GeoWeb applications

June 21, 2015 Author: admin
  • ArcGIS Explorer (Geobrowser Client of ArcGIS Server ArcGIS) Explorer is a lightweight desktop client for ArcGIS Server. You can use it to connect via the Web to ESRI-hosted servers that offer unlimited access to ArcGIS Online services. You can also use ArcGIS Explorer to combine ArcGIS Online services with your local data (e.g., shapefiles, geodatabases, ArcGIS Server, ArcIMS, KML, JPEG 2000, GeoTIFF, MrSID, IMG) and other Web services. ArcGIS Explorer lets you perform GIS analysis using tasks (e.g., visibility, modelling, and proximity search).
  • DataPlace hosts housing and demographic data about communities in the USA. The site assembles a variety of data sets from multiple sources, and provides tools and guides to assist in analyzing, interpreting, and applying the data.
  • CartoDB – Software as a service (SaaS) cloud computer platform that allows for GIS and web mapping tools within your web browser. Accounts are free up to a certain size with larger storage and features associated with fees. Tool provides the ability to quickly create maps from a spreadsheet that has geographic identifiers such as states, nations or X,Y coordinates.
  • GeoLive is a flexible and extendable online participatory mapping tool designed to facilitate organizations’ ability to capture, manage and communicate their own spatial data.
  • GeoServer is an Open Source server that connects your information to the Geospatial Web. With GeoServer you can publish and edit data using open standards. Your information is made available in a large variety of formats as maps/images or actual geospatial data. GeoServer’s transactional capabilities offer robust support for shared editing. GeoServer’s focus is ease of use and support for standards, in order to serve as ‘glue’ for the geospatial web, connecting from legacy databases to many diverse clients.
  • Google Maps is a desktop and mobile web mapping advertising service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions (Google Traffic), and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle (in beta), or public transportation. Google Maps offers an API that allows maps to be embedded on third-party websites,[1] and offers a locator for urban businesses and other organizations in numerous countries around the world.
  • Indie Mapper is useful to create static thematic maps.  Geographic base maps and topical data library provided. Data are derived from selected international intergovernmental agencies including the United Nations, World Bank, World Health Organization, Food & Agriculture Organization, World Nuclear Association, U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance.
  • MapBuilder is a free web 2.0 web service which lets you tag locations on a map and publish it on your own site.
  • Mapbox is one of the biggest providers of custom online maps for major websites such as Foursquare, Pinterest, Evernote, the Financial Times and Uber Technologies.[2] Since 2010, it has rapidly expanded the niche of custom maps, as a response to the limited choice offered by map providers such as Google Maps.[2] Mapbox is the creator of, or a significant contributor to many popular open source mapping libraries and applications
  • MapWindow GIS 4.0 Open Source Software The MapWindow application is a free, extensible, geographic information system (GIS) that can be used in many ways: As an alternative desktop GIS To distribute data to others To develop and distribute custom spatial data analyses MapWinGIS ActiveX Control At the core of the MapWindow application is the MapWinGIS ActiveX control. Using this control, you can program custom mapping functionality directly into your own software.
  • OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. MetaCarta developed the initial version of OpenLayers and gave it to the public to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. OpenLayers is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under the BSD License. OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. OpenLayers implements a (still-developing) JavaScript API for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth APIs, with one important difference — OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software community.
  • OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world and the advent of inexpensive portable satellite navigation devices