Mapping Hacks : Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography
Schuyler. Erle
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Sebastopol : : O'Reilly Media, , 2005.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (566 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Foreword; Credits; About the Authors; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Why Mapping Hacks?; Maps Tell Stories; Location: It's Everywhere; Never Be Lost Again (Even If You'd Rather Be); Toward a Semantic (Geo)web; Locative Media As a Two-Way Street; Brother, Can You Spare a Polygon Layer?; A Geoscope in Every Home; The Adventure Continues...; How to Use This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Color Images Available Online; How to Contact Us; Got a Hack?; Mapping Your Life. - Add Maps to Excel Spreadsheets with MapPointMapping Your Neighborhood; Make Free Maps of the United States Online; Browsing the Web Interface; Mapping a List of Points; Hacking the Hack; Mapping Census Data; The Pros and Cons of the TIGER Map Service; Zoom Right In on Your Neighborhood; The Code; Running the Code; More Ballistic Tomfoolery; Install Boomzoom on Your Own Site (Please!); Who Are the Neighbors Voting For?; Map Nearby Wi-Fi Hotspots; The Art of Wardriving; Collecting Data with NetStumbler; Uploading Your NetStumbler Logs; Warning, Traffic Ahead!; Why You Can't Watch Broadcast TV. - Explore a 3-D Model of the Entire World. - Getting Started with SPLAT!Making Terrain Models for SPLAT!; Finding Your Radio Frequency Transmitter; Drawing Maps with SPLAT!; Adding Context to the Coverage Map; Hacking the Hack; Caveats; Analyze Elevation Profiles for Wireless Community Networks; Make 3-D Raytraced Terrain Models; Getting the Terrain Data; Modeling Terrain With POV-Ray; Color Your Terrain with an Image Map; Rendering Hand-Drawn Maps in 3-D; Map Health Code Violations with RDFMapper; The RDFMapper Web Service in Depth; Hacking RDFMapper; Mapping Your World; Digging to China; Explore David Rumsey's Historical Maps. - Making a LineDrive MapHow LineDrive Works; Will the Kids Barf?; Getting the Data; More Information; Publish Maps of Your Photos on the Web; Track the Friendly Skies with Sherlock; How Does This Work?; Georeference Digital Photos; How Does This Work?; Aim and Composition; Conclusion; How Far? How Fast? Geo-Enabling Your Spreadsheet; Importing GPS Waypoints into Your Spreadsheet; Importing GPS Tracklogs into Your Spreadsheet; Calculating Cumulative Distance and Speed; Geo-Enabling Other Spreadsheets; Create a Distance Grid in Excel; Making Your Own Grid; Let's Go Diving. - Put a Map on It: Mapping Arbitrary Locations with Online ServicesMore on the MapQuest LinkFree service; Mapping with Yahoo! Maps; See Also; Route Planning Online; Route Calculation; Driving Instructions; Turn Right, Gone Wrong; See Also; Map the Places You've Visited; Find Your House on an Aerial Photograph; Searching Terraserver; Hacking Terraserver; Other Good Online Sources of Aerial Photographs; The Road Less Traveled by in MapQuest; Get the Right Scale; There's More Than One Way to Get There!; Using Estimated Time; Tricking MapQuest with Multiple Routes; Make Route Maps Easier to Read. - 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 al
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| ISBN | 0596007035
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