Don't Let Maps Cramp Your Style
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Presentation given at Drupal for Designers event, Sun Microsystems, 2009.
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Don't Let Maps Cramp Your Style
- 1. Don’t let maps cramp your style Drupal for Developers Sun Microsystems London August 20th, 2009 Andrew Larcombe email: andrew@andrewl.net twitter: andrewl http://www.andrewl.net http://www.netdojo.co.uk
- 2. Warning I am not a designer
- 3. Quiz...
- 4. Quiz...
- 5. Quiz...
- 11. What price good cartography?
- 12. What price good cartography? • Followed branding guidelines (££££)
- 13. What price good cartography? • Followed branding guidelines (££££) • Hand-crafted a Drupal theme (££££)
- 14. What price good cartography? • Followed branding guidelines (££££) • Hand-crafted a Drupal theme (££££) • Used a generic Google map (£0.00)
- 15. What price good cartography? • Followed branding guidelines (££££) • Hand-crafted a Drupal theme (££££) • Used a generic Google map (£0.00) • Why?
- 16. What price good cartography?
- 17. What price good cartography? • Why?
- 18. What price good cartography? • Why? • Too easy?
- 19. What price good cartography? • Why? • Too easy? • No perceived value?
- 20. What price good cartography? • Why? • Too easy? • No perceived value? • Knowledge/skills/information gap?
- 21. Getting maps onto your Drupal site
- 22. Modules: Mapstraction, Getting maps onto your OpenLayers Drupal site
- 23. Modules: Mapstraction, Getting maps onto your OpenLayers Drupal site
- 24. What do they do? Provide a common API for other mapping APIs such as •Google Maps •Yahoo! Maps •Microsoft Bing Maps •Cloudmade (OpenStreetMap) •Your Own Custom Map Service Modules: Mapstraction, Getting maps onto your OpenLayers Drupal site
- 25. What do they do? Integrate with other Drupal modules •CCK for lat/long of content •geo for storage of other types of position information •Views Modules: Mapstraction, Getting maps onto your OpenLayers Drupal site
- 26. Crimes against cartography (and how to avoid them)
- 27. Don’t use the default Crimes against cartography (and Google Maps marker how to avoid them)
- 28. Use well designed and Crimes against cartography (and functional markers how to avoid them)
- 29. The ‘dots on maps’ Crimes against cartography (and syndrome how to avoid them)
- 30. Cluster your icons... Crimes against cartography (and how to avoid them)
- 31. Cluster your icons... Crimes against cartography (and how to avoid them)
- 32. Consider density maps Crimes against cartography (and (aka heatmaps) how to avoid them)
- 33. Google Maps - does it Crimes against cartography (and match your branding? how to avoid them)
- 34. Cloudmade - custom Crimes against cartography (and map styles how to avoid them)
- 35. Cloudmade - custom Crimes against cartography (and map styles how to avoid them)
- 36. Cloudmade - custom Crimes against cartography (and map styles how to avoid them)
- 37. Cloudmade - custom Crimes against cartography (and map styles how to avoid them)
- 38. Cloudmade - custom Crimes against cartography (and map styles how to avoid them)
- 39. Cloudmade - custom Crimes against cartography (and map styles how to avoid them)
- 40. How? •MapServer •Mapnik •TileCache Host your own map Crimes against cartography (and service how to avoid them)
- 41. Host your own map Crimes against cartography (and service how to avoid them)
- 42. Host your own map Crimes against cartography (and service how to avoid them)
- 43. Host your own map Crimes against cartography (and service how to avoid them)
- 44. Host your own map Crimes against cartography (and service how to avoid them)
- 45. Summary
- 46. Summary • Shouldn’t be an afterthought. Cartography == Design
- 47. Summary • Shouldn’t be an afterthought. Cartography == Design • Good cartography, like other aspects of design, has value.
- 48. Summary • Shouldn’t be an afterthought. Cartography == Design • Good cartography, like other aspects of design, has value. • Great design leads to a great user experience
- 49. Summary • Shouldn’t be an afterthought. Cartography == Design • Good cartography, like other aspects of design, has value. • Great design leads to a great user experience • Like stock photography, Google Maps should be your low-cost option. Aim higher!
- 50. Thank you. Andrew Larcombe email: andrew@andrewl.net twitter: andrewl http://www.andrewl.net http://www.netdojo.co.uk