training.md

Data processing

• Remove all spaces from the headers of your sreadsheets -Geocoding with Google docs
• Convert your XLS spreadsheets to CSV before adding to TileMill
• Use Libre Office if you don't have excel (otherwise excel works great).
• Next Steps - Making data joins in Qgis for polygon maps
• Next Steps - Processing data in QGIS for heat maps.
• Next Steps - Working with data in Sqlite and TileMill

Styling Data

• Adding data to TileMill
• Styling data + conditional statements in TileMill
• Adding tooltips and legends
• Advanced legends
• Next Steps - Adding google charts to tooltips
• Next STeps - Using custom icons in TileMill

Publishing data

• Exporting your map from TileMill
• Styling world base map
• Adding markers within MapBox.com (markers without TileMill)
• Mashing up custom layers with world base map
• Embedding your map on a webpage
• Next Steps - Map site templats
• Next Steps - Easing around map example from MapBox.js examples