James Fee GIS Blog

I guess interesting stuff does come out of Where 2.0. Simply put, the Yahoo! Internet Location Platform creates an ID called WOEID (Where On Earth ID) for every location on earth and has an API to geocode back and forth from that WOEID.
In simple terms, the Service allows you to look up the unique [...]

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So how the heck are you guys doing it? Google Maps and Virtual Earth have so much distortion up there (or down there as the case may be) that mapping is very difficult. Plus what happens when they navigate off the edge of the map? Anyway the closest thing I’ve found [...]

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The word via PlanetGS is that Yahoo! has a new update to their mapping tool. Dan Catt has probably the best overview I’ve seen so far. I used to use Yahoo! Maps religiously, but since Google Maps has come out, I just don’t really bother anymore (other than to georeference photos in Flickr). [...]

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Yep you read that right. The latest Arc2Earth version has a new toolbar called Map Tile Layer which allows you to download into ArcMap Microsoft Virtual Earth, Yahoo Maps and Ask Map tiles. So you can now choose Aerial/Hybrid/Streets for each of these services (NASA World Wind and Terraserver will be added at [...]

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I had gotten an email from IDELIX and promptly ignored it as their idea sounds like a hassle given the simplicity and ease of use Google Maps and Virtual Earth offer us. Well after a weekend of seeing everyone post about it I thought I’d give it another look. Well I think I [...]

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I know everyone can’t bear to read another Yahoo!/Google Local/Live Local/Ask.com/Mapquest review but here is one.
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About time! I actually use Yahoo! maps more than probably all the rest because I like the interface. Now I can at least take a look at imagery from areas I’m traveling to. The imagery isn’t as detailed as Google’s or ESRI’s in urban areas, but it does seem better in rural [...]

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It wouldn’t be February in Tempe unless we knew Spring Training and the Cactus League was starting up. In the spirit of the season, I walked down to the local Borders bookstore to take a look at the new Baseball Hacks book from O’Reilly. I just can’t get enough baseball stats and this [...]

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Phillip Holmstrand has been working hard on BatchGeocoder.com and has now added the ability to save the map out as a webpage to share with others and to generate a KML file of your geocoded locations to share with Google Earth. Now anyone can create their own map service with just an Excel file [...]

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There is new FireFox extension that support GeoLocation. GeoLocateFox put a little icon (grey globe) in the lower right hand side of your firefox browser window. The globe activates when you visit a site that supports GeoLocation (such as this one) When you put your mouse over the icon you get a [...]

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Remember Konfabulator? Well Yahoo! has finally gotten around to changing its name and in the process has updated some of the widgets that didn’t seem to work really well with Konfabulator 2.x. Yahoo! Widget Engine 3.0 has all the Yahoo! branding you’d expect and make sure you opt out of some default Yahoo! [...]

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Link - Making Y! Maps with Flash (Series)
“So yahoo’s map api is available to help us make maps with flash. Strangely I see an awful lot of questions about the Flash-JS api. I don’t personally do a lot of flash javascript communication, so I’m not sure i really understand why there seems to be so [...]

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Link - Back to non-GYM, happy Thanksgiving
Scoble links to Spatially Adjusted in a non-GYM post, maybe Public ArcWeb Services 2006 is timed just right to take advantage of this Google Mapping rut people seem to be in. Heck, I bet Scoble doesn’t even know about ArcGIS Explorer, all the fun of Google Earth, but [...]

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I just can’t stop using it. I’ve always thought the simplicity of Google Maps made it so useful, but the new Yahoo! Maps is simple to use, but exposes much more functionality than Google’s mapping product. I like that the the URL changes as you move the map around. Sure Google had [...]

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I posted over on The Map Room about that I didn’t care for the Flash viewer for Yahoo! Maps and a poster asked me to elaborate. Since I’ve upgraded to Flash 8.0, it seems to respond much faster than it did before (when I was still using Flash 7), but that brings up my [...]

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Link - Mapbuilder.net
MapBuilder.net is an Web2.0 service that is used to build custom Google and Yahoo maps without any knowledge of the Google/Yahoo Maps API and JavaScript. MapBuilder provides a decent visual interface for the map building process, which includes geocoding features. Also MapBuilder lets users tag locations on their maps, and then publish the [...]

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Link - GeoCool!
Web 2.0 and the programmable web that I and others have been talking about for a while has mostly been vapourware so far. There are a few generic components that are useful, but it is somewhat limited what you can do with them. And yes, you may consider this a somewhat biased view, [...]

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Link - Yahoo Maps… First Look
I’ve always been quite impressed with the Geobloggers map built using the Google Maps API, but the new mashup using the Yahoo! Maps API really has some “WOW” built into it. I’ve been of the mind that there isn’t anything that Yahoo!, Microsoft or ESRI can do to get [...]

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