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Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should things change now?

Well, they shouldn't. The reality is that map creation, or "cartography," has only improved in its ease-of-use over time. In fact, with the recent explosion of inexpensive computing and the growing availability of public mapping data, mapmaking today extends all the way to the ordinary PC user.

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Overview

Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should things change now?

Well, they shouldn't. The reality is that map creation, or "cartography," has only improved in its ease-of-use over time. In fact, with the recent explosion of inexpensive computing and the growing availability of public mapping data, mapmaking today extends all the way to the ordinary PC user.

Mapping Hacks, the latest page-turner from O'Reilly Press, tackles this notion head on. It's a collection of one hundred simple—and mostly free—techniques available to developers and power users who want draw digital maps or otherwise visualize geographic data. Authors Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, and Jo Walsh do more than just illuminate the basic concepts of location and cartography, they walk you through the process one step at a time.

Mapping Hacks shows you where to find the best sources of geographic data, and then how to integrate that data into your own map. But that's just an appetizer. This comprehensive resource also shows you how to interpret and manipulate unwieldy cartography data, as well as how to incorporate personal photo galleries into your maps. It even provides practical uses for GPS (Global Positioning System) devices—those touch-of-a-button street maps integrated into cars and mobile phones. Just imagine: If Captain Kidd had this technology, we'd all know where to find his buried treasure!

With all of these industrial-strength tips and tools, Mapping Hacks effectively takes the sting out of the digital mapmaking and navigational process. Now you can create your own maps for business, pleasure, or entertainment—without ever having to sharpen a single pencil.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780596007034
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 6/28/2005
  • Edition description: 1st Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 568
  • Sales rank: 455,019
  • Product dimensions: 5.79 (w) x 9.33 (h) x 1.11 (d)

Meet the Author

Schuyler Erle was born in a small paper bag in Philadelphia, and then again five days later in Baltimore. As a youth, he had to get up every morning two hours before he went to bed in order to walk fifteen miles uphill to school, and then another seventeen miles uphill to get home in the evening. After many years of some nonsense involving Karnaugh maps, a botched attempt at a Red Cross sailing certificate, and the early works of Chomsky, Schuyler was finally and at long last sent packing with something his mentors found at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box. Later, after a tragic accident that left him nearly completely lacking in common sense, he served brief stints on Phobos and Ganymede with the Space Patrol, before returning to study n-dimensional unicycle frisbee golf at a yak herding collective in Miami. Somewhere along the line he made the grave error of attempting to implement a full-scale multi-user web application using a combination of tcsh, awk, and sed, which lead him straight into the arms of O'Reilly & Associates, first as a reader, and then as an author and humble developer. Four years & fifty thousand miles later, we present him in his full and unabridged form, where he hacks Perl behind the scenes at the O'Reilly Network, does on-site technical support for ORA's fine conferences team, is involved in a variety of database and production development projects across the company, and still manages to write and give conference talks for ORA from time to time.

Rich Gibson is a Perl/Database programmer in Santa Rosa. He has worked professionally with computers since 1982 when he created Public Utility Rate Case Models in SuperCalc on an Osborne II. His current fascination is creating tools to aid in the acquisition, management, and presentation of information with a geographic component. He is currently converting an old golf cart into a mobile geo annotation platform.Rich is active with the NoCat Community Network in Sebastopol, California, and is the primary developer of NoCat Maps (http://maps.nocat.net/).

Jo Walsh is a freelance hacker and software artist who started out building web systems for the Guardian, the ICA and state51 in London. She now works with the semantic web, spatial annotation and bots.

Table of Contents

Ch. 1 Mapping your life 1
Ch. 2 Mapping your neighborhood 54
Ch. 3 Mapping your world 97
Ch. 4 Mapping (on) the Web 165
Ch. 5 Mapping with gadgets 207
Ch. 6 Mapping on your desktop 293
Ch. 7 Names and places 393
Ch. 8 Building the geospatial Web 433
Ch. 9 Mapping with other people 472
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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 14, 2005

    Tons of mapping tips and ideas

    I really like to look at maps. Perhaps that makes me kind of a geek. Maps can help people understand experiences (like vacations), cultures, and can even help in decision making. Maps are just neat. This book (at over 500 pages!) contained tips and ideas on everything I ever thought about doing with maps, and then some! This book covers so many mapping topics, it¿s amazing. From tools and techniques for determining the shortest route between two points, to labeling your photographs with GPS information, to building a ¿neverlost¿ for your car, to building maps to help in decision making. The book really contains a little for everyone: from basic information to understand cartography, to using your GPS device to show where on the planet you¿ve been. O¿Reilly did a really nice job with the printing of this book, as the whole thing is in color. For mapping applications, that¿s a necessity, and made this book stand above some of the others in this category. Additionally, the author does a really good job appealing to a wide audience and making many of the hacks interesting to as many types of people as possible. I have read some complaints that this book was printed before the Google Maps API became available, but that¿s certainly something that can be covered in the second edition. This is a great book for the mapping hobbyist. The book contains a lot of great ideas, tips, and information on tools to really make the most of creating and using maps in your life.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 26, 2005

    wide audience

    If you are old enough, geography brings to mind globes and large musty maps from the schoolrooms you attended. But there has been a huge qualitative change in geography. Quite appropriate, perhaps, as we are now in the 21st century. This book describes what can happen when you have GIS available. It sits squarely at the intersection of computer programming and geography. Intensely and inherently visual. Granted, most of the hacks involve a modicum of programming. But typically the output is a map of some kind. Which broadens the appeal of the hack, because the visuals can often be interpreted and used by a wide audience. Whereas, in many other O'Reilly Hacks books, a hack might be very specialised. You may want to pay especial attention to the hacks involving GRASS. This is a huge geographic analysis package that is perhaps the analog of Oracle or DB2 in databases. The hacks can be used as a learning device, to get familiar with GRASS. This is not really for the person casually interested in some simple geographic hack. But for someone who wants to do serious geographic analysis.

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