Synchronized Maps with Leaflet and Google Maps

lxbarth.github.com/compare/ shows how easy it is to synchronize Leaflet and Google Maps side-by-side. Reminds of this.

Vector Layers for Leaflet

Leaflet Vector Layers is a library for Leaflet that allows management of vector layers. It currently supports ArcGIS Server, Arc2Earth, GeoIQ and CartoDB. (Check out the CartoDB demo or the PostGIS demo)

The Open Data Handbook

The Open Data Handbook discusses the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data - why to go open, what open is, and the how to ‘open’ data.

Someone should fork this idea and make a Dutch version.

Visible Map

Visible Map is a playground for the MBTiles specification by MapBox.

WebGL: Livingston Brain Data

The data shown here were acquired by Robert B. Livingston at UCSD in the 1970’s: Livingston Brain Data

WebGL: Chess

Chess Demo using three.js and ammo.js.

Collection of some random map interfaces

• Le spese amministrative in Italia dal 2002 al 2008
• Bacteria Monitoring
• Ward Redistricting
• Documentcloud
• Opportunityindex.org
• Climate4development (World Bank)
• Datos.rtve.es
• Protectedplanet.net
• Viz-Carbontool
• NAI
• Kew.org
• Ngoaidmap.org
• Horn of Africa
• Methagashydrates.org
• Mountainbiodiversity.org
• UNESCO Places
• Migration (Stamen)
• WDPA-Marine.com
• Pakistan Flood Response

Miscellaneous

• Leaflet WMS GetFeatureInfo Example
• From Shapefile to GeoJSON
• Rendering thousands of points with Leaflet
• Microjs
• Voronoi Experiment [unitzeroone.com]
• Streaming Geospatial Viz

Backbone Fundamentals

Backbone Fundamentals is a Creative Commons-licensed book about Backbone.js for beginners and advanced users.

It’s an initiative by Addy Osmani, who also runs a blog with several interesting articles for Javascript developers.

Backbone Fundamentals is a great resource if you don’t know where to start or if you find the typical todo-list examples too limited.

I found the following parts especially interesting:

• Decoupling Backbbone
• Modular Javascript
• jQuery Mobile and Backbone.js (in progress)

SendHub.com: Single Page Web Apps with Backbone.js

A rather new article about this company’s experiences building a SPA with Backbone.js:

Single Page Web Apps with Backbone.js [sendhub.com]

Introduction to Backbone.js with jQuery Mobile

Introduction to Backbone.js with jQuery Mobile is a recent article about the combination with jQuery Mobile. Comes with an example project. Others in this series: 1, 2 and 3.

Graphene: A D3.js, Backbone.js based Graphite Dashboard Toolkit

This project is quite complex but a good resource for learning about Backbone and D3.js.

Others

Random Backbone-related resources I gathered in the past weeks:

• Official Backbone.js site with annotated source
• How to build fast HTML5 mobile apps using backbone.js, zepto.js and trigger.io
• Getting Started with Backbone.js by tutsplus.com
• Using Backbone.js with jQuery Mobile by Coen Raets (check his blog for more quality Backbone resources)
• backbone.layoutmanager by Tim Branyen
• Intro to Backbone.js series - by Liquid Media
• Ligament.js - Relation Associations with Backbone.js - by David Brady
• Backbone.js and Django: A Scrumboard - by Fatih Erikli
• Multiple Models
• Hello Backbone.js
• Connecting Your Web Frontend to Your Mobile Backend with Backbone.js
• Managing Global Data
• How to build a news aggregator with backbone.js
• Interesting bonus article!

Planimator is a project by Even Westvang. He uses WebGL to visualize the history of Oslo on the map while preserving the spatial and temporal properties. “The design highlights the continuous transformation of the city, areas of intense development and the sheer workload of the planning authority.”

The background map is generated from OSM and Three.js is used as the WebGL framework.

For technical reasons, try this in a very recent version of Chrome/Chromium/Canary with a proper video card.