Dbsgeo.com. 1_cascadenik_styles_and_sqlite_web_800_600. MapBox. Get Started with MapBox Streets. MapBox Streets, our global street-level OpenStreetMap base map, is a beautiful alternative to Google Maps powered by high-quality open data from OpenStreetMap. Here’s a walk-through of how to use MapBox Streets on your website. For usage levels and pricing for MapBox Streets, visit MapBox.com/plans . This tutorial covers using MapBox Streets as a base map under markers from an external source, like a database or API. Setting up the base map We’ll start by using two open source javascript libraries that make it easy to use MapBox on a web page or web-based mobile application. Leaflet handles all interaction with the map (panning, zooming, overlays) as well as drawing client-side features from data. And Wax is a library MapBox maintains to make it easy to use MapBox maps in Leaflet, and a variety of other web map APIs. First, download the required javascript and CSS files: Next add the following code to your web page: Now you have a map like this: Adding data Custom icons Additional reading.
Terrain Layer for MapBox Streets Now Available. MapBox Streets now has a terrain map for the entire world, letting you turn any map into a terrain map and style it any color. Using global elevation data, this addition visualizes hills and elevation contour lines atop OpenStreetMap landuse and landcover information with the same colors as the standard MapBox Streets design. To use the new design login to you MapBox account and create a custom map - you will now see a new mountain icon that will enable the terrain view on any custom map. The terrain layer is built into our existing custom map builder, meaning you have the ability to tint the colors to match your design. You can also turn off the labels and streets layer to provide a clean hillshaded backdrop on which to overlay your own custom cartography or data visualizations.
Here is a video demonstrating how fast and easy it is to create a custom-colored map design using the new terrain option. Introducing the MapBox iOS SDK. MapBox Introduces SDK for Super-Customizable iOS Maps. If you’re an iOS developer that uses maps in your app, but you’re unsatisfied with the level of customization that Apple’s MapKit allows, you’ll be excited by the MapBox news today.
The company, which is used by Foursqare and other companies to deliver maps to their users, is launching an iOS SDK that allows for greater flexibility and customized mapping tiles from the TileMill designer. The SDK has an open-source codebase, and it’s based on the Route-Me mapping library. All of the standard interactions are there, like pinching, zooming and snapping actions.
Any improvements to the engine will be added to the project as time goes on. The SDk provides integration with MapBox Streets, which uses OpenStreetMap data, just like the new iOS app Apple produced for the iPhone and iPad recently. An example map below demonstrates how wildly different you can make your apps look from the status quo.
The team has documentation available, as well as a sample open-source app. . ➤ MapBox SDK. TileMill: Cross-Platform GIS Mapping & Cartography Software. Many cartographers use a combination of Maptitude, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, or CorelDraw to make those gorgeous looking maps. Although these tools are very feature-rich, they do come with a hefty price-tag. However, graphic artists or cartographers will be delighted to know that we have an alternative solution for you. Labelled TileMill, this open source application for Windows, Mac OS X & Linux aims to let you create beautiful looking interactive maps with a multitude of options.
It’s built on Mapnik’s map rendering library (another open source tool), and is designed to help folks who work on cartography and GIS (Geographic Information System) in map creation. The intuitive interface of the application seems to be meticulously designed, with all the navigation controls on the upper left (Editor, Projects, Manual, Plugins and Settings), while lower left part contains the editing tools.
Apart from sample maps, you can create your own ones by adding a new project. Pros Cons. Introducing MapBox Streets, a New World Map Powered by Open Data. We recently released [MapBox Streets]( a zoomable web map of the world that’s powered entirely by open data through the [OpenStreetMap]( project. Our main focus with MapBox Streets was to provide a beautiful street map alternative to the ones normally seen online, primarily Google Maps, and to make it incredibly easy for people to start using it on their websites. ! []( We created a [step-by-step tutorial]( on how to use MapBox Streets on a website and add data to it using our open-source map design studio [TileMill]( or pulling from an external source, like a database or API (application programming interface).
Open data is important OpenStreetMap is a wiki-style geographic database that anyone can contribute to — and they do. Try it out.