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Compiled for an upcoming project that requires to draw maps (most likely in PHP) and to visualize datasets, published here as I don't have a public wiki at this time: some resources on mapping and visualization.

Do you know further resources on mapping in PHP? Please leave a link :-)

Mapping

• PHP: Classes
  • Image_GIS parses Arcinfo/E00 data (available for free on the net) and renders the result with GD or as SVG
  • It is based on Jan Kneschke's Handling Geographical Datasets with PHP
  • GeoClass for PHP is the class behind OpenGeoDB.de. It can retrieve, calculate and convert geographical data and draw maps. Mailing list archives
• PHP, SVG: Introductory Articles
  • onlamp.com: Trip Mapping with PHP
  • PHP Builder: Adam and Eve
  • Direction Magazine: SVG and GIS
• Map Server
  • UMinnesota's MapServer îs a Perl based "development environment for building spatially enabled Internet applications". PHP/MapScript module makes MapServer's MapScript functions and classes available in PHP4. MapScript allows languages like Perl, Pyhton, Tk/Tcl, Java and PHP to access the MapServer C API. Mailing list archives
• Datasets
  • GIS Data Depot at GeoCommunity. Seems to be an interesting starting point for software, too. Boy, where have they got their menus form?
• GIS resources
  • Open Source GIS
  • Open GIS Consortium

Vizualisation

• Tools and Projects
  • AT&T: Grahpviz open source graph drawing software
  • UStanford: Visualizing Complex Systems: The Rivet Project
  • UStanford: Polaris Interactive Database Visualization
  • Carnegie Mellon SAGE Visualization Group samples
• Case studies
  • UBerkeley: Visualising the SF Muni Map
  • Gallery of Data Visualization - "The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics"