What are SLD files? According to this Wikipedia entry, “a Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) is an XML schema specified by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for describing the appearance of map layers.”    How do you produce them? For the brave you can manually create SLD fil... [More]

As we mentioned before in Quick Tip #1: Define Map Size, by default a Mapbiquity web map will expand to fill the space it's given. This makes creating a full-screen map easy. The only thing we need to do is add a bit of CSS to the head section of your page. See the example below - just replace the ... [More]

There was a lot of talk last week about the use of open standards in the GIS industry. Then last night there was a flurry of Twitter activity surrounding the term NoGIS. In its essense, NoGIS (like NoSQL) is a backlash against the heavy and sometimes slow technology that implements standards like th... [More]

Yesterday we released a new version of the style editor. Although it doesn't yet provide any new functionality, per se, it lays the foundation for more advanced style functionality. [More]

Mapbiquity is built on technology that supports the Open Geospatial Consortium’s Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), and Web Coverage Service (WCS) standards. This means is that while the functionality provided directly through the mapbiquity.com website is simple and easy to use, the underlying technology provides a lot of flexibility. One of the abilities it allows is viewing your Mapbiquity account data in your desktop GIS. [More]

With the help of @elliothartley and Amit Agarwal's Add Javascript Code in Blogger Posts post, we worked out a way to add a Mapbiquity web map to a Blogger post. [More]

By default a Mapbiquity web map will expand to fill the space it's given. This behavior works in most circumstances, but occasionally you need to constain the proportions of the map so it's just the way you want it. [More]

We released a new video today called Zero-to-Web Map in 60 Seconds. As we've said before, our goal is to provide an extremely simple approach to getting a web map on your website. I think this video shows this well. Although we'll be expanding our functionality as time goes on, keeping it as simple ... [More]

Welcome to the Mapbiquity blog. We launched Mapbiquity earlier last month with the goals of helping to bring web mapping to more organizations and individuals, and making it easy to create elegant maps for the Web. [More]