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Mapping Hacks Tips and Tools for Electronic Cartography

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ISBN-10: 0596007035

ISBN-13: 9780596007034

Edition: 2005

Authors: Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, Jo Walsh

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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. "Mapping Hacks, the latest page-turner from O'Reilly Press, tackles this notion…    
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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/19/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 568
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English

Foreword Credits
Preface
Mapping Your Life
Put a Map on It: Mapping Arbitrary Locations with Online Services
Route Planning Online
Map the Places You''ve Visited
Find Your House on an Aerial Photograph
The Road Less Traveled by in MapQuest
Make Route Maps Easier to Read
Will the Kids Barf?
Publish Maps of Your Photos on the Web
Track the Friendly Skies with Sherlock
Georeference Digital Photos
How Far? How Fast? Geo-Enabling Your Spreadsheet
Create a Distance Grid in Excel
Add Maps to Excel Spreadsheets with MapPoint
Mapping Your Neighborhood
Make Free Maps of the United States Online
Zoom Right In on Your Neighborhood
Who Are the Neighbors Voting For?
Map Nearby Wi-Fi Hotspots
Why You Can''t Watch Broadcast TV
Analyze Elevation Profiles for Wireless Community Networks
Make 3-D Raytraced Terrain Models
Map Health Code Violations with RDFMapper
Mapping Your World
Digging to China
Explore David Rumsey's Historical Maps
Explore a 3-D Model of the Entire World
Work with Multiple Lat/Long Formats
Work with Different Coordinate Systems
Calculate the Distance Between Points on the Earth's Surface
Experiment with Different Cartographic Projections
Plot Arbitrary Points on a World Map
Plot a Great Circle on a Flat Map
Plot Dymaxion Maps in Perl
Hack on Base Maps in Your Favorite Image Editor
Georeference an Arbitrary Tourist Map
Map Other Planets
Mapping (on) the Web
Search Local, Find Global
Shorten Online Map URLs
Tweak the Look and Feel of Web Maps
Add Location to Weblogs and RSS Feeds
View Your Photo Thumbnails on a Flash Map
Plot Points on a Spinning Globe Applet
Plot Points on an Interactive Map Using DHTML
Map Your Tracklogs on the Web
Map Earthquakes in (Nearly) Real Time
Plot Statistics Against Shapes
Extract a Spatial Model from Wikipedia
Map Global Weather Conditions
Mapping with Gadgets
Get Maps on Your Mobile Phone
Accessorize Your GPS
Get Your Tracklogs in Windows or Linux
The Serial Port to USB Conundrum
Speak in Geotongues: GPSBabel to the Rescue
Show Your Waypoints on Aerial Photos with Terrabrowser
Visualize Your Tracks in Three Dimensions
Create Your Own Maps for a Garmin GPS
Use Your Track Memory as a GPS Base Map
Animate Your Tracklogs
Connect to Your GPS from Multiple Applications
Don''t Lose Your Tracklogs!
Geocode Your Voice Recordings and Other Media
Improve the Accuracy of Your GPS with Differential GPS
Build a Map of Local GSM Cells
Build a Car Computer
Build Your Own Car Navigation System with GpsDrive
Mapping on Your Desktop
Mapping Local Areas of Interest with Quantum GIS
Extract Data from Maps with Manifold
Java-Based Desktop Mapping with Openmap
Seamless Data Download from the USGS
Convert Geospatial Data Between Different Formats
Find Your Way Around GRASS
Import Your GPS Waypoints and Tracklogs into GRASS
Turn Your Tracklogs into ESRI Shapefiles
Add Relief to Your Topographic Maps
Make Your Own Contour Maps
Plot Wireless Network Viewsheds with GRASS
Share Your GRASS Maps with the World
Explore the Effects of Global Warming
Become a GRASS Ninja
Names and Places
What to Do if Your Government Is Hoarding Geographic Data
Geocode a U.S. Street Address
Automatically Geocode U.S. Addresses
Clean Up U.S. Addresses
Find Nearby Things Using U.S. ZIP Codes
Map Numerical Data the Easy Way
Build a Free World Gazetteer
Geocode U.S. Locations with the GNIS
Track a Package Across the U.S.
Building the Geospatial Web
Build a Spatially Indexed Data Store
Load Your Waypoints into a Spatial Database
Publish Your Geodata to the Web with GeoServer
Crawl the Geospatial Web with RedSpider
Build Interactive Web-Based Map Applications
Map Wardriving (and other!) Data with MapServer
Mapping with Other People
Node Runner
Geo-Warchalking with 2-D Barcodes
Model Interactive Spaces
Share Geo-Photos on the Web
Set Up an OpenGuide for Your Hometown
Give Your Great-Great-Grandfather a GPS
Map Your Friend-of-a-Friend Network
Map Imaginary Places
Index