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Using Google Maps or Mapbox: a comparison for building interactive maps

10 August 2017

Thomas Hardy map preview

At Maproom we are always trying out different map systems to see if we can harness any digital mapping innovations in our own products and services. An online mapping system called Mapbox has been a rival to Google Maps for some years, though it it still barely known outside the mapmaking/geocoding community. We decided to create some demos of Google Maps and Mapbox to help our clients understand how these digital mapping systems can be used in business and online mapping projects. How to create a basic single marker Google map First up: Google Maps. We're all familiar with these as the most ubiquitous maps on the web. You can add your business to Google Maps using Google's free business listing facility. It's also pretty easy to embed a single location map on any website using Google Maps's built-in embed code. For example, this location map for the Houses of Parliament in London: To make one of the basic Google maps as shown above, you simply type your location into ... Read more

Filed Under: Animated Maps

Animated map of EU Countries, Schengen Area, Eurozone, Single Market and Hard Brexit

6 December 2016

EU countries, Schengen, Eurozone, Single Market animated map

  As a demo of what you can do with our base map of EU countries, we've created an animated map gif showing the current EU countries (2016-2019) layered with countries in the Eurozone, countries in the Schengen area, countries in the European Single Market and, finally, the European Single Market as it will look if the UK enacts a Hard Brexit. ... Read more

Filed Under: Animated Maps

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