Maps!

A whisle stop tour of interactive mapping

What's so good about maps anyway?

Effort to Reward ratio

• People like them
• They look like you did a lot of work

goto.meteor.com
A live map showing where you and everyone else is.

• Base layer: Toner by Stamen designs
• Uses navigator.geolocation
• Plots your latitude & longitude as a marker

movements.meteor.com

movements.meteor.com

• Plays out pre-recorded voyage data
• ...generated by voyage-data-generator
• Another awesome baselayer from stamen design

Make your own map

Pick a map library

Leaflet, OpenLayers, Googlemaps...

...pick Leaflet though

Leaflet.js

• Simple
• Works well on mobiles
• Free

Create a map

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