adventures in campus mapping - highedweb florida 2013
DESCRIPTION
Campus Mapping: so many data sources, competing services, and oh so many pieces of data to correct. The thrust of this presentation is two-fold: first, to look at common systems (Google MapMaker, etc.) through which errors about your campus physical plant can be corrected for various map clients – and then, repurposing a combination of those data sources to (fairly) easily create a campus map for your own campus.TRANSCRIPT
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Aaron Knight
Web DeveloperOffice of CommunicationsState University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry(SUNY-ESF)
M.S. Computer Engineering candidateSyracuse University (projected Spring 2014)
One Map To Rule Them All? Don’t we wish!
How much has your campus map changed in the last few years? Have mapping services caught up?
Many tools, many data sources▪ Google MapMaker
▪ OpenStreetMap
▪ Navteq MapReporter
▪ Others
Often a tedious process. Making complete edits is important.
Often expedites review
Yes, you will have to do this in many places.
Let none of these sites be down this morning…
http://www.google.com/mapmaker/
http://www.openstreetmap.org
http://mapreporter.navteq.com
So your data is fixed now, right?
Getting things right takes time.
Let’s do something interesting with it!
Does it look something like this?
www.syr.edu
www.esf.edu/maps
Yes, these are still live and on the web.
Don’t ask.
(unfortunately also) www.esf.edu/maps
Tools:
Leaflet.js
▪ And some plugins
OpenStreetMap editor
Accurate campus data*
Leaflet.js Quick Start Guide
http://leafletjs.com/examples/quick-start.html
Find Your Center Build Your Base Map
Wordpress: MapsMarker plugin
mapsmarker.com
Visually create maps, full icon set.
Your CMS May Vary
Don’t have one? Welcome to our world.