a JavaScript library for thematic mapping in OpenLayers
At last October’s NACIS Practical Cartography Day I gave a very sweaty presentation that was later described as bewildering and incoherent. I had always meant to partially redeem myself by packaging and cleaning up the code that formed the basis of that talk. And here it is!
OL-Symbology is [...]
The great Buckminster Fuller created a series of Dymaxion maps utilizing various forms of his patented Fuller projection in the 1940s and 50s. The most well-known, icosahedral form of the projection (above) was devised in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1954. Fuller intended the projection to better balance shape and areal distortion, while also [...]
I’m happy to be doing less Flash and more JavaScript development these days. In particular, I’ve been investigating two open-source JavaScript web mapping platforms: one old, OpenLayers, and one new, Polymaps.
OpenLayers has been around a while, but still performs remarkably well as a slippy map framework while allowing easy thematic map customization. Polymaps is [...]