GIS
I was struck, several months ago, by a piece in The Times about the effort to create a new interactive map of the New York City sewer system. For nearly a decade, the Bureau of Water and Sewer Operations – a branch of the Department of Environmental Protection – has been scanning its archive of old engineering maps onto what will soon be a digital map of the system.
Most of those old maps are covered with notes about changes and updates to the system, as are the tens of thousands of index cards that also record field data about the grid beneath us. Some of those maps and cards date back a century and a half, and the system they describe – 6,000-plus miles of pipe – is both a study in sober city planning and a miracle of improvisation.
The Pushpin platform simplifies and speeds up the development and deployment of sophisticated online mapping applications. The platform includes:
The result: Pushpin gives you highly flexible, highly controllable maps with custom layers that you don’t have to host. The result is unmistakable: an information-rich user experience with the high cartographic integrity and sophisticated interactivity that’s easy for anyone to use.
Industry-standard features
- Tiled maps with browser-based, plug-in free (AJAX) client; smooth dragging, zoom without refresh
- Browser-side rendered elements include pins, polylines, shaded regions, tabbed info windows and more
- Aerial imagery display capability
Functionality exclusive to Pushpin Tiled Map Server
- Fully hosted multi-layer maps with server-side compositing – assures application responsiveness and eliminates self-hosting of application layers
- Server-side pin rendering – allows thousands of pins on a map without performance hit
- Built-in shaded thematic map rendering – allows shading of map regions based on as many as thousands of variables