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Mapping Data to the Web: A Primer for Tilemill & Mapbox
TileMill sits at the intersection of GIS and Cartography
of the web (in code and design)
i.e. this:
not this:
built to bake up a whole batch of
speedy tiles
high performance & high interactivity
mapnik: High-quality, web-standard map
rendering
available on windows, mac, linux
free and open (free as in speech AND free
as in beer)
Download:
Fire it up:
#b8dee6 =
#4a7370 =
Map { background-color: #4a7370; }#countries { ::outline { line-color: #85c5d3; line-width: 2; line-join: round; } polygon-fill: #fff;} This stuff is called “CartoCSS”, and it looks like web CSS
Grab some open data and get started
D.C. Census Tracts:
http://db.tt/wNnjCNzK
Supported input formats:
- ESRI Shapefile – GeoTiff - PostGIS- SQLite - CSV- KML - GeoJSON
Supported output formats:
- Static Images: - PNG / JPEG - SVG / PDF
- Dynamic Tiles - MBTiles (SQLite)
customize!
Support Channels:
Twitter: @mapbox
Freenode IRC: #mapbox
support.mapbox.com