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If you are impressed with advanced interactive maps but think that’s not something you can do on your own… hold on! You CAN create interactive maps right now, with no coding skills, no previous experience, and no help from professionals. Interactive maps are one of the most popular ways of representing data visually. And that’s […]
Read moreMapcreator provides a full global base map to our subscribers. Visualize and create maps anywhere in the world with high resolution photorealistic quality. Satellite imagery Mapcreator uses global satellite and aerial imagery provided by HERE Technologies. HERE provides Mapcreator some of the sharpest and up-to-date imagery through a strategic partnership with Maxar. The imagery is […]
Read moreOn February 24th the Russian-Ukrainian war began. A horrific conflict. The war changed journalism from that day on. Journalists are on high alert to cover all news about the war. In the journalism landscape, the making of maps became more important, because how many people know where Ukraine lies? And what major cities are being […]
Read moreHave you ever wondered how mapmakers choose which roads to draw and which ones to leave out of a map? Back in the day, cartographers manually decided which roads were important at the to-be-mapped scale. At relatively small scales, like a map of the entirety of the United States (1:50.000.000), the great majority of the […]
Read moreWe released our new Distance rings update, which rolls out the ability to draw circles from a center point with a specified distance, either in miles, kilometers, or nautical miles! You’re a commercial realtor – how do you show attractions within a certain distance of your property? Or you’re reporting government policy and you need […]
Read moreArticle by DataBewijst We are DataBewijst: a Dutch data journalism company. The company was founded by four young journalists who have a passion for telling data-driven stories. And what better way to tell a story is there than visualizing it? We wanted to collaborate with Mapcreator because visualizing your data is one of the most […]
Read moreLast week Mapcreator exclusively partnered with Canadian television network TVA. We published live updates on an interactive map which was presented on their news shows. Canada is divided into 338 electoral districts called ridings. Per “first-past-the-post” system, the candidate who receives the most votes per district becomes their Member of Parliament (MP) and represents the riding in the House […]
Read moreToday, Mapcreator announces compatibility with the powerful GEOlayers Adobe After Effects extension. The world loves maps. We see them everyday – in print, online, and on television. For years, mapmakers and cartographers created works of geographic art and visualization as images and interactive dashboards. Mapmaking made a jump from static representations to one that includes […]
Read moreWhat began as a referendum for the British people about leaving the European Union has ended in a divorce called ‘Brexit’. A lot was uncertain during the negotiations, especially for the companies in the United Kingdom or the European Union. Companies thought they could lose access to the European mainland, but this uncertainty led to […]
Read moreby Hassân Al Mohtasib If there is only one thing I’ve learned while working for a local/regional newspaper about cartography, it would be this: readers love maps. You can’t afford to be stingy with them. Local newspapers report on those well-known other stories that national broadsheets or even highbrow weeklies don’t. They speak about a […]
Read moreMapcreator today announced a new partnership with Reuters to allow users of the Mapcreator tool to subscribe to Reuters live U.S. election data feed. The Reuters feed is powered by election data from Edison Research and the National Election Pool (NEP) with the partnership allowing Mapcreator customers around the world to deliver a real-time vote count […]
Read moreThey say that behind every success is a great team. At Mapcreator, we couldn’t agree more. At the heart of our service is the Mapcreator tool, which enables newsrooms, corporates and brands from around the world to create quality maps, quickly and easily. Technology never stands still; so how do we ensure that the Mapcreator […]
Read moreby Frederik Ruys A short guide to visual storytelling With an explosive amount of data and the insatiable need for visualizations it can be hard to find the best tool to share your story. But besides the proper tool, it’s also about the correct approach. How do you map impact with your data in our […]
Read moreby Maarten Lambrechts Almost all mapmaking tools with a graphical user interface use map layers to manage the content of the map. The source of the layers can be very diverse: they can come from the local computer or from a remote source, they can contain raster sources or vector source layers. But every layer […]
Read morePodcast : The state of maps in the news media industry Christian Erades from Mapcreator joined the newest edition of the Mapscaping podcast to talk about the importance and use of maps in the news media industries. The Mapscaping podcast is a podcast series for the geospatial community and everyone who loves maps. In this […]
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