James Fee GIS Blog

Marten Hogeweg says that the ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap is available on CodePlex as an open source add-in. Adds Marten: If you want to contribute to documentation, best practices, or code, send your codeplex account to mhogeweg at esri dot com and I can add you to the list of contributors. You Wichita lineman can [...]

MapQuest, in that ever battle to stay relevant, has chosen to move toward OpenStreetMap.  Says the Wall Street Journal: The company [MapQuest], a subsidiary of AOL, plans to announce Friday morning that it is launching a site in the U.K. based on a project called OpenStreetMap, which is dedicated to user-created mapping. The OpenStreetMap project [...]

Over the holiday weekend, ESRI’s new ArcGIS for iOS went live on the Apple iTunes Store. ESRI lists the following as “features”: Navigate map galleries in just a few taps Use maps authored in ArcGIS.com Access your own GIS data Display and zoom to current location Perform linear and area measurements based on your current [...]

I know many readers of my blog are very interested in the OpenStreetMap project so this news will all make you breath a sigh of relief. The great visionary Michael Arrington has the hot scoop: Many people describe CloudMade’s OpenStreetMap project as “Wikipedia for maps,” and they aren’t far off. The project allows anyone to [...]

Michael Jones’ “article” on Directions Magazine does a great job of pointing out all the great crowdsourcing projects Google has going. I know that users are now better served with an easily correctable, rapidly updatable, widely usable base-map built from the synthesis of hundreds of data feeds, hundreds of thousands of individual contributors, and potentially, [...]

I’m sure most of you have seen the news of Amazon hosting TIGER shapefiles in S3 and now in EBS.  Sure I like TIGER being available for EC2 instances, but the real amazing stuff happens when you can work with OpenStreetMap XML data.  That mounted up to either FME Server or some great open source [...]

Looks like Google Map Maker is now available in 164 countries around the world.  If only they’d be less evil and work with OpenStreetMap.  I don’t know about you, but my time is too valuable to give it to Google without compensation.