I'm building up experience with web development and my next projects are some web maps. I've looked into Google Maps and Open Street Maps and would like to use OSM for a project as it contains more detailed information of building footprints.
I've tried styling Google Maps which seemed fairly straightforward, but I'm a little lost with OSM. I've got to the point of trying to create my own renders (with TileMill) but this is crashing my system due to the amount of data.
What I essentially need is this (but for the UK);
http://maps.stamen.com/#terrain/12/37.7706/-122.3782
Are there any resources which you can recommend or how easy/ difficult is this to create myself? I think I would need to create the map (with TileMill or similar and then find my own servers to host), or is there an easy way to convert the standard map to Grayscale?
I want to keep it as simple as possible so please any recommendations?
Turning the standard map to grayscale: I might be very late to this but for anyone else running into this question: I found a very easy solution if you're working with HTML and Javascript using OpenLayers and the standard OpenStreetMap-Tile-Layer in color. I took the solution from here: https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/semi-transparent-layer.html
I don't know much about web development but this solution worked for me. Upon creating the map, as done in main.js in the example from the link, a class name is defined ('bw')
className: 'bw',
that can be used in index.html to manipulate the style o f it in the part:
<style>
.bw {
filter: grayscale(100%);
}
</style>
My application was altering a pre-built web-map from the qgis2web extension for QGIS. I was able to turn the tile layers from the background map to grayscale so the results would stand out more.
You could use https://github.com/Zverik/leaflet-grayscale to display any tile layer in grayscale. It's a plugin built upon the leaflet map displaying library.
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So I'm attempting to get Mapbox working with my Leaflet implementation (using React Leaflet), and my spidey sense is telling me something is off.
The URL:
https://api.mapbox.com/v4/mapbox.mapbox-streets-v8/11/568/825#2x.jpg?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiamFtaWxsZXI2MTkiLCJhIjoiY2t3Y3JnbG5uMzZ2MzJ1bmhyaHhpczJpcCJ9.3X8OkNioN_C8CN15YPmDDQ
Note: I created the access_token used above for this SO question, and will be deleted soon. So the link may not work when you see this, which is why I used SO's handy dandy image upload!
I assume this has something to do with how the tile coordinates and/or zoom is being calculated, but really, I don't have a damn clue in the world.
Using mapbox.mapbox-streets-v4 as the tileset_id produces results that are better, but still bad. I haven't yet been able to load a stylesheet either...
What gives?
As it turns out I was correct in my hunch that it had something to do with how the tiles were being generated by Leaflet. And while I'll probably never know the specific reasons behind it, I was able to solve it. The secret sauce ended up being mapbox-gl-leaflet.
I threw together a super simple example on Code Sandbox showing the successful implementation of Mapbox tiles as a React component within React Leaflet. It's pretty snazzy, IMO, even if you have to import a few hundred different packages (doubly if using TS) to make it all work 😕
https://codesandbox.io/s/sharp-payne-m3hll
NOTE: To see the codesandbox link working, you'll need to supply your own Mapbox API key. The API key from above won't work (even if it was still valid, which it may or may not be depending on how much I care to do anything about it...)
The mapbox.mapbox-streets-v11 tileset from Mapbox is originally intended to be used as vector data, e.g. with Mapbox Vector Tiles API : https://docs.mapbox.com/help/glossary/vector-tiles-api/
The only difference with your URL is the requested format mvt (instead of jpg). And no #2x resolution modifier.
What may be confusing is that the vector tilesets can also be requested as raster, by specifying a raster format like jpg or png through Mapbox Raster Tiles API https://docs.mapbox.com/help/glossary/raster-tiles-api/.
Mapbox server then generates an image from the vector data. But in the case of the streets tileset, it has a lot of data in hand, and it renders all of it, making it appear messed up.
Mapbox provides 5 default tilesets (https://docs.mapbox.com/studio-manual/reference/tilesets/), some of them are raster only (typically Satellite mapbox.satellite) while others are originally vector, but can also be generated as raster (Streets, Terrain, Terrain-RGB/elevation, Traffic).
Unfortunately Leaflet does not handle vector data built-in. If you really need to use vector data, you have to use plugins like Leaflet.VectorGrid or Mapbox GL Leaflet, or another switch to another mapping library.
Our university has had an agency create a very pretty printed map* for a special purpose.
In the early stages of the project, I suggested that they make the map in true proportions, and in vector format, so that a digital version might be more easily made in future. The future is looming, and it's looking like I'm going to have to come up with something!
