Ok, I’m not the first to come up with that name, but I like it so it’s staying for now. The problem space is this: Your web development team is good with forms. They build forms like diurnal animals wake — daily: day in, day out, day in, day out. They want to build a form for a mobile web app and it just happens to use … Continue reading Leaflet Crosshairs
Enjoyed setting the errorTileUrl flag in a leafletjs map today. A small homage: Continue reading They’ve gone to plaid. (LeafletJS and CartoDB)
Leaflet, CartoDB, GeoJSON, and cross platform web map deployment. First some introductions: “Leaflet is a modern, lightweight open-source JavaScript library for interactive maps for desktop and mobile web browsers, developed by CloudMade to form the core of its next generation JavaScript API. Weighting just about 21kb of gzipped JS code, it still has all the features you will ever need for you web mapping needs … Continue reading Playing with new tools and old standards: GeoJSON, Leaflet, CartoDB across platforms
I posted this post about an apparent problem in rendering of GeoJSON in Leaflet, and now it’s fixed a week later. Why gush now, when for a few years developers on the GeoServer board have been fixing bugs I’ve found (often by the next day)? Well for one, I very rarely find bugs in GeoServer– I just think I do, document everything, send it on, … Continue reading Leaflet, GeoServer, and Open Source Software Ramblings
CartoDB is one of two hosted (read: cloud) PostGIS database implementations. It has a maps API, an SQL API, and is some fun to use. The other hosted PostGIS implementation is SpacialDB which has a Restful API, but can also take SQL. I just got my key for the free version of that, so hopefully I will be reviewing use of that in the future … Continue reading CartoDB, Leaflet, and a little anti-generalization
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