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How can I add an interactive map to my web site?
Overview
Mapping involves a lot of concepts that are hard to put together by yourself. The solution proposed here uses different software programs for different functionality. There are lots of ways to do this.
Options
For serving maps: mapserver[0], geoserver[1], suas mapserver[2], openstreetmap[3], mapnik[4] This means that these programs can read mapping data files and create maps from them.
For presenting maps: ka-map[5], openlayers[6], worldkit[7], geomoose[8] This is software for creating layers of data, zooming in or out of a map, etc.
Data
Census folks have recently released updated data.
National atlas is another gov site. This one has great categories: transportation, water, people, history, etc.
Geo coding
http://geocoder.us/ - Geocoding site that lets you look up one address at a time. Their sourcecode is available, if one was interested in offering this service.
http://www.batchgeocode.com/ Geocode multiple addresses on one site. Uses the Yahoo geocoding API[9]
RSS
Building the maps
The front end
Putting it all together
[0]http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/
[2]http://www.easywms.com/easywms/?q=en/suas
[3]http://www.openstreetmap.org/
[5]http://ka-map.maptools.org/
[6]http://www.openlayers.org/