October 15, 2014
made for the VCGI webinar series by Bill Morris
Follow along here --> tinyurl.com/vcgi-mapbox
What's on deck?
Tiles?
Raster tiles
A vector tile is text, not image
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Download and install Mapbox Studio if you haven't yet
Fire it up!
A lot going on there, but let's focus on the guts
CartoCSS is cool and simple
line-color: blue;
(It can definitely get complicated, but so can life)
Let's look at a few styles:
Basic
Terrain
Texture
Sketchy
We didn't really have time to get to sources, but that's where your own data comes into play.
Thanks! Happy mapping! Get in touch at bill@faraday.io