Come Make a Map: Completely Custom, Open Source Maps with TileMill
summary
Claim: a completely custom open source map is buildable end to end. Tools used include TileMill, GDAL, QGIS, Mapnik, plain CSV/KML/shapefiles and an SQLite-backed MBTiles export. The demo pulls ~500 food carts plus streets, parks, transit and about 600k buildings, styles them with textures and labels, renders at multiple zoom levels (tiles are 256px, zoom 17 explodes tile count), and exports a single MBTiles file that serves interactively and offline on iOS.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Start
- 3:52Shape File
- 4:23Kml
- 5:09Openstreetmap Data
- 7:52Geo Utilities That Are Open Source
- 8:12Quantum Gis
- 10:04Code Editor
- 14:09Mb Tiles
- 20:24Make a New Project
- 21:12Layers Ui
- 22:22Read Out a Layer
- 24:10Add a Second Layer
- 26:01Tabular Data Browser
- 29:23Fictional Map
- 35:13Water
- 37:43Streets
- 42:15Labeling
- 43:55Grass Texture
- 44:12Fullscreen
- 48:43Conclusion
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