Posts Tagged ‘maps’

Watercolor Maps

Stamen recently unveiled a set of three types of maps based on OpenStreetMaps. All three (“toner”, terrain, and watercolor) look terrific. Here, an example of the watercolor view of Sydney: The designers have given some insight into how they made these on their blog.

29th March 2012 | Tags: , , ,
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Mapping Photos using GeoRSS

As I was finishing up my earlier post on the geotagging tutorial, Pankaj Garg of ZeeMaps sent me an e-mail. We had previously been in touch about the possibility of using a GeoRSS feed to map photos in ZeeMaps. GeoRSS is exactly what it sounds like, an RSS feed for geo-encoded information. More people have [...]

28th January 2009 | Tags: , , ,
Posted in geography, multimedia | 1 Comment »



Photo Geotagging Tutorial for KDMC

The Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley has published my tutorial on Geotagging and Mapping Photos. In it, I go through a set of steps on how to assign location data to images shot on a digital camera and how to use the results to put the images in an online map. The KDMC [...]

12th January 2009 | Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in multimedia | 2 Comments »