I have done a small smattering of posts over the years on cartography and parks. I thought I would share in this post some of the work we have done toward this end for mobile and desktop web. The app itself (still awaiting a full port to webgl) can be found here. Here we take a bit of inspiration from NPS Maps and some of … Continue reading Cartography and Parks
Following up on my previous post, I have started to detail the how of our parks map rendering works, including a GitHub repository with all the code and data to build your own in TileStache. One of these days, we’ll port this to TileMill, but in the mean time, it works and works wonderfully. — Addendum — Truth in advertising– the contours data were … Continue reading Parks Data Cake, part deux
Stamen has a great blog entry on mapping for parks on their blog. It’s a teaser for a deeper dive in mapping parks, and I’m staying tuned, as their write-ups tend to be detailed, thoughtful, and complete. I thought I’d offer my own teaser– a bit of work done collaboratively with GreenInfo Network. It started with their basemap– something they spent a few person-years refining from … Continue reading Parks Data Cake
In a short blog post, I won’t be able to do the NACIS conference justice, but if you haven’t gone and you are a map geek, then I recommend you attend next year’s conference in Pittsburg. First: The People: What a collegial and warm group of people. NACIS was a very welcoming community, an interesting mix of private industry geniuses (ahem, Mapbox, Stamen, Vizzuality etc.), academics, … Continue reading North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Conference (yay #NACIS!)
A little more refinement to the SQL for building masking fill for hand-placed text on maps. Continue reading Cartographic tricks and tips– making text readable, PostGIS edition, take 3
I have a couple of posts number 1 and number 2 about masking for text. One more from the actual implementation: Continue reading Cartographic tricks and tips– making text readable, PostGIS edition part 2
Recall from previous post, http://wp.me/phWh4-qm I played a bit with using convex polygons and buffers to control noisy backgrounds behind text, ala: ——–> I was tired of doing this in the GUI in QGIS, so I wrote some simple code to do it in PostGIS. Continue reading Cartographic tricks and tips– making text readable, PostGIS edition
Credit where credit’s due on the great QGIS Compositing (as well as some stellar forthcoming raster tools): http://nyalldawson.net/2013/03/coming-soon-in-qgis-2-0-blend-modes-for-layers/ I thought I had seen an unusually large spike in my Aussie traffic… . Continue reading QGIS Compositing, credits where due
QGIS Compositing, more comparisons… . You guess which is QGIS and which is TileStache… . Continue reading QGIS Compositing, more comparisons
Ever had a workflow on the web that resulted in stuff so nice, you wanted to replicate on the desktop? Ya, me neither until recently. I love the cartography a particular website, know all the bits and pieces of color and effects that go into, but had no desktop application that could do the same. Until now. On the left, QGIS, on the right, TileStache … Continue reading QGIS Compositing, more gushing yet…
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