I Want A Nice Map !

GoogleMaps is a very easy way to add a map into your Plone site, but it is so boring to see the very same GMap style everywhere. If you want to create light and sexy maps, and you are not a GIS ...

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1. I want a nice map ! Plone Conference 2012 Eric Brehault @ebrehault www.makina-corpus.com
2. A map is a piece of information Le Monde Diplomatique Sept. 2012 – Philippe Rekacewicz What is a map?
3. User interactions can be useful What is a map?
4. But visitors are not the ones who need to build a map, they just need to read it. What is a map? 100% Flash !
5. • Keep it simple, • Make it nice and efficient by itself, • Do not expect a bunch of gadgets will make it clearer or better. How to create a map ?
6. As a Plone developer, what were your options so far? • OpenLayers (with collective.geo.*) • Google Maps API (with Products.Maps) How to create a map ?
7. • Built by GIS experts for GIS experts, • Extremely rich feature set, • Usually about 1 MB of JavaScript, • Does not play nice with mobile devices, • Supports all the OGC standards and protocols (WMS, WFS... known as W*S). OpenLayers
8. The W*S approach Hello, what kind of GIS services do you provide? Good, I would like this map, which projections do you offer? I can produce this list of maps Oh quite a lot, what about this very specific projection which is ideal for the North-West of Kazakhstan?
9. The W*S approach Sounds terrific, could you send me the square (x0, y0, x1, y1)? Hey, did you watch the game yesterday? Sure, as GIF or PNG? No, he had to stop for a few months, because he broke his leg. Yes, it was nice. Do your son still play football?
10. The W*S approach What about a barbecue next week? Hmm... and regarding the image we talked about? Fantastic, let's do that ! Ooops, sorry, here is it.
11. Why? “To improve interoperability” OK, but this is not how the Web works. The W*S approach
12. The standard Web approach <img src=”http://tiles.myserver.com/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png” />
13. Conclusion: Let's occupy W*S !! The W*S approach
14. Google Maps: • looks good, • is fast, • triggered a fantastic revolution in the Web mapping domain. But Google Maps... Google Maps
15. … is so boring. Everybody has the very same map ! OK, not always the same: there are 3 different default styles Google Maps
16. Many usage restrictions: • Offline mode, • Mass geocoding, • Non-public usage (intra/extranet), • Commercial usage, • etc. Google Maps
17. New JavaScript libraries: Smaller – Faster – Easier New ways to produce maps: No GIS server – Tiles – CSS New hopes
18. 40 Ko – Fast – Mobile compliant – Old browser support No interaction but excellent for mini maps. Very very easy to use (with htmapl.js): <div class="map" data-center="51.982924,5.913906" data-zoom="13" /> ModestMaps
19. ModestMaps
20. 32 Ko – Fast – GeoJSON / SVG collective.geo.polymaps by Christian Ledermann • Straightforward to customize • Style with CSS Polymaps
21. Polymaps
22. 60 Ko – Pure SVG - CSS A complete chain: • Kartograph.py converts GIS resources into SVG (possibly 3D) • Kartograph.js displays it Kartograph
23. Kartograph
24. 90 Ko – Fast - Mobile compliant – Old browser support – Complete collective.js.leaflet • Simple API • GeoJSON • Very active project, with lot of plugins (editor toolbar, Google layers, projections...) Leaflet
25. Leaflet
26. Leaflet
27. Leaflet
28. Leaflet
29. Leaflet
30. Leaflet
31. Leaflet
32. You need a base layer, what can it be? • GoogleMaps such a cliché OpenStreetMap does not look very good, does it? What about the data?
33. Actually, OpenStreetMap is not a map. It is a database. And you can use this database to produce you own maps. OSM is not a map
34. • TileMill: a CSS-oriented design studio • MBUtil and Landez: utilities to produce tiles DEMO Produce your own tiles
35. TileMill
36. TileMill
37. TileMill
38. Unified colors theme
39. And if you are gifted Island by Konstantin Käfer - MapBox
40. And if you are gifted Pirate map by AJ Ashton - MapBox
41. And if you are gifted Watercolor by Stamen Design
42. www.makina-corpus.com