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Web Mapping Workshop- rehash

Location

  • Sensors Bldg
  • Eagle Conference Rm (Email Evelyn J. Boettcher for passes)

When

  • October 4, 2016
  • From 1200-1300

Why

Move beyond presenting location specific data in Excel to interactive maps.

Excel: Before Tutorial Web Map: After Tutorial
Before Tutorial After Tutorial

By leveraging the hard and creative work from other people (eg Fork their code), you can move beyond spreadsheets to web maps with very little web software skill.

Materials

Agenda

  • Introductions
  • Introduction to Web Mapping
  • Introduction to Leaflet
  • Development Environment Setup
  • Making a Map
  • Base Maps
  • Markers
  • Pop Ups
  • GeoJSON
  • Plugins
    • Marker Clustering
    • Awesome Markers
  • Civic Hacking & CfD
  • Data Sources - CfD data sources, open data
  • Workshop
    • Pick a data set and make a map!
    • People on hand to assist
    • Team up or work solo

Prerequisites

  • Please bring a RDT&E laptop to work on. (not needed, but it might be nice)
  • Text Editor for Web Development.
  • Python and Chrome installed
  • Passing knowledge of HTML and CSS would be helpful
  • Code already cloned (if following along)

Workshop Datasets

This list is a work in progress. Please submit a pull request with your favorite resources!

Originally Presented By

Code for Dayton, Dayton Data Visualization, Girl Develop It

Saturday, September 10th, 2016 10:00am - 2:00pm

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