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<div style="font-family:sans-serif;overflow:auto;width:100%;margin: 0px 10px"><h2 style="margin: 0.25em 0 0 0"><div class=""><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slashgeo/~3/ZGMINhHTXhs/JSgeo-2013-Wrapup-Whats-New-JavaScript-and-Geospatial">JS.geo 2013 Wrapup: What's New with JavaScript and Geospatial</a></div></h2>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em">via <a href="http://slashgeo.org" class="f">Slashgeo.org</a> by Satri on 1/18/13</div><br style="display:none">
<p>We <a href="http://slashgeo.org/search/node/js.geo">mentioned</a> the first JS.geo 2013 event and Peter Batty shares his <a href="http://geothought.blogspot.ca/2013/01/whats-new-with-javascript-and.html">wrap-up of the event</a>. I strongly recommend reading the full entry if you have any remote interest in web mapping technology.</p>
<p>From the entry: <em>"D3 supports a new format called <a href="https://github.com/mbostock/topojson/wiki">TopoJSON</a>, which is similar to geoJSON, but supports topology to eliminate redundancy. For polygon data this can reduce data volumes by around 80% (compared to regular geoJSON). It also lends itself to robust <a href="http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/simplify/">simplification of polygons</a>. [...] Several presentations, including <a href="https://speakerdeck.com/atogle/leaflet-web-maps-for-better-cities">this one</a> by Aaron Ogle, confirmed the impression I had that the <a href="http://leafletjs.com/">Leaflet</a> JavaScript mapping API has great momentum. [...] Brendan Kenny from Google gave an interesting talk on <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebGL">WebGL</a>, which brings high performance 3D (and 2D) graphics to (most) web browsers [...]"</em></p>
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