It’s really not that hard. No need for one of the many diy scripts; just set the draggable property on your instance of google.maps.Polygon and you’re good to go. Note: draggable was introduced in Google Maps v3.11 (dd 22 January 2013). The current stable version of Google Maps still is 3.10 however. For now (until …
Tag Archives: gis
Mercator Puzzle
Trap Streets
From the cartographer’s book of tricks: deliberately introduce small errors — such as kinks in rivers, or the addition of small buildings, or exaggerated curves in roads, or the systematic alteration of minor digits in geographic coordinates, or even the introduction of entire fake villages — in your maps to know if a competitor has …
The Amazing iOS6 Maps
shp.js — JavaScript Shapefile Parser
Google Map Maker
Photoshop Google Maps Tile Cutter Script (Google Maps Tile Generator)
UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2013: PS_Bramus.GoogleMapsTileCutter has been updated and now includes a nice UI dialog. A video of the new version in action can be viewed on YouTube. The download link below links to the latest version, so no worries there. Last week, I coded a Google Maps Tile Cutter script for use with Adobe Photoshop. …
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Kartograph
Convert MrSID to an image (PNG, JPG, TIFF, …)
Conversion result, using data of my hometown Deinze, Belgium To convert a MrSID (Multiresolution Seamless Image Database) from LizardTech you’ll need GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) — Mac Users: download here — along with its MrSID Plugin — Mac Users: scroll down at link above. Once both are installed you can use gdal_translate to do …
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Convert ESRI Shapefile (.shp) to geoJSON (.json)
Conversion result implemented in Google Maps, using data of my hometown Deinze, Belgium To convert ESRI shapefiles to geoJSON (which you can perfectly use JavaScript and thus pass on to Google Maps, see screenshot above) you will need GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) — Mac Users: download here. I have installed GDAL 1.9 Complete but …
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