What's in a map? - Google Launchpad Talk

A talk I gave to delegates and startups on making mapping easier, We chatted about the power of using social media to work out your potential audience and using data analytics, and maps, to really tell a story about your data. The talk was given at Google Campus, Launchpad Event, London.

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1. What’s in a map?
   Data, Maps and a funny accent!
   steven.james.gray@gmail.com
   Google Developer Expert
   +StevenGray
   

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4. Google Developer Experts
   https://developers.google.com/experts/members/
   

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5. Maps Live: Animated Ground Overlays and Weather with Google Maps SDK for iOS
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGVDeA0IB4E
   

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8. Maps of Lots of Pins
   

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11. http://xkcd.com/1138/
    

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12. MapTube
    
    

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13. How it works
    MapTubeD
    Data (.csv) Descriptor Style
    MapTubeD needs a set of 3 files on a web-accessible filesystem
    

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14. How it works
    MapTubeD
    Data (.csv) Descriptor Style
    The descriptor file points to the style file and the data file which tells
    the render system what to do next.
    

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15. How it works
    MapTubeD
    Data (.csv) Descriptor Style
    The style file tells the
    renderer how to colour
    the relevant sections
    

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16. How it works
    MapTubeD
    Data (.csv) Descriptor Style
    and the colour scale used
    for different thresholds
    of values.
    

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17. How it works
    MapTubeD
    Data (.csv) Descriptor Style
    We point our map to the tile servers giving
    the location of the descriptor
    

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18. How it works
    MapTubeD
    Data (.csv) Descriptor Style
    The system then renders the tiles as the map
    library running as the client requests them.
    

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19. MapTube Mobile
    
    

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24. Main Objectives
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    - One stop shop for mapping data.
    - Mapping your own data or other on-line data
    - Collection of data
    - Exporting our visualisations to GIS systems
    - Making Mapping so easy even a child can do it!
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    http://gemma.casa.ucl.ac.uk
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26. Mobile Data Collector
    Collect anything you can think of!
    

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27. + =
    Embedding Maps
    Share your maps with the world
    

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28. Embedding Maps
    

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29. Embedding Maps
    

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30. Embedding Maps
    

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43. Thank you
    steven.gray@ucl.ac.uk
    Twitter: @frogo
    Google+: +StevenGray
    http://www.stevenjamesgray.com
    

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