1. Karsten Vennemann, Seattle Free and Easy Web Mapping

2. slide 2 of 21 Free and Easy Web Mapping Talk overview Goals Explore selected Web Mapping Options focus on free and easy to set-up overview & functionality live example map for each service (point locations shape of GIS projects) Highlights of Services

3. slide 3 of 21 Free and Easy Web Mapping Goals Introduce to free and easy Web mapping options i.e. free of charge & least technically challenging Present a selection of the most prominent offerings of free and easy Web mapping providers Comparison of functionality and restrictions to support informed decisions for choosing services

4. slide 4 of 21 Free and Easy Web Mapping For Web Mapping an organisation typically has their own server(s) hardware + software setup

5. slide 5 of 21 Free and Easy Web Mapping For certain use cases an organisation might benefit from using free ( and easy to use) solutions of Online Web Mapping Solution Service Providers

6. slide 6 of 21 Free and Easy Web Mapping Free and easy Web mapping options (a selection) Google Maps + Fusion tables ArcGIS online GeoCommons MapBox Carto DB

7. slide 7 of 21 Free and Easy Web Mapping Overview of free mapping services Provide free services, with optional paid upgrade plan Limitations on use (who), access and/or data storage flexibility architecture & functionality (paid or other) data storage size and formats map projection (all services in sperical mercator) Similarities map projection (all services in spherical mercator) geographic search functions (all) Services often provide APIs for programming (beyond easy)

8. slide 8 of 21 Free and Easy Web Mapping Google Fusion Tables + Maps one option using Google maps via storage on google drive (others options are KML or using API) functionality includes some google base map styling private data in drive, publish for mapping styling of makers ID box html to embed in web site data formats upload kml, shape files (via shape escape), csv, MS Excel file limitations - any user, storage 5GB max (G. Drive)any user mapping featues < 100,000, > 500 features will show as dots, max five layers from Fusion Tables limited flexibility without API (e.g. Base layers Google only)

9. slide 9 of 21 Free and Easy Web Mapping Google Fusion Tables + Maps  http://www.shpescape.com/ Data on G drive  Data import

10. slide 10 of 21 Free and Easy Web Mapping Data import http://fusion-tables-api-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/FusionTablesLayerWizard/src/index.html Google Fusion Tables + Maps Creates HTML for web page http://osgis.terragis.net/google_no _roads_projects.html

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12. slide 12 of 21 Free and Easy Web Mapping ArcGIS online functionality create, store, manage and share maps, apps, and data tools: ID, measure, bookmarks, print, driving directions style layer & ID tool via GUI, legend, base layers ESRI + OSM access to large shared content ArcGIS REST API limitations private individuals, non profit & educational organizations free account data always public (groups for paid accounts) storage 2GB max data upload shape file (zip), csv file, GPS data file (gpx), 1000 feat. max, (250 geocoding addresses).

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14. slide 14 of 21 Free and Easy Web Mapping GeoCommons functionality public and private data and maps + access to shared content 3D view using Google Earth plugin merge maps, edit data, GIS tools & analyze functions base layers: Google, Bing, NASA, OSM, Acetate download data in many formats (shape files, Excel, and KML) GeoIQ API (REST API and a JavaScript API) limitations any user, private limited to 20MB storage and 10 private maps analyses (two concurrent, 10/day) user groups: 5 max/user, 5 people/group geocoding 5,000 row limit data upload: numerous formats (part of ESRI since July 2012)

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16. slide 16 of 21 Free and Easy Web Mapping MapBox functionality make it easy to design and publish beautiful custom maps focused on tile storage (design options using TileMill) public and „private“ data, private maps still accessible if URL known base layers: MapBox, Custom MapBox.js, ( REST + static) API, SDK toolkit for iOS apps. limitations vector data formats only GeoJSON, Tiles ( MBTiles format) -> more functionality planned regarding markers digitizing GUI fo data, but to include data files need to use JS + HTML any user 3,000 map views/month + 50 MB storage

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18. slide 18 of 21 Free and Easy Web Mapping TileMill complements MapBox TM in a nutshell desktop app styling via CartoCSS Photoshop like options create & upload tiles MBTiles format

19. slide 19 of 21 Free and Easy Web Mapping CartoDB functionality store data, raster + vector work with data (filter, edit and merge datasets via GUI) styling via CartoCSS visualization wizard GUI (simple, choropleth, bubble) base layers: Google, Nokia, MapBox, Custom cartodb.js, SQL API, examples: layer with Google maps or Leaflet limitations any user, no private data 5 MB storage and 5 tables data upload: many formats

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21. slide 21 of 21 Free and Easy Web Mapping Highlights (small selection) Google Maps + Fusion tables …map your data via google drive ArcGIS online...host your data and combine with large selection of shared data GeoCommons …feature rich services + private data + analysis + large sel. shared data MapBox …host your own base map (& create via TileMill) Carto DB …store your own data, filter and manage via SQL, style via GUI