[Talk-gb-westmidlands] west midlands listed buildings map

[Andy Robinson]

Nice work Brian J

 

Cheers

Andy

 

From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bprangle at gmail.com] 
Sent: 23 November 2012 12:51
To: talk-gb-westmidlands
Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] west midlands listed buildings map

 

Hi everyone

 

Well it's nearly here!  It's very much a work in progress with a lot still
to do - it's really a proof of concept at this stage
https://tiles.mapbox.com/brianboru/map/map-ag576a5p. So don't expect it to
be perfect - it will be some time before it's a public site.

 

I've built this in TileMill which has  a very steep learning curve and
unless you're a coder only has pretty basic functionality.

 

If you hover over icons around the Town Hall you should see images
appearing. Also if you click on the icons you can get a wikipedia link and
read more about the building. Very few icons currently have links or images

 

The data is from English Heritage under an Open Licence and I have  the file
for the whole country. Some of the data is a bit suspect e.g position of
Moor St Station (not my nice marker but the other one) and Council House is
missing bit generally it's spot on

The data is in an ugly UPPER CASE font and the descriptions could do with
improving

 

Things to do

Get more data for the West of the region

Populate the database with more photos and wikipedia links ( this will be a
long slow process)

Replace the boring markers with something along the lines of the ones I've
temporarily added for a few landmarks ( I'm currently stuck on this one - so
anyone who knows mustache template coding - this is what TileMill uses -
could possibly help me?)

Get the markers color coded according to Grade ( I will probably need help
on this too!)

Add layers for blue plaques and artworks

Add Listed Parks and Gardens

 

Any comments  and offers of help appreciated

 

Regards

 

Brian

 

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