John Ponte is a software developer in the JMP Division of SAS Institute, specializing in graphics, visualizations and image processing. John has been in the software industry for over 25 years. His work experience includes graphics subsystems for commercial and military flight simulators, open-source software and web-based applications in the health care vertical market.
If you followed my series of blog posts on background maps in JMP 9, you may have read the blog post titled, All About Background Maps in JMP 9: NASA Server and Web Map Service. In that blog post, I discussed two of the options for background maps that use
This blog post is the final one in a series about image-based background maps in JMP 9. Part I of the series introduced background maps, which are a new feature in JMP. It explained why background maps are useful and showed how to access a background map through the user
In my previous blog post, I talked about using a Web Map Service (WMS) to generate a background map. The WMS feature is more flexible than the static background maps provided as part of JMP. But it requires the user to find an appropriate WMS server and then determine specific
Previously, I wrote about the image-based background maps that are provided as part of the JMP install. These maps work well when you are viewing a larger area of the world, such as a country or even a state or province. But if you want to zoom in closer, these
In my previous blog post, I gave an overview of the different types of background maps you can add to a graph in JMP 9. Today, I will discuss two of the options for a background map: Simple Earth and Detailed Earth. Simple Earth and Detailed Earth are two of
If you saw the JMP 9 launch webcast on Oct. 12 or have seen the JMP website lately, you know geographic visualization is a prominent feature of JMP 9. You likely saw a map being drawn underneath the data, and you may have wondered, "How did they do that?" The