2013/5/27 Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org>
Hi, I foward this mail to design, since it seems
relevant here.
As far as I know, currently there is no other way to create (world)maps
than taking some existing blank one, and put the color on regions of
interest. Maybe it would be intersting to have such a tool online, but
more
important, to ease contributors ability to make
interactive maps, which
enable readers to see how a phenomenon evolved/is evolving through time.
Hi Mathieu, coincidently I worked on doing this exactly during the
Amsterdam Hackathon.
What we are looking for is a platform where users can contribute to map
creation online by picking the right data layers, projection and
annotations. New web technologies can make this quite simple to do.
What I'm doing here is loading only the geodata for India's States as a
geojson(90kb) into the browser. I then use d3js to convert and reproject
the geojson as an interactive SVG along with automatic labelling.
We now have a fully functional map object in the dom to play with and with
styling set via css. Type in a new language code and see what happens :)
http://4thmain.github.io/d3hacks/wiki-atlas.html
This opens a new world with d3, jquery and openstreetmap data.
I'm still traveling, and will post more details on the maps-l list in about
2 weeks.
PS: I starting javascript a month back, look into the code at your own risk
:)
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Arun Ganesh
(planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad>
<http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>