Cartagen

Cartagen is a set of tools for mapping, enabling users to view and configure live streams of geographic data in a dynamic, personally relevant way. Today's mapping software is largely based on static data sets, and neither incorporates the time dimension in its display nor provides for real-time data streams.

How might communities use it?
Applications include mapping real-time air pollution, citizen reporting, and disaster response. Cartagen, built in HTML5, and viewable on mobile devices such as the iPhone and Android platforms, helps users to analyze and view shared geodata from multiple sources. Cartagen is a dynamic map renderer which employs Geographic Style Sheets (GSS), a cascading stylesheet specification for geospatial information—a decision which leverages literacy in CSS to make map styling more accessible. However, GSS is a scripting language as well, making Cartagen an ideal framework for mapping dynamic data.

At what stage of development is it?
Cartagen is being tested and is available for testing: http://wiki.cartagen.org/wiki/show/HomePage

Other collaborators: David Small