Questions tagged [cartography]
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Displaying names of countries/cities in russian language openstreetmap
I'm trying to implement maps service in my project. The project is focused to russian-speaking countries. But in future I hope to expand audience. The problem is that different services show different names.
OSM shows local names- for example…

Александр Марунченко
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Cartography in R - how to plot numeric and binary values on a map?
I'm currently trying to produce two maps, one with multiple categoric values and one with continous numeric values, as in:
link
I have a dataset which provides the NPA and the two informations for each NPA: the item (category) and the Frequency (on…

Mathieu Avanzi
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Show admin labels for only one country via CartoCSS in Mapbox Studio
I'd like to show admin labels for only one country on a map of Latin America. I'm new to CartoCSS and can't figure it out. I tried inspecting the labels and couldn't discern any hierarchy in the OSM ids that might help.

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java transform projection EPSG:900913 to EPSG:4326
in the openlayers
we can simple transform EPSG:900913 to EPSG:4326
I'm look for a java lib can do that.
here I found this,
http://www.jhlabs.com/java/maps/proj/index.html
but the document is in c++
I don't know how to use it.
If anyone konw…
user268129
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using cartogram.js for visualizing information in a global map
I'm trying to adapt this example http://prag.ma/code/d3-cartogram/ to show information about obesity in 2002, 2005 and 2010 around the world. This the visualization: http://datauy.github.io/obesity-cartogram with a link to the code in the same page.…

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Turning a camera to a specific latitude/longitude (Google Earth API)
This is specifically a Google Earth API question, but any general geographical solution that can be adapted to it is fine, too.
I'm using the Google Earth API to dynamically put a placemark somewhere on the Earth. Like all placemarks, it has a fixed…

nucleon
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Map shading based on distance
I have a google map which presents the distance from a particular location.
The map consists of a set of polygons, where a polygon encircles an area which is the same distance from the point. So in other words, I colour a region which is between 0…

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How to aggregate and plot large datasets on a grid
I'm working with a dataset that contains coordinates and fishing effort (HF).
Here is a sample of my dataset. The real dataset has 2985412 rows.
Year Month Type SI_LONG SI_LATI HF
2008 04 OTB_DEF_>=70_0 -4.88 46.84 …

JulietteTC
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Overlay colors onto specific 1 degree x 1 degree grid squares in R
I am trying to color in specific grid cells within a map to highlight sampling effort.
I can generate the map but then I am unsure how to utilize the data points I have to color in the entire grid cell. The data points I have are for the top left…

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Error downloading openstreetmap tile on react-native
I'm making a react-native application and I need to allow to use the map without internet. For this I download the tiles on the mobile with react-native-fs. I don't understand the following error:
[Error: Unable to resolve host…

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Adding a customized legend to a R raster spplot map
I would like to ask you for a few advices on a R cartography with Raster / spplot I am currently working on. I am a novice so I apologize in advance should the methods I used to be not at all optimal!
=> So:
I have a raster object and almost got…

Quentin
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Cesium Cartesian3 move vertically up
I want to move a Cartesian3 position vertically up by x amount of units (e.g., meters).
I DON'T want to convert it to Cartographic, add x to the altitude and covert back to Cartesian3.
What would be the best way (performance-wise) to do this…

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lyft/Cartography on EC2, is it possible?
I've been trying to Run cartography on my EC2 account for the last 2 days. I have no previous knowledge of Neo4j, But following their installation process doesn't work.
First I've tried to install Neo4j using rpm instructions for Neo4J website, no…

Cesar Javaroni
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Adding Coordinates to Pan-Arctic Map on PlotSvalbard
I've been trying to map a series of coordinates onto a pan-arctic map using PlotSvalbard.
My data is a list of decimal coordinates, each with an assigned name.
I've tried using the transform_coord function to map the latitudes and longitudes to the…

Christian Daniell
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Counting arrays in D3 and getting that number to visualise map points
I am making cartographic visualisation in D3 with topoJson. I have visualised cities as points with a given radius. However, I want to see this attribute based on how many values I have there (let's say kindergartens in each city) - that is for…

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