Comments on: Taiwan WWII Map Overlays

By: Refreshing Airplane Tracking Software With and Without AI - ClickedyClick

Refreshing Airplane Tracking Software With and Without AI - ClickedyClick — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 06:14:08 +0000

[…] Maps and Earth parts seem completely: Maps has changed a lot since, as I also had to update my Taiwan WWII Map Overlays project over time too (the requirement of using API keys to even load the map, changes to the […]

By: Ryan Murphy

Ryan Murphy — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 09:39:55 +0000

My compliments to you. This is excellent cartography work you’ve done. Bookmarked.

By: MICHAEL JACOBSON

MICHAEL JACOBSON — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 23:29:27 +0000

Any chance of adding a “street view”? There are a bunch of Taihoku postcards with specific streets that would be cool to add on as a “street view” version of some locations.

One example: http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/eastasia/lewis-postcards/lw0510

By: Gergely Imreh

Gergely Imreh — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 23:30:32 +0000

In reply to Bryan.

Hey Bryan, glad you liked this! There’s also definitely a lot more to explore indeed.

For hiking maps, I’m not 100% sure how would that work with Google Maps, but my hunch is it would be a lot more helpful for everyone to add those GPS trails to OpenStreetMap (OSM), which is much more open to editing, and much more feature rich, both on the data that can be added, and the visual rendering of the results. I did a few rounds of mapping for OSM, though mostly streets, the complexity was sort of medium, but getting better every time (last time I’ve checked was years ago, so should be better by now). See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hiking and https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hiking_Maps to get started, as well as https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Upload_GPS_tracks. I think it would be very cool to expand on the Taiwanese coverage. And would love to hear the results you have! (also helping in the future, when back in Taiwan)

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:04:57 +0000

Thanks Gergely,

I’ve used these maps extensively for exploring old buildings etc.

Curious, as a keen hiker, I’ve recently been thinking about making a similar overlay on google maps with hiking trails using gps data. Any advise on where to start and level of complexity for this? Know a good place to get started? Thoughts appreciated

By: Gergely Imreh

Gergely Imreh — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:26:00 +0000

In reply to Uriel Velez. Looking at the full map, they redirected it. There are a bunch of houses that seem to follow the river's old path, which is interesting...

By: Uriel Velez

Uriel Velez — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 05:00:00 +0000

I am curious. Around the Grand Yuan Shan Hotel, was a river. What they do with the river?

By: Gergely Imreh

Gergely Imreh — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 03:32:00 +0000

In reply to Vas Musca. Oh, good, I didn't know he's there (or was maybe?) I'll ask him about it, thanks!

By: Vas Musca

Vas Musca — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:02:00 +0000

In reply to Gergely Imreh. Chris Hubbard - he was working on their digital marketing. I saw you guys are friends on fb :)

By: Gergely Imreh

Gergely Imreh — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 01:29:00 +0000

In reply to Vas Musca. Oh, looks interesting, haven't heard of them before! Do you know anyone there you can connect me up with?