Composable Virtual Earth
Current large-scale interactive web mapping services such as Virtual Earth and Google Maps use large distributed systems for delivering data. However, creation and editorial control of their content is still largely centralized. The Composable Virtual Earth project’s goal is to allow seamless interoperability of geographic data from arbitrary, distributed sources.
Projects
MapCruncher
MapStitcher
MapSynthesizer
Publications
- Peter Pesti, Jeremy Elson, Jon Howell, Drew Steedly, and Matt Uyttendaele, Low-Cost Orthographic Imagery, in Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2008
- Jeremy Elson and Jon Howell, Handling Flash Crowds from your Garage, in Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2008
- Miguel Elias, Jeremy Elson, Danyel Fisher, and Jon Howell, “Do I Live in a Flood Basin?”: Synthesizing Ten Thousand Maps, in Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2008
- Jeremy Elson, Jon Howell, and John R. Douceur, MapCruncher: integrating the world's geographic information, in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 41 (2), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2007
