Mapping Hacks

In _Google Maps Hacks_ we included hack 37 by Tom Carden and Steve Coast that included code to plot waypoints and track logs from a GPX file onto a Google Map.
Tilman Hampl cleaned it up a bit, and got it working on his own server. So you can “plot your data on his server.
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During my recent month on the circuit I had the chance to run a couple of open mapping tools talk/workshops; I need to write up a narrative or schematic soon. One tool I showed a lot of and have become increasingly impressed with its solidity and functional simplicity, is JOSM, the Java-based offline OpenStreetmap editor […]

“Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.” AJ Liebling
Jo Walsh, our co-author on Mapping Hacks, has never forgotten this. Sometimes it is annoying. I want to say “but look, you can do all this cool stuff with this free (but not open) API? Why struggle to reinvent the map […]