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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