Mapping systems

One or more non-transitory computer storage media storing computer executable instructions which, when executed, provide a channel enabling communication between different systems, the computer executable instructions capable of:

• displaying, on a display device, a mapping system with which a user can:
• access a channel store, select a channel from a plurality of predefined channels from the channel store, and download the channel;
• and/or create a channel using a visual channel editor in which graphical representations of
• channel nodes can be selectively arranged and interconnected to define a channel for enabling communication between a source and at least one destination, the graphical representations of channel nodes comprising a graphical representation of a source node corresponding to the source and a graphical representation of at least one destination node corresponding to the at least one destination including:
• receiving user input into the visual channel editor to define the channel from the graphical representations, the channel including the source node and the at least one destination node;
• receiving user input that selects a graphical representation corresponding to the source node;
• in response to receiving the user input that selects the graphical representation, selecting or enabling selection of:
• a source field defining a protocol and/or a method for receiving data from the source node;
• and
• a format field for defining a format of the data from the source node;
• and automatically generating one or more scripts to implement functionality specified in the source field and the format field on data from the source node.