Pixel Map Generator
The co-founder of webkid.io and interactive developer Moritz Klack recently shared a tweet about the Pixel Map Generator which is a nice addition to my recent “comparison” of…
Tag: js
Awesome map style
Are you back from holiday? Maybe you switched from Casale Monferrato, Piedmont and have used the map of Monferrato Landscapes. If you were lucky, you see a new…
Short Announcement: Leaflet 1.0
Leaflet is one of a kind in the list of javascript webmapping libraries. It was designed with simplicity, performance and usability in mind. Unfortunately the development seemed to…
Create custom markers with R for your webmap
When it comes to webmapping there are thousands of possible markers you can choose from but when it comes to markers depending on the data, which is inside…
Create your own StoryMap
Have you seen “the story maps” created on the ESRI website (http://storymaps.arcgis.com) or for that matter from http://storymap.knightlab.com/ or http://mapstory.org/. They are all frameworks for you to create…
export your qgis project to a webmap with qgis2leaf
It was just a small idea but I haven’t slept much since it came to my mind to build a plugin fo QGIS. It should create a basic…
News from Vladimir Agafonkin / creator of leaflet
We love leaflet. In fact we have done some great projects with this nice little piece of code like our job-map. As I’ve checked the news from leaflet:…
The Spiegel Magazine and their “maps”
Today I stumbled upon a “map” on Spiegel Online ( an import news page in Germany ) which shows the spied countries of the NSA. As we already…
geojson.io: edit geospatial data online- an example
As Daniel already wrote: There is an awesome tool available online. With geojson.io you will be able to add, edit and remove spatial data used maybe in webmapping…
how to create clustered points in leaflet
The leaflet API is very simple and tries to deliver best performance and style for commonly used features like tilelayers, points and lines and markers in general. So…
Make it simple – How to add Line Simplifcation to your Web Mapping
When Mike Bostock published his (re-) implementation and demonstration of Visvalingams algorithm for line simplification he attracted considerable attention on that. What is a little bit strange in…
D3-Basics – All you need is a selection!
Since a while I am programming with the JavaScript library D3.js … and … I am addicted to it! As I would like to present some tutorials on…