technical: May 2008 Archives

MP2KMag.com have just published a 'how the sausage is made' article that I've written:

Using Virtual Earth with OpenLayers

This article concentrates on the Virtual Earth version of our maps, showing how you can use OpenLayers with Virtual Earth. The article example uses OpenLayers to add a SHP shape file layer (served by MapServer using WMS) onto the Virtual Earth base layer.

Our production maps also use OpenLayers to draw the survey grid, and to add KML layers.

The 'Website Technology' page is up. This is an initial page and lists the technologies and data sources that we have used for the site. It will be expanded over the next few weeks to give more information. It may be expanded into multiple pages if I decide to give a more in-depth discussion of specific areas. The page is here:

http://www.ecomapcostarica.com/ref/website.shtml

The descriptions for the website and this blog are only included for completeness. The panoramic photographs and online maps are more interesting.

Yes a new version of the map but with a Virtual Earth base map is now online.

Virtual Earth gives much better coverage for wider Costa Rica and Central America, but does not work as well when zoomed in (ie. to the Leaves and Lizards property).