agenda.md

Objectives

By the end of the training participants can:

• Geocode spreadsheets with geography/address information
• Use their own data sets to create maps
• Put their data on top of a their customized world map
• Embed their maps in their websites, blogs, or save maps as pdfs.
• Know where to go for documentation to review all steps covered in training, and where to get more advanced information.

Agenda

Part 1 - Data Prep 25min

• Best practices for cleaning data before using in TileMill
• Geocoding your addresses to create latitude and longitude

Part 2 - Making maps in Tilemill - 80 min

Introduction - 25 min

• Adding data to TileMill
• Introduction to CartoCSS

Styling data - 35 min

• Learning the basics of styling out points
• Conditional statements to create size on factor

Adding legends and tooltips - 20min

• Adding information on hover, and click
• Adding external links from map

Part 3 - Publishing your maps - 30m

• Exporting maps to MapBox
• Exporting to pdfs
• Embedding maps on website
• Next steps