mapping mashups - using mashup editors
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This presentation was given at Barcamp Delhi3.TRANSCRIPT
Harsha
Not a programmerNot a programmerGIS Development
www.GISdevelopment.net
GIS - Geographic Information Systems 80% of all the objects in the world have
the location component... GIS is this.. GIS is that...
o Tsunami Warning system o Traffic Management o Weather services o and MORE.... How many of you know about GIS ?? Rephrase it - how many of you have
ever used maps or felt the need of them...
Information is everything .... Information can be analysed... BarCamp3 information... In Excel
Total no of Attendees: 200 Average age of attendees: 25-35
What if we add location component Where from: What if we add these
locations on map(s) ?
I need Map Data - Map of Delhi, Map of Gurgaon.. or atleaset Map of India
I need a software/ application to open th maps, add locations do analyisis print/ publish maps
Geo -Data No maps/ data many a times Map data comes at a cost Map data is not updated
Software I need to buy a sofdtware (FOSS are there !!) Need to learn about using the software
(learning curve complex maost of the times) Web page
Need to have my own page to publish these maps (if online case)
End of 2004 Google Maps 2005 - Yahoo Maps, MSN Live/ Virtual Earth Every one have maps now.. even satellite
data...
IT
GIS
IT
GIS
2004/ 2005
No Data & No Software/ App – but still I can Map !!
Google Maps API Embed google maps in your web page Use if for your enterprise application
▪ This comes at a cost
Combine with your data,images, videos etc..
The target were programmers.. who can tweak these APIs..
APIs - The programmers stuff- I am allergetic to programming..
http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/
http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory/1?apicat=Mapping
Mashup editors – the geek stuff Very less programming required.... cut,copy,paste will work ☺ WYSIWYG editors .. on the fly mashup creation.. mashupp hosting facility.. Under discussion -▪ Google Mashup Editor, Yahoo Pipes, Microsoft
PopFly..
'Mashup' originally refers to the practise in hip-hop 'Mashup' originally refers to the practise in hip-hop music to produce a new song by mixing two or music to produce a new song by mixing two or
more existing pieces ...more existing pieces ...
http://www.programmableweb.com/mashups
Take data from your users and Google services like Google MapsGoogle Maps or external feeds and mash them all together ...
Use GME to create, debug and deploy your application in one interface.
Applications of GME run on servers hosted by Google. May be possible to deploy your GME-built application on your own site.
Google Mashup Editor is a limited test and access is Google Mashup Editor is a limited test and access is restricted to a small number of developers during restricted to a small number of developers during
this testing period …this testing period …
http://gisevents.googlemashups.comhttp://gisevents.googlemashups.com
An interactive feed aggregator and manipulator
The web app provides a GUI for building mashups and publish them
Clone the existing ones Modify and Publish online
According to ZDNET there are 6-10 mashups being According to ZDNET there are 6-10 mashups being created everyday ... 2006created everyday ... 2006
A Fantastic GUI Basic elements are blocks Rendering done through Silverlight Connect blocks to get the output As well as progrmme at the same time Popfly™ Explorer an add-on component
for Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 and 2008 that enables you to create and share Visual Studio® projects on the Popfly Space network
Most of the time a Geek who is a novoice programmer, can make away his mashup.. Understand Clone/copy Publish Embed/share
More maturity coming with in editors, more features/ modules/ blocks will be available
Once again get lost in this mess of Web 2.0 ☺with many applications getting out every day..
Mr. Wiki -http://en.wikipedia.org Uncle Zed - http://blogs.zdnet.com Progr’mble -
http://www.programmableweb.com Pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes Micro’s Pop - http://www.popfly.ms This new baby in the Google family -
http://editor.googlemashups.com/editor