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2. Web mapping - Wikipedia

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   Web mapping or an online mapping is the process of using, creating, and distributing maps on the World Wide Web (the Web), usually through the use of Web geographic information systems (Web GIS). [1] [2] [3] A web map or an online map is both served and consumed, thus, web mapping is more than just web cartography , it is a service where ...

3. Comparison of web map services - Wikipedia

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   Google Maps Bing Maps MapQuest Mapy.cz OpenStreetMap Here WeGo Apple Maps ... 3D, traffic, public transportation, heat map, map creator, explore places, community

4. 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 ...

5. Gall–Peters projection - Wikipedia

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   Gall–Peters projection. The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection. Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes. It is a cylindrical equal-area projection with latitudes 45° north and south as the regions on the map that have no distortion. The projection is named after James Gall and Arno Peters .

6. Geographic information system - Wikipedia

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   For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, web maps hosted on dashboards were used to rapidly disseminate case data to the general public. Some of them, like Google Maps and OpenLayers, expose an application programming interface (API) that enable users to create custom applications. These toolkits commonly offer street maps, aerial/satellite ...

7. Tiled web map - Wikipedia

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   A tiled web map, slippy map [1] (in OpenStreetMap terminology) or tile map is a map displayed in a web browser by seamlessly joining dozens of individually requested image or vector data files. It is the most popular way to display and navigate maps, replacing other methods such as Web Map Service (WMS) which typically display a single large ...

8. Who Has the Best Maps in China: Google or Baidu? - AOL

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   Google seems to have locked down the U.S. mapping market; Google Maps won the distinction of being App Store's No. 1 free app just seven hours after its reintroduction. Unfortunately, Chinese users

9. Static web page - Wikipedia

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   Static web pages are often HTML documents, [4] stored as files in the file system and made available by the web server over HTTP (nevertheless URLs ending with ".html" are not always static). However, loose interpretations of the term could include web pages stored in a database, and could even include pages formatted using a template and ...