Making Maps - Maker Faire Orlando 2015 Talk
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Yesterday I gave a short talk at Maker Faire Orlando 2015 on Making Maps. Thanks to Ricardo Williams of Nerd Nite Orlando for the invitation, and for everyone who came for your support! Here are some links to the projects and resources I mentioned (and some I didn’t get to) in my talk.
My Recent Projects Involving Maps
- Local Notebooks
- Map backdrop of hand-painted Orlando neighborhoods for MacBeth Photography’s Rethink Homelessness fundraiser (I supplied the underlying neighborhood outlines/names)
- Searching for the Flow of the Tropical City
- Decentralized network of nodes inside 3d buildings (w/ Red Antler for Grayscale) [pwd: grayscale]
Maps & Map Projections
- Free maps from the NASA Visible Earth (blue marble) collection
- Flexify (Photoshop plugin with free trial to play with map projections)
- What Your Favorite Map Projection Says About You (xkcd)
d3
- d3js.org (Data Driven Documents)
- Map Projection Transitions
- US Airport Connections
- Tokyo Wind Speed
- US States Obesity Choropleth
OpenStreetMap & Related
- OpenStreetMap
- OpenStreetMap Wiki
- Mapzen – an open source mapping lab
- Mapzen metro extracts (download bite-sized portions of the OpenStreetMap database)
- QGIS – a free and open source geographic information system
Making Online Maps
- Google Maps “My Maps” – create and share custom maps
- Customize Google Maps Tutorial
- Stamen Maps – beautiful custom styles for OpenStreetMap data in the browser
- Leaflet – a JavaScript library for interactive maps
- Mapbox and Mapbox Studio – Design radically custom maps and datasets powered by vector tiles
Working With Transit Data
- GTFS and the GTFS Data Exchange
- Lynx GTFS data download
- GTFS Visualizations by Michael Mueller
- My adaptation of Mueller’s code for Orlando
- OneBusAway – open-source tools and apps to improve the usability of public transit
- Processing and Unfolding Maps (what I used for visualizing our local transportation system)
Going 3D With OpenStreetMap
- Mapzen Tangram – a flexible mapping engine, designed for real-time rendering of 2D and 3D maps
- Mapzen Vector Tile Data Source