https://github.com/dcs-training/interactive-web-maps
Materials for the workshop "Making Interactive Web Maps: Finding the Right Tool for You" (15 Feb 2024, 10:00 – 12:00). Go to the readme file
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Materials for the workshop "Making Interactive Web Maps: Finding the Right Tool for You" (15 Feb 2024, 10:00 – 12:00). Go to the readme file
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/dcs-training/interactive-web-maps
- Owner: DCS-training
- Created: 2024-02-10T12:50:43.000Z (over 1 year ago)
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- Last Pushed: 2024-02-15T11:19:57.000Z (over 1 year ago)
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- Topics: d3, geographical-data, gis, web-tools
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- Readme: README.md
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# Making Interactive Web Maps: Finding the Right Tool for You
Workshop Materials (15 Feb 2024, 10:00 – 12:00)
Created by [Sarah Schöttler](https://github.com/sarah37)
## Workshop Schedule
- **10:00** - Welcome & Introduction
- **10:10** - Presentation: Understanding your project requirements and constraints
- **10:20** - Discussion: What are you looking to achieve?
- **10:50** - Break
- **11:00** - Presentation: Tools and Example Maps
- **11:15** - Time to try out mapping tools, supported by the trainer
- **12:00** - Closing
## Tool Links
These are links to all the tools mentioned in the workshop. Of course there are many more tools around, though these are currently the most mainstream, well-maintained ones. However, if you have a very specific niche use case, you might want to look around some more.
### No-Code
- [Datawrapper](https://app.datawrapper.de/select/map) (free plan with most features available)
- [Flourish](https://app.flourish.studio/templates#template-projection-map) (free plan with most features available)
- [Google My Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/about/mymaps/) (free)
- [ArcGIS Online](https://www.arcgis.com/index.html) (paid), some ArcGIS Online map types are also integrated in [PowerBI](https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi-esri-arcgis/) (also paid, but may be available via UoE)
- [Tableau](https://www.tableau.com/solutions/maps) (paid, but [free 1-year student licenses](https://www.tableau.com/academic/students) available)
### Code
- [Leaflet](https://leafletjs.com/)
- [MapLibre](https://maplibre.org/maplibre-gl-js/docs/)
- [MapBox GL JS](https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/guides/)
- [DeckGL](https://deck.gl/)
- [D3.js](https://d3js.org/) (primarily a visualization library, but can be used for highly customized maps with [d3-geo](https://d3js.org/d3-geo))
### Other
- Online tools for modifying geographic data
- [MapShaper](https://mapshaper.org/): browser-based software for editing Shapefile, GeoJSON, TopoJSON, CSV and several other data formats
- [geojson.io](https://geojson.io/): easily create geojson files by drawing custom shapes
- Tools for specific data types
- [The Vistorian](https://vistorian.net/): Interactive network (incl. geographic networks) visualizations