ABOUT WORLDMAP
WorldMap is a web-based mapping platform that enables you to easily:
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WorldMap is designed to enable people to easily explore, share, publish, and edit geographic information. Developed at the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis, WorldMap is freely available for everyone to use. |
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WorldMap also provides excellent base maps; as a means to supply information thorough geographic context, you can overlay your map layers atop familiar base maps from Google or OpenStreetMaps. |
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Open Access Developed at the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis, WorldMap is freely available for everyone to use. Unlike many other mapping platforms, WorldMap is both free and runs right on your web browser. You don't need a license or any special software. WorldMap is hosted on Amazon's EC2 cloud infrastructure, which makes setting up new WorldMap instances for us and for collaborators relatively inexpensive. |
Open Source Software
Because WorldMap is open source, powerful new functionality can often be added rapidly at relatively low cost. Sometimes another group in the world has built a tool we need so we just integrate it. Sometimes we need something that doesn't exist so we build it ourselves. In other cases we build on a tool that has been started by someone else, contributing the resulting code back to the commons where it can be further improved. WorldMap stands on the shoulders of other Open Source projects including AfricaMap, GeoNode, OpenLayers, PostGIS, and GEOS. |
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