Map making is an ancient art and science, dependent on complex mathematics, cartography, and surveying.
In the early days, specialized cartographers hand-made maps, based on calculations and data available through enormous hard work and labor.
With modern technology, anyone, with only a basic understanding of computers, can make and use customized maps, adding to the world of maps.
Our goal at ZeeMaps is to provide you with the simplest mechanisms to create your own customized maps with minimal effort. We give you options such as crowd-sourcing map data, or directly uploading and synchronizing from spreadsheets. You can use maps created with ZeeMaps in the myriad ways that people have traditionally used maps, or put them to more innovative use with the new technology and all that it entails, e.g., get a visceral sense of location data, convey geographical reach to colleagues, friends, customers, search through a prospects list, and so forth. We provide you with the technology to create maps — what you do with it is up to you.
ZeeMaps is used by tens of thousands of users daily to create thousands of maps.
We are usually not aware of the maps in our world of maps, unless someone notifies us through an email, or a support call. Sometimes a map comes to our attention when it gains prominence in the social web.
In the maps gallery, we’ve pulled together maps that highlight different capabilities of ZeeMaps, or demonstrate use cases that might not be otherwise obvious. This is an ongoing effort. We’ll add more maps to this gallery as we discover interesting samples.
If you’ve made an exciting map, or have seen one, please let us know through the comments and we’ll review it for the gallery.
We are constantly working to improve ZeeMaps to make it more useful and easier to use. If there’s something that you’d like us to add to ZeeMaps, or modify, tell us.
Playground Locator, LLC utilized zeemaps to create a map of playgrounds. The website http://www.playgroundlocator.com features playgrounds in Lancaster, York, Dauphin, Chester County, PA as well as Baltimore, MD. The users can zoom into their neighborhood and find the closest playground. This is a wonderful resource for parents and children looking for playgrounds within their local community. Zeemaps provides the capability to not only zoom in and out but also click on each playground and find directions to and from.
Our company’s vision is to enable peace of mind. We do this by providing a number of services to allow people to respond to emergencies to the best of their abilities. As part of this vision, we sell Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) which are life-saving devices that can restart someone’s heart once they’ve gone into cardiac arrest. Unlike the ones you see on TV, they are portable, user-friendly, and can be used by anyone – not just emergency personnel. We created this map to showcase the AEDs that have been placed by Iridia Medical over the past 15 years, 1,916 and counting. Based on our data, it’s apparent that AEDs can be found just about anywhere. The map also implies the level of importance in having an AED – even some of the smallest towns are equipped with an AED in which some have fundraised on their own or received funding through the Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC & Yukon. We hope this map will be a useful tool in encouraging organizations to implement an AED program wherever they may be.
Check out our map here: http://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=598297&x=-118.537499&y=51.892978&z=12
Id like to put forward my map Irish Ancestry 1911 I have been using this to plot family members and no family members showing the distribution of the family name of Roe Rowe in the Dublin area. My method and map has also been published in a family history magazine here in the uk
We have created a map linking to a growing list of several hundred gigapixel urban panoramas that photographers have made of cities around the world.
would love to see that!
I don’t know how “exciting” it would be to everyone else, but I created a map for all the beekeepers in Central Texas.
That is VERY interesting and I’d like to see that map. Post a link!
I’d also like to find our groups map. The links won’t work
Coalville Area Churches Map UK.
A area network of Churches enables congregations and Christian organizations in the heart of the National Forest UK to share and work together in all areas of Christian life.
We are working on the world’s first international relay for GYN cancer. Right now, we are just starting so I know there is more information I can add to the Zeemaps. That said, Zeemap was a great way to show the international participants. We have 70 countries participating!!!!
We have created a map that is a dinning guide to Wicker Park/Bucktown neighborhoods in Chicago; our guest love the interactive design, links and short reviews available directly on the map.
love to see it!
We’re an initiative that encourages people to participate in microvolunteering actions, ie free, no commitment actions that benefit worthy causes and which can be completed in under 30 minutes.
We mapped all the microvolunteering platforms around the world, to make it easier for people to do good in bite sized chunks of time. Here’s it’s web address:
http://helpfromhome.org/do-more/where-to-microvolunteer
The map I did for the JD Nixon Fan Club, shows where all her fans are around the world. So far there are 337. She is one of my Favorite Authors, and is in Australia!