GIS, Geolocation¶

• GIS, Geolocation
  • Apps
    • Randonautica
    • Mapify
    • Maps.me
    • Furkot
  • Linklists
    • Lists
    • Contentprovider
    • Travelplaner and Portals
    • Mapping Services
    • Libraries
      • Leaflet Plugins
    • API, Data
    • Tools
    • Social
  • Knowledge
    • Performance
    • Geohashes, Open Location Codes
    • Leaflet
      • Tutorials
        • Markers, Icons
      • Solutions
    • Other Tutorials
    • Accuracy and Precesion

Links to location related stuff.

Apps¶

Randonautica¶

Discover a random spot around you.

RANDONAUTICA

Mapify¶

Instagram for travel - Startup. Not bad, but too stylish. Nice to bookmark some places.

Maps.me¶

Offline maps that was good once.

Furkot¶

PWA to plan tours. A bit slow and weird UX, but it's all possible in the browser!

Linklists¶

Lists¶

• sshuair/awesome-gis: Awesome GIS is for collecting the GIS related sources, including cartographer tools, geoanalysis tools, developing tools, data, conference & communities, news, MOOC's course, some amazing map site, etc.
• User:Grin/bookmarks - OpenStreetMap Wiki
• Top 19 geovisualization tools, APIs and libraries that will let you create beautiful web maps - Geoawesomeness

Contentprovider¶

POIs, Hikingtrails

• outdooractive.com • Europe's largest outdoor platform 💲
• Komoot Discover | Routes and Must-Sees Where You Are
• AllTrails - Outdoor Guides | Hiking, Camping, Trail Running, Dog Friendly Trails 🇺🇸 💲
• Toursprung Maptoolkit - Toursprung 💲
• Walking Routes - OpenStreetMap Wiki ?!
• Foursquare API for Business and City 💲
• melitele/byways: Content of the closed byways.org 🇺🇸 💡
• Oddities - A Waymarking.com Category - groundspeak/geocaching.com related
• Waymarking Mobile
• Triposo - API using Voyage Wiki and other Free Data
  • https://www.triposo.com/api/
  • Destinations
• GeoNames Database with POI, Wikipedia Data etc. 💡
• WIWOSM - OpenStreetMap Wiki
• Archive.org - 🎈 Public Lab: Does anyone know someone at Archive.org who can enable CORS for images of Harvey pollution? - https://archive.org/help/json.php
• Demo GeoNetwork server - GeoCat B.V.
• Chicago City Guide | CitySeeker just big cities, nothing special
• World-wide Ancient Site Database, Photos and Prehistoric Archaeology News with geolocation : The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map: - use from wikipedia instead
• Großsteingräber und Megalithbauwerke - Startseite interesting but not open (c) https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Yimj5phJ30XYUBJIu_7BH8yU_6c&ll=54.46166044314363%2C12.658709190307604&z=9

Travelplaner and Portals¶

• Mapy.cz API
• Destination Insights with Google
• Google
• Mapify - Instagram like travel stories (2021-04-12 Future unclear)
• Tripline travel stories, straight forward
• Historypin - Connecting communities with local history - Historypin is a place for people to share photos and stories, telling the histories of their local communities.

Mapping Services¶

• Mapy.cz API - good Service, static maps
• OpenStreetMap 💡
  • OpenStreetMap Wiki
  • Open Source Routing Machine DEMO Routing
• [Bing]
  • https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt827298.aspx
  • Bing Maps V8 Interactive SDK
• Google My Maps 💲
• Apple Maps on the Web - Maps- Apple Developer 💲

Libraries¶

• Leaflet - a JavaScript library for interactive maps
• Turf.js | Advanced geospatial analysis
• thephpleague/geotools: Geo-related tools PHP 5.4+ library built atop Geocoder and React libraries
• anthonymartin/GeoLocation.php: Retrieve bounding coordinates and distances with GeoLocation.php - calc bounding box
• bjorn2404/jQuery-Store-Locator-Plugin: A store locator plugin using Google Maps API version 3
• kobesin/GeoConvert: Converting between Geojson and GIS file formats

