The Map Room

Possibly the strangest way I’ve yet had a link submitted is via someone’s comment in the reader survey: “Excellent reading. Combines well with www.webmapper.net.” Hold the phone — I hadn’t actually heard of webmapper.net. (Insert Jon Stewart going “whaaaaa?” all bug-eyed here.)

So I check. And it turns out that Webmapper is another map blog, by Edward Mac Gillavry, a Dutch GIS developer. From the about page:

All about visualising geographic information online, except when it’s not. The website started off as a personal test bed to develop webmapping applications. This evolved in becoming a show case, reflected in the website’s motto “webmapper: what the map can be.” Using a variety of Web technologies, it shows how to make the most of the characteristics of the Web. Recently, emphasis has shifted to a themed blog. It discusses the latest trends in location based services (LBS), Web cartography, and geo-blogging.

Like Mapping Hacks (see previous entry), Webmapper is a bit more technical than yours truly’s blog: if you’re a generalist like me this might be over your head, but if you’re into map geekery you should be all over this.