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Monday 5th September 2011
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Making Interactive Maps for the Web
by Zain Memon
This tutorial teaches students how to create beautiful, interactive maps for the web. When asked to display geodata, most developers decide to put some big red markers on an embeddable Google Map and call it a day. If you're interested in creating maps that are more beautiful, more interactive, and more usable, this tutorial is for you.
By the end of this tutorial, students will be able to build a light version of Trulia's crime maps: http://trulia.com/crime/
Hour 1: The back-end
- Storing geodata in PostgreSQL
- Querying geodata with GeoDjango
- Ways to customize GeoDjango's admin
Hour 2: The front-end
- Displaying geodata on a map with Polymaps
- Creating and designing map tiles with TileStache
Hour 3: Dessert
- Adding interactivity to maps
- How to make geodata pretty
Thursday 8th September 2011
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Making interactive maps for the web
by Zain Memon
When tasked with displaying geo-data, most developers decide to put some big red markers on an embeddable Google Map and call it a day. If you're interested in creating maps that are more beautiful, more interactive, and more usable, this talk is for you.
This talk is a technical deep-dive into the technology behind Trulia's crime maps: a database with 50 million crime incidents, an app layer that generated hundreds of thousands of map tiles, and a front-end to make it interactive.
Each piece of the talk is instructive, aimed at arming devs who have a casual interest in GIS with the tools they need to make sexy maps. Specifically:
- Best practices for storing geodata in PostgreSQL
- Running geo-queries with GeoDjango
- Creating map tiles with TileStache
- Styling maps with Polymaps
No prior experience with GIS is required, though running through the GeoDjango intro tutorial would be helpful.
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