Mapping and Visualization Resources
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
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"
