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

[Rob Nickerson]

Wow, looks really good. How easy or hard was tilemill? I've had a go at
displaying data with Leaflet (I followed the toad map example) but this
requires you to host the website yourself, and also to host a SQL database.
How did this compare?

http://leaflet.raggedred.net/toadmap.htm

Rob

p.s. The small markers work fine in my opinion. Due to the density of the
data if you try to add larger markers it could look crowded (especially
when zoomed out).




On 23 November 2012 13:44, Andy Robinson <ajrlists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice work Brian J****
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> Andy****
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> *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****
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> Hi everyone****
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> 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.****
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> I've built this in TileMill which has  a very steep learning curve and
> unless you're a coder only has pretty basic functionality.****
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> 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
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> 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****
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> The data is in an ugly UPPER CASE font and the descriptions could do with
> improving****
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> Things to do****
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> Get more data for the West of the region****
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> Populate the database with more photos and wikipedia links ( this will be
> a long slow process)****
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> 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?)****
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> Get the markers color coded according to Grade ( I will probably need help
> on this too!)****
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> Add layers for blue plaques and artworks****
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> Add Listed Parks and Gardens****
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> Any comments  and offers of help appreciated****
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> Regards****
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> Brian****
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