Comments on: Bumping up Against the Limits of Google MyMaps http://blog.geoiq.com/2008/02/26/bumping-up-against-the-limits-of-google-mymaps/ News and updates from GeoIQ Sun, 20 May 2012 18:37:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Andrew Turner http://blog.geoiq.com/2008/02/26/bumping-up-against-the-limits-of-google-mymaps/#comment-281 Andrew Turner Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:50:07 +0000 http://blog.fortiusone.com/2008/02/26/bumping-up-against-the-limits-of-google-mymaps/#comment-281 MyMaps is a nice, light-weight mapping utility for putting in a couple of markers. It's best trait is that it is educating the general market on "placemarking" and collaboration. However, the other side, GIS, is too complex, expensive, and feature-rich to be useful for quick map building or collaboration. It's a very good point, however, that there is a little actual comparative analysis of Google MyMaps and other online mapping tools. There is the middle spot of functionality, utility, and approachability that has been missing from mapping. With Mapufacture we're addressing that by allowing users to build maps using disparate data sources: demographic data for base layers, user contributions from GeoCMS's, MyMaps/Platial/KML, and then layering these together and allowing viewers to turn layers on and off and even play around with the temporal aspects of the map. This kind of technology was utilized to build this historic hydrological map of Israel (http://mapsomething.com/demo/waterusage/) MyMaps is a nice, light-weight mapping utility for putting in a couple of markers. It’s best trait is that it is educating the general market on “placemarking” and collaboration.

However, the other side, GIS, is too complex, expensive, and feature-rich to be useful for quick map building or collaboration.

It’s a very good point, however, that there is a little actual comparative analysis of Google MyMaps and other online mapping tools.

There is the middle spot of functionality, utility, and approachability that has been missing from mapping. With Mapufacture we’re addressing that by allowing users to build maps using disparate data sources: demographic data for base layers, user contributions from GeoCMS’s, MyMaps/Platial/KML, and then layering these together and allowing viewers to turn layers on and off and even play around with the temporal aspects of the map.

This kind of technology was utilized to build this historic hydrological map of Israel (http://mapsomething.com/demo/waterusage/)

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