[[PageOutline]] = 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. This page provides a survey of the different opensource tools available to do this work. == 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 == [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/national-files Census] folks have recently released updated data. [http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html 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 == [http://georss.org/ GeoRSS] is simple proposal for RSS feeds to also be described by location[10] == Building the maps == == The front end == == Putting it all together == [0]http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ [1]http://geoserver.org/ [2]http://www.easywms.com/easywms/?q=en/suas [3]http://www.openstreetmap.org/ [4]http://mapnik.org [5]http://ka-map.maptools.org/ [6]http://www.openlayers.org/ [7]http://worldkit.org/ [8]http://www.geomoose.org/moose/ [9]http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html [10]http://www.georss.org/overview.html