Developing a new Project using MapLaunch

Here at GeoDecisions, there are collocated and distributed teams working on developing web mapping solutions. A lot of these solutions have maps and widgets that share overlapping functionality and a common workflow. We asked ourselves: “Wouldn’t it be cool to develop these components once and reuse them across multiple projects, instead of developing the same functionality over and over again?”

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The Future of JavaScript in GIS is bright

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the JS.Geo conference. A one-day conference that "brings together anyone interested in visualization, analysis, or cartography for a day of talks and demos of mappy sorts of things built with JavaScript (mostly).”  I saw demos and talks about a lot of cool innovations and projects involving maps and JavaScript. I'm going to expand a bit more about the two biggest trends I saw below.

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Font Awesome and GIS - Growing JavaScript Resources

Font Awesome and GIS - Growing JavaScript Resources

As consultants, we constantly strive to stay ahead of the competition by using the most up-to-date tools, recognizing that today's web has expanded from our computer screen to the endless selection of mobile devices and tablets on the market. This expansion is a strong motivation for using the native language of the web, JavaScript.

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