Presented at GeoRabble #7 in Sydney, Australia, this was my presentation about how to present users with massive amounts of interactive data. I presented UTFGrids, MBTiles, and TileMill.

1. Creating User Friendly
Massive Maps
Kelvin Nicholson

2. The Problem -33.86671912345,151.20568165842
-33.8667,151.2056
ST_Simplify(the_geom,0.5)

3. Examples – NPR U.S. Census 2010

4. Examples – NPR Poisoned Places

5. Examples – BKL YNR | Block by Block

6. Solution – UTFGrids

7. Solution – UTFGrids

8. Solution – TileMill

9. Examples – Commute Time (57,462
polygons)

10. Examples – Commute, City of Cities

11. Examples – Urban Density

12. References
• BKL YNR | Block by Block (http://bklynr.com/block-by-block-
brooklyns-past-and-present/)
• Have a look at the UTF Grid
(http://milkator.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/have-a-look-at-the-utf-
grid/)
• UTFGrid Spec 1.3 (https://github.com/mapbox/utfgrid-
spec/blob/master/1.3/utfgrid.md)