UMapper Update: Use Text or Website to Populate Map via MetaCarta Engine
I wrote about Umapper earlier this year in this post. Now an update: instead of loading in point locations one at a time, it’s possible to paste a block or text or a URL for a webpage and have the MetaCarta public API extract locations and post them on one of several background maps (Google, VE, OpenStreetMap).
Some notes:
- It’s a one time process, so if the webpage updates, the map does not. For changing data - use GeoRSS.
- The location “text” is all that’s associated with the symbol on the map.
- I had trouble running it in Safari.
Still, a nice addition! More on the Umapper blog.
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/18 at 06:00 AM |
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