Web Mapping Workshop

Presented By

Code for Dayton, Dayton Data Visualization, Girl Develop It

Date

Saturday, September 10th, 2016 10:00am - 2:00pm

Location

The Entrepreneurs Center 714 E Monument Avenue Dayton, OH 45402

Cost

$5.00 - Lunch Provided

Materials

• Workshop Website
• Starter Project (this repo - master branch)

Agenda

• Introductions
• Introduction to Web Mapping
• Introduction to Leaflet
• Development Environment Setup
• Making a Map
• Base Maps
• Markers
• Pop Ups
• GeoJSON
• Plugins
  • Marker Clustering
  • Awesome Markers
• Civic Hacking & CfD
• Data Sources - CfD data sources, open data
• Workshop
  • Pick a data set and make a map!
  • People on hand to assist
  • Team up or work solo

Prerequisites

• Please bring a laptop to work on.
• Passing knowledge of HTML and CSS would be helpful
• Text Editor for Web Development. We'll be using Atom

Workshop Datasets

This list is a work in progress. Please submit a pull request with your favorite resources!

• https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets
• https://www.data.gov/
• http://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2016/02/12/big-data-35-brilliant-and-free-data-sources-for-2016
• http://www.poi-factory.com
• http://www.daytonohio.gov/daytonopendata
• http://www.cityofdayton.org/departments/pcd/Pages/CensusInformation.aspx