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Joyful Map Tile Rendering with Node.js Rob Brackett Ben Sheldon
Alex Yule @Mr0grog @bensheldon @yuletide http://github.com/codeforamerica/nodetiles-core
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DATA SUSTAINABILITY INFRASTRUCTURE Abundant Dynamic Managed / Limited Access Web-centric
Workflow Interface
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Data GeoJSON PostGIS Future: Shapefiles, CSV, etc... Projections! Rendering Styling
with Carto (like CSS) Fits into TileMill workflow Output Tiles and utfgrid or static images Room for Improvement
Download our all-in-one example: ⬇ http://github.com/codeforamerica/nodetiles-init Install dependencies: $ npm
install Start the server: $ node server.example.js View the map: http://localhost:3000 ↪
Demo Time http://github.com/codeforamerica/nodetiles-core