Modest Maps is a library for creating interactive maps for web sites.

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How to emulate this grayscale basemap look+feel in Google Maps

I love the design on the Development Seed homepage, where they've used a grayscale basemap with bold 3D-style graphic markers. It appears that they've used the ModestMaps API to create a tiled ...
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Understanding web mapping tools

Before I start, this is going to be a general question but with specific cases. I've been trying to understand GIS tools and applications to achieve the following: Build my own basemap Publish the ...
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Is there a ModestMaps or other flex library for finding the distance between 2 lat/lon coordinates?

I'm using ModestMaps in my Adobe Flex application. Is there a flex library method to calculate the distance between two of my lat/lon coordinates, or am I stuck coding the Haversine by hand? I've ...
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Loading geojson like map tiles in modestmaps

I have a map that's using modestmaps.js quite nicely so far. However, under my naive implementation around 200kb of data is loaded at each zoom level to be rendered as markers (it's in geoJson, but ...