Leaflet Plugins¶

• wbkd/leaflet-swoopy: Swoopy Arrow Plugin for Leaflet
• epicbit/leaflet-data-markers: Extends L.divIcon to add data attributes.
• makinacorpus/Leaflet.Snap: Enables snapping of draggable markers to polylines and other layers
• maximeh/leaflet.bouncemarker: A plugin for Leaflet to have a bounce animation when adding a Marker to a map
• ewoken/Leaflet.MovingMarker: A Leaflet plug-in to create moving marker
• stefanocudini/leaflet-layerJSON: Build dynamic JSON Layer via Ajax/JSONP with caching
  💬 offers quick results. Caching is quite simple.
• labs is created by Stefano Cudini to demonstrate and test his own projects and works.
• Turbo87/leaflet-sidebar: A responsive sidebar for Leaflet maps
• allartk/leaflet.offline: Leaflet offline layer
• A Modern Leaflet Toolbar

API, Data¶

• Overpass API - query detailed location data like bars, churches etc.
  • Overpass API - OpenStreetMap Wiki / API by Example
  • overpass turbo - create queries for Overpass API
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim: Search - OSM Geocoding
• Photon, search-as-you-type with OpenStreetMap - OSM Geocoding
• AirMap Developers - Drones and Airtraffic Data (AirMap API | ProgrammableWeb)
• Spatial.ai - Neighborhood API (whats around right now?)
• GDELT GEO 2.0 API Debuts! - GDELT Blog - Map Search Queries for news or other topics
• Waymarked Trails - Hiking
• POIplaza | Free Points of Interests (POI) for iGO, Garmin, Sygic, TomTom and other popular navigation systems.
• POI Factory | GPS and other interesting topics
• Google My Maps
  • Meteorite Craters On Earth
• Historic Place 💡
• HistOSM 2
• Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Georeferenzierung/Anwendungen – Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Georeferenzierung/Hauptseite/Wikipedia-World/en – Wikipedia
• geojson.xyz fast access of GeoJSON data for web mapping examples and experiments.

Tools¶

• Geofabrik Tools Map compare, debugging, overlay
• GeoHash Area Check Tool
• tomscholz/geojson-editor: A modified version of Googles Simple GeoJSON Editor
• geojson.io Leaflet-based Geojson Editor
• OSM TagFinder
• OpenStreetBrowser - Max Speed Roads

Social¶

• KeplerJs is a open source geosocial solution that lets users share favorite places and join discussions in real-time. It can be seen as a platform where users can interact with other open data platforms OpenStreetMap among other sources.
• MapPost Bookmark websites with location data. Available as as web app and for mobile.

Knowledge¶

• Parameter Order in GeoJSON

Performance¶

• Working with large GeoJSON sources in Mapbox GL JS | Mapbox

Geohashes, Open Location Codes¶

• Geohash Intro
• Using geohash for proximity searches?
• php - Group coordinates by proximity to each other - Stack Overflow
• Geohashes and You – postzen
• nowelium/geohash-mysql-func: geohash function for mysql
• Native MySQL function GT_GeoHash(lng,lat,prec)

Open Location Codes are a new open address format by google that solves a few problems described here: Evaluation of Location Encoding Systems · google/open-location-code Wiki

• salavert/open-location-code: PHP port of Open Location Codes, a short code generator that can be used like street addresses, for places where street addresses don't exist
• google/open-location-code: Open Location Code is a library to generate short codes that can be used like street addresses, for places where street addresses don't exist. python, javascript, ruby etc.

Leaflet¶

Tutorials¶

• Leaflet: Seven rarely used features
• Leaflet: Make a web map! With Leaflet 1.0.3

Markers, Icons¶

• Leaflet formula: Counting markers within a radius | Chris Essig jquery, leaflet
• Animating Leaflet Markers (the hacky way)
• Data URI SVG icons with Leaflet

Solutions¶

• Leaflet custom icon resize on zoom. Performance icon vs divicon - Stack Overflow
  💬 L.iconDiv is faster than L.icon
• Loading 100-200K markers on google map - Stack Overflow
  💬 Precompute clusters, wider bounding box -javascript - LeafletJS best approach to object oriented - Stack Overflow

Other Tutorials¶

• enjalot/wwsd: working with spatial data - workshop materials
• ❗ Map Effects 100 beautiful map effects

Accuracy and Precesion¶

https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/109178/112041