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Online Collaborative Mapping
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The Cartography blog shows EditGrid possibilities (previously on Slashgeo) for online collaborative mapping. See also those examples and discussions from the Digitally Dist. Env. blog and the Digital Geography blog. The simplicity is impressive. From the DG blog: "[...] EditGrid now has an official add-on that supports the creation of KML for spreadsheet data. This means that spreadsheet data can be displayed on a Google Map or Google Earth. [...] EditGrid is very student-friendly and intuitive to work with, as the following demonstration shows."
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The Ogle Earth blog discuss how to turn a collaborative spreadsheet into a live KML file. From the entry: "Import any old spreadsheet with coordinate or placename data into editgrid, add a sheet or two with wrapper KML code, use the concatenate formula to wrap the data into the valid KML code, put the end result in one cell, and then link to it directly from a network link via a cell-specific URL. Presto — your spreadsheet returns KML via some clever templating. No programming required."
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The Into The Pudding blog discuss why isn’t collaborative geodata a big deal already? From the introduction: "So if by Weber’s criteria geospatial data has a high chance for a true architecture of participation to form around, then why don’t we see more collaboratively built maps? Why do governments and commercial ventures dominate the landscape of geospatial data? Though there are several emerging examples, shouldn’t they be a bigger deal?" They are multiple projects on data collaboration, but Chris Holmes makes good points. The OpenStreetMap project (working on Bath right now) is one good example, wikimapia is another (Chris lists more examples).
Industry: From Google Spreadsheet to Google Maps Mashup
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It will come to no surprise when Google will add the capability to use their online Google Spreadsheet to automatically generate mashups on Google Maps. If you can't wait, Ogle Earth tells us how you can already do it. But it's not as mature as the previously discussed EditGrid.
From Google Spreadsheet to Google Maps 1 comment
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The official Google Maps API blog links to their own wizard to generate Google Maps mashups from Google Spreadsheet data. From the wizard: "Embed a dynamic map of a public Google Spreadsheet on your webpage. After loading in your spreadsheet data and customizing the map, you can copy the generated code into your webpage. An example spreadsheet's data and map of great Seattle restaurants has been pre-loaded." See also related stories.
New Google Maps Features Launched Including Collaborative Mapping
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In addition to the important new terrain layer announced yesterday, Google Maps received a few significant updates, first, Google Maps searches are now providing a thumbnail of the related street view photo, second, the My Maps feature somehow becomes Our Maps, allowing to collaborate directly on someone else's My Maps, this has a lot of potential of getting big, and last, you can more easily share KML and KMZ files and GeoRSS feeds through My Maps. From the Our Maps announcement: "Just click the "Collaborate" link and enter the email addresses of the people you want to invite. They'll receive an email invitation with a link to the map. Once they open the map, they should be able to edit it, as long as they are signed into a Google Account that's associated with that email address. You can also open your map to the world so anyone can edit it by selecting the "Allow anyone to edit this map" checkbox."
'Map A List' for Google Spreadsheets
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The Free Geography Tools blog details a new and free service to geocode Google Docs spreadsheet lists named Map a list (beta). From the FGT blog: "Create a list of addresses and related information in a Google Docs spreadsheet, and map a list will geocode the addresses (convert the address to latitude/longitude), and plot the location and data in a Google Maps interface [...]"
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Re: Online Collaborative Mapping
(Score:4, Informative)We are really happy to see that the possibilities are brought out by the blogs mentioned.
To fully utilize the collaborative feature of EditGrid, we will make our Grid2Map add-on even more ease to use.
We are willing to hear any suggestions in our forum [editgrid.com].