Ways to get data into Mapbox maps
summary
Compares three concrete methods: on the map vs in the map shows markers/annotations as HTML or native views (custom div markers, view annotations) and fetching a public feed like Capital Bike Share to render a few hundred overlays; GeoJSON via ogr2ogr/QGIS shows converting CSV/shape files (example: 341 earthquake features) and loading GeoJSON from a string or URL and updating with setData; vector tiles via Studio or MTS shows uploading a tileset ID from Mapbox Studio for scalable, tile-cut datasets (handles hundreds of thousands to millions) with better performance but added preprocessing.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04About the speaker
- 2:05On the map vs in the map
- 5:15Markers and point annotations
- 11:58Loading markers from URL
- 14:27Mobile annotations from JSON
- 16:11View annotations in iOS
- 18:17Adding data to the map
- 19:40Converting data to GeoJSON
- 25:37Using GeoJSON in maps
- 29:07Adding GeoJSON from code
- 32:17Loading GeoJSON from URL
- 36:11Vector tile sets overview
- 38:01Creating vector tile sets
- 41:52Using vector tile sets in code
- 43:16Adding tile sets to styles
- 45:24Cross-platform style usage
- 47:29Comparison of approaches
- 48:11Q&A session
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