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.

Transcript

1. What’s in a map? Data, Maps and a funny accent! steven.james.gray@gmail.com Google Developer Expert +StevenGray
4. Google Developer Experts https://developers.google.com/experts/members/
5. Maps Live: Animated Ground Overlays and Weather with Google Maps SDK for iOS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGVDeA0IB4E
8. Maps of Lots of Pins
11. http://xkcd.com/1138/
12. MapTube
13. How it works MapTubeD Data (.csv) Descriptor Style MapTubeD needs a set of 3 files on a web-accessible filesystem
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.
15. How it works MapTubeD Data (.csv) Descriptor Style The style file tells the renderer how to colour the relevant sections
16. How it works MapTubeD Data (.csv) Descriptor Style and the colour scale used for different thresholds of values.
17. How it works MapTubeD Data (.csv) Descriptor Style We point our map to the tile servers giving the location of the descriptor
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.
19. MapTube Mobile
24. Main Objectives ! - 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! ! http://gemma.casa.ucl.ac.uk !
26. Mobile Data Collector Collect anything you can think of!
27. + = Embedding Maps Share your maps with the world
28. Embedding Maps
29. Embedding Maps
30. Embedding Maps
43. Thank you steven.gray@ucl.ac.uk Twitter: @frogo Google+: +StevenGray http://www.stevenjamesgray.com