Comments on: GeoData Visualization vs. Analysis: A Bit-o-Fun with 3D http://blog.geoiq.com/2008/08/26/geodata-visualization-vs-analysis-a-bit-o-fun-with-3d/ News and updates from GeoIQ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:55:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sean Gorman http://blog.geoiq.com/2008/08/26/geodata-visualization-vs-analysis-a-bit-o-fun-with-3d/#comment-540 Sean Gorman Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:01:20 +0000 http://blog.fortiusone.com/?p=568#comment-540 Hi MapMedia - Agree that satellite tiles and other tiles can be confusing - although lots of folks like them. In Maker you also have the choice of building your own background. So if you just wanted beige country polygons and a blue Ocean you could set that up. We provide a range of tile providers to choose from plus rolling your own. Some people will make aesthetically pleasing maps and others will not - it is up to the user. We are digging into a variety of oil data sources, and if you have some sources to share with the community that would be great. Even if you just point us in the right direction we'll post it up for anyone to take advantage of. One of the big goals of GeoCommons is to make hard to find data easily available to the public. We have tinkered with cartograms, but lots of challenges there. Mostly user interface and if you want to blend other projections beneath it. Hopefully some day. best, sean Hi MapMedia -

Agree that satellite tiles and other tiles can be confusing – although lots of folks like them. In Maker you also have the choice of building your own background. So if you just wanted beige country polygons and a blue Ocean you could set that up. We provide a range of tile providers to choose from plus rolling your own. Some people will make aesthetically pleasing maps and others will not – it is up to the user.

We are digging into a variety of oil data sources, and if you have some sources to share with the community that would be great. Even if you just point us in the right direction we’ll post it up for anyone to take advantage of. One of the big goals of GeoCommons is to make hard to find data easily available to the public.

We have tinkered with cartograms, but lots of challenges there. Mostly user interface and if you want to blend other projections beneath it. Hopefully some day.

best,

sean

]]> By: mapmedia http://blog.geoiq.com/2008/08/26/geodata-visualization-vs-analysis-a-bit-o-fun-with-3d/#comment-539 mapmedia Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:00:44 +0000 http://blog.fortiusone.com/?p=568#comment-539 Great topic. Background is a bad choice - yes, maybe Web 2.0 (map api look) but is a distraction etc.etc. USGS data is not a good data source - why use that stuff? Dig deeper :) I like your thoughts on the heatmap. Overall I would simply go F-L-A-S-H and include cartagrams. Great topic. Background is a bad choice – yes, maybe Web 2.0 (map api look) but is a distraction etc.etc.
USGS data is not a good data source – why use that stuff? Dig deeper :)

I like your thoughts on the heatmap. Overall I would simply go F-L-A-S-H and include cartagrams.

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