I've begun toying with ways of doing this. One option is to make a suitable base layer and add the buildings as individual svg files - it sounds like a LOT of work.
I wondered if anyone had suggestions about how I should approach this. Is mapbox even the right tool?
* apparently, I don't have the 'reputation' required to embed an image!
There have been a number of impressive cartonish and artistically stylized maps made with Mapbox GL JS and Mapbox Studio Classic.
https://www.mapbox.com/blog/pencil-drawn-style/
http://dessine-moi-une-ville.makina-corpus.net/#15/43.5933/1.4514
http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/aj.Sketchy2/page.html#6/33.962/-6.405
https://www.mapbox.com/gallery/#map-7
https://www.mapbox.com/gallery/#map-20
I've begun toying with ways of doing this. One option is to make a suitable base layer and add the buildings as individual svg files - it sounds like a LOT of work.
This sounds like the one good way to go about adding individual building illustrations. Other options include using one or many image sources.
Good luck! Can't wait to see what you make!
Good day all.
I am a bit Interested in mapbox and your maps. Going thru your site I also realize that calls to the app helps you with revenue. THis is all well and good for doing an app to find the nearest coffee shop. However I am working on an application where Internet connectivity is not promised and in this case a .MBTile file would be perfect for me. I have not been able to export my maps I have created into a .MBTile even though that was directly mentioned in mapbox documentation. I would love some assistance in locating this feature or do I need a paid account to do so.
Ps I am aware this can be done with tilemil but I cannot get the maps I created from Mapkit into tilemil to do so.
Thanks
If you want to be able export .mbtiles you would have to design your map in TileMill. From there you would be able to export them into the format that you want. This would produce raster tiles rather than vector tiles however. https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/
for my next project I'm looking for maps, that contains only frontiers of countrys, lakes, hills ans rivers.
Can I get such kind of maps with the OpenStreet-API?
best regards
The "OpenStreetMap API" provides map data, not map images. So, for the imagery you want, you either need to find a source that renders the style you want, or render your own.
I don't know of any services that provide exactly the render that you're looking for. However, it should be very easy to render your own tiles that do this - if you install TileMill and follow through the tutorial, you will find it very easy to delete layers from the default style until no names are included in the style.
Note that if you're planning on running a web service, you'll also need to serve your special new map tiles to your users.
I just want to build a drill down map like this - Drill Down Map
Here I want to show some data on tapping of each regions.I am out of clue. How can I ? What should I use ? From where to start ?
EDIT : In the link it's showing the country name on mouse over, instead of that I want to show some data/info of the country on touch. Please visit the map shown in the link,you'll get the whole idea.
Thanks !!
If you want total control on the map layout, and be able to check which country the users taps, there's no secret : you need to have boundaries of all countries you want to detect.
Here's the global approach I would use to reimplement something that looks like the map you linked to (I can you into more details if you want, but at first, here's the global approach) :
Get the data of the boundaries of the countries you need. This can be done using OpenStreetMap.org data.
[EDIT] I just came accross this website to download countries boundaries as files you can then use with tilemill : http://www.gadm.org/country
Use this data with tilemill (http://mapbox.com/tilemill/) : this tool is able to design maps using a language that looks like CSS but dedicated for maps. The results is great and the tool great as well. This tool also support shapes files, so if you can get the countries boundaries as shapefiles, you'll be able to use them with tilemill, and this will be easier than using .osm files from open street map). Have a look here http://mapbox.com/tilemill/data/ for the supported formats.
Then, with tilemill, export your map as an MBTile file (this file contains all tiles needed to get the map rendered at different zoom levels).
Use the route-me project to display the resulting MBTile file (in its latest version, route-me is able to do that, this feature has been implemented by the mapbox team to support their open format MBTile).
Guys from Mapbox have published a good tutorial "from data to maps" here : http://mapbox.com/demo/making_massredistrict/ this may help as well
Your best bet is to use CloudMade ( http://cloudmade.com/ ). They provide custom map builders program where you can build custom maps and can integrate those maps in your iOS app.
Depends what you are looking for. To implement the linked example it's enough with a giant image that you can split in tiles using CATiledLayer. You'll find examples if you google a little, PhotoScroller is one. If you want to display real maps you have to investigate the route me project.
I don't think that using images could be good option.Check this link - arcgis-iphone api. I am not so sure but you can get some idea from this.
Happy to help..