I have explored the gallery of AnyMap. It seems that the current US map doesn't support Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. I was wondering if there is anyway to add these two "states" to this map? If not, what is the best way to represent data of these two? For example, adding two legends?
Thank you very much in advance!
As far as Anychart uses Geo JSON standard for GeoData, you can use any free or paid source of geo data.
For example, I have found a highcharts map and wrote a simple converter for anychart library.
chart.geoData(Convertor.convert(Highcharts.maps['countries/us/custom/us-all-territories']));
https://jsfiddle.net/mwhn5ce2/
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I am looking for pointers for libraries or methods that would be able to generate full text from the structured information returned by Wikidata - if possible in multiple languages.
To be clearer: from data like the one provided here (this is the JSON version) I would like to be able to generate text similar to the intro paragraph of the wikipedia page for the same item:
Orvieto Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Orvieto; Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta) is a large 14th-century Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and situated in the town of Orvieto in Umbria, central Italy.
The reason is that the text is provided by Wikipedia for all those cases where a page exists, but I would like to have something also for the Wikidata items without a wikipedia page.
My problem #1 here is: I don't know what something like this is called, so I have no idea what to google for. Any pointers to start from are appreciated, including services or APIs.
This problem falls under the Data to text generation task. I do not know of any services that are currently offering solution. You can look at WEBNLG challenge which has the same objective and similar data. AFAIK mostly template based methods are used to automatically insert data from wikidata into wikipedia as text.
please don't kill me if this question is listed anywhere else, i really searched high and low to find answer to this question.
i am working on a project in which i need to plot data on Mumbai city map section wise or area wise but i am not able to get Shapefile for the same. can anyone please provide me the link where i can get this Shapefile? or guide me on creating one using QGIS??.I mentioned QGIS because i know a little about OGIS and hence it will save time.Also i tried certain links which are listed below. but i couldn't find what i need.Guys it would be a great help because i really need this and i am stuck on this from few days.Also i mentioned shapefile because these are easy to manipulate, later i will convert it into geoJSON and work on it so if geoJSON files are there then it would also help.
Note: only the important links are listed:
1. http://monsoon.mcgm.gov.in:8080/RESTFulWS/WardMaps.html0
2.http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/
thanks.
Is it possible to highlight a list of countries with a different colors?
I need to display some countries' statistics on the world map.
Now I use an image and fill a region with color (calculated for each country) by country's coordinates. It's a simple solution and it works well. But now I need to specify the countries' name too (and I think it's not the last customization).
There is a polygon solution, but it uses an array of coordinates. I don't think it's a suitable solution to highlight countries's territory.
I haven't found a solution yet. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Highlighting countries or regions to support statistics is known as Choropleth Mapping
, but unfortunately there usually isn't direct library support for Choropleth maps bundled into an online map API. This means you'll have to create your own framework, but fortunately it is possible to create one - I wrote an example using jQuery + HERE Maps to
answer the question here
Updated WKT solution now available
Access to KML shapes is no longer required, since the Geocoder API now offers an IncludeShapes attribute which returns the shape of a country in WKT format. A WKT parser can be found here.
A simple WKT choropleth example can be found here.
KML Base solution
For any framework you will need to have a file holding the boundaries of the countries or regions you need. The example uses a KML file, but you could also start with polygons if you had them. Country borders are a political minefield, which is the reason I guess most online mapping APIs steer clear of them. As a hint: try starting with something like http://geocommons.com/overlays/119819 and simplify it as much as possible to speed up the rendering- many small wiggles in the coast lines and small outlying islands are unnecessary.
Of course you could also try searching for "create choropleth map" from a search engine of your choice and use an tool to create a static image for your data (potentially at several zoom levels) and then use this as the basis of an map tile overlay. This requires a lot more work up front, but would push all the calculations server side and hence be faster to display.
Working example can be found on GitHub here
You could put the country's name into the image. It's not that difficult to place text into an image. The only tricky bit is if you are using tiles, you need to deal with names that cross tile boundaries by drawing the name once for each tile.
I'm Currently working on a scene and i cant seem to find infomation as to how to make a setting for my scen. Its basically a street with buildings on either sides. about 500m long.
I want to put it into a city "enviroment" for animation. Also there will be camera movements so i dont think simply adding an image as a background will work. what i want to know is, Is there a a way to achieve what i want without actually building a small city?
any help or a pointer in the right direction would be great.
thanks in advance
A cubemap might work. http://wiki.polycount.com/CubeMap
There are applications which will generate a city for you, based on criteria you enter. You can enter the building types, sizes etc. I've used one called City Engine - I used the built in wizards to create this but you can create one from scratch even specifying the road layouts: Youtube Video
3ds max has predefined models within it's system,
For example a tree:
This tutorial is great:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-cfF2ep2DI
look into "AEC Extended"
My goal is to display various shapes(polygons, points, linestring) on google maps by using data entered into a Postgis database dynamically(i mean by that we can see modifications in the map in real time).
I was looking for a way to do this that used the spatial structure already provided in postgis(already designating if shape is a linestring or polygon, etc) instead of parsing out the coordinates and then re-entering spatial structure in google maps. I saw that google maps api is now compatible with kml data formats. And then I read that i have to convert postgis data to kml format.
I've done some reading in the forums about the actual process of converting postgis data to kml via FWTools, but didn't see anything that would help me. I'm new to kml but am familiar with postgis and perl and PHP. Is there a tutorial for the process of converting postgis data to kml? Where can I get started? Thanks for any help
You can use PostGIS to convert to KML directly:
SELECT ST_AsKML(geometry) from MyTable;
ST_AsKML is one of several output formats, including WKT, GML, GeoJSON, etc.
To show dynamic data in Google Earth, a common pattern is to use KML with a NetworkLink element. Have the link's viewRefreshMode equal to onStop and Google Earth will make requests (to a URL served by PHP, presumably) with bounding box parameters attached. Use the bounding box to query features in the PostGIS database, and return results as kml. This is great if you have lots and lots of features, but only want to retrieve those in the region the user is looking at.
Depending on the complexity of your application, you may also want to look at GeoDjango. (Familiarity with PostGIS is a big head start!)
You can get a textual representation of the spatial data from a Postgres DB using a text conversion function, like
SELECT AsText(MyGemoetry) from MyTable
then you parse the string, create your objects using various API functions - depending on the PostGIS geometry type - and append these object to the main GE plugin object in a DOM like way.
If you are familiar with JavaScript and have a fundamental knowledge of XML, a good start is http://code.google.com/apis/earth/documentation/reference/
Don't forget to specify unique ID's to your objects so you can find them later to drop/modify.
Maybe you can get some inspirations here, display the linked "locator.js" file and look at function PaintSubField(Coord) ... this is another way, bit crude but effective, avoiding to mess around with too many individual parent/child objects and structures
You also may want to consult sample applications and use the code playground for "rapid prototyping"
re "realtime" you need at least an event that you can link your generation/redraw routines to.
Good luck
MikeD