Post Your Favorite Open Source Web Mapping Sites
As was suggested in the ESRI Web Mapping Sites post, post your favorite open source web mapping sites. One of my favorite sites is the OpenStreetMap project. I’m a sucker for Open Layers, but the concept and implementation of OpenStreetMap as a whole is wonderful.
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Most of the Mapserver sites I’ve seen are really basic.
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/maps/tomo.html
I’d say Open Layers helps big time with these sites. The basic layout is even worse than the default ArcIMS HTML viewer and that is saying something. Open Layers is the killer app for open source mapping.
I am a big fan of the maps done by CommEnSpace. Like this one: http://mapserver.commenspace.org/sustainable_seattle/demographic-map.php
Wow, that Sustainable Seattle map doesn’t work in my FF. IE only for an open source map?
Hmm… the Sustainable Seattle map works fine for me. It’s pretty nice, but the whole picking tools thing seems very frustrating after using Google Maps, Open Layers, and such.
Kipter Uh —-
I would not really even say that there is any default layout for MapServer. In the true Unix philosophy, MapServer does one thing really well — it serves maps given a request. While MapServer has some extensions to make the client part of the equation a bit easier, MapServer has many different projects like OpenLayers, MapBuilder, P.Mapper, Ka-Map, …. that create clients around MapServer (or WMS where MapServer can be the server).
By far my favorite and most used:
http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/graphical/sectors/
If those CommEn Space sites give you trouble in Firefox – try Firefox 2.0.
Couldn’t agree more about higher expectations post GMaps, ka-Map, OpenLayers. To be fair – those MapServer applications were developed a few years before the revolution.
openstreetmap is mapping the whole world and has global coastlines and a icubed image layer as well as editing software and a robust user community. Their major succes so far is England as well as Google and Yahoo support.
Looks like the emerging dominant open source mapping initiative to me.
I love this map:
http://www2.hcm.ciren.gov.vn/cirengis