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Polymaps provides speedy display of multi-zoom datasets over maps, and supports a variety of visual presentations for tiled vector data, in addition to the usual cartography from OpenStreetMap, CloudMade, Bing, and other providers of image-based web maps.
Category
Chart Builder Software Open Source
Features
• k-Means Clustering • Internet Usage • Flickr Shapes • Shadows and Gradients • Affine Transform • Mandelbrot Set • Image Overlay • Blue Marble • Lat-Lon Grid • Tile Grid
License
Open Source
Price
Free
Pricing
Subscription
Free Trial
Available
Users Size
Small (<50 employees), Medium (50 to 1000 Enterprise (>1001 employees)
Company
Polymaps
What is best?
• Population Density • Unemployment • Pavement Quality • k-Means Clustering
What are the benefits?
• Pale Dawn • Midnight Commander • Satellite • Statehood • Population Density • Unemployment • Pavement Quality
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Ease of use
7.7
8.7
Features & Functionality
7.9
5.8
Advanced Features
7.9
8.6
Integration
7.8
9.0
Performance
7.8
8.7
Customer Support
7.7
8.9
Implementation
9.2
Renew & Recommend
8.0
Bottom Line
Polymaps is a free and unrestricted JavaScript library used to make interactive and dynamic maps. It loads rich and big data quickly to display a detailed map view from the country level down to the streets and neighborhoods.
7.8
Editor Rating
8.4
Aggregated User Rating
3 ratings
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Polymaps is a JavaScript library that gives users a wide display of visual presentations that can be used in creating dynamic and interactive maps like the ones from Google Maps, Openlayers, Cloudmade, and Modest Maps. It is an open source JavaScript library, which means that it comes without any cost, thus allowing anyone to access it publicly.
Polymaps is known for its speed especially in loading big information at full range making it an excellent application to show map data from the country level down to a more detailed view showing the states and cities as necessary. It can also be very comprehensive to show the streets and even the neighborhoods making the data more reliable and scalable.
Polymaps uses SVG or Scalable Vector Graphics, which allows outstanding graphical processes to run or display including compositing, image processing, and geometric transforms. It also uses various strategies to enhance its performance and usability, which then allows the software to support and process rich and large-scale data on dynamic maps. Polymaps also maintains vector tiles that are delivered with SVG.
When it comes to its image view, Polymaps has 3 options available including Pale Dawn, Midnight Commander, Satellite. Pale dawn is ideal when there are lots of data elements to process or display, but less in geographical information. Midnight Commander image, on the other hand, is more graphical and advanced in appearance. Lastly, the Satellite image option gives a user a clear view of how the Earth appears from space. The other options are Statehood, Pavement Quality, Unemployment, Population Density, Flickr Shapes, Affine Transform, Image Overlay, and many others.
Free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers.
Company size
Medium (50 to 1000)
User Role
Executive
User Industry
Construction
Rating
Ease of use8.7
Because Polymaps can load data at a full range of scales, it’s ideal for showing information from country level on down to states, cities, neighborhoods, and individual streets.
Features & Functionality8.4
Advanced Features8
Integration8.9
Training 8.9
Customer Support8.9
Renew & Recommend8
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION It provides speedy display of multi-zoom datasets over maps, and supports a variety of visual presentations for tiled vector data, in addition to the usual cartography from OpenStreetMap, CloudMade, Bing… Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers.
Free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers.
Medium (50 to 1000)
Executive
Construction
Because Polymaps can load data at a full range of scales, it’s ideal for showing information from country level on down to states, cities, neighborhoods, and individual streets.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
It provides speedy display of multi-zoom datasets over maps, and supports a variety of visual presentations for tiled vector data, in addition to the usual cartography from OpenStreetMap, CloudMade, Bing… Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers.