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Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography Series Editors: William Cartwright, Georg Gartner, Liqiu Meng, Michael P. Peterson For furthervolumes: http://www.springer.com/series/7418 . Michael P. Peterson Editor Online Maps with APIs and WebServices Editor Prof.MichaelP.Peterson UniversityofNebraska,Omaha Dept.Geography&Geology Nebraska USA ISSN1863-2246 ISSN1863-2351(electronic) ISBN978-3-642-27484-8 ISBN978-3-642-27485-5(eBook) DOI10.1007/978-3-642-27485-5 SpringerHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2012935753 #Springer-VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2012 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation,broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionor informationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilar methodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped.Exemptedfromthislegalreservationarebriefexcerpts inconnectionwithreviewsorscholarlyanalysisormaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeofbeing enteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework.Duplication ofthispublicationorpartsthereofispermittedonlyundertheprovisionsoftheCopyrightLawofthe Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer.PermissionsforusemaybeobtainedthroughRightsLinkattheCopyrightClearanceCenter. 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Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Contents PartI Background 1 OnlineMappingwithAPIs ................................................ 3 MichaelP.Peterson 2 WebMappingServices:DevelopmentandTrends ..................... 13 ManuelaSchmidtandPaulWeiser 3 CurrentTrendsinVector-BasedInternetMapping: ATechnicalReview ....................................................... 23 ChristopheLienert,BernhardJenny,OlafSchnabel,andLorenzHurni 4 MapMashupsandAPIsinEducation ................................... 37 EmmanuelStefanakis PartII APIMashups 5 MultimediaMappingontheInternetUsingCommercialAPIs ....... 61 ShunfuHu 6 TheGISBehindiMapInvasives:The“OpenSourceSandwich” ...... 73 GeorgiannaStrode 7 TowardsaDutchMappingAPI .......................................... 91 EdwardMacGillavry,ThijsBrentjens,andHaicovanderVegt 8 LatYourLife:ApplyingMultipleAPIServicesforTaskPlanning ... 105 AminAbdalla 9 GuidelinesforImplementingArcGISAPIforFlexDevelopers ...... 123 GeorgiannaStrode v vi Contents PartIII Symbolization 10 WebServicesforThematicMaps ..................................... 141 OtakarCerbaandJachymCepicky 11 ATechnicalSurveyonDeclutteringofIconsinOnlineMap-Based Mashups ................................................................. 157 HaoshengHuangandGeorgGartner 12 WebMapDesignforaMultipublishingEnvironmentBased onOpenAPIs ........................................................... 177 PyryKettunen,L.TiinaSarjakoski,SaluYlirisku,andTapaniSarjakoski 13 UserScalableGraduatedCircleswithGoogleMaps ................ 195 DouglasPaziak 14 WebservicesforAnimatedMapping:TheTimeMapperPrototype 205 BarendKo¨bben,Timothe´eBecker,andConnieBlok 15 ThePossibilitiesofGlobePublishingontheWeb .................... 219 Ma´tya´sGede PartIV Applications 16 MappingSocial-NetworkInteractions ................................ 241 JamesO’BrienandKennethField 17 OnlineMapServiceUsingGoogleMapsAPIandOtherJavaScript Libraries:AnOpenSourceMethod ................................... 265 ShunfuHu 18 OnlineInformationDisseminationattheWisconsinState Cartographer’sOfficeUsingMapServicesandAPIs ............... 279 HowardVereginandTimothyKennedy 19 WebGISSystemsforPlanetaryDataAccessatthePDS GeosciencesNode ....................................................... 299 J.Wang,D.M.Scholes,andK.J.Bennett Index .......................................................................... 315 Contributors Amin Abdalla Research Group Geoinformation, Geoinformation and Cartogra- phy, Vienna University of Technology, Wien, Austria, [email protected]. ac.at K.J.Bennett DepartmentofEarthandPlanetarySciences,WashingtonUniversity inSt.Louis,St.Louis,MO,USA,[email protected] Thijs Brentjens Geonovum, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, t.brentjens@ geonovum.nl Otakar Cerba Section of Geomatics, Department of Mathematics, University of WestBohemiainPilsen,Plzen,Czechia,[email protected] Jachym Cepicky Section of Geomatics, Department of Mathematics, University ofWestBohemiainPilsen,Plzen,Czechia KennethField ESRIInc,Redlands,CA,USA,j.fi[email protected] GeorgGartner ResearchGroupCartography,DepartmentofGeoinformationand Cartography, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, georg. [email protected] Edward Mac Gillavry Webmapper, Haarlem, The Netherlands, [email protected] Ma´tya´s Gede Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Eo¨tvo¨s Lornd University,Budapest,Hungary,[email protected] ShunfuHu DepartmentofGeography,SouthernIllinoisUniversity,Edwardsville, IL,USA,[email protected] vii viii Contributors Haosheng Huang Research Group Cartography, Department of Geoinformation and Cartography, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, haosheng. [email protected] Lorenz Hurni Institute of Cartography, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, [email protected] BernhardJenny DepartmentofGeosciences,OregonStateUniversity,Corvallis, OR,USA,[email protected] Timothy Kennedy Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office, University of Wisconsin-Madison,Madison,WI,USA,[email protected] PyryKettunen DepartmentofGeoinformaticsandCartography,FinnishGeodetic Institute,Masala,Finland,Pyry.Kettunen@fgi.fi Barend Ko¨bben Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, ITC–UniversityofTwente,Enschede,TheNetherlands,[email protected] Christophe Lienert Institute of Cartography, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, [email protected] James O’Brien Kingston University London, Centre for GIS, London, United Kingdom,[email protected] Doug Paziak Private Cartographic Contractor, 7528 Pinkney Street, Omaha, NE68134,USA,[email protected] Manuela Schmidt Institute of Geoinformation and Cartography, Vienna UniversityofTechnology,Wien,Austria,[email protected] Olaf Schnabel Department for City Planning, Zurich, Switzerland, olaf. [email protected] D.M. Scholes Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington UniversityinSt.Louis,St.Louis,MO,USA,[email protected] Emmanuel Stefanakis Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, UniversityofNewBrunswick,Fredericton,NB,Canada,[email protected] Georgianna Strode Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center (FREAC),FloridaStateUniversity(FSU),Tallahassee,FL,USA,GStrode@admin. fsu.edu Contributors ix Haico van der Vegt Kadaster, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, Haico.Vegt@ kadaster.nl Howard Veregin Wisconsin State Cartographer, University of Wisconsin- Madison,Madison,WI,USA,[email protected] J. Wang Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St.Louis,St.Louis,MO,USA,[email protected] Paul Weiser Institute of Geoinformation and Cartography, Vienna University of Technology,Vienna,Austria,[email protected] .

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The Internet has become the major form of map delivery. The current presentation of maps is based on the use of online services. This session examines developments related to online methods of map delivery, particularly Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) and MapServices in general, including G
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