Re: [OSM-dev] open source mapping with polygons?

2011-02-19 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Nitin, Issuemap is open source: https://github.com/fortiusone/issuemap The stylesheet we use is also open source: https://github.com/fortiusone/acetate The GeoCommons API is free to use and built on, some of the glue sticking everything together is not open source. There is a developers group

Re: [OSM-dev] open source mapping with polygons?

2011-02-19 Thread nittyG
Kate, That was incredible!! I simply added in IssueMap: State | Number Iowa | 1 Illinois | 2 Minnesota| 3 Kansas| 4 And I got this: http://issuemap.org/maps/37bafe-number-by-state Fantastic!! I would like to use the APIs to help integrate fea

Re: [OSM-dev] open source mapping with polygons?

2011-02-19 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Nitin, I'm Kate Chapman and I work for FortiusOne, the company that created GeoCommons. I also am active in OpenStreetMap in the United States and with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Our office has hosted a variety of OpenStreetMap meet-ups in the past as well. While it is true that Ge

Re: [OSM-dev] open source mapping with polygons?

2011-02-18 Thread Nitin Gadia
... looks like they use some of the same features, and some of the same people are involved as in openstreetmap: http://geocommons.com/help/Open_Source nitin On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Nitin Gadia wrote: > Though GeoCommons is quite beautifully done, it is designed with > significant lim

Re: [OSM-dev] open source mapping with polygons?

2011-02-18 Thread Nitin Gadia
Though GeoCommons is quite beautifully done, it is designed with significant limitations. *First and foremost, it is not designed like a wiki, where people can collaborate and add to the map. There is nothing for editing the map internally, like openstreetmap, and nothing for discussing it. Geocomm

Re: [OSM-dev] open source mapping with polygons?

2011-02-18 Thread Nitin Gadia
So, I just added the historical map I created. Click on "Make Map" and login: http://geocommons.com/overlays/93944 Or, if you're logged in, this should allow you to go directly to the map: http://geocommons.com/maps/52565/edit?add_id=93944 When you see the map, click in the upper-left and choose

Re: [OSM-dev] open source mapping with polygons?

2011-02-17 Thread Nitin Gadia
Awesome. Yes, like that... But can you actually draw maps in it? Is there a time and animation function? I suppose I can at least play around with it and see how to create a population density map. Thanks, Nitin On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Jonathan Bennett wrote: > On 17/02/2011 15:54, nit

Re: [OSM-dev] open source mapping with polygons?

2011-02-17 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 17/02/2011 15:54, nittyG wrote: > What I am envisioning is something where a user can create and/or manipulate > polygons to show everything from population density, to rainfall and climate > change, to market flows, to historical maps that > can be animated. A bit like GeoCommons, then? http:

[OSM-dev] open source mapping with polygons?

2011-02-17 Thread nittyG
I love what openstreetmap has set up, and I would like to help take the idea further. With openstreetmap, the focus is on "lines" for transportation infrastructure. Is there any open source technology that can be deployed that allows users to create polygons (shapes), and change their representati