The UNDP Eastern Europe and Central Asia Bureau had a major relaunch of their Environment and Energy website for a major ministerial meeting in Belgrade last October . Maps were a big feature. And those maps were produced by Mapufacture Inc, in part utilising mapufacture.com.
There were two main tasks. A system to geotag UNDP environment projects, and a pretty map display. We decided to do both decoupled, in their way, from the UNDP CMS. Through RSS/GeoRSS it was just easy to link together the UNDP CMS and Mapufacture. The CMS produced an RSS feed of projects, and Mapufacture was set up to aggregate this feed. This was then made available for UNDP users for item level editing — dragging and positioning on the map. And as usual, Mapufacture made this feed available for export as GeoRSS, which was aggregated back by the UNDP.
Item level editing? Yes. Mapufacture has a lot of features built up but not just yet ready for launch, which line up even greater control over the G...
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Mapufacture as a Personal Descision Support SystemFrom: blog.mapufacture.com
Post Date: 2008-06-19 08:29:42
Last fall we participated in the exploration and standardization of KML in the OGC as part of the OWS-5 testbed . The culmination of this effort was demonstrating some of the key features of KML 2.2, integration with other OGC Web Services (hence the OWS), and the broader GeoWeb.
Mapufacture volunteered to put together a demonstration use and screencast for illustrating this that we presented at the summary session of the three day TC (Technical Committee) meeting. The follow...
more Mapufacture Support ForumsFrom: blog.mapufacture.com
Post Date: 2008-06-11 07:14:09
At Mapufacture, we have created a lot of tools to make it easy for users to build and share maps. It’s not always easy to provide powerful tools in intuitive interfaces. And while we’ve definitely seen some really terrific maps created by people, we also understand there are others who may encounter problems with knowing how best to use the site, find interesting feeds and services, or even (gasp!) bugs.
To help assist the community, we’ve teamed up with GetSatisf...
more Following Euro08? Get the MapFrom: blog.mapufacture.com
Post Date: 2008-06-09 17:20:15
As many may be aware, the football/soccer tournament Euro2008 is currently being played in central Europe. EuroKickoff offers up a Calendar and API for accessing the games.
I imported this feed into Mapufacture to make a map of the events . You can even filter the events with the Mapufacture time sliders.
Euro2008 Map ...
more Geospatial Aggregation for Health Situational AwarenessFrom: blog.mapufacture.com
Post Date: 2008-06-09 13:34:31
BlinkGeo pointed to this terrific article The Great Health Mashup .
It summarizes the benefits of aggregating and visualizing multiple geospatial data streams together to aid with awareness and decision making. In this specific case, it is used to monitor health conditions - but the same ideas and technologies can be applied to numerous other domains.
In fact, these tools become really powerful when you merge together disparate data sets. As the article points out, overlaying weather and...
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