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"Web mapping is the process of designing, implementing, generating and delivering maps on the World Wide Web ..."

The Wikipedia article on Web Mapping begins, "Web mapping is the process of designing, implementing, generating and delivering maps on the World Wide Web ... ." It includes the delivery of static maps (maps prepared in advance), dynamic maps (maps created or modified on the fly in response to user specifications or changes in underlying data), and interactive maps.

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How do GIS web apps work?

I am completely new to GIS and therefore have questions regarding how the GIS Web development should be made, because the entire concept still confuses me. So, imagine I have a map. And by this, i mean the shape files for the layers and so on. How…
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Examples of Web Maps

As part of an internal "learn at work month" program, myself and a colleague have volunteered to do a presentation: "The Wonderful World of Web Maps". To this end, we're now looking for examples of wonderful, weird, functional, beautiful, and just…
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How to create an interactive web mapping site with comment/rating system?

I'm trying not to ask something that's already covered by the other 'beginning web mapping' questions, but I want to do something that I don't see covered here yet. Maybe I'm just missing it. Basically, I want to create an interactive web mapping…
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Web system for adding points and related information to a map

I have been asked to find/make a web-based system whereby members of the public can add a point to a map and then enter some details about it. I could make this myself but as it's such a simple system I'm sure there must be an existing solution…
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How to set up WebMap

I'd like to set up a webmap that clients can drop into their existing website. I'm thinking Geoserver, OpenLayers & GeoExt. It would be very simple slippy map kind of thing. Do I need Geoserver at all then? Just want to be able to use…
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What tools do you recommend for this kind of web map?

I have one tourist map (ski resort) with buildings and roads in .jpg format. It's problem because north is down and south is up (it is that kind of drawn map with drawn mountain up on map where is actually south). I need to put it on the website…
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Isometric map tiles with Openlayers or similar

I wish to show a map layer in a browser based tool such as Openlayers or Leaflet however my tiles are projected isometrically. Has anybody done this before?
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How are Esri's ArcGIS, Google Maps, Mapbox different in their products in providing support maps for Web/App developers?

I am trying to understand their business models. I am an Angle guy, not a techie. In layman terms, how is Mapbox innovating?
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How to generate heightmap for UK

I already have a method to generate greyscale bitmap heightmaps from Google Earth using a long and involved manual process (see here). Is there a scriptable way of producing a heightmap to a set scale from freely available data, given a set of…
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How do I display geojson polygons on a map?

Here's a very basic question for you all. I've got 17,000 polygons in a GeoDjango database. How do I create a slippy web map that can display these polygons? In other words, do I: load a GMap, get the boundaries, each time the map moves, make an…
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map of europe in list of lat/long points

I'm looking for a list of lat/long coordinates which will describe all countries of europe. Ideally the list will also describe on which country each closed path belongs to. I'm imagining something along the lines: lat long cc type ------…
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common task in mapping applications

Two friends and I are developing a series of web mapping applications, only with some basic tasks (measure tools, identify polygons, and others). We are looking for suggestions on what to implement to make our applications better. So, my question…
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Web Map data display/filter/query

I have been learning as much web mapping as possible lately. I really enjoy it, as it seems what you need to know to keep up with the geospatial field. I do have a question that is probably easy for most people to answer. What is the best way to…
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What are common functions GIS web app should have?

I'm a programmer making his first steps in the GIS world. In order to get to know this world I wrote some map based apps using WMS / OSM , OpenLayers and MS-SQL (non spatial). Now I want to put it all together and do some more advanced coding…
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Easy way to map & share some spreadsheet points on a web map

What is an easy solution for placing some points on a web map and sharing the map and info with others from a spreadsheet I have? I want to be able to change the spreadsheet info and have the map reflect the changes. The area of interest is…
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