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  2. Web Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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    Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator[1] or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is the de facto standard for Web mapping applications. It rose to prominence when Google Maps adopted it in 2005. [2] It is used by virtually all major online map providers, including Google ...

  3. Comparison of web map services - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps Bing Maps MapQuest Mapy.cz OpenStreetMap Here WeGo Apple Maps Yandex Maps; Degrees of motion Vertical, horizontal, depth, rotation (beta), 360 panoramic (Street View), 3D mode (Google Earth JavaScript) Vertical, horizontal, depth, 360 panoramic (Streetside), 3D mode (tilt, pan, rotate) Vertical, horizontal, depth

  4. OpenStreetMap - Wikipedia

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    OpenStreetMap (abbreviated OSM) is a website that uses an open geographic database which is updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration. Contributors collect data from surveys, trace from aerial photo imagery or satellite imagery, and also import from other freely licensed geodata sources.

  5. List of online map services - Wikipedia

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    Apple Maps - covers the whole country. Bing Maps – covers the whole country. Google Maps - covers the whole country. Libre Map Project. MapQuest - covers the whole country. The National Map by the United States Geological Survey. Roadtrippers - covers the whole country. TerraServer-USA - covers the whole country.

  6. Mollweide projection - Wikipedia

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    The Mollweide is a pseudocylindrical projection in which the equator is represented as a straight horizontal line perpendicular to a central meridian that is one-half the equator's length. The other parallels compress near the poles, while the other meridians are equally spaced at the equator. The meridians at 90 degrees east and west form a ...

  7. Web GIS - Wikipedia

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    Web GIS (also known as Web-Based GIS), or Web Geographic Information Systems, are GIS that employ the World Wide Web to facilitate the storage, visualization, analysis, and distribution of spatial information over the Internet. [1][2][3][4][5][6] The World Wide Web, or the Web, is an information system that uses the internet to host, share, and ...

  8. Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Resources/Change the colors of a ...

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    Change the color of your zone. After having selected your zone, click on the small brush button ( Edit objects' colors,…, see 3 on screen). In the window that appears, click on the Flat color button (see 4 on screen). Then change the color with the cursor or enter the RGBA code of a color. (A=alpha, normally 255=opaque).

  9. Thematic map - Wikipedia

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    A very innovative thematic map from the 19th century. Isarithmic map of minimum temperature used as plant hardiness zones. A thematic map is a type of map that portrays the geographic pattern of a particular subject matter (theme) in a geographic area. This usually involves the use of map symbols to visualize selected properties of geographic ...