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.
Deprecation
Please be aware that this service will be deprecated at the end of 2016. You are encouraged to use the new Maps service.
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
(1.33 Mb) (Software presentation) - Road maps examples (Technical details)