The Thematic Mapping Engine

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Published on February 3, 2009 11:46:00 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXdP9gqxHc

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The thematicmapping.org website utilizes the Google Earth plug-in API to present interactive visualizations of a huge volume of UN data.
Data can be filtered or animated by time and country, and a number of different kinds of visualization options are available.

Hear the author talk about how KML can be used for thematic mapping and explain how KML documents are generated on-the-fly with
the Thematic Mapping Engine.

Presenter: Bjørn Sandvik

Project Manager at United Nations Association of Norway, MSc in GIS from University of Edinburgh, web developer and author of the thematic mapping blog.