Useful background on Web Mapping

[PeterC]

The following articles from Wikipedia about web mapping are of interest:

• Web mapping
• Geographic information system
• Neogeography - (literally "new geography") is the use of geographical techniques and tools for personal and community activities
• Public participation geographic information system
• .. and these are all the articles under the Web Mapping category

These other websites have a variety of background information about GIS, and mapping for the web:

• GIS Geography
• This web mapping tutorial blog has useful articles

(Note that I have not yet read all of these, nor fully absorbed what all their implications are for us as one-placers wanting to map our places.)

[PeterC]

The Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) in Australia has a useful site on the Fundamentals of Mapping. It provides "a comprehensive general overview of maps, mapping, cartography and map production".  It includes sections on:

• History of Mapping
• Types of Maps
• General Reference Maps
• Thematic Maps
• Topographic Maps
• Cadastral Plans and Maps
• Navigation Charts
• Series Maps
• Earth's Coordinate System
• Datums
• Surveying for Mapping
• Projections - see also:
  • All Map Projections Compared And Visualized
  • and this article about the top 7 maps that ultimately explain map projections
• Cartographic Considerations

[PeterC]

This article on How to get information about layer-structure on a WMS is a useful technical discussion on WMS.  This is one way that maps can be made available for use by others on the internet.

Another way of making mapping available is WMTS and this discussion about The difference between a WMTS and a WMS is useful.