Drupal and maps
Drupal is good for combining data (as nodes in the system) and map plugins to create different views of the data. The MMOE site (under construction) is mapping the legacy of enslavement across the francophone world – it uses a custom Mapbox style and OpenStreetMap to display the data posts as map points.
[ Drupal, Mapbox/Leaflet, OpenStreetMaps ]
WordPress and Maps
Ben Jonson project:
same dat apoints with a scrolling view
[ WordPress, Google Maps, bespoke code ]
Who’s watching Who
Custom map showing Berlin checkpoints and East/West boundaries in 1980s
[ WordPress, Mapbox ]
College Tour maps
Virtual tour site for the College – Local info map for LLL campus, linked to a transport and access map for the College
[ WordPress, Mapbox ]
Using maps with historical data/placenames
Tuzi map – compiled from data provided in a diary of two Italian immigrant brothers who made a return trip by tandem to their home town of Picinisco in 1950. The placenames were geocoded, then the resulting spreadsheet data added to a simple Mapbox style with some icons.
https://www.mapbox.com/editor/?id=hssweb.map-bs7232pc#style
Embedded in the Italo-Scots Archive website (under the Family History tab – Oresto and Dino Tuzi’s cycle trip to Italy > Route)
[ WordPress, Mapbox ]
Displaying complex filtered datasets
A research map showing holy sites of different categories (Buildings, Natural sites, Settlements) across the Islamic world. data sets for sites are uploaded as custom WordPress posts – the main map shows all the data points over a standard Google Blue Marble map view, with filters for the categories. Clicking on a map point shows a summary of data for it, with a ink through to the dataset and a more detailed map.
[ WordPress, Google Maps, bespoke code ]
RESOURCES
Play with some data
Edinburgh Council has many open data sets, downloadable as CSV files or queryable through their DATA API
http://edinburghopendata.info/story/edinburgh-open-data-map/
http://data.edinburghopendata.info/dataset/allotments/resource/61f4c674-ea65-4cde-b8fd-dd1f103ee4e0
NLS Maps
Historical OS maps that can be used under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license – tile sets compatible with Google MAps, Bing Maps SDK, Open Street Map
http://maps.nls.uk/view/74400026
http://maps.nls.uk/about.html
Historical OS maps that can be used under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license – tile sets compatible with Google MAps, Bing Maps SDK, Open Street Map
Mapbox Studio (Free software, free and paid plans)
https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-studio/
Quantum GIS (Free) http://www.qgis.org/en/site/
MapTiler Basic free service (with watermark)
Create map overlays and complete globes using Goolge Earth and MApTiler / Amazon AWS
http://www.maptiler.com/how-to/
Owning your data
Build a tile server
http://www.axismaps.com/blog/2012/01/dont-panic-an-absolute-beginners-guide-to-building-a-map-server/