Lots of stuff around web mapping: From free data to backend server and tile caching applications, to specialized image manipulation tools to another opensource javascript frontend and a java based mashup. In addition another skin for the wordpress admin pages.
Maps Data:
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Welcome to World Wind Data.com, a fantastic source of reliable World Wind
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Public domain imagery from iCubed for WorldWind and beyond? « Into The Pudding
GeoServer Backend:
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GeoServer Demonstration (with full TIGER data on WMS)
This site is a sample of GeoServer’s capabilities. We are serving up the full TIGER census dataset, along with GNIS place names and VMAP0 country polygons through the WMS standard. All data is stored in PostGIS, with caching by TileCache and front-end
Tile Cache:
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TileCache Tutorial – Confluence
If you have non-dynamic mapping data in GeoServer using it will help give your users an experience that comes close to matching Google Maps in terms of responsiveness and usability.
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Making the nestoria tiles – OpenStreetMap
This page details how OpenStreetMap was integrated into Nestoria, the first commercial use of OSM maps.
Image Processing:
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VIPS is a free image processing system. It aims to be about half-way between Photoshop and Excel. It is very bad at retouching photographs, but very handy for the many other imaging tasks that programs like Photoshop are used for.
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Pngcrush is an optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files. It can be run from a commandline in an MSDOS window, or from a UNIX or LINUX commandline.
Mapstraction Javascript Frontend:
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Mapstraction – a javascript library to hide differences between mapping APIs.
Mapstraction is a library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible.
Java based Mashup:
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Welcome! Aerith is a Swing Mashup, or smashup, combining three webservices: Google Maps, Flickr, and Yahoo’s geocoding webservice to let users create, view, and share slideshows of their road trip photos.
WordPress admin skin:
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WordPress Tiger Administration // Ordered List by Steve Smith
The current default WordPress administration area is functional, but I felt it could be improved. For several reasons, I didn’t want to touch the XHTML framework of the admin, but instead relied on the power of CSS2 to manipulate the presentation.