WEB BASED MAPS:
- Mapbox's Tilemill:
- A really nice introduction to Tilemill and the basics of web maps.http://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/crashcourse/introduction/
- Guides for when you finish the tutorial/have specific questions: http://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/guides/add-shapefile/
- Slides from a presentation by Ian Villeda from the NACIS 2013 Conference. Help if you're dealing with scaled data and need some tips for showing it effectively on a map for Tilemill. see: http://ianvilleda.com/slides/nacis.html#0
- Leaflet.js
- Leaflet.js Examples
- Lyzi Diamond intro to Leaflet.js lesson
- Bootleaf A really great template by Brian Mcbride for doing a little bit more advanced stuff with leaflet than the tutorials on the official leaflet site. Should have at least some background with leaflet.js for this one.
- Coding maps with Leaflet.js by David Humphrey
- CartoDB
- Online mapping for beginners, an online #mapacademy course from CartoDB
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D3:
- Mike Bostock (creator of D3) has collected a list of D3 tutorials, many written by him. They include links to talks and video examples.
https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Tutorials
- For a good overview of the new build of topojson and topology in general check out: Topology a la topjson
- Scott Murray's D3 Tutorials are online here: http://alignedleft.com/tutorials/d3
- An expanded version of this tutorial can be found in his book /Interactive Data Visualization for the Web/ that can be read online (for free!) here: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/
- Google Fusion Tables:
- By Alan McConchie: http://mappingmashups.net/2012/11/29/mapping-with-google-fusion-tables/
- All of the above:
- How do you make a web map? by Matthew Dance
- GIS Collective (D3, Leaflet, WMS, etc): http://giscollective.org/tutorials/
- An Open-source geo/mapping workflow by Nathaniel Kelso: https://github.com/nvkelso/geo-how-to
- So you want to make a map... by Noah Veltman
- Quantum GIS (QGIS):
- Great tutorial by Lex Berman at Harvard: http://maps.cga.harvard.edu/qgis/ It's less of a tutorial than an entire website built to walk someone through QGIS, beginning with installation. If you've used QGIS before, or are familiar with the interface, you can start where you need to. Many sections include video.
- A Very Short Introduction to QGIS by Alan McConchie: http://mappingmashups.net/2012/11/30/a-very-short-introduction-to-qgis/
Fun process blogs:
- Mapping Chicago's Shooting Victims: http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/2013/07/15/mapping-chicagos-shooting-victims/ (Leaflet.js, Stamen base tiles, OSM, Django)
General geographic concepts:
- Map Projections - Basic definitions and concepts by Carlos A. Furuti
- mapschool from Tom MacWright
- Spatial Data Formats 101 from Sajjad Anwar
Want to be thinking about maps and geography but don't actually want to think? FUN VIDEOS:
- CGPGrey: Canada and the United States: Bizarre Borders: http://youtu.be/qMkYlIA7mgw
- CGPGrey: Countries Inside Countries: Bizarre Borders: http://youtu.be/Vui-qGCfXuA
- Fake-Dymaxion Map by Mike Migurski (Fauxmaxion II): http://teczno.com/faumaxion-II/ (this is a Dymaxion Map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map)
- Map Projects a la XKCD: http://xkcd.com/977/
This is not really about maps, but we think you'll want to know it:
What else is there?
Well we'd like to have a section for learning about traditional mapping but don't have any good links thus far. Maybe I'll start putting books...
Started to compile a little list of tools available to make digital maps.
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Authors and Contributors
Some of this page was created by Matthew McKenna (@mpmckenna8) and Alan McConchie (@almccon) + using maptime.io basepage but anyone can edit it or suggest improvement! Maptime is a collaborative endeavor that depends on everyone's contribution! These tutorials are mostly copied from the general maptime stuff repository. That doc was put together at one of the first Maptime meetings where Alan McConchie, Beth Schechter and Camille Teichera were present possibly along w/ other people I don't know about to give attribution to.