Brewing Maps with TileMill

Brewing Maps with TileMill [email_address] [email_address]

a time before tiles...

a la carte maps

...but there was a problem

slow and ugly

February 8, 2005

tile age

cartography is the new old black

TileMill....makes great maps

Development Seed & MapBox

Mapnik, Node.js, Backbone.js, express & CodeMirror....

..lets make a map

.roads{ line-color: @nz_roads; line-width: 1.5; } Style by .class

.roads[type="primary"]{ line-color: @nz_roads; line-width: 1.5; } Using a selector

[zoom>10].roads{ [type="primary"],[type="secondary"]{ line-color: @nz_roads; line-width: 1.5; } } Using multiple selectors

.landuse[type="retail"]{ ::outline { line-color: #ffd34f; line-width:6; } line-color: #000; line-width:2; } Attachments

interactivity & export

serving tiles using TileStream

clients

http://postgis.refractions.net/ https://github.com/mapbox/tilestream https://github.com/stamen/modestmaps-js https://github.com/mapbox/wax https://github.com/mapbox/tilemill http://www.qgis.org/ http://www.openstreetmap.org/ ..and more All thanks to:

thank-you [email_address] [email_address]

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Brewing Maps with TileMill

by mapbutcher on Oct 03, 2011

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