Geographical Interface - Road maps
Geographical Interface - Road maps lets you embed interactive maps in your website. You can customize maps by displaying data in overlays. You can create your own overlays.
Description
Geographical Interface - Road maps is based on free Softwares, developed for and by the Open Source software community.
Geographical Interface - Road maps makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles loaded from any source.
Geographical Interface - Road maps displays map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies.
This is a central service; you do not have to install the files on your website to use it. The required files to run this service are hosted on both domains http://ec.europa.eu and http://europa.eu/ under the same directory structure.
Example
Commissioner Dacian Cioloş' website: http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/ciolos/map/index_en.htm
Software used
Software used :
- A map source: OpenStreetMap
- A simple editor to generate XML: UMapper
- A lightweight and interactive client: OpenLayers
- A GUI to generate the JavaScript API: Original Maps GUI
Documentation
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Road maps user guide
(1.27 Mb) (Software presentation) - Road maps examples (Technical details)