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A blog that covers new things in the mapping space #16

Open hampelm opened 9 years ago

hampelm commented 9 years ago

There's a new version of MapInfo out

Pitney Bowes has released a new version of MapInfo, their ArcGIS Desktop competitor. They focus on ease of use -- they call it the "Consumerization of Mapmaking". It's probably a move to compete with easy to use services like CartoDB and Mapbox.

Their press release is light on details. We learn that training time is reduced to two days (fuzzy math: it's "down 70%" from two weeks). The actual changset, though, is lacking.

It's hard to tell what MapInfo's market share is. All the numbers I could find are from half a decade ago. Checking smartprocure, though, came up with... vs x in business.

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hampelm commented 9 years ago

TurfJS

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The shift towards web GIS continues. Morgan Herlocker, supported by the Mapbox team, has come out with turf.js.

Here's what it lets you do:

My big question is always how it performs on large datasets. It's not clear from the library what makes sense (the CartoDB team has sometimes given a benchmark of ~10-100k records in the browser for leaflet).

The project has its own github organization. Interestingly, the licenses are all in Morgan Herlocker's name, not Mapbox. Morgan joined mapbox in June 2014, but the project has been in development since September 2013

hampelm commented 9 years ago

10 Geocoders you should check out

Our friends built Yonder to compare them. What we really need is a bigger set of test cases. Of course, you could game the system. But that's less than likely.

  1. Google. Google still does the best with abstract place names (like "Home Depot"). Their limits have gone up, too, to 2,500
  2. Yahoo. Yahoo's geocoder is decent, especially with addresses, but if falls down on the job much more than G.
  3. MapBox have a new geocoder. It's too new to judge.
  4. Nomiatim. They have so much data -- why aren't results better?
  5. The OpenCage geocoder
  6. Geocodeio. "2,500 free lookups per day, then $.001 each after that".
  7. Nokia HERE, 100,000 geocodes free for personal use each month
  8. Teleatlas
  9. Navteq
  10. Gisgraphy

Texas A&M has a huge list

Someone started a google doc ranking them

hampelm commented 9 years ago

OpenAddresses hits Xx,xxx,xxx addresses -- free!

Over 200 pull requests later...