Cartoko Blog » resource discovery http://www.cartoko.com/blog the blog for the map database Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:13:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Cartoko on KML http://www.cartoko.com/blog/40/cartoko-on-kml/ http://www.cartoko.com/blog/40/cartoko-on-kml/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:48:34 +0000 admin http://www.cartoko.com/blog/?p=40 Western Europe
Having content is essential, but the ability to discover that content in the geoweb is just as critical. In addition to the textual searches on the site, and an increasing presence via search engines, we released this weekend the first KML interface for Cartoko. It provides basic background information on each country (plus many territories and islands) based on a small-scale boundary set updated through July 2009, with direct links to help you discover some excellent maps for each area on our site.

Note that since this is a world boundary set, the boundaries look decent down to around a scale of around 1:3,000,000 or so, but get choppy past that. Future implementations to include more detailed country boundaries and which will include more detailed information are in the works, with a more interactive Google Maps API development a little further down the road. In the meantime, feel free to utilize the KML provided.

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