Talk:Atlas

Project ideas.

1. "Map" activity, playing with maps : MediaMods & Erik Blankinship
2. Interactive atlas : simple view of the world, with free multilingual political map data

   support version with ultra-low disk version that may take a while to regenerate a new lens

   ability to add a static map (note geocoords of a few points on it, and the projection; add to kml database?)

   where is the best data? placenames : geonames.org (from the nima gazetteer) languages? aerial maps: openaerialmap. political data: un? fao / yaron tischler. topographic data: usgs? contour srtm data?

   nb: poke WorldWind & GMaps for sources

   see the opengeodata activity via osgeo.org

3. OurStories overlays : sharing that metadata
4. Sensible Cities : wifi triangulation with access points...

   connect with Ypod

5. Map proposals (via G!?) : for georss, in and out; for museum without walls
6. Working with OpenAerialMap and similar : use georss for this?

   describe how to do superoverlays this way

   demo viewer app from Chris DiB?

7. Aggregation toolchain for the school server and global servers.

related

• Web Map Server : encode map corners in a URL. Get layers from multiple servers.

  bundle multiple server descriptions together to render a result

  store the multilayer map description. See http://en.giswiki.org/wiki/WMS

• Map Server uses something like this for dynamically generating views
• Modern tiling solutions are more for static views with limited dynamic overlays.