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TileMill: Open Source Map Design

74 points by tmcw 16y ago

yellowbkpk 16y ago
I've played with this a little bit over the last couple days and am completely blown away by the ease of use. If you're remotely interested in styling your own maps (particularly for a mobile app), you should try this out. It exports to an sqlite-based tile store that you can use to display your map tiles while away from a network connection.
- yxhuvud 16y ago
  Sounds like it is simpler to style with than using SLD (which tends to be a pain if you do something remotely interesting). Interesting.
stdbrouw 16y ago
Development Seed has consistently produced stunning work, both for clients and in terms of their open-source contributions, but TileMill really feels like their crowning achievement. (And all of it in PHP/Drupal, gasp!) Kudos, guys.
- albertsun 16y ago
  This is node.js and express actually. From the article: -- Under the hood of TileMill is a combination of open source projects - Mapnik for map rendering, express as a server-side framework, Backbone.js for the client-side, CodeMirror in the editor, carto for the styling language, node.js, and many others.
- kylemathews 16y ago
  The confusion is understandable as Development Seed is a leading Drupal company who've released innovative Drupal distros such as Open Atrium [1] for intranets and Managing News [2] a news aggregation / analysis system. [1] http://openatrium.com http://openatrium.com [2] http://managingnews.com/ http://managingnews.com/
  - stdbrouw 16y ago
    Ah, yes, referring more to the fact that they're a Drupal shop, but you're right, I didn't actually read up what tech they were using for TileMill.
alangalan 16y ago
I'm looking forward to the possibility of Google Maps API integration. I'm referring to DS's claim that "TileMill maps are always projected to ‘Web Mercator’. As the name suggests, this projection is popular with web mapping applications, thus maps created with TileMill can be displayed using the Google Maps API, OpenLayers, and a number of other projects."

74 points by tmcw 16y ago

I've played with this a little bit over the last couple days and am completely blown away by the ease of use. If you're remotely interested in styling your own maps (particularly for a mobile app), you should try this out. It exports to an sqlite-based tile store that you can use to display your map tiles while away from a network connection.

yxhuvud 16y ago
Sounds like it is simpler to style with than using SLD (which tends to be a pain if you do something remotely interesting). Interesting.

stdbrouw 16y ago

Development Seed has consistently produced stunning work, both for clients and in terms of their open-source contributions, but TileMill really feels like their crowning achievement. (And all of it in PHP/Drupal, gasp!) Kudos, guys.

albertsun 16y ago
This is node.js and express actually. From the article: -- Under the hood of TileMill is a combination of open source projects - Mapnik for map rendering, express as a server-side framework, Backbone.js for the client-side, CodeMirror in the editor, carto for the styling language, node.js, and many others.
kylemathews 16y ago
The confusion is understandable as Development Seed is a leading Drupal company who've released innovative Drupal distros such as Open Atrium [1] for intranets and Managing News [2] a news aggregation / analysis system. [1] http://openatrium.com http://openatrium.com [2] http://managingnews.com/ http://managingnews.com/
- stdbrouw 16y ago
  Ah, yes, referring more to the fact that they're a Drupal shop, but you're right, I didn't actually read up what tech they were using for TileMill.

alangalan 16y ago

I'm looking forward to the possibility of Google Maps API integration. I'm referring to DS's claim that "TileMill maps are always projected to ‘Web Mercator’. As the name suggests, this projection is popular with web mapping applications, thus maps created with TileMill can be displayed using the Google Maps API, OpenLayers, and a number of other projects."