URPL 590 Contemporary Topics in Urban and Regional Planning: Mapping Mashups

Source: Walk Score

Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin-Madison Spring 2009 -- 2 credits David Hart, GIS Specialist, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute Email: dhart *at* aqua.wisc.edu Phone: (608) 262-6515 AJ Wortley, Senior Outreach Specialist, Wisconsin State Cartographer's Office Email: lwortley *at* wisc.edu Phone: (608) 265-8106 Tuesdays, 2:30 to 3:45 p.m. Thursdays, 2:30 to 4:15 p.m. Lectures: 208 Old Music Hall Labs: URPL Computer Lab

Quick Links Workshop Products Workshop Resources Workshop Schedule Links * Mashup Tools and Technology * * Mashup Development Resources * * Blogs * * Data Sources *

Creation of geospatial data is accelerating at a rapid pace. Increasingly, these geospatial data are being made accessible on-line as web services. Innovative organizations have begun to integrate these web services and develop web mapping applications that can be used for a variety of purposes. An example is Walk Score (http://www.walkscore.com/) that lets the user calculate the “walkability” of their neighborhood along with a listing of the closest business in a variety of categories. Recently, software has been developed that lets people without extensive computer programming skills develop mapping applications that pull data from multiple distributed sources. These applications are referred to as “mapping mashups.” This course will nurture an understanding of the mashup phenomenon and provide “hands-on” experience on the use of Google Maps, Google Earth, and selected open source tools to develop web mapping applications.

Workshop Products

• SeeClickFix, Tim Wallace
• CTABusTracker.com, Michael Rodriguez
• Weather Bonk, Lydia Bi
• America's Most Unsafe Cities, Nicholas Kasang
• 511 - DOT's Mapping Mashup, Kaushik Bekkem
• Active Trails, Jamie Krug
• Active Trails, Janice Poehlman
• Planet Hazard, David Kress
• College Outlook, Danny Bera
• Gas Price Watch vs. Gas Buddy: WWW Mashup Smackdown, Nick Terrible
• Winery Bound, Nick Bokas

• Time, KML, and Google Earth, Michael Rodriguez
• Overlaying WMS into Google Maps, Kaushik Bekkem
• gvSIG and Web Feature Services, Nicholas Kasang
• Streaming Flickr Photostream into Google MyMaps and Website/Blog Embedment, Daniel Bera
• How to Display Images from ArcGIS into Google Maps, Jamie Krug
• Earthpoint Excel to KML, David Kress
• ArcGIS API for FLEX, Janice Poehlman
• ArcGIS Layers to KML, Lydia Bi
• PHP for Mapping Mashups, Tim Wallace

• Overview of the Workshop (pdf file of Powerpoint slides)
• Understanding Server Use via Mapping Tools. or (The Wisconsin Idea Visualized), Nick Terrible
• Amtrak Station Ridership in Wisconsin – Proportional Maps and Time Data, Michael Rodriguez
• Travel Route Choice, Kaushik Bekkem
• Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes, Danny Bera
• Bicycle Tour around Lake Michigan, Janice Poehlman
• Biking Suitability in Madison, Wisconsin, Nicholas Kasang
• Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle Community-Based Restoration, Lydia Bi
• Massachusetts Maritime Heritage Mashup, Tim Wallace
• Madison Area Networking Events, Jamie Krug
• City of Madison Plan Commission Meeting Items, David Kress

Workshop Resources

Workshop Schedule

• Collaboration Tools at UW-Madison, DoIT.
• Wesch, Michael. 2008. "Anti-Teaching: Confronting the Crisis of Significance" Education Canada. Vol. 48, No. 2 pp 4-7.
• YouTube video of the "Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon University. (I especially like his discussion of "enabling the dreams of others" and the class presentations in his "Building Virtual Worlds" course that starts 30 minutes into the video and runs for about 15 minutes).

Thursday, February 26
Overview of mapping mashups – part 1, AJ Wortley, State Cartographer's Office

• Web Services, Mashups & KML: Exploring and Using the GeoWeb & Web 2.0 Technologies, AJ Wortley, Wisconsin State Cartographer's Office (Powerpoint presentation in pdf format).

Week 7

• Web Services, Mashups & KML -- Part II: Mashup Methodology, KML, Geosocial Networking, AJ Wortley, Wisconsin State Cartographer's Office (Powerpoint presentation in pdf format).

Week 8

• Mapping Mashup/Data Integration Development Resources, David Hart, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute (handout in pdf format).
• Google Earth Development Resources, David Hart, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute (handout in pdf format).
• Google Earth Files for the Great Lakes and Beyond, David Hart, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute (handout in pdf format).
• Great Lakes Data Integration Demonstration Using Google Earth, David Hart, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute (script in pdf format).

Week 9

Week 10

• Map Builder

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Week 15

• KML Documentation
• KML Developers Guide
• Google Earth Outreach
• Earth API Sandbox

Week 16

Links

• Google Maps
• Google Maps API
• Google Mashup Editor
• Microsoft Live Search Maps
• Microsoft Popfly
• Yahoo Maps
• Yahoo Pipes
• Google Earth
• Google Earth Plug-in
• Microsoft Virtual Earth
• Virtual Earth Interactive SDK
• NASA WorldWind
• NASA WorldWind Java SDK
• ArcGIS Explorer

• Programmable Web
• Mashable
• Making Google Maps: A comprehensive guide for creating and using your own online Google Maps, Devlin Hughes and Brett Jackson, Trinity College

• Clever Elephant, Paul Ramsey
• Very Spatial
• High Earth Orbit, Andrew Turner
• Mashup Guide, Raymond Yee

• Great Lakes GIS, Great Lakes Commission