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Andrew Larcombe
November 06, 2010
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Don't Let Maps Cramp Your Style
Presented at Drupal Design Camp, Prague, 2010
Andrew Larcombe
November 06, 2010
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Transcript
Don’t let maps cramp your style Drupal Design Camp Prague
November 6-7, 2010 Andrew Larcombe email:
[email protected]
twitter: andrewl http://www.andrewl.net d.o: alarcombe
Warning I am not a designer
Why am I here?
Why am I here? • Cartography IS design
Why am I here? • Cartography IS design • Expression
of complex information in a graphical form
Why am I here? • Cartography IS design • Expression
of complex information in a graphical form • Ties into branding
Why am I here? • Cartography IS design • Expression
of complex information in a graphical form • Ties into branding • Please, please, please do more than just use Google maps!
Quiz...
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Crimes against cartography
Don’t use the default Google Maps marker Crimes against cartography
Use well designed and functional markers Crimes against cartography
The ‘dots on maps’ syndrome Crimes against cartography
Cluster your icons... Crimes against cartography
Cluster your icons... Crimes against cartography
Consider density maps (aka heatmaps) Crimes against cartography
Google Maps - does it match your branding? Crimes against
cartography
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What price good cartography?
What price good cartography? • Created branding guidelines ($$$)
What price good cartography? • Created branding guidelines ($$$) •
Built new e-business platform ($$$)
What price good cartography? • Created branding guidelines ($$$) •
Built new e-business platform ($$$) • Used a generic Google map ($0.00)
What price good cartography? • Created branding guidelines ($$$) •
Built new e-business platform ($$$) • Used a generic Google map ($0.00) • Why?
What price good cartography?
What price good cartography? • Why?
What price good cartography? • Why? • Too easy?
What price good cartography? • Why? • Too easy? •
No perceived value?
What price good cartography? • Why? • Too easy? •
No perceived value? • Knowledge/skills/information gap?
Better maps with OpenLayers and its friends...
OpenLayers...for teh mapping awesome Better maps with OpenLayers and its
friends
OpenLayers Better maps with OpenLayers and its friends OpenLayers (Javascript)
• Mature javascript framework for putting dynamic maps on the web • Tiles, markers, events. var map = new OpenLayers.Map('map', {'maxResolution': 1.40625/2}); var dm_wms = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS( "Canada", "http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/cgi-bin/mswms_gmap", {layers: "bathymetry,land_fn,park,drain_fn,drainage," + "prov_bound,fedlimit,rail,road,popplace", transparent: "true", format: "image/png" }); dm_wms.setVisibility(false); map.addLayers([ol_wms, jpl_wms, dm_wms]); map.addControl(new OpenLayers.Control.LayerSwitcher()); map.zoomToMaxExtent();
OpenLayers Better maps with OpenLayers and its friends OpenLayers (Drupal
module) • http://drupal.org/project/openlayers • 2.0-alpha10
OpenLayers Better maps with OpenLayers and its friends OpenLayers (Drupal
module) • http://drupal.org/project/openlayers • 2.0-alpha10 • Integration with Views • Provides CCK widget for input • Lots of friends: OpenLayers Geocoder, GeoTaxonomy, WFS, MapBox, blah, blah, blah. • Exportable!
Map Tiles Better maps with OpenLayers and its friends •
Make your own with Mapnik, Mapserver, WMS, TileCache, TMS • Cloudmade (OpenStreetMap) • MapBox • Google/Yahoo!/Bing Maps
Stock tiles (Google, Bing Yahoo! etc) Better maps with OpenLayers
and its friends
Other tiles...MapBox Better maps with OpenLayers and its friends
Other tiles...Cloudmade Better maps with OpenLayers and its friends
Other tiles...Cloudmade Better maps with OpenLayers and its friends
Other tiles...custom Better maps with OpenLayers and its friends
Other tiles...custom Better maps with OpenLayers and its friends
Other tiles...custom Better maps with OpenLayers and its friends
Other tiles...custom Better maps with OpenLayers and its friends
Styling markers Better maps with OpenLayers and its friends
Sometime soon...
Sometime soon... • TileMill from DevSeed
Sometime soon... • TileMill from DevSeed • Google Maps API
v3 - styled maps
Sometime soon... • TileMill from DevSeed • Google Maps API
v3 - styled maps • Polymaps from Stamen Design
http://london2011.drupal.org/
Thank you. Andrew Larcombe email:
[email protected]
twitter: andrewl http://andrewl.net d.o:
alarcombe