Mapping Resources

Some amazing things are happening with Google Map API and now Yahoo Map API.

• The Best Map-Making Sites On The Web
• Mapping in Google Spreadsheets – June 5, 2014 Duke Library Blog
• Get the Most out of Google Maps
• Google Map API Documentation
• Google Mapki – forum for sharing ideas, implementations, and help for the Google Maps API.
• Yahoo Releases Map APIs
• Yahoo Maps has an application gallery
• http://del.icio.us/tag/mapping
• https://kb.ucla.edu/link/98
• http://polymaps.org/ – Interactive JavaScript Mapping Library (uses SVG)
• D3.js – with minimal overhead, D3 is extremely fast, supporting large datasets and dynamic behaviors for interaction and animation. And, for those common needs, D3’s functional style allows code reuse through a diverse collection of optional modules.
  • Intro to D3.js – tutorial – added Oct. 21, 2014
• ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Cartography

This article was originally posted on the UCLA Programmers Wiki.