Raúl Jiménez Ortega
@hhkaos - hhkaos@gmail.com
Sample of services offering different basemaps
a.k.a. map types
| Coverage | Cartography | |
|---|---|---|
| Google Maps | World | Own |
| ArcGIS Online | World | Own |
| Bing Maps | World | Own |
| Here | World | Own |
| OSM | World | Own |
| Mapbox | World | OSM |
| Stamen | World | OSM |
| CartoDB | World | OSM |
| Junta Andalucía | Local | Own |
| Grafcan | Local | Own |
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Things you may ask yourself:
- How much it cost?
- Does it have visualisation limits?
- Which are the legal restrictions?
- Does it have enough zoom levels?
- How often they update?
- Does this design fit with my data? (context matters)
- Can I customize?
- Are labels good enough?
- Is it done with official data?
Geocoding / reverse geocoding / candidates
Address
Lat, Lng
20/40
Edsger W. Dijkstra
May 1930 – 6 August 2002
Rotterdam, Netherlands
28/40
32/40
33/40
34/40
Using a geometry engine (ArcGIS Online Geometry Service API)
43/40
44/40
ArcGIS Developer account needed: http://developers.arcgis.com/sign-up
45/40
slides.com/hhkaos/40-geo-apis
github.com/esri-es/demos
@hhkaos
By Raul Jimenez Ortega
Presentation for Codemotion 2015: http://2015.codemotion.es, 27 & 28 November, Madrid
