Intro to Web Mapping: MaptimeWE

MaptimeWElinks.md

A Brief History of GIS

• http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall12articles/origins-of-the-canada-geographic-information-system.html

Definition of Layer

• http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/layer
• http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall04articles/arcgis-raster-data-model.html

ArcGIS Online

• http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/27/white-house-science-fair-fact-sheet-backgrounder

Single-Topic maps get 3 times the traffic of the traditional Map Portal

• http://mapbrief.com/2012/08/01/how-the-public-actually-uses-local-government-web-maps-metrics-from-denver/

Mapquest is launched

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapQuest

Google Maps proves "It's the experience, stupid"

• http://signalvnoise.com/archives/001051.php

Everyone uses Tiles: MapCompare

• http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc

D3 does not use tiles

• https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Geo-Projections
• http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/transition/

Explanation of tiles, data layers, anatomy of a web map

• https://github.com/jalbertbowden/anatomy-of-a-web-map
• http://apprentice.craic.com/tutorials/28
• http://ogre.adc4gis.com/

Mercator image

• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Mercator

Projections

• http://www.qgis.org/en/site/

Maps breaking out of embedded frames

• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/05/06/dining/101-places-to-get-good-coffee-in-new-york.html

Google API picker

• https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/api-picker
• https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/datalayer

Google Mapping Products

• https://maps.google.com/help/maps/education/resources.html
• https://mapping.withgoogle.com/
• https://datasense.withgoogle.com/course
• https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/2571232

Geocoders

• http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/13/google-maps-geocoder

Maps made from the command line

• http://homicide.latimes.com/
• http://maps.latimes.com/about/
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/

Mapping the Catalog of Ships

• http://ships.lib.virginia.edu/
• http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/tiles/

Data Driven Detroit

• http://datadrivendetroit.org/
• http://596acres.org/

Mapping the spread of surplus military gear

• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/15/us/surplus-military-equipment-map.html

Want to make pretty maps?

• http://boundlessgeo.com/solutions/opengeo-suite/
• http://cartodb.com/
• http://docs.cartodb.com/tutorials.html
• https://www.mapbox.com/
• https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-studio/
• http://maps.stamen.com/

OpenStreetMap

• http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/45.4522/-122.2641