Celebrate Christmas with Mapping Fun

 The Blogger wishes all the readers  a happy and prosperous Christmas.

May this Christmas sparkle and shine, may all of your wishes and dreams come true, and may you feel this happiness all year round.

Google provides  Santa tracker which allows the users to track Santa’s movements via both Google Earth and Google Maps starting at 2:00 a.m. PST on Christmas Eve

Released ADC WorldMap v7.2

The newer version 7.2 of ADC WorldMap Digital Atlas was released. It is a detailed digital atlas offering seamless geographic data of  first and second level administrative boundaries in 130 countries worldwide.

File Formats:
                  Esri Shape (.shp) & File Geodatabase (.gdb)

                  MapInfo (.tab), Oracle 11g (Transportable Tablespaces) and many more

The new updates and highlights of new version:

• Added over 1,400 Admin 2 boundaries. The Admin 2 layer now contains over 39,000 boundaries across 130 countries
• Over 8,000 cities added to the World Cities layer
• NEW – World Nations Line layer
• NEW – simplified numeric ID field for easier analysis
• Expanded Parks & Protected Areas layer
• Increased coverage in the Built Up Areas layer
• Up to date World Nation and Admin 1 boundaries

Mapping Chennai Flooded Streets

5884 inundated roads reported

Flood Maps : An  Interactive map to visualize and crowdsource flood related information and inundated roads in Chennai, India using OpenStreetMap and Mapbox GL JS. If your street, building or neighborhood name is missing on the map, you can add it to the basemap directly by editing OSM. The flood map will be updated with the new street in under 10 minutes. The flooded streets layer is contributed by the public. Contributions are anonymous with no version control for the sake of simplicity.