Using the language of map tiles to present high-resolution documents online

1. PAPER MAP TO SLIPPY MAP
ADAM WILBERT
@AWILBERT
Portland Cartography Symposium • November 3, 2015 • PSU

2. PAPER MAP TO
MULTI-SCALE
PANNABLE MAP

3. PRINT MAPS

4. Successful print maps are read
at a variety of scales without
modifying their content.

6. Turning map elements off when
they become inconvenient feels
a lot like cheating.

14. LIVE DEMO TIME
(FINGERS CROSSED…)

15. MODERN MAPS
BEYOND HISTORIC DOCUMENTS

16. http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sim3316

18. www.maptiler.com

19. LIVE DEMO TIME
EXPORTING MAP TILES

20. MBTILES
FAKE IT ‘TILL YOU MAKE IT

21. LYING

24. http://gdal.org

25. gdal_edit.py
-a_srs EPSG:3857
-a_ullr -20037508.34 20037508.34
20037508.34 -20037508.34 in.tif

26. LIVE DEMO TIME
CREATING WEB MERCATOR TILES

27. TILE SERVER
HOSTING YOUR OWN MBTILES

28. https://github.com/klokantech/tileserver-php/

29. http://cartogaia.com/portland/tileserver/

30. LIVE DEMO TIME
TOUR MY WEB HOST

31. FULLSCREEN
MODIFYING LEAFLET TEMPLATES

33. https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/example/v1.0.0/
leaflet-fullscreen/

35. https://github.com/awilbert/mapbox-fullscreen

36. http://xkcd.com/1110/