 2010 World Cup in video, audio, pictures and text.

One first load, the map shows all 10 World Cup venues in South Africa.

Click on a pictures to find out more about the venue in question. Use the map's controls, in the top left-hand corner, to zoom in and discover more venues.

This map will be regularly updated with photos, video and text in the run-up to the World Cup 2010

Source & Map
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8094737.stm

Vancouver 3D

Vancouver 3D


View this online now at http://mapperz.googlepages.com/Vancouver3D.html
(click 'Earth')
**GE plugin required (installs on demand)

Also available in Google Earth.
(there is likely to be a newer version of Google Earth within the next week - a reliable source)

Source:
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/01/vancouver-in-3d.html

Future Related: - Winter Olympics - Vancouver 2010
http://www.vancouver2010.com/