We did a major server cleanup yesterday, some things might be working mas o menos so if something feels weird, just report it in the forum.

The beginning of a new design of MapsGeek. Not the final version yet but a new logo, a new login menu and a reduced width. We'll update the design as it goes...

A grand new feature on MapsGeek today: the live mapping. In two words, the live mapping allow you to include the data to be mapped directly into the url used to call the map from your website! This allow data present on your website to be mapped live! Have a look at our example. Live mapping is available for everyone from the map interface for all geometrical layers.

There are new map games online. You can test your knowledge on the world's country but also on US States, French Departements and the Seas and Oceans of the World. Good luck !

We just launched a great game on MapsGeek! It's pretty simple to understand, a bit harder to play. All you have to do is locate the most countries in 2 minutes. Sounds simple? Yeah, well the game keeps the highest scores so we'll see about that...

There's a new way to choose colors for your maps: we've added the pre-defined color schemes from Colorbrewer and it looks great!

The color schemes are available for all your automatic classes calculations...

We've started the translation of MapsGeek into French !

Nous venons de commencer la traduction de MapsGeek en Francais ! !

There's a new data analysis tool on MapsGeek. The tool gives you all the display options for a layer, adds new classification methods and new symbolization. You can access the data analysis tool by adding data to a layer and selecting the 'Create class' button.

We launched today a brand new feature on MapsGeek: you can now draw your own layers! We're using Openlayers which works really well. The layers you create can then be used just like any other, you can even make them public so other users can use them or modify them as well. Have fun!

3 new very nice (and big) layers today. The 'Oceans and Seas', just so you can add the oceans and sea names on your maps and the 'Depth Contours' also for cosmetic purposes. The third one is the main 'Built Areas' of the world. All three layers come from biogeo.berkley.edu and can be found in the World folder under 'Add a layer'.

Today's new feature on MapsGeek can appear 'small': we've added the possibility to add patterns for polygons. So yes, it may seems small but by doing so, it now makes it way easier to map multiple variables on a single map!

A new functionality is being tested right now. A new check box called info appeared on the map interface, when checked, your map becomes queryable.

The map is also queryable via the public interface, the information window can be moved, it's sometimes misplaced at startup but we're working on it.

You can give us feedback on the forum.

We know that setting the map extent is a bit painful with OpenLayers (that's the system we use) especially with the zoom factor set. Well, there's some improvement, you can now set the extent to a layer's extent. That sounds complicated but it's simpler than it sounds. Try it !

The new 'Show cosmetics' option in the map interface allow you add the cosmetic layer (title, legend, scalebar...) on the preview map. It makes it easier to view the final result.

The layers of the US Zip codes are all online! They're under Country > North America > USA > 5 Digits Zip code and are grouped by States.

I just uploaded a big layer with all the regions of the world. By regions, I mean the first level administrative regions. That's the States for the USA, the Regions in France, the Departamientos in Bolivia and so on... The layer is too big to be used on the world scale but quite nice when zoomed down to a continent or a country.

The layer is located in the 'World' folder when you add a layer

And I'm nearly done uploading the US Zip codes !