Mapping Data to the Web: A Primer for Tilemill & Mapbox

TileMill sits at the intersection of GIS and Cartography

of the web (in code and design)

i.e. this:

not this:

built to bake up a whole batch of

speedy tiles

high performance & high interactivity

mapnik: High-quality, web-standard map

rendering

available on windows, mac, linux

free and open (free as in speech AND free

as in beer)

Download:

Fire it up:

#b8dee6 =

#4a7370 =

Map { background-color: #4a7370; }#countries { ::outline { line-color: #85c5d3; line-width: 2; line-join: round; } polygon-fill: #fff;} This stuff is called “CartoCSS”, and it looks like web CSS

Grab some open data and get started

D.C. Census Tracts:

http://db.tt/wNnjCNzK

Supported input formats:

- ESRI Shapefile – GeoTiff - PostGIS- SQLite - CSV- KML - GeoJSON

Supported output formats:

- Static Images: -  PNG / JPEG -  SVG / PDF

- Dynamic Tiles -  MBTiles (SQLite)

customize!

Support Channels:

Twitter: @mapbox

Freenode IRC: #mapbox

support.mapbox